GENE RETURNS...

Well folks, I'm back. I returned to Chez Vincent this morning at 11.00am with a bunch of red roses for Marianne - red roses for a blue lady! And on Saint Valentine's Day!

I'm typing this after returning from Nonno Rosa in the High Street where Marianne and I had the most wonderful Valentine Night's meal. A lot of Chianti was put away - so my typing may not be perfect.

Yes, the past week or so has been a most difficult time but I'm returning very refreshed and optimistic.  I stayed at a hotel in the Chilterns and spent time walking in the woods, praying and meditating and planning out the future.

Those vile threats, blackmail and abuse from Detterling - well, I'm not ashamed to say they got to me. I began to have a recurring nightmare of waking up in the morning and finding myself all over the papers. A great stress for any man to live with. I began to get a glimpse of the suffering and torment that poor Myrtle Thornberry and Annie Baker went through at the hands of the Clique. And by the way I thoroughly recommend to my readers Annie Baker's book ORDEAL! The Tale of my Torment and Suffering inflicted by the Clique. But be warned: it is as harrowing as any tale that has come out of Auschwitz - Birkenau. 

Over the days of my isolation the words of Psalm 76 came often to my mind:

You have kept me awake, my eyes open;

  in my distress, I did not speak.

I pondered on the days of old,

  thought through the immemorial years.

In the night I meditated in my heart.

  I was troubled, and I asked my soul:

Will God reject you for ever,

  will he never again take you into his favour?

Has his kindness ended for ever,

But, I'm back and I will be fearless in my pursuit of truth and honesty.

And will I be taking aim at the Church of England? Is the Pope a Catholic?

Finally my response to Detterling's blackmail threats:

ooh matron - YouTube

Myrtle Thornberry R.I.P.   ...   victim of the Clique