I gave up smoking three years ago and I'm glad I did. I enjoy a friendly beer with friends and family, but tend to drink tea by choice... a lot of tea.
I don't like self-righteous dingbats, (and that includes myself when I get on my high horse), bullies or people who don't ever listen, or are deliberately obtuse... we all know one or two like that, right?
It's been a couple of weeks since the flooding in Cockermouth hit the
news headlines, so here is my picture update on the damage caused, and
ongoing repair and clean-up work in the Market Place and Main Street
areas that were so badly hit...
As you've no doubt heard on the news, Cockermouth has been hit by flooding...
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A couple of weeks back, I put up a post about how it would be nice to hear about what kind of music you'd be listening to on Halloween, and I offered my choices for a few good tunes...
I also asked that those of you who read this might like to participate by adding your own choices to the list...
...I got only two responses.
So I'm going to say "Thank you" to @Han_DJ and Velveteen Ballsac, who were the ones to offer their choices up for consideration...
If you want to check out what music we decided on... go back and check out this post... http://sickkid1972.posterous.com/5920225
We'll try this again next year shall we? After you've had nice chance to think about it...
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Earlier on, or maybe last night... but pretty darn recently at any rate, there was a small trending topic on Twitter. It centred around the tags 'No God' and 'Know God'. You may even have seen or participated in this little discussion. I'm not going to bore you with the details of what was going on, mainly because I don't really care.
However, at around the same time, I read several 'My dog's got no nose...' type jokes, and had an idea for one of my own...
I duly tweeted this gem into the Twitterverse, whereupon, it was apparently completely missed by everyone... and that's a shame because it really tickled me...
http://bit.ly/u1FBn Do you see this link? This will take you directly to this forgotten nugget of comedy gold... and if that doesn't work, here it is typed out by my own fair hand...
My God has no-no's...
How does He smell?
He doesn't, He's just very judgemental....
Was it really worth the effort of me posting a whole new blog update, just to get you to read my gag? Almost certainly not... But so what? I liked it, you lot can make your own minds up whether you like it or not, and the World will continue on it's way as it has for many a year...
I'd also like to add that only one person has made a proper contribution to my previous post...
Come on people!!! Halloween party music is important too...
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Late last night, I was doing a little thinking...
It's two weeks until Halloween is upon us once again, and in between all the rampant pumpkin destruction, sugar consumption, belly aches, drunkenness and diabolical Bela Lugosi impressions... what music will people be listening to?
That's when I decided to try and come up with a play list for my own imaginary Halloween party. The tunes I've selected aren't in any particular order, but they are all tunes that I have heard and liked, and have a certain 'something' about them that fits in with the spirit of the occasion. A lot of them are probably pretty obvious, others less so... but what the heck!?
My Halloween Music Extravaganza
Spellbound - Siouxsie & The Banshees
The Torture Never Stops - Frank Zappa
Angel Of Death - Slayer
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Voodoo People - The Prodigy
Miss Lucifer - Primal Scream
Goblin Girl - Frank Zappa
Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden
Nasty - The Damned
Riders On The Storm - The Doors
Welcome To My Nightmare - Alice Cooper
Creeping Death - Metallica
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
Murderer - Helloween
The Four Horsemen - Aphrodite's Child
Big Black Witchcraft Rock - The Cramps
Haunted - Disturbed
Shadowplay - Joy Division
Scarecrow - Ministry
Paint It Black - Rolling Stones
We Who Are Not As Others - Sepultura
Black Illusion - Ozzy Osborne
Sold My Soul - Nazareth
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Metallica
Fixit Girl - Chris Morris (Not a song, but still a very creepy piece of audio from the creator of Blue Jam)
Those of you who have got this far, will probably now be thinking stuff like, "He's forgotten about (songname)... the fool!"
Well, I haven't... I'm asking you to make further good Halloweeny suggestions in the comments section... 8-) BUT, I do have two rules about that
1) No "Anything by (bandname)..." type suggestions. I want you to actually THINK about this.
2) You may NOT suggest Thriller by Michael Jackson, because it's just a massive cliché.
So dear readers, I urge you to have a good old root about in the back of your m inds and your music collections for other stuff we can put on this list, stuff that will keep all your Halloweens good and ghostly...
I'll try and remember to post responses to some of the more intriguing suggestions that come through before October 31st, and you can have a read of those on Halloween night.
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Wouldn't you know it? I've come back to bother you all with my witterings once again.
It's been an eventful month or so...
Not a great deal to report for the first part of it, but things have picked up more recently.
My major bugbear at the beginning of my absence was the lack of cash to stay online. I've tried getting help from government agencies, all to no avail as yet. Quite honestly I'd probably have more luck trying to teach a salad to speak ancient Greek. The left hand really doesn't know what the right hand is doing with these people... and despite the fact that they don't appear to have any clear idea how the system works, they expect me to be able to navigate my way around. I can barely bring myself to even think about this because it's gets me so frustrated. I'll just have to persevere.
On a rather happier note, I've had some good days. Especially getting out and about with my nephews for walks and talks. I've done a night ascent on Skiddaw and camped there overnight in order to get photos of the early dawn. That didn't quite work out, as the weather forecast didn't pan out and we woke up to find ourselves in a cloud, that obscured pretty much everything. Still, it was a bit of an adventure. And a hearty cooked out meal and plenty of tea kept us warm and toasty through the night.
We also had a good day collecting fruit from the hedgerows hereabouts in order to make booze. There's currently a batch of elderberry wine brewing in the airing cupboard, a bucketful of crab-apple cider fuming away by the kitch en radiator, and a whole bagful of sloes that will soon be getting turned into wine or something.
My hair was becoming a bit unruly and so I finally decided to chop it off and start again. It was at that difficult stage where it's too long to be left to it's own devices, and too short to tie it back without half of it coming loose and flopping about in front of the eyes. I was also too impatient to wait for it grow sufficiently long to get past that.
http://twitpic.com/laseo http://twitpic.com/lc8gw (Links to twitpics of me with short hair)
And most recently, just a couple of days ago in fact, I took a bunch of junk along to a car boot sale and managed to get a few quid that way. Not sure it's something I could do regularly, but every once in a while I reckon it could be fun.
I've also begun to exercise again. Just a little gentle exercise each day until I get used to it again. But I intend to lose some of this gut and firm everything up somewhat. Should look rather better by around Christmas, and will, I hope, be able to start the new year with a more positive outlook.
While I'm here, I also like too say a big 'thank you' to those of you who offered your kind words on my return to the virtual world... it's nice to know I was missed, and I missed all of you as well...
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"Hey, y'know that guy?"
"Which guy?"
"The guy on the internet... the one who went kinda AWOL for a bit?"
"Oh him!"
"That's the one!"
"No."
"You must remember! He's got the beard and the crazy name and the tea fetish..!?"
"Yeah, yeah! I recall him now... Didn't he die or something?"
"No. He like, had no money, and junk...!"
"Well what about him?"
"He's back!"
"No kidding!?!?"
"No kidding. And dig this,... he's had a haircut!"
"Whoa! For real? Are there pictures?"
"Not yet, but there will be soon. I hear he's been clearing out a lot of clutter from his inbox and stuff... so we'll have to wait for pics"
"Still... that's pretty cool!"
"Totally!"
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After today, you probably won't hear from me for a wee while... Don't worry! It's nothing traumatic or life threatening... I'm just skint.
A total lack of cash is a pain in the arse. Can't afford to go out, or to buy new things, or to travel... my only escape for several months now has been coming onto the internet and intergrating with people on Twitter. And now, even this least expensive of options is going to close to me... for a while at least.
Depression makes it difficult to cope with what are relatively everyday situations for most people. Talking on the phone is a particular bugbear. Loathe it with a passion. Anyway, I've now got to take the bull by the horns, use the telephone, and try to get a bit of assistance from whichever bureaucractic nightmare is running the show this week. I'm not confident of a speedy outcome, having dealt with these people in the past...
How will I cope? No idea as yet... though it should be interesting. I've recently finished my initial course of medication and counselling, and so far I haven't cracked up again. 8-) How well will I deal with being passed from department to department, jumping through hoops and filling out interminable forms now that I no longer have those to fall back on?
Anyhoo, it'll be a couple or three weeks or so before I can answer that fully.
Fingers crossed.....
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I am back baby! 8-)
On Friday evening I received an e-mail from Twitter informing me that my account has been restored to me...
That's right folks, the gulag has thrown open it's gates and set me free. Woo-hoo!
The upshot of this is, there are now two of me floating about on Twitter. My original account (@sickiid1972) and my replacement account (@sickkid_pt2). I was so ridiculously pleased with this that I got somewhat tipsy to celebrate.Comments [0]
There's a small chance that people will ask where I have been for the last few days, and if they do, I'm sending them here...
It's been a fairly hectic few days, lots of relatives in town for a visit, and impromptu big ol' family get together. Actually, that's pretty much it... no-one got stupidly drunk and started a fight, or injured themselves in a humourous fashion... but it was very busy with bodies to-ing and fro-ing, and trying to keep about ten different conversations going at once, and not standing on the accumulation of small children and animals also present.
To be honest I didn't do a great deal myself, but it was still somehow very stressful, and physically and mentally exhausting.
Family is great, but when everybody turns up at once like this, it's impossible not to feel utterly drained after everyone has gone home again... and if there's a chance of doing it again before too long, we will...
I'd write more, but frankly, I'm too tired to properly process all the thoughts I have swirling about in my head... it was fun though! 8-)
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