Thanks for the encouragement. The future plan is to get both businesses to the point where my wife and I can take a back-seat - sleeping partner arrangement. Two months ago we had an offer for the studio business but it was too low. We've also had offers for the new business. Life is short. I want her to have the opportunity for foreign travel so we can experience these things together. To get to that point means a lot of work now which will, I hope, pay off in the long term.

You are so right. We are all born with our own spectre of death who sits on our shoulder from cradle to the grave. It's his job to remind the grim reaper when our appointed time is through. Don't know why we bother actually myths aside when physics and the big bang seem to indicate that there are only preordained outcomes to everything from eating a bag of Smith Crisps on Jan 8 2018 at 1500 to the cold slab 6 months later.