It’s my birthday today. Happy birthday me 🙂
I decided what better way than this to talk about what’s been happening, since the last post.
I have these three areas of prostate cancer trying their very best to derail the show, but bugger you – I am still here, fit and healthy and you are not going to win!Read More »
The British comedian, Peter Kay, has a famous sketch where he describes the Hobnob biscuit as the hardman of the biscuit world. Whereas other biscuits like Rich Tea cry, wither and then quickly disintegrate in a hot cup of tea the hard nut Hobnob is the commando of the biscuit world. It will stay intact and dare the tea drinker to ‘bring it on’. I try not to swear if I can. I used to swear like a trooper when I was younger so it can still be a challenge at times. I am going to swear in this blog a lot so ‘biscuit’ will be the new swear word of choice.Read More »
Well, the end of another year and it’s certainly been an eventful one.
If I were to mention the highlights for the year they would be – undergoing radiation therapy, Prostate Cancer UK, launching the ‘One In Three’ podcast and the 10km run.
It was a humid early morning in July 1975 and Lieutenant RL Anderson of the Hopewell Police Department was conducting a routine patrol in his squad car. He was passing the Allied plant, which at the time one was one of the worlds largest chemical plants, situated next to the James river in Hopwell, Virginia, USA. He observed two men standing at the back of a pickup truck with a 250 gallon tank in it. Nothing unusual there you might think. However, the men were pouring a fuming liquid into a pit, not a lined pit however, just a hole in the ground. The plume this liquid created could be seen from quite a distance. Lieutenant Anderson didn’t know if what they were doing was authorised or legal so he noted it in his report to his superiors and that’s where it remained. Read More »
I Am The One In Three 