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The Long Road Back, to Assen. (Part three)


Without a shadow of a doubt, someone was watching over The Crow and I that weekend.
During the most intensive 48 hours I can remember, we both enjoyed moments of extreme peril, only to escape with a single, improbable bound.
Deux ex machina ? You’d think so, were this a fictional story.
Read on and see what you think, my anonymous friends.

Let’s start with the weather : both days, the ride to and from ...

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The long road back, to Assen. (Part Two)
　
Peering through the fog of the years, some things, some people, some events, are will o’ the wisps, chimeras; unreal but possible, cloudy at the centre, vague at the edges. I grope for a hold on them, but they slip through my fingers like un-earned money.
Others are pin-sharp and succulent and no sooner called to memory than they appear, as if it were only yesterday.
My father, my mother, my first lover…. ...

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The long road back, to Assen.
　
The neurologist had the last laugh. I was discharged from Charing Cross hospital, (which is nowhere near Charing Cross) one sunny day in September and walking to the main road to hail a cab nearly finished me.
I just couldn’t walk in a straight line and fell over twice, as my battered inner ear got it’s left, right, up and down all in a dither.
Added to this, all sounds were distorted and booming and when people ...

Originally Posted by pitboard

dunnit.

He was a very good opportunist. He invented nothing, pioneered nothing, but he had the talent to spot something new developing and get in there.

This is a warning about a scam that I have just been made aware of.

Yesterday, my brother took a phone call from somebody that claimed to be working for Microsoft, offering to 'repair' a fault on his computer.

My Brother wasn't aware that his computer had a fault, but didn't have time right then to look at it, and asked the caller to phone back later.

In the mean time, my sister-in-law spoke to me, I recommended that if they called back to take a number. ...