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THE GOOD OLD DAYS

I miss my childhood doctor. You really felt he’d done a proper job after he’d peered into and probed every orifice, depressed your tongue with a wooden spatula leaving a splinter half way down your throat, and then sent you on your way clutching a bottle of medicine that tasted like a combination of nitric acid [...]

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO DP

…..and a voice said unto me
“GO FORTH INTO YOUR WILDERNESS AND SLASH AND BURN [using a really nifty chainsaw from B&Q - only £29.99 and several boxes of matches because I was never a boy scout] AND CLEAR THE GROUND FOR WHAT IS YOURS BY RIGHT [ right from the house – of course [...]