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I saw an ad in today's paper that a local doctor, Doctor Verge, is retiring after 55 years as a GP. It states it's for health reasons. I'm not surprised. The man has emphysema and has been toting an oxygen tank to work for quite a few years now. He doesn't come out to the waiting room to call the patients any more like the others do, he gets the receptionist to do it for him. If you go in to his office he'll do as much as he can while sitting, ie taking your blood pressure. I expect he's been keeping up the job to give him something to keep going for but he's so obviously been in bad shape for some time. I hope he has some time to enjoy his retirement but i have a feeling the lung disease is probably advancing. He's the last of the GP's i remember from when i was a kid.

The Monty Python night was fun though they didn't end up performing any skits themselves. Couldn't persuade anyone to play the straight man i guess :) 2 or 3 dozen total, from a variety of years of the 70s so that's good, it wasn't just the last few years where the actual Club was running in school. They had a bar, coffee and soft drinks, cake, veggie and meat/cheese tray. The man that organized it works for General Electric and i think he got some sponsorship out of them. That means swag... water bottles, pens, keychains with mini screwdrivers and some nice door prizes. Lots of mingling, laughs, and a John cleese video, more mingling and then the Holy Grail though by that time i had to come home. I'm working this morning so i had to get home but i hear the party went on until the wee hours with the last stragglers.

Lunch and a harbour cruise this afternoon.