To: jpmercurio@spanair.com

Sent: Sat, Nov 13, 2010 10:23 am

Subject: re. Urgent Special Request - PRM

Juan,

PRM Ross Smith explains: 'I will need to be assisted onto the aircraft via an Ambi Lift; and then, with the aid of a transfer chair, assisted onto a conventional seat. If it is at all possible for me to be seated where there is additional leg-room that would be much appreciated. Aid will be required at both airports. Grateful thanks, Ross.'

Cont. from 13/11

And, Keeks, with Ross calling the shots,

A young passenger with restricted mobility, but who packs out for his every next adventure in little doubt of just how much can go wrong.

Not least to find himself stranded aboard an emptying flight as his wheelchair goes walkabout at London Gatwick. And why no effort is spared by all concerned to ensure his inaugural flight with Spanair to Tenerife Sud in the New Year is industriously swept clean of every last potential gremlin.

And it is in fear of bugbears sent to try us in the guise of mischievous sprites through filial hobgoblins in size-nines that your Poppa Mike risks all in opening wide the gateway to the self-styled watercress capital of the world to welcome home this coming weekend’s visitor to the Lower House of Windsor.

A voluptuous former music pupil of your Great-Aunt Mother Margaret Mary Aidan, OP, at the Dominican Convent High School in Salisbury, Rhodesia – before changing its flag and colours to Harare, Zimbabwe – who, all of these decades later, as if by a miracle of divine, spiritual intervention, hears word ex-seminarian, thrice divorced Fleet Street investigative reporter, septuagenarian town hack Blogsbody-of-Cressroads is unashamedly back on the pull.

“Life is too short,” heeds the African farmer’s daughter. “So Friday? And I’ll drive to meet up with you in Hampshire for time together.“

Meanwhile by any other name a dark-red variant of a Greek-blooded phoenix catches up with more than 70 episodes of the Continuing Story of Cressroads.

Her warts-and-all, 35,000-word illustrated read so far.

And leaving little to anyone’s imagination since your Poppa Mike dressed for dinner to insist all heads were bowed for his reading of Rabbie Burns’ say-the-Lord-be-‘thankit’ Selkirk Grace to spark the 250th Anniversary Burns Supper and Order of Ceremonies embraced by the Arms of Tichborne – Archive 05/02/09 www.blogsbody.com

There’s more, Keekie. But perhaps it ought to await inclusion in your New Year 2011 missive planned to depart Los Christianos for Graig Welsh Wales?

Meanwhile, please to let me know your festive plans.

Much love to Daisy-Mae from Bamps,

Poppa Mike xxx

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