He’s going, going, gone. It’s quite unbelievable to think that someone who has had such a massive influence on my life has resigned. As the words of his parting speech washed over my ears, I was at times moved, I was gladdened, upset, devastated and relieved. But after our doubts and our anxieties, yesterday it finally happened and he actually resigned. I feel for him in many ways. Because not playing in the semi-finals with the hope of winning his 23rd Grand Slam is indeed a massive sacrifice.

Oh, what, you thought I meant Boris? BORIS??? Couldn’t give a toss about that fat fuck. I’m talking Rafa!!! After watching him win his quarter final, obviously troubled by his injury was a thing of heroic, painful beauty and commitment. For him to pull out of the tournament now does NOT in any way make him a ‘bloody Spanish wimp’, nor anything like. Just because some of us play through agony and turmoil and arthritic shoulders and even dandruff doesn’t mean others are honour-bound to follow. Rafa could have pain-killered it out in the semi, maybe, but at a massive cost to himself and his playing future. He did the right thing. I’m sure Nick Kyrios doesn’t share our pain.

So I went to the doctor yesterday, actually, to see the nurse. Because I like nurses. And she wanted to see The Amazing Shrinking Man!!!, because Mel mentioned I’d lost height (I’m currently 2 foot 7”), and she thought she should check me out. Which meant draining me of blood, as they always do. And then she asked if I wanted a ‘pneumonia vaccine’. I said ‘yes’ before asking what it was because I simply cannot resist any vaccine for anything, ever. I wish I could have been vaccinated against Boris in 2016, just before the Brexit bollocks, but she wasn’t asking about that. And then she ‘sold’ it to me. Even though I was already rolling up my sleeve. She said: ‘no-one in the world ever died from Covid’. Because Covid can’t kill. What it does is fuck up your respiratory system until your heart gives up or you contract pneumonia and die from that.

HO-LEEEE SHI-IIIIIIIT!!!!! That’s so true and logical and, I would say ‘nice’, but obviously its not. That’s why it was always how many people died WITH Covid. Ahhhhhh. Jab me right NOW!!!!

I think they only give it to the seriously aged. Mel (only a BIT younger) wasn’t offered it. But now I’m SUPERMAN. Next week I’m being vaccinated against green Kryptonite and I’m sorted.

Happy Friday

A xxxx