empty space

Nothing much has really happened since I last came here. I spent a very nice weekend minding Keri's house while they went away for the weekend (SKYTV, broadband link and food in the cupboard). No bowls match, nothing in the way of meetings or anything, so to fill up the space, and to amuse, here's another from my favourite poet, write and Goon, Spike Milligan.

Teeth
English Teeth, English Teeth!
Shining in the sun
A part of British heritage
Aye, each and every one.

English Teeth, Happy Teeth!
Always having fun
Clamping down on bits of fish
And sausages half done.

English Teeth! HEROES' Teeth!
Hear them click! and clack!
Let's sing a song of praise to them -
Three Cheers for the Brown Grey and Black.

Pinch me, I'm dreaming.....!

What a nice surprise!

One of the major prizes in the Hull City Weekly Draw has dropped through my letter box!

And it's spoken for too, so no asking for anything cos no-ones having anything from it!! Looks nice though, doesn't it!

Phew its hot...!

Apart from getting sunburnt legs, and having a handsome win at bowls while acquiring said red legs, there's nothing much else to say except to moan about the heat.... So I'm not going to!

Instead, I'd like to quote a little limerick from my comic hero (and dashed good writer too), the only one called Mr T.A. Milligan, or better known as Spike to us all:

A man who was asked out to dinner
Came back home looking hungry and thinner
He said 'Don't look baffled
The dinner was raffled
And somebody else was the winner'

Summer - thoughts and musings

With the arrival of warmer weather, and a chance to enjoy the open spaces of the city parks, I've been allowing the brain a chance to wander off in different directions.

One thing that has struck me is the speediness of the passage of time over the last few months. The days sometimes feel endless but yet the months and weeks seem to speed past! I can't believe that its just me that notices this, or perhaps the countdown to mid-August has accentuated it. Throw in the number of 'final' meetings etc., and I suppose there's no surprise its zipping past.

I know its a subject I've harped on about before, on here, but the fact of leaving all my Hull friends behind as I depart for a more exciting life, has really made everything even more poignant. For years, these people have been my rocks, my buffers against the unpredictable currents of the world, and after August, I'll have to remake a lot of those anchors afresh. Stuart, Sharon, Helen, Deirdre and all the others through astronomy, Hull City and other groups in different areas, well, they'll all then be at a distance, just names on an email list. Although I hope it doesn't happen, will losing the personal, day-to-day contact mean I lose touch? Not if I have anything to do with it. In the past I've not been that good at keeping in touch with old friends but I'm going to try to change that this time. Finding other friends as good as these will take some doing, but I've no doubt I will in the end.

Another thing I've been pondering is the sheer unpredictability of life, and of my life in particular. When I was visiting the parents recently, my father's impending retirement had me thinking about the routine of going to work in the same place for 50 years, leaving the same house every morning for 30 years and so on. Its quite sobering to think on that, as its not something I know or will experience. I've just lurched from one thing to another, and yet the unpredictability has worked in my favour this time, as this time its given me a future and a chance at being the kind of person I thought I might be, from 20 years ago!

Sorry for the chapter instead of the usual verse, but the mind did wander a bit!

What to say next?

Very much a dull week. At least I thought so. Usual 9 to 5 routine without a stand-out event of any kind. Certain Council depts were called impolite names at work on Friday afternoon. I mean, what else do you do when everyone decides mail HAS to go out that night, and especially on a Friday too! I don't think I really stopped, from getting in that morning, till mid afternoon, apart from lunch, which is sacrosanct. So apart from a regional Supporters Trust meeting on Saturday afternoon, nothing else really happened this week!

Tonight is a barby night down at our fellow astronomy society's observatory. If the weather co-operates that is! No rain, but it might be one of those cloudy, wam evenings tonight. Fit for nothing much really...