Friday, 26 September 2025

Right Here Right Now 5.


Life as always seems to be speeding up, with no let up, work has been definitely speeding up, it’s all good in the hood, just Busy, Busy, Busy, well it was until yesterday when I took a surprise tumble, well it was a surprise to me, right up until I hit the floor then it was a big ouch moment! As I got to the main bus terminus, sore and feeling sorry for myself I was helped onto public transport by a pensioner (considerably older than myself) who had took pity on the shuffling mess attempting to get on the bus……damn that was me!

Writing has not been at the forefront of my mind as my wife also had two tumbles (I was simply copying her) her first resulting in dislocated fingers and then because of this when she did exactly the same trapeze stunt, she cracked her wrist, she now has a lovely blue cast, I simply dented my pride! The wife left me and the pooch when her and the youngest went on a jaunt to London to see a play, she came back to find out I had knocked out the fire place to assist with the incoming wood burner, what should have taken me about 90 minutes in the bad old days took nearly six hours over two days, when did I become so decrepit? Answers on a postcard to who gives a rat’s ass! God I was sore and in pain…. OUCH!

What has brought life into true focus the man I’m named after my Uncle Colin passed away this morning, and the brakes were applied to life in short order, the family circle of the originals is down to one Auntie and around five cousins, that really does the circle of life into clear focus, it seems it really is life’s way of saying our family has ever decreasing circles, am I sad, I am but I realise now that he lived his life, he enjoyed his life, I hope I can get to 84, to be honest my health issues are the same as my uncles, I have his name and most of his hereditary medical issues, so there is hope for me yet…….allegedly!

Tonight, my intention is to have a drink a rather large drink and to raise my glass and celebrate his life, it’s what he would have wanted, he had a DNR tag, he wanted no flowers, no funeral policy, he went in his sleep exactly what he wanted, I wonder where I get my life view point from, I just realised, Unc here’s to you!

So, there you go it took a couple of falls and a death in the family to get me back to break the dam and get writing, the usual normal service (well as normal as I can do) will resume presently…………Honest!

Until then stay safe stay alive and until then………...Toodles!

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