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Post by rayge on Jun 10, 2021 12:26:21 GMT
Just heard that Chas, whom I've known for more than 40 years and who has been keeping me and mine in essential supplies for the last 15 or so of those, has lung cancer and is unlikely to see his next birthday (he shares the October date with me), something I have found profoundly shocking on a not entirely selfish level. I'm in numb shock at the moment but I suspect this may hit me quite hard fairly soon, and I might disappear for a bit.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Jun 10, 2021 12:29:41 GMT
Just heard that Chas, whom I've known for more than 40 years and who has been keeping me and mine in essential supplies for the last 15 or so of those, has lung cancer and is unlikely to see his next birthday (he shares the October date with me), something I have found profoundly shocking on a not entirely selfish level. I'm in numb shock at the moment but I suspect this may hit me quite hard fairly soon, and I might disappear for a bit. sorry to hear, ray. take care.
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Post by oh oooh on Jun 10, 2021 12:30:56 GMT
I'm sorry to hear that, Ray.
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Post by clive gash on Jun 10, 2021 12:32:55 GMT
Take as much time as you need Ray.
Dog bless x
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jun 10, 2021 13:35:04 GMT
Sorry to hear that Ray. Does he have a successor to take over the family business?
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Post by rayge on Jun 10, 2021 14:32:40 GMT
Sorry to hear that Ray. Does he have a successor to take over the family business?
Not as far as I know. He basically inherited from a guy called Paul, to whom I had transferred all my customers when I left London in 1990, so I was in a privileged position. I don't know any of his sources, and it would be a bit of a social faux pas to ring him up and say, sorry you're dying, can you make some introductions for me. The fact that I live over 100 miles away doesn't help. Paul himself lives not far away from me, but haven't seen him in over a decade, and even then he was pretty far gone with the drink.
And I don't have any other connections because, you know, OLD. It was the same with psychedelics - didn't run out of desire, just suppliers.
And in all my career on both sides, I never deviated from the friends only, house calls only, rules. So, I'm pretty well fucked, basically, on that score.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 10, 2021 15:03:49 GMT
Just heard that Chas, whom I've known for more than 40 years and who has been keeping me and mine in essential supplies for the last 15 or so of those, has lung cancer and is unlikely to see his next birthday (he shares the October date with me), something I have found profoundly shocking on a not entirely selfish level. I'm in numb shock at the moment but I suspect this may hit me quite hard fairly soon, and I might disappear for a bit. Reminded me of my friend just telling me the same. He's been popping up in my thoughts pretty regularly. Besides potentially losing your supplies, that kinda thing is always a mortality check for me.
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Post by rayge on Jun 10, 2021 16:45:12 GMT
Besides potentially losing your supplies, that kinda thing is always a mortality check for me. oddly enough, that isn't true of me. Not that I don't regularly think about my mortality (hell, I was doing that as a teenager), but I am more inclined to believe that I am destined to be the last man standing/smoking dope/playing frisbee in any number of groups I belonged to as virtually all my friends have compromised health, more or less, or have drifted away from me in time and/or space.
It's a weird feeling, and not a pleasant one. Agree with Willie Nelson that it's better than the alternative, but not by all that much
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 10, 2021 17:41:50 GMT
Yesterday, I got a call from my boss. It seems one of the product directors emailed him to tell him I was doing a great job.
My boss told me he emailed back the product director, asking "John who?"
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Post by tory on Jun 11, 2021 10:50:39 GMT
I've been offered, unofficially, a job at a Grammar School. I've been doing supply there and seem have embedded myself quite quickly. There are some tricky boys there but generally they're good on the whole.
It's English rather than History, but right now I'm happy to have a potential permanent position than a year of supply.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2021 11:15:35 GMT
right now I'm happy to have a potential permanent position than a year of supply. Whereas our Rayge would be of the opposite view.
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Post by oh oooh on Jun 11, 2021 12:15:02 GMT
It's English rather than History, but right now I'm happy to have a potential permanent position than a year of supply. English teachers are often the most popular, firing up kids' imaginations with drama, poetry, new concepts (metaphor, cliche, litotes etc.). You'll have a ball!
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Post by rayge on Jun 11, 2021 12:24:37 GMT
In my brief (two terms) teaching career (police cadet college in Ashford) I had to teach English at O Level, a subject I had scraped a pass in seven or eight years before. I was not popular and nothing remotely spherical was to be had.
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Post by oh oooh on Jun 11, 2021 12:36:50 GMT
I'm not surprised if you only scraped a pass!
English Lit or Lang?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2021 12:37:57 GMT
It's English rather than History, but right now I'm happy to have a potential permanent position than a year of supply. English teachers are often the most popular, firing up kids' imaginations with drama, poetry, new concepts (metaphor, cliche, litotes etc.). You'll have a ball! Well I don't know about that. But I hope it works out for Toby. I'm sure it will.
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