Thank you all for your kind thoughts, prayers and support. They are greatly appreciated.
Thank you Ali for spreading the word, every prayer and thought helped. Thank you for your email Stuart, I shall get round to answering.
I got home late Saturday and have succeeded in doing very little since
I will come back and write up what happened, some of it may be helpful, some may even be interesting. As a little taster I would say that the old adage that the best survival knife is the one you have with you and a new one I thought up at the time that straight needles are no good for sewing
Thank you all once again, it is nice to be back.