Parish Notice.
How about some good news for a change?
Ms Raccoon won’t be resigning any time soon.
My last scan was a success. Correction, my last scan was a flippin’ disaster – but the result was a success! I have no ‘new’ tumours, and the ‘unlucky 13’ I do have are still working away, but very slowly, barely measurable.
Unfortunately, (yippee!) I have now become sort of allergic to the PET scan – so won’t be having any more of them. Breaking my heart it is…no more fat man in a portacabin in the hospital car park.
So ‘Miracle Woman’ is celebrating; first, paying up for another six months hosting for the blog, and then taking herself off to London for the week-end to meet up with some old friends. Hotel booked (‘we speaks Romanian and English’ – hmmm, I sense a blog post here!) and a train ticket in my pocket, along with a spare pair of knickers and toothbrush – what more does a girl need? (Portable pharmacy, Mr G has just reminded me).
Mr G might let you out of Moderation, in between the MotoGP, Formula 1, the football, and the Chinese takeaway he’s promised himself – but I wouldn’t rely on it…
Bloody hard to get rid of, Raccoons are…
- Wendi
July 8, 2016 at 10:06 am -
Great news that those nasty little buggers are slowly but surely disintegrating and I can look forward to more years of entertaining posts from the formidable Madam Raccoon!
- Den
July 8, 2016 at 10:10 am -
Wonderful.
- Lord T
July 8, 2016 at 10:19 am -
Glad to hear that it is no worse. You never know what the future may bring and you will likely be blogging into 2017.
- Johnny Howson
July 8, 2016 at 10:33 am -
Excellent tidings! May better than utterly awful fortune continue to walk with you! xxxx JH
- Pericles Xanthippou
July 8, 2016 at 10:42 am - Jim
July 8, 2016 at 10:46 am -
Hope you have a brilliant time. And please pass on our thanks to Mr. G. He sounds a great guy. Keep looking after our favourite Blogger Mr G and enjoy London. X
- Major Bonkers
July 8, 2016 at 5:05 pm -
It’s got to be better than taking her off on one of his maritime jaunts in his floating caravan.
- Major Bonkers
- The Blocked Dwarf
July 8, 2016 at 10:54 am -
x
- JuliaM
July 8, 2016 at 11:13 am -
Excellent news!
- jim
July 8, 2016 at 11:20 am -
Hurrah
- Jeremy Poynton
July 8, 2016 at 11:21 am -
Yippee! Just – yippee!
- Bandini
July 8, 2016 at 11:22 am -
Very welcome news!
(I’m wondering if the old friends in London might not include a former Daily Mail journalist, and if upon her return home the landlady won’t be sporting a ‘lucky 7s’ badge sewn onto her pelt!) - Joe Public
July 8, 2016 at 11:38 am -
Great news! Enjoy yourself this weekend.
If Mr G gets bored with MotoGP & F1, there’s also BSB live from Snetterton on Eurosport and (Freeview) Quest.
- Jon Stevenson
July 8, 2016 at 11:58 am -
I couldn’t be more pleased!!! that’s great news….keep going you old RACCOON! xx
- Judd
July 8, 2016 at 12:01 pm -
Thats the best news i’ve heard for a long long time.
- Doonhamer
July 8, 2016 at 12:42 pm -
You certainly know how to make an old man happy.
You and Mr. G be sure and have a great time. - Mudplugger
July 8, 2016 at 1:48 pm -
Bloody brilliant – all of it.
- Fredbear
July 8, 2016 at 3:36 pm -
Fantastic news !
- Ted Treen
July 8, 2016 at 3:36 pm -
That news has made my week and weekend. I am utterly delighted. Sincere best wishes for your weekend:- enjoy!
- Bill Sticker
July 8, 2016 at 3:50 pm -
Terrific Anna. Have a great stay in jolly old Londinium.
- Mudplugger
July 8, 2016 at 4:10 pm -
It’s amazing, all those things we previously thought were impossible – after ‘Brexit’, it’s suddenly all possible and positive now.
(OK, maybe that connection’s just a bit tenuous and ‘Brexit’ may not have had much direct effect, but if it did, and we’ll never know for sure, then it’s all been worth it.)
- The Blocked Dwarf
July 8, 2016 at 8:56 pm -
On the topic of Breakit, sorry ‘Brexit’, the most recent German ‘politbarometer’ poll (the one German politicians pay attention to), since Brexit, has thrown up some interesting results: 51 % felt Germany’s EU membership was a good thing, 37% said membership had pros and cons and only 10% felt being in the EU was a BAD thing.
70% felt GB should not have voted for Brexit, 12% said it was a good thing and 16% couldn’t give an F-word.
49% say that the EU should make no great concessions when negotiating the Brexit, and 37 % a hard line ‘no concessions whatsoever with the UK’.
Thus figures alone should worry anyone who thinks we might get a place at the Common Market table without agreeing to any of the ‘pillars’ of the EU (free movement etc).Strangely enough 49% of Germans asked also said they wanted an ever closer union and 37 % want individual states to have more control.
- The Blocked Dwarf
July 8, 2016 at 8:56 pm -
Separate link to keep Mr G on his bunion filled toes:
- Mudplugger
July 9, 2016 at 9:42 am -
If you add up the value of BMW, Mercedes and VW’s UK sales alone, it will soon become blindingly obvious that our German friends have far greater vested interests in open-trade with the UK than the UK has with them – but it’s their choice, and I know what they’ll choose.
Emotions are currently blinding many people to the realities of economics – this moment will subside and common-sense will prevail at each bilateral level. It may be different at EU-Central, but they’re always irrelevant when thousands of jobs in Germany are at stake – and wholly irrelevant long-term: the EU’s a busted flush, a gravy-train to nowhere, a soviet with a great future behind it.
The future’s bright, the future’s Brexit.- binao
July 9, 2016 at 11:30 am -
Perhaps someone could tell the BBC that we had a vote, decison’s been made.
Bigging up a demo by a few thousand whining wet adolescents as somehow more relevant than the considered opinion of 17 million with decades of experience must be the nadir.
17 million who also thought the matter important enough to turn up to vote.Enjoy your time away from the keyboard Anna.
- The Blocked Dwarf
July 9, 2016 at 12:21 pm -
in open-trade with the UK than the UK has with them
Blindingly obvious is that too many ‘considered opinions’ (to quote Binao) seem to think that 1 country can dictate to 27 trading partners but those 27 won’t tell us to F**K off if our demands are perceived as unreasonable (and as far as I can see most of the Brexiter’s demands would be perceived as Unreasonable). Now of course there will be an agreement and , as Schauble himself said, it will be dictated more by the markets and business than politicians but it is fallacy to think we, the UK, will get the access it wants at the price it wants.
The biggest hindrance isn’t however the EU or the Remainers. The biggest hindrance is the belief that the EU states are desperate to have a trade deal. Even, god help me, Tony Blair recently tried to point that out. yUK.gove needs to be having chats with all the EU states on their own, now, not after the part conference.
- binao
- The Blocked Dwarf
- The Blocked Dwarf
- Lisboeta
July 8, 2016 at 4:10 pm -
Great news!
- Michael Massey
July 8, 2016 at 5:58 pm -
Great news. Onwards and upwards.
- Lilith
July 8, 2016 at 6:27 pm -
Best news since I don’t know when. Have a fabulous time Totally AMAZING!
- John Bull
July 8, 2016 at 6:32 pm -
A few old well-wishers, down here in the far West, will raise a glass, or two, in the pub tonight. Bottoms up!
- Steve K
July 8, 2016 at 7:10 pm -
What they’ve all already said, excellent news
- Carol42
July 8, 2016 at 7:35 pm -
Wonderful news Anna, I had to laugh about the pet scans I remember the mobile unit only too well. Have a great weekend x
- Juliet46
July 8, 2016 at 7:44 pm -
Good news indeed – so happy for you and Mr. G – and for all your Raccoonites!
- mike fowle
July 8, 2016 at 8:00 pm -
Great.
- tdf
July 8, 2016 at 8:53 pm -
Glad to hear this.
- The Jannie
July 8, 2016 at 9:50 pm -
Great news, Raccoon Sr. Here’s to many more moons passing over the tepee.
- plantman
July 8, 2016 at 10:52 pm -
Good. Very, very Good
- Bill Sticker
July 8, 2016 at 11:11 pm -
I am going to open a bag of pork scratchings as a celebration and then get on with 1000 piece jigsaw of a moose eating grass
Admin Unfortunately Bill Sticker Mark 2 – I can see you are not even in the same country as the genuine Bill Sticker, so your attempt to impersonate him has come unStickered as it were.
- Bill Sticker
July 9, 2016 at 3:02 pm -
This is not me. Begone impersonator.
- Bill Sticker
- Bill Sticker
- sally stevens
July 9, 2016 at 3:28 am -
I sense a BBC series here.
- Lizzie Cornish
July 9, 2016 at 9:21 am -
Oh, Anna, I am SO pleased for you. Sending over a big, warm hug.
You clever girl, you. :0) ((xx)) - David
July 9, 2016 at 9:28 am -
Great news. Good on you.
Long may you prosper. - AdrianS
July 9, 2016 at 3:45 pm -
Great news, if they’ve slowed down the growth rate of the tumours that’s fantastic. Just sending you a virtual g&t!
Always love reading this blog which you keep running in spite of your significant Health problems.
Your in sight into law and life is great! - Helen
July 9, 2016 at 5:27 pm -
Marvelous news. In the nicest possible way, I congratulate you on being a tough old boot and an inspiration.
- Fat Steve
July 9, 2016 at 9:10 pm -
Well done Anna ….gosh you have always played things close all your life …..and have won …..and most importantly today continue to win …..and long may things stay that way ……winning that is rather than playing things close
- Michael
July 9, 2016 at 9:43 pm -
Great news. Every blessing.
- Chromatistes
July 10, 2016 at 9:18 am -
Another opportunity to run with the bulls, then …
- Sue
July 10, 2016 at 12:12 pm -
Wonderful news, absolutely delighted
- MissRed
July 10, 2016 at 5:25 pm -
So glad to hear! Great news indeed
- johnnyrvf
July 10, 2016 at 5:53 pm -
Wonderful news, glad things are under control to quote a certain Mr Wallace. Moto GP sounds up my street so chapeau to you both.
- Alexander Baron
July 10, 2016 at 11:49 pm -
Guys, check this out; it’s mostly from a Canadian perspective but it is excellent. Please share.
- Michael Miller
July 11, 2016 at 1:00 pm -
Thanks for the link. For detailed account of “Sybil” see chapter 3 in “Making Minds and Madness”-Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen; and on related theme, “Making Monsters” – Richard Ofshie and Ethan Watters and ” The Myth of Repressed Memory”- Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham.
- Michael Miller
- Frankie
July 11, 2016 at 8:53 pm -
EXCELLENT NEWS Madame!!
We NEED you to stick around, to stick your little Raccoon snout into the mess that is the current political situation… Just what the bloody hell is going on????
Raccoons is tough little buggers, Raccoons is…
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