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  • Goodbye Pete

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    Goodbye Pete.
     
    You don’t know Pete Herbert but he died last Tuesday. He was a “one off” – one of those characters that probably made his family’s life hell but entertained the rest of us for many years.
     

    He was a paratrooper in the war and was part of the D-Day operation where he was dropped in Germany and saw some of the fiercest fighting of the war. On the sixtieth anniversary of D…

  • Roland's Revenge chapter 45

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    I don’t think I have blogged since the tales of my urine infection and the bingo maniacs at the club when the caller forgot to call sixty two or clicketty quack in the vernacular. Picko keeps asking why I have made so little progress lately and it’s not because I have forgotten all you in Macland and neither have I got nothing to tell you but I have been SOOO very busy.
     
    Bridget my sister-in-law (or Sybil…

  • Roland's |Revenge: Chapter 44

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    I don’t play bingo and I don’t decry anyone that does but I don’t play for two main reasons. One it turns the most placid person into a “road rage monster” – you know like the normal quiet person who gets behind the wheel and starts behaving like a menopausal tiger.
     
    The second reason is that I am suffering from post traumatic bingo stress disorder. Even though it happened many years…

  • Roland's Revenge: Chapter 43.

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    The small plastic tube that has been inserted doesn’t feel very small at all. The doctor says “I am just going to inflate the catheter = you might feel a little bit of discomfort.”
     

    Metaphorically speaking, of course, they had to peel me off the ceiling. A little bit of discomfort? That must be the understatement of the century. “I am now going to inject the dye” and I feel a liquid not only travelling…

  • Roland's Revenge Chapter 42.

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    Hi Rat Fans – sorry I haven’t been on for a while but I have been so busy what with my new job and everything. I started back at the welfare on April 6th and it is still as manic as ever.
     
    My pre-sacral collection is still leaking and last week the consultant sent me for a eurethogram which is where they whack a bit of dye up the eye of your John Thomas and then look at it through an Xray machine. The idea…
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