The Road to Hell...

"On your journey 'cross the wilderness
From the desert to the well
You have strayed upon the motorway to Hell"
Chris Rea
"There she stood in the doorway. I heard the mission bell. Then I was thinking to myself this could be heaven or this could be hell." The Eagles.

It's funny what goes through your mind at 2am. Thoughts of "situations at work" still lying heavy on my mind. Colin as always, phoned the hospital. Temperature was down, antibiotics kicked in, was more settled, back on track. Lyrics from songs keep droning on in my head. As a child weaned on Barbara Streisand/ Johnny Mathis and of course the old man "Frank" himself. These lyrics were alien to me when I first met Colin. He was not the corporate lawyer, young surgeon or dare I reveal, young royal my parents had assumed I would wed. No...he was the young lanky youth in the black biker jacket with the mean machine bike. This came as a suprise to them, such a shock!
No aires and graces with my Col, even with his dubious choice of tank tops (which seemed to go missing in the wash during our first year of marriage) I fell hook line and sinker. I should have known better when he turned up on his machine for the first date. Oh how my mother prayed that he was just a phase.
Even "distorting" the truth when I rode pillion all the was to the south of France (telling my Mum that I flew out to meet him there) for two weeks camping (another one of Colin's fettishes) which only lasted a couple of nights before he realised the error of his ways and booked us into a luxury pad in St. Tropez. (He should have run then).
My children suffering the same fate with their Dad as they grew, but I find this one strange myself. They loved their camping adventures with their Dad and his friend Les and his children Scott and Lisa.
Oh yes, this phase is now 31 years old, Mum even had the grace to say "Colin's done ok" a few years back. Well I think he has done ok too and if I could I would live in a tent with him now and even in one of his horrendous tank tops. "Then I was thinking to myself this could be heaven or this could be hell."