Today, I decided to visit ESLPrintables. I don �t go there often and I rarely look at the forum, but today the very top message said "Where is David?" You can imagine my surprise when I saw that someone was asking about me. How providential!

I �m sorry that I remain too focused on other things to have time to contribute to this fine site. My work is quite busy until the end of July and this is causing me to neglect many areas of my life.

I have also been renovating, off and on, an old house for the past three years and have felt it to be a losing battle, so this year I �m putting in a lot of effort in the hope that we can move in by the end of this year. I �m not normally a DIY person, but I have enjoyed learning how to construct walls, ceilings, floors and much more. I �m quite unable to draw any plan on paper, but after many years of creating teaching materials I find that I am able to do all the planning in my head. I get no pressure to finish his job from my wife as it was she who was most keen to buy a house not realising that the termite infested house was ready to fall down. The average life of a house in Japan is 40 years, about the age the house is now.

At one time, I couldn �t relax unless I was creating at least one worksheet a day, but now I �m down to just one or two a week, but with so many good materials available every day on this site, I don �t think my work will be missed that much.

Thanks for thinking of me my dear friends.

Take care,

David