No, I haven’t
lost my mind, the name game is in play it’s what I am listening to at the
moment so google it if you have to cheat.
Life as
always bimbles on and I seem to bimble along with it, good news or bad news I seem
to shrug my shoulders and simply keep trying to move forward. The Four on the
floor blogs seem to have found a niche and they are trickling with good days
and bad days sometimes nobody reads them then other days you get 13 hits in 22
minutes, I have no idea why, that is why I am simply bimbling along, I am
preparing the next four on the floor but its not set in stone just yet, as I am
indeed playing a lot of music.
So, what
have we been doing of late, well we had a brief jaunt off to the north of the
country, yes we crossed the border and headed to bonny Scotland , the weather
was unseasonly warm, we hired a small cottage between haddington and Dunbar and
kicked back just a little, a slow drive up the military road to avoid the
traffic on the direct route we took the old military road the only thing that
spoilt that journey was the possibility of a traffic cam flash as we overtook a
slow electric car (the driver must have been about 90 and could have hardly see
over the stirring wheel) we wait with baited breath to see if a notice arrives
in the post.
We kicked
back the first night and did what we like to do most, which is very little if
we can, I read a biography on Cozy Powell (meh) and the wife played with her
switch. The next morning I was up with the larks (no surprise there then) the
wife was up quite early for her I didn’t have to poke her with a stick, cunning
plans were afoot, typically we didn’t follow them, we headed off down narrow
country lanes and found a Deer farm, then managed to get into Dunbar (where I had
my first ever holiday at the tender age of 5) and we dawdled went to the
harbour and looked out to sea, shame really as it has a fantastic beach but the
tide was in, we dawdled along the opposite side of the street and the wife spotted
a record shop (heaven) we had a good sort through and I was a good boy I only
bought 4, it definitely lifted my spirits we called into a garden centre for a
spot of lunch and had a fab meal, we could have split either meal between us
and still have been stuffed, cracking meal and it kind of stopped us in our
tracks, we wandered a bit further afield but the grub had really stifled us, so
we headed back to base for another quiet night, I know we are getting old, the
next day the same process, except this time I had a slight lie in, please note
a lie in for me is anything past 5.30 in the morning, this was 6.10 I was
happy, a late breakfast for us, and then time to head out again this time to
Haddington were walked around the village a little but headed to our fave “Bistro”
the waterside the clock struck 12 and we walked through the door for lunch, the
food as per was out of this world a starter a full Sunday lunch and a pudding
we waddled out of the place across the bridge and collapsed into the first
available seat.
We did
venture further afield, which was good when you consider what we had eaten, but
we did eventually throw our hands in defeat and head back to base, another
glorious day and after we had settled, we decided to start the job of packing
up, a little less to do in the following morning, I finished the biography (a 5
out of ten for me) then off to bed and to sleep. We were up about the same time
I let the wife snooze a little longer as I finished the packing, we had a light
breakfast and then set off, we headed back via the motorway and the traffic was
crap we finally got home and decided we need to do that some more, I just have
to find a bank to rob, as it was bloody expensive, and all the banks in
Gimpsville have just about closed. I had had a couple of great ideas for a blog
but had to neglected to bring the infamous black book so they were lost to the
ether, you think I would learn, I seem to have gotten out of the habit of being
a blogger (something I must rectify) as I lie awake at night trying to remember
the structure of the snowflake of an idea, I rarely do, so its back to carrying
a little black book, don’t say that you haven’t been warned!
Then back
to work I miss the old place of work simply because I could play bus seat bingo
just about every single journey, my current place of work, I’m not the first on
the bus anymore, but sometimes I do manage it and boy does it piss people off, it’s
the simple things in life! One thing that doesn’t change is the pain my knees
on the walk to my bus connection and because of the weight of my bag that I carry
my hips have decided to join in, its not good, it lets me know that I am a mere
mortal, I really am too old for all of this shit! To make matters I fell onto
my knees at work from a height onto a stone staircase, thankfully nobody saw
but the rest of this week was crippling with little chance of recovery.
The trip to
Scotland by now seemed like a lifetime away, there was some sad news as a
lovely person from work passed suddenly, there was a chill and subdued vibe for
the rest of the week, I hobbled to the finish line on Friday, but the wife insisted
that we needed supplies so I was dragged around but we didn’t stay long when I’m
in pain I always have a cunning plan, we went to the nearest shop scooted
around and then headed home. I continued with the iPhone treachery by adding
new “old” albums but I am being careful as I don’t want to break the first new phone,
I have had in 4 years, there’s time enough for that. Last night I was checking
on the blog as I tend to do, since I started blogging on here 11 years ago I have
had nearly close to 85000 hits, that does thaw the frozen brick in my chest.
Going forward
there are some rocks in the road and I need to be able to support the wife as
she supports a member of her family, there will be some dark times ahead, but I
will be there to help here every step of that journey. The Hurricane is still
with us and is great for about 98.5% of the time, we are trying to help him, we
are trying to make sure that life can be a little easier for him bless him he’s
11 and all I want to do is help him steer his ship, he has been good company,
although I swear he is trying to kill himself on that bloody scooter, its only
a matter of time before we have a broken bone, he has the safety gear we just
need to make sure he wears it.
The new
cooker has an issue that has had two visits to fix and we have been warned that
it could happen again, I thought that the wife might strangle the engineer, thankfully
she didn’t, he was simply trying to give some good advice, as I gather my thoughts whilst taking notes
for this blog I’m looking around the office and because it’s a Friday its like
the Marie celeste (look it up if you don’t
get the reference) and no matter what happens life goes on, another week crawls
to an end, no matter whether its been a good week or a bad week.
My
addiction to the internet appears to be broken, once and for all I seem to only
go on twice a week to check any email, and to post a blog if I need to, I can hear the wife shouting at me to come
back and join the real world, I will finish up the longest blog this year, I will head off to interact with real live
people, you never know I might get to like it, as I said earlier Four on the
floor is next after this and some damn good music is going to get reviewed,
lets just see what tomorrow brings!
And so as this
blog draws to a close remember to spread the disease, click like share whatever
lets see if we can do another 85000 hits and for it not to take another 11
years, onwards take care and stay alive, until the next time…………. Toodles! AND YES, THE
NAME GAME IS IN PLAY!
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