Re: Riggs



Tony Cooper wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:58:40 -0000, "Mike Lyle"
> <mike_lyle_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Wordsmith wrote:
>>> Maria Conlon wrote:
>>>> Padraig Breathnach wrote:
>>>>> I will be in Dublin tomorrow and hope to find time and
opportunity
>>>>> to visit Charles.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will tell him of the concern and good wishes expressed in
aue.
>>>>> If anybody wants to add a message for me to relay to Charles,
>>>>> there is a window of about sixteen hours before I make a final
>>>>> check on emails and usenet postings before I go offline.
>>>>
>>>> Ask him about his toothache (which I heard about today).
>>>
>>> I used to think dental pain was the worst agony one could
>>> experience...but that was before my kidney became an incubating
>>> chamber for rocks. Ow.
>>
>> In case anybody else had forgotten too, there are no accented
>> characters in Charles's email address. I've just worked out why my
>> message bounced!
>>
>> I wonder if the stroke will prove to have changed his character at
>> all. A neighbour of mine, a lifelong depressive, lost the
depression
>> completely when he suffered a stroke.
>
> Charles does not have his laptop at the hospital, and does not
expect
> to be able to access his email for quite some time.

Oh, well, there's time for a few more bounces then.

--
Mike.


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