Thursday, December 26, 2024

Ashes to Ashes

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Thoughts In Passing On the 18th of November 2024 John Joseph Ray passed on to begin his long rest. After a private Presbyterian service ...
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Sunday, November 3, 2024

Resting state

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The pain I am getting from cancer is getting steadily worse. It is now painful to breathe. I think I will soon put in for Vountarily Assis...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Liniment

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I have been full of cancer for over a year now but have been suffering no pain from it. That happy state came to an end on August 5 this y...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024

A lady I like

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Fortunately, she likes me too
Saturday, October 12, 2024

A breakfast development

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Anne has for some time been uncomfortable driving so has driven only to my place at breakfast time to see me. George normally drives her a...
Friday, October 4, 2024

In bed with a long-haired blonde

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Every man's dream, I think. And when it is preceded by a bottle of Grange it is even better During her big trip around Australia, A...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024

A day in the life of an invalid

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Since early this month I have had to walk around using crutches. The pain in my hip if I try to walk around unaided makes that imperative....
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Requiem for a blog

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I have always put up a number of blogs, mostly hosted on Blogspot, which is a free blog hosting service offered by Google. One blog that I...
Friday, August 30, 2024

Milestone

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With much help from the incomparable Jenny, I have just completed my third session of radiation oncology. There were 5 exposures over 5 c...
Friday, August 23, 2024

Cancer treatment chronology

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I have been battling cancer for about the last 5 years -- both metastasized SCCs (skin cancer) and prostate cancer. Each time it flare...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

My early life

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I have just completed the first draft of a project to put up a chronological record of my childhood and early life. It was mainly aimed a...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

My second wife, Joy

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I have put up on this blog quite a bit about the ladies in my life so it has occured to me that I have said nothing about my second wife,...
Friday, August 9, 2024

A reprieve

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Earlier this week I had a pain in my chest, so went to see a GP about it -- the excellent Dr Deep. He immediatey ordered both an X-ray ...
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Monday, July 29, 2024

A good dinner

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Last night was the last dinner I will have with Anne for the foreseeable futurre. We normally meet over Saturday breakfast only. So I w...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Bon voyage dinner for Paul and family

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Morning with Matthew 6pm at Jenny's, very good dinner, Pork sausages! Ken subdued, left early; Christopher talked a lot; Anne looked...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

A family brunch

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To greet Anne, I arranged a brunch for all the family at my usual breakfast haunt in Buranda -- so that Anne and the family could see one ...
Monday, July 22, 2024

Anne is back in town

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But only for a week. She had got to Mt Isa in her caravan trip around Australia so was not due back in Brisbane for a while. But she ...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Celebrating Joe

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Brek with Joe and me at 9.30am Party to celebrate his birthday 6pm that night; family in attendance; much happy squealing from the girls....
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Looking back

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Given my recent 81st b*rthday, I have begun to think about how well I have used those 81 years. And I am rather amazed that all my origi...
Friday, July 19, 2024

Recent events

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I had a men's night for Paul but Christopher forgot; Matthew was in good voice; Paul used a big lot of Chili sauce on his dinner. Joe...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Good hats

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Z is in Montenegro at the moment. She has sent me a number of pictures from her travels. I liked the one below. There are a lot of atttr...