Charles, the cowardly b*****d. 

It’s been a few postings since I’ve allowed someone else to write the blog. After the success of the edition written by Penny and Neville I thought it was about time someone else had a go, to give a different perspective to the writing. So without further ado, let me introduce you to Charles. Charles isn’t his real name, but he’s a coward and doesn’t want to be recognised. I first met Charles in December 2015, but he’d known me for a few months before that. Over to you Charles.

Well, hello there folks, my name is Charles and despite what Paul mentioned above I’m not a coward, I’m just a sneaky so ‘n so who doesn’t like to be seen in public. I prefer to hide in my victims, opp’s I meant hosts. Paul didn’t become aware that I was around until late summer 2015, but I’d been hanging about for a few months before that. If he’d been sensible he’d have gone to see his Dr. straight away, but like most men he just ignored it. That meant I had a much better chance to hang about and annoy him for even longer. We played a bit of footsy for a few months, I thought that he’d started to like me, get used to me. Then he saw a bloody quack who sent him to see someone with a few more brain cells than Paul. The smart arses thought they’d got me with their magic potions of chemicals and electrical zapping………… they were wrong. I’m much too clever for that sort of black magic, I just hid behind the bones, had a rather pleasant summer and decided to come back to haunt him again…………. With a vengeance and a rather quirky smile.

No chance of any fancy use of magic this time, if they wanted shot of me they were going to have to use good an old fashioned iron monger. And they did………… 12 hours of digging, scraping, cutting, filleting and reshaping and I was discarded in a bin with no second thought of my future. How rude!

I may have been exorcised from Paul, but I’m still around, ready to strike again without any notice. You people think that you’re safe, but you’re not! Your Doctors are clever and getting better, but I’m the worst nightmare and will strike you down even if you’ve been a good person all your life, which let’s face it, is a pretty rare thing. Remember, I can see what you’re up to.

Anyway, let me tell you about the future. I’m going to…..

At this point I managed to get control back on my blog. “Charlie” has been told he’s no longer welcome around here. He was never welcome, but sometimes you can deny the uninvited guest. He’s on borrowed time.

As always, thanks for reading.

To be continued…………….

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