From my cell I could hear the thunder, building all afternoon as the storm rolled in over our Gulag.
My single feeble tube of light flickered…would the lightning favour me? It had to! I had no idea where the power plant for this hell-hole was! And I had nothing to use to get these shackles off…
somehow, I didn’t think elipses would work…
Dark. A sudden, complete darkness. I groped my way towards my cell door, feeling for the spy-hole bars.Yes! My fingers closed on the rim and I tugged hard. Too hard – no longer held fast by its high voltage, the damn’ door swung in and almost flattened me.
I could hear no one. Was I the only prisoner in this area? I moved along the wall to my left,trying to remember how many steps I’d taken when they brought me here. Maybe 90 steps?
And then lightning flashed across a doorway. A glazed door! And just outside the door a glazed guard. While the sky was still lit I pulled open the door, snatched the guard’s taser and ran towards the gates.
A voice in my head said I should have taken the regular gun.Would a taser work if it was raining? And by now it was. In seconds the taser and I were soaked.
I had two problems…I had to cross this raging torrent. And I needed food.Actually, I had three problems…I still had my yoke and chain.Sure, it was broken, but I had no way to get it off…
The voice in my head said “find food.” So I channeled Les Hiddins and gathered some fallen quandongs…
By now the stream was carrying dead critters along and I knew typhoid would be a risk.I needed something pure to drink…
And I needed transport! I’d have to take a chance on someone leaving a key in the ignition…and fuel in the tank! I didn’t care about air in the tyres!
One last forage for food and I was outa here! 
And that’s why I haven’t posted for so long!
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Good luck with the escape. But if you are recaptured, I will bake you a cake with a file and a bottle of Sweet Baby Jesus! in it!
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Brilliant!Thank you.
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Brilliant, Dinah!! I hope you have now fully recovered from this epic adventure and that you have your guest room fully prepared as I am on my way to stay…. actually there may be a few of us on the way…. I’m sure my ellipses cut the mustard if not the shackles.
Sx
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Scarlet, you are welcome any time.But I would ask you not to bring Nigel or any of his ilk! Hey! We could form a United Ellipses Party.And you can design the flourishing banner…:-)
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Sounds like a plan!
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Big, big smiles.
And glad that you didn’t forage for mangrove maggots which always turned my wimpy tummy.
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Mangrove maggots? Good god! I googled…came up with mango worms which look pretty revolting.
But I was OK with the SBJ porter.I passed on the half-eaten Mac…
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Ye Gods! Is it so difficult to leave the U.S.A.these days?
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hahaha! I was lucky leaving USA.Not sure what will happen if I ever go back to England…guess I’ll have to trust that Costa Rica’s border will be unfettered.:-)
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You have da money you can come…
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What a delight you are, Dinamow! Cheered me up no end. Where can I get a bottle of SBJ? Could do with it right now. We, a six year old, an eight year old, and a seventy four year old are watching end to end episodes of Goosebumps. Am I going crazy?
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Quite possibly, Carol, quite possibly! 🙂
But I think Goosebumps-with-grandchildren is better than politics on social media!
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Ha! i really had no idea where this was going, but then when i saw SBJ, i saw the light (and recognized the bottle!) A fine epilogue to a wealth of adventure! Here’s to what lies ahead!
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I’ll drink to that! clinks Pepper Jack to SBJ…
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Blimey! What an adventure.
Those quandongs look unreal – I’ve never seen the like.
P.S. I’ll be visiting with Ms Scarlet. You’d better get your bunk beds ready!
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Um…don’t have bunk beds.I think we have a hammock…somewhere.But if you come when it’s cold(right now) you can top n tail.Hell! If this cold snap continues we’ll be bunking together! In summer you can sleep outside. 🙂
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Sounds like you had a lovely time at Wentworth Detention Centre, was that old Vinegar Tits standing guard?
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Oops! Almost missed you, Mitzi.And I had to google Wentworth as I’d never seen it!
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[off-topic. sorry.]
Are you a Footy fan?
I just watched an exciting back-and-forth game between the Sydney Swans and Western Bulldogs. The Bulldogs somehow earned a free (penalty?) kick and the guy put it between the poles with two seconds left to win the game. I don’t understand all of thrashing around that goes on out in the field or why the teams wear those wife-beater shirts, but does look like it would be a lot of fun to attend a game in person!
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Hahaha! No, not a follower of Australian Rules. Chez Dinahmow we call it “Tight Knickers” football! Now with wife-beater shirts.Love that! I admit to being intrigued by those referees wearing lab. coats. No one can tell me why!
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