He has left his job, taken off 3 months to go travelling with Mrs Undercover
When he returns he's off to university to study medicine so he can qualify in poking people with tongue depressers and ting.
It sounds to me he had an epiphany. Good on him!

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Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH,
Thu 11 Jun 2009, 15:32,
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