Continuing Story of Cressroads

NEWSFLASH from Dogsbloggy-to-Blogsbody – A Filipino chef, two Filipino sisters and their three Filipino children are quizzed by immigration officers - so, too, a London-born, 70-year-old former War Office employee at the wheel of a model-year black German limo claiming them as his extending family - after the seven crossed the county line into Hampshire, and were stopped at a road block manned by disgruntled UK Border Agency officials, returned from an unsuccessful swoop on Winchester’s Nepalese Gurkha Kitchen and out on the prowl for alternative illegals.

HAVE HENRY, WILL TRAVEL/cont. from 16/04/09

“Ask me, ‘cept no-one ever does, Old Henry’s grown so bloody ‘appy,” cheers Gary-the-Garden, who wheels his lawnmower through Cressroads’ streets broad and narrow.

”Calls out to me across West Street, he does. ‘Morning, Gary,’ he shouts.

“Smiling, he was. Like I’ve never seen him so made up about something ever before. But I now knows why.

‘Old Henry’s a daddy. And proud of it.

“Pleased for him. Really pleased. But, eh, so hope nothing goes wrong?”

It has before for HRH. Widowed a dozen or so years ago. And a last decade spent scouring the likes of the columns of Kindred Spirits - lonely and in search of a mate - advertising their needs and attributes in the respected pages of the Daily Telegraph.

More than the once, the pensioner who began his working life creating maps in the War Office print shop for ‘their’ eyes only, has imagined himself fallen in love.

Until, it seemed, try as he did, Henry could not do right by whoever.

“British gold-diggers,” he complains. And many thousands of pounds lighter, after several hundreds of essentially blind dates, his lonely heart looks to invest in eastern promise.

Asking his ’sincere regards be given to Continuing Story of Cressroads agony aunt Ruby Rangoon, Henry wants our Kim to know: ‘After dating with 1,600 British gold-diggers - well, not all, but many as you well know - I’ve imported a wife and child.

‘At the age of 70, I am Daddy Henry for the first time in my life.

‘Daddy to a captivating, beautiful little four-year-old girl called Charlotte - and I feel very privileged to have the responsibility for looking after her and her attractive mother.

‘Please be sure to tell, Kim,’ he smiles his reminder.

And Blogsbody e-mails by return: Your message for our Ruby Rangoon is posted. Is all okay? For the one you salute as ‘dear eccentric friend’ (BBC-TV picks up on the ‘eccentric’ bit this coming Tuesday in Cressroads) hears tell of a worrying border incident in the county involving frustrated immigration officers.