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  • HAPPY ANNIVERSARY RUPERT YOU BASTARD, YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER BASTARD.

    Rupert and I just celebrated our first Anniversary together. As is the custom for a first Anniversary, my gift to Rupert was Paper. Toilet Paper in fact. Bought a dozen rolls of each and as you’d expect, Prankster Ainsley insists on using both rolls in alternating squares! She particularly likes the image of The Trumpet…

  • BACK ON THE CHEMO MERRY-GO-ROUND

    I had my three monthly Hormone Therapy Implant 12 days ago and wouldn’t you know: within 48 hours the hot flushes were back in spades. I’m not sure what I expected but I’m pretty certain whatever testosterone I had coursing through my body when I was diagnosed, is now well and truly just a memory…

  • “THE REPORTS OF MY DEATH ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED”

    Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) is often credited with making this claim and whilst not entirely accurate, he did in fact, say something very similar in 1897 – “the report of my death was an exaggeration”. With it being a month since my last Post you could easily be forgiven for thinking I’d been “scratched from…

  • NOT DEAD, JUST RESTING.

    One of the disadvantages of trying to post weekly updates, is that every now and then the battle between Arthur and Rupert leaves me debilitated, exhausted and pretty much knackered. The two weeks since my last Chemo have been by far the most testing period I’ve been through since diagnosis. and the only difference between…

  • “A REAL EASTER MIRACLE”, “THE VERY DEFINITION OF A BAD BEAT” AND “WHEN THE PLANETS ALIGNED”.

    Just a quick read that I hope you find interesting for when you’re hopping into your Easter Eggs tomorrow (see what I did there – hopping into your Easter eggs😀). Once again, this is a Rupert Free zone, but for information purposes, I have my next three weekly appointment with the Oncologist on Thursday and…

  • THE GREATEST LOVE STORY NEVER TOLD.

    After last week’s venting this weekend’s Posts will be a “Rupert free zone”. Instead I have written about: “The Greatest Love Story Never Told” and over Easter I will add: “A 1973 Bad Beat”, “A True Easter Miracle” and “When The Planets Alligned”. It’s Holidays so you’ll have plenty of time to read them.😀 My…

  • “THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT RUPERT”

    Bad news Warren, the “Frank and Beans” have nearly disappeared and Magda, you can now breathe easy as my stretch marks where my muscles once were, are much worse than your “roast chicken”, sun scorched skin. As for you Mary, with apologies to the Soup Nazi, “No hair gel for you”. There are “Plenty of…

  • He who has daughters is always a shepherd.” — Thomas Jefferson

    What is love? I don’t know that any of us actually have the answer to that question but I do know what it isn’t – it isn’t Fucking Rupert, so that’s the last mention he gets this week. I love my family, I love chocolate, I love baseball, I love Port Douglas, I love Woody…

  • And we are off and running!

    Just when my hot flushes had settled down I was administered my second 3 monthly Hormone Therapy implant last Friday. The latest Bone Scan suggests the removal of Testosterone courtesy of the Implant has reduced the size of Rupert in the Prostate but the sneaky bastard escaped into my bones and lymph nodes before we…

  • No one prepared me for just how much love I would have for my child.

    As foreshadowed in last weeks Blog, I had my first appointment this week with the third and final branch of Specialists that deal with Prostate Cancer, The Oncologist. My expectation was that the Specialist would either recommend that I commence Chemotherapy immediately or tell me to go home and type faster on my Blog to…