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A&E is no place for the over-tens

Before long, I knew I was never going to be seen – all the babies and children were shooting to the front of the queue

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

‘Ouch!’ said the ex-builder boyfriend. ‘I think something’s bitten me.’ And a few seconds after that, something bit me too. We had been walking in the woods with the spaniel, when a winged creature of some sort, or possibly an agile snake, decided to take a chunk out of us both.

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