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  • Roland Ratso - the aftermath and a proud Grandpa and dog owner

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    Eevie very pensive at the Christmas tree.

    Now then, Nanny, which bauble shall I take off next?

    Bonnie and Evie ( abit like Bonny and Clyde) partners in crime.

    "Mmmm, Bonnie, what big teeth you have?"

     

    Evie and Bonnie - up to something, again.

  • Roland Ratso - the aftermath - four men in a boat "what a carry on!"

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    The  interior of Lillia with Alex in the galley creating a culinary disaster. The seating just in front of Alex is the infamous bunk that no-one wanted but someone had to have! My bunk is immediately to the left in the foreground with copious quantities of black plastic bags for Tom-ass’s indiscretions of which there were many. Note the hoist track in the roof for paraplegics. Lillia really does have everything for…

  • Roland Ratso - the aftermath and we changed the River Avon forever

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    Picko the chef with George Formby the Griller - note missing knob (which didn't make any difference)

    Months before we started to plan our trip Picko had waxed lyrical about his George Formby Griller and how it could do everything except make tea and warm soup. In between bingo sessions at the welfare he would regale us how he cooked enough sausages for everyone and how Tony Blackbum had given it to him personally…

  • Roland Ratso - the aftermath and the baot trip chapter two

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    “Pershore is an unspoiled, picturesque Market Town, famed for its elegant Georgian architecture and magnificent Abbey” or so the guide book says. Well it might but on a Tuesday night Pershore’s Georgian architecture was basically abandoned. As were its hostelries. Where were a bunch of roughy toughy boatmen fresh from a roughy toughy day on the river hauling freight. OK so the only thing were hauling was our tortured…

  • Roland Ratso - the aftermath and at long last - the canal trip.

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    The river and canal trip.
     
    October 2010
     

    I may have changed some names to protect the innocent and famous. I would hate one of our number to displace Wayne Rooney from the front of the tabloids.

     

    Perhaps it’s best if I start on who we are.  Ronnie Murphy with a rupture and sciatica. Alex Wilkie with diabetic complications and stiffening joints. John "Picko" Pickering who has got Von Hippel Landau syndrome which…

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