Reading · FVCKING PARKINSON'S!

Poking about in my Notes folders just before Christmas…(yeah what happened there…) I came across notes I’d written three years ago back in spring of 2023…and was struck by what a nice earnest young thing i seemed then….travelling wide eyed to real places like Morden and Cockfosters; reporting where I’d been, what I\d seen. In retrospect it all seemed rather respectable compared to all the riffing on the fantasy punk persona that I’ve begun to inhabit.. but now as I’m just about to hit the post button -I think “repectable…WTF..!”

So viva le punk persona….

A lives in Tasmania, he’s very dear friend of my daughter’s and I like to think mine. During his last visit in the summer of 2024 he took me to my first gay disco. I later told him that at one point when we were dancing so well together I really wanted to snog him. He said at first he was really surprised then he said something very wonderful like ‘then I remembered it was you…

It was on that same trip that A had been the only person I could tell anywhere near the full graphic wonder of my one night stand with a stunning young woman (my first sexual encounter in 18 years). So though we don’t know each other that well I trust I can tell him anything […thanks mate…]

[24/11/2025, 05:03:50] ~A: Nick are you ok ? Why are u in hoppy

[24/11/2025, 05:18:19] Nick Comer-Calder: Hi lovely A / I’m fine now. I’m gonna tell the whole ripping yarn on the stack. But since you’re there and have sent me cool songs you o Alex get to be the fist person in the entire southern hemisphere to know why I spent my 8Oth birthday in ReSus Bay 3 then Amu ward in the most handsome of buildings at the top Totty Court Rd - UCLH! [University College London Hosspital]

[24/11/2025, 05:18:36] Nick Comer-Calder: Wow bet you’re thrilled..

[24/11/2025, 05:18:59] ~A: Oh no your 80th !!!!

[24/11/2025, 05:19:21] ~A: You were partying too hard I hope

[24/11/2025, 05:19:25] Nick Comer-Calder: Yup

[24/11/2025, 05:22:22] ~A: Legend [a man after my own heart..]

[24/11/2025, 05:25:26] Nick Comer-Calder: I hadn’t planned anything other than tea and buns in the Regent’s Park cafe with F&S and the dogs and a couple of friends… it was such a shit day that wouldn’t have happened anyway..

[24/11/2025, 05:42:57] Nick Comer-Calder: So at 3 am on friday I stopped painting the inside of the front door to the flat at 98 Parkway and crashed. I was vv tired but otherwise fine. A bjt stressed about how much mess I had to clear up by 2 when ny cleaner came to make the place spit spot for Airbnb guestie arriving at 4.00 but went to sleep immediately. Woke at 4 with a bit of e sore tummy. Went for a pee and then my tummy began to really hurt.. tried to poo but nothing there…the pain got worse and worse-so bad i started yowliing and moaning…at 4.30 I called 911 they said the ambulance would be an hour…

[24/11/2025, 05:46:32] Nick Comer-Calder: So i called judy my ex wife…she and i have been getting on fine and she’s loves the whole health wellness thing it’s her favourite subject…so

[24/11/2025, 05:48:53] Nick Comer-Calder: So she was great just let me howl and yowl down the phone at her until the ambulance came-

[24/11/2025, 05:51:09] Nick Comer-Calder: I was hanging on to the thought that’s as soon ss they arrived there’d be morphine and the pain would go…

[24/11/2025, 05:53:56] Nick Comer-Calder: So they arrived 4 large people in the green paramilitary gear… so reassuringly large and hunky..

[24/11/2025, 05:54:33] ~A: I’m riveted

[24/11/2025, 06:01:58] Nick Comer-Calder: Good I’m sensing your attention

They sat me down in kitchen dining area - gave me a gas and air thing stuck a canula in my arm snd gave me 2? ml of morphine - no effect at all - so I was still in agony

[24/11/2025, 06:10:15] Nick Comer-Calder: Id got dressed at some point-new Uniqlo pale grey baggy joggers., a very cool Nirvana short sleeve T(S. rates it highly), the huge Pringle cable knit cardi that F had found brand new in skip near Lamble street years ago.

[24/11/2025, 06:11:18] Nick Comer-Calder: So I’m getting v tired I’m sorry boyo

[24/11/2025, 06:13:19] Nick Comer-Calder: TBC meanwhile heres shots i took

[24/11/2025, 06:21:29] Nick Comer-Calder: That’s probs way too much.

[24/11/2025, 06:21:44] Nick Comer-Calder: Night

[24/11/2025, 06:38:11] ~A: You’ve got a head start on your stack! Rest up and I’ll read the rest along with everyone else!