128. This Might Just Hurt Brov

If you have kids, you have had that moment.

That moment when you put your full, bare-footed weight on that errant Lego brick that has just been lying there, silently waiting for you. The pain is instant, intense and swear worthy. It is guaranteed to send you into a one-legged involuntary jig. You rarely make that same mistake twice.

If little Jimmy or Sally or whoever took the step instead of you, rest assured you would soon hear all about it very quickly.

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116. Happy Birthday Paula

s-l1600It’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 »

111. It’s Good To Talk, Unless It Is To a Lawyer. All He Hears Is Kerching!

Lawyer

This has been a busy month with regards to talking about prostate cancer related matters. I spoke to two men about prostate cancer, one post operation and the other pre operation. I manned a prostate cancer table, awaiting my radiation therapy results, took myself abroad on holiday, started training for the 10K chocolate run and delivered a prostate cancer awareness talk.

Phew!

Wouldn’t have it any other way!

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109. Bugs, Bananas and Babies

Banana Wheevil

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 »