Between us Dad and I rack up 110 years today! Wowsers! That is GOLD.

So what do you draw for your old man who has many different obsessions? (YES, like father like daughter. Different obsessions though.) Wild roaming animals from the African plains? Zulu warriors? Native Americans? WW1 soldiers? And I’m hardly scratching the surface here.

Then I remembered the countless Westerns I sat through as a kid and I thought of that famous Dad joke, “Fastest Banana in the West” – the one where you draw your banana from your hip as quickly as possible in a tense banana shootout.

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I WILL PREVIVE [The Book Of Rocks] diary extract, 16 November 2016

AND GOD CREATED FRENCH WOMAN series (2016)

“It’s a resting day on the sofa today after a fun evening in Emergency. Thanks so much to my lady in waiting who took me to hospital. You are absolutely amazeboobs!!! Rugrat 1 had vomiting gastro at home and couldn’t be left. It never rains but it pours.

The rocks have been giving me grief over the last few days and after a really uncomfortable day at work I actually thought they might explode!!! I was imagining an almighty KABOOM and a fine shower of boob dust all over the north eastern burbs. Now that would have topped the town festival fireworks for sure.

The good news is that after blood tests they can say that there is no infection. The bad news is I can’t take this pulsing harness off. I talked to Dr. Plastic and it could be swollen tissue. Maybe all that housework did the dirty? Who knows? I feel like I’m back in the bad old days of early recovery. So as there are two people in the wars today I’ve drawn the feisty feminine French fighting legend, Jeanne d’Arc/Joan of Arc (played by reigning queen of kick-butt, Milla Jovovich) for the strength to keep soldiering on.

And if I was drinking my way through this long protracted battle (which I am but not today) I’d slowly sip a glass of Real Slow Robotaki Remix by Miami Horror.”

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I WILL PREVIVE [Intro] diary extract, 17 August 2016

THE INBETWEENERS series (2016)

“Where do I start, where do I begin? This last week has been a bit of a vacant blur. I said I wasn’t napping anymore. I lied; yesterday I knocked off 3 hours. Florence said to me in the car this morning, “Mum, are you thinking about your next sleep?” She hit the nail on the head and I had to laugh.

So I’m summoning all my energy for a check-up and expander “chat” (saline or air, saline or air???) with the plastic surgeon this morning at The Vanilla Sky Hospital, as I’m now calling it because of its sci-fi flavour. I have watched both English and Spanish versions of that film (Abre Los Ojos) and it truly messed with my mind. Both times. I didn’t have a clue what was going on but now I do think I have some understanding of what a lucid dream is.

So here’s the sensuous Penélope Cruz for your hump day.”

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