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18th April 2015, 08:10 AM
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I have another 4 months at least before I'm back to going out and just the normal things that can be done but while I have my friends here nothing should or will get me down even my own doctor rang me up yesterday and asked if I wanted some anti depression drugs within minutes we where laughing that is the best medicine she said I would be fine I knew that before the op but had no choice and hopefully all traces of cancer has gone never let anything get you down? jp
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18th April 2015, 08:49 AM
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"Your only as old as your shoe size" says SHMBO
"Your as old as your tongue but older than your teeth" was my mothers reply to anyone asking her age.
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JA {U.K. size 9}
Im a lot older than my teeth
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19th April 2015, 09:03 AM
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For quite some time I have been depressed over what my wife was trying to do to me. She knows I have to avoid stress because of my heart ( I had a massive heart attack 10 years ago, medevac'd out direct Lae to Townsville airforce base; converted feederliner for just me, a doctor, two nurses and the pilots. Operations in Townsville/Singapore/Townsville over a period of six months. A lot of you probably know where I'm coming from. For years she has kept coming back, making threats, stressing me out, saying she'll keep it up till I have another heart attack. Relatives, cops, courts, all useless. Today my 'good' brother-in-law from Titek came to see me. One of the benefits of living in a small community is that word gets around. He (Ben) is an important man in all of the surrounding villages, and scolded me for not talking to him about the problem. On Tuesday he is going to instruct the village magistrate here to issue a restraining order on her, to be copied to all village elders and community police in both villages. Instructions will be issued to all that if she steps out of line, she will go to jail immediately for 6 months! I felt like weeping, because I've been fighting an internal conflict - my head telling me I have to leave PNG in order to survive, my heart telling me I cannot desert these children. Now I have hope.
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19th April 2015, 11:39 PM
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Braid i hope that you can get over you problems and get to better health
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20th April 2015, 02:46 AM
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#12... Brian leave the money and we"ll get you stuffed and offer you to Madam Tussauds for future generations to look at and wonder if you could be in anyway be related to them , especially if they came from Whitley Bay. Cappy being of Nordic Ancestry will just have to be burned at a Vikings funeral. Am sure South Shields council would offer the William Wouldhave to perform this ceremony. Believe they may have by now upgraded the Shields Lifeboat. Cheers JS
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20th April 2015, 03:17 AM
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Hi John.
What a depressing subject!! I think you are what you want to be, if you are young in mind that is what you are. I went to the Dr's the other day he had a young woman student Dr in with him,
After giving me my implant for my prostate cancer, he asked her how old she thought I was, she studied me for a moment then said those wonderful words, about 60. I'll be 84 in July.
Cheers Des
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20th April 2015, 03:50 AM
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#26 Good to hear Des, your one of the fortunate Peter Pans of the world. Wouldn't dare asking someone strange what they thought my age was especially when the wife says I look about 90. Mind she only says that when I call her an old woman. Cheers John S
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20th April 2015, 06:57 AM
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#12... Brian leave the money and we"ll get you stuffed and offer you to Madam Tussauds for future generations to look at and wonder if you could be in anyway be related to them , especially if they came from Whitley Bay. Cappy being of Nordic Ancestry will just have to be burned at a Vikings funeral. Am sure South Shields council would offer the William Wouldhave to perform this ceremony. Believe they may have by now upgraded the Shields Lifeboat. Cheers JS
yes john the old lifeboat has been upgraded and looks in great condition its a fine site to see ..........infact shields in general is looking smarter .......as for the viking funeral ......i remember a kid in my class coming in late to school ...the teacher saying why are you late ...the kid ses cos my dad got burned this morning ...the teacher said i hope it wasnt serious ......the kid said oh it was serious alright.......they dont eff about in the crematorium........humour the best antidote .....regards cappy
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20th April 2015, 12:37 PM
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Des Taff Jenkins
Hi John.
What a depressing subject!! I think you are what you want to be, if you are young in mind that is what you are. I went to the Dr's the other day he had a young woman student Dr in with him,
After giving me my implant for my prostate cancer, he asked her how old she thought I was, she studied me for a moment then said those wonderful words, about 60. I'll be 84 in July.
Cheers Des
Des, tell it like I do, I am a 16 year old with 55 years experience. Thinking that way keeps me young at heart.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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22nd May 2015, 01:58 AM
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Like Me Des the other day i was in the Chemist getting my pills (not viagra)and i said joking that could i get some thing to take the wrinkles out of my face and she said you are not that old and said how old do you think i am she said after looking at me she said about 72 i could have leap over the counter and give her a big kiss but first of all the counter was to high and i did want to be held up for sexual assault
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