Sunday, June 30, 2024

OK - Now Just Get Over It Already

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  It's over.  It's been 11 years since you last met her / saw her and whilst you occasionally drop a note to each other and so on, i...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Moving On

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  Reflecting on the past.  I'm not sure if that is good or bad really.  My daughter is running for CancerUK tomorrow - I've only jus...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Eleven Years Today

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The Hotel, the emotions, the symbolism, the love (yes the love).  Eleven years on and it didn't turn out the way this old romantic wante...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Ugh The Claustrophobia Dream Again

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  I know that it is a "learned" phobia but I've had this since I was a child, hate getting on crowded trains and buses and the...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Well I did it

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 Interestingly, it was half forced as everyone arrived early so left before I thought I would.   The roads were pretty much quiet and I arri...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

The strain of getting out of the house

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  I've got two errands to do today.  I've got to pick up my partner's birthday cake and then get some party food.  Now it's ...
Friday, June 21, 2024

Flashbacks, Fantasies, Meaningless Recollections

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  I'd be lying if I said that I haven't been "quite right" this past year and possibly since April 2020 if I think about i...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Embracing Life After Beating Bladder Cancer

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I thought I'd us AI to write this for me.  It's pretty good....  A Journey of Resilience and Hope 18 years ago, the world turned u...
Monday, June 17, 2024

Time Wasting

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Maybe I've earned a gold medal in procrastination! I have these cycles where I'm a productivity machine, and then...well, let...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Here We Go Again

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  After a week of activity I once again find myself sitting here, at my PC doing the square root of sweet Fanny Adams!  I cannot get myself ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Glimpsing My Angel

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  Of all the loves of my life, one shines through.  My life was turned upside down and indeed, I'm where I am today because of the exper...
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Monday, June 10, 2024

Still Coughing Away Here

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  I've had this cold for almost two weeks now.  It's just one of those strange ones, possibly a Covid type thing as I keep coughing ...
Saturday, June 08, 2024

And, Just Like That, You're Old

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Today, I suddenly felt old.  I got Bladder Cancer in my late 40s and it wasn't until I was in my mid 60s that they signed me off.  17 Ye...
Wednesday, June 05, 2024

Cold - A Little Unusual

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 This is the strangest of colds.  I felt fine late yesterday afternoon and watched some TV and then went to bed.  10 minutes in I started co...
Tuesday, June 04, 2024

Cold From Hell? Thank Your Grandchildren

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Something "going around" they say. Indeed.... well I have it and it is most unpleasant as it has those traditional Flu type sympto...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

D-Day 80 years ago

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  I have just written an article about someone I knew who never mentioned he was involved in D-Day.  It was not until we attended his funera...
Monday, May 27, 2024

Election Incoming

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 The late Labour MP, Tony Benn, had a very good observation about politics: "In the course of my life I have developed five little demo...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

The Hokey Cokey. What if that really IS what it is all about?

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SO, what's it all about?  Funny isn't it?  Life that is.  I wondered about this as we had a Dog attack on the Sheep in our field at ...
Monday, May 20, 2024

World Leading Health Service

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 Yes, I kind of owe my life to the NHS (National Health Service) BUT, since COVID it's all turned to sh1t.  I was speaking to a number o...
Friday, May 17, 2024

Stranger Times

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I'm thinking that I am going through some strange things at the moment.  I am steering clear of TV and limiting Social Media exposure as...