Saturday, May 31, 2008
Wet Butts and Camouflaged Cars?
It is raining here like there will be no tomorrow; straight down and heavy. The rain has been forecast for three days, and boy oh boy have I been looking forward to it as a reprieve from labouring in the garden. Not only that, I can sit in front of the computer and pretend that I’m a writer, without...
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Monday, May 26, 2008
Butter-Side Up?
Sira and Pat_B’s laughter at the post about my granddaughter, reminded me of an incident that happened last year. It was one of those things that I made a mental note of and filed it away under ‘must post this or use it somewhere before I forget completely,’ then forgot...or did I? My granddaughter...
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Friday, May 23, 2008
Black Fly Munchies?
The world, or at least my part of it, is disappearing under clouds of black flies, millions and zillions of them. (please note:- I realise I have this reputation for exaggerating, or as I like to call it, embellishing, but this time I am telling the truth as sure as I’m sitting here spitting out...
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Eye Shingles?
I heard the Ophthalmologist walking towards the lobby/ waiting room and logic told me it had to be for me – and I was right. “Your turn, Mac,” he smiled as he ushered me through a double swing door and into a consulting room. He was his normal cheerful self. I liked this surgeon; I liked his...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Waiting Room Etiquette?
“Good Morning.” I greeted the 5 people seated in the waiting room’s hard chairs, and the man in the wheelchair. The silent non-response was deafening. To be honest, I’d greeted them more out of surprise than any hope of conversation. The waiting room wasn’t a waiting room so much as the lobby of two...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
When is a Handbrake not a Handbrake?
Hi Andy This sorry tale should perk you up. First of all, let me set the scene. I was driving into the gym this morning, pleased that I hadn’t made a fool of myself at the first tennis game a few days earlier. I was driving as most people do, with 99.99% of my brain on anything else except the...
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Saturday, April 26, 2008
A Scot’s Lassies Reply!
As suggested by Pat_B, this is a reply to the previous post’s Scottish Romantic poem. Written by my Scot's buddy. An’ I love you as well ma dear You'll always be my man When I first set my eyes on you I thought you were just grand Your slicked back hair, your snazzy suit Your chat up line was class...
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Friday, April 25, 2008
Relief!
I’m still crap at pool, and yesterday I found out that I was just as good at tennis, but my buddy emailed me to explain that he is going for option 3 in his choices of prostate cancer treatment – insertion of radioactive seeds into the gland. The cancer is in its early stages. My insignificant...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Thank you for your Patience, Gentle Reader
It is time I lightened up, and caught up with the world of Blogit. As Azur commented, I should be writing bits to take me out of my spiralling tiredness. And what better day than this. My friend’s cancer is operable, thank God. The sun is shining and it is +12C. The penetrating warmth of sunshine...
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Is it possible for me to be surprised ...
.... that it is 14 days since my last post and bewildered that it is only 14 days? The past fortnight has been a maelstrom of ups and downs. The colonoscopy is behind me, so to speak, with negative results. Even when the surgeon shook my hand I didn’t consider where the hand had just been, I was so...
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