My eye is nearly all better (remarkably fast healing in eyes, something to do with blood supply) thanks for your good wishes ...
Tonight our choir sang for deaf children in the Congo ...
Sheesh ...
Talk about a tough crowd ... 
We were at a Northern Working Men's Social Club who's quagmirey carpets would have made Bernard Manning's eyes water (I've got a soft spot for old Bernard, who was totally unfairly voted 16th in 100 worst Britons after he was dead, but that's an argument that will have to wait)...
Anyway, we sang the songs the whole world sings when it's a bit pissed, and brought in a small audience who bought the raffle tickets...
The money raised will help enable medics in the Congo to fit hearing-aids and fund cochlear-implant operations for some of the most economically-ergo-health-disadvantaged children this world knows ...
And the Co-Op is still running it's National Deaf Children's Society gig for rest of this year by the way.