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sorry Andy, promise to do better next time, when the DIARRHOEA starts, I'll ask how it likes to be spelt

Mark, no worries, really quite chipper and not down in the mouth at all, at all.  The reason I won't be going through quickly is that the first ten days is purely 'conditioning', amazing how a simple word can describe quite a complex procedure, a bit like 'softening up'.  Conditioning means completely wiping out my immune system ready to receive the donor cells, in between a very large dollop of chemo to have ago at any remaining cancer cells.

No doubt members of the south coast chapter will be keeping you a breast of the state of play, really looking forward to the green diarrhea etc.

funny cards and text messages will be well received.

that would be nice Mark, but somehow I think not, the treatment is very different this time, no sneaking off to LM this year and maybe not next year either...

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off for another holiday courtesy of the NHS for the next ten or eleven weeks, no Internet access in the isolation room so no CA fix for me.  It's time for another stem cell transplant, this time donor cells, hence the extra time for good behaviour.  Ian.. and Robbo SPS will keep you lot updated with progress.

particularly interested if any of our erstwhile membership took photos of the cars that were in the drivers parade before setting off?

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it's an irritating shoot'em up game, best of luck.

http://www.southbank-design.co.uk/turkeyshoot/index.htm

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2VwnBU1-iU

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 

1930's
40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna/sardines from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking .

As children, we would ride in cars (for those of us lucky enough to have one) with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle, or from deepwell sometimes

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......


WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K .

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem . 

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! 

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents .. 

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Football teams had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! 


This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

and YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers, the Common Market, European Court of Human Rights and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

lets also hope that mark's passengers also make a speedy recovery too,

last minute panic, looking for the address/location of a photography shop in LM, something similar to a Jessops, pro shop would be better, many thanks Peter

thats it Kev keep nice and clean and a handy bum bag for your ablutions, Gimpy likes 'em fresh and clean,

just before he strikes his eyes roll back

maybe panniers for the vélo would be in order?