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  •   My Blog: October 2008
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    Dog Psychologist
    27 October 08

    I am doing the finishing touches to my book for Cambridge, called The S-crap Book of Amazing Facts.It's been huge fun. My best illustrator, Vian Oelofsen is busy on another of my books in the series, Captain Half-arse,so today the art director sent me three cartoons by Walter Pichler, to...
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    Will and Joe arrive at last
    17 October 08

    Well, the pirate book has landed. It's not as fat as I'd hoped it would be, as the publishers decided at the last minute to save costs and reduce the number of pages, but Vian Oelofsen has done such a great job on the pics. I love his illustrations.

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    Luke is home
    09 October 08

    Luke came home yesterday, back to his old self, almost, and 12 kg heavier. It's a huge relief. For a while, two weeks ago, I thought he was dying. And when Bishop David Beetge died in the same week from septicemia during chemo I got a huge fright.

    But now...
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    He's getting fatter....
    01 October 08

    Luke's been in for a week now, getting 2000 calories through a line in his jugular, big meals three times a day, and pies, cheese biscuits, fruit juice, chocolates, whatever takes his fancy between meals.
    He is so much better. His colour is good, and he's picked up some weight....
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