The Demise of Roland Ratso: Chapter fifty one.

We went to the Rushcliffe Park at Ruddington but I was unable to walk from the car park to the playground because my back is aching so much. It is far worse than the “old injury during the pit” pain that I normally get and it is very frustrating. It stops as soon as I sit down. Eleanor had a great time on the park with Jonathan and she came back to the car and we had an ice cream. She really has been very good except for swinging on Nanny’s new kitchen stools where she knocked her boiled egg off the plate. It’s now Wednesday and she has gone back home. Irene has just shouted upstairs and asked me what I was doing. She says it has gone awfully quiet and I agree. On one of our canal boat holidays we were locking through one of those middle of town locks. It was a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon and there was a tea shop lockside with quite a few customers. We were stood on deck waiting for the lock to fill when Alex started waving his arms about saying that he had got a wasp or bee in his big bushy beard. His wild gesticulations induced panic – especially with Irene – and then he said that the wasp had gone up her shorts! She dived down into the boat and dropped her shorts, taking them off looking for the insect just as the boat rose level with the tea shop and spectators, and there she was stood in her knickers being viewed through the boat’s large picture windows, performing to a round of applause! Alex has never quite been forgiven for the panic he caused claiming that there WAS a wasp and he DID think it flew up her shorts. Others might take a different point of view. There is still some residual pain in my derriere although nothing as bad as when it was in full (radioactive) swing. I am farting like an old trooper with full confidence that I am not going to “follow through” and the smell resembles a proper fart and not how it has been. I finished my chemo on Saturday – four days into non-chemo but still feel rather different. Peace and quiet now Eleanor has gone might give me a chance to recharge my batteries but she is coming back next week. Yippee! _______________________________________________________