Not much to say really...

... so I don't know why I'm bothering but it's good to talk so why not?
Anyway, what's going on in the world, is there any good news? Wars, pestilence and death seem to be the prevailing topics exercising the media just now.
Robin Williams sad demise has had the usual sensitive coverage the papers and TV news reserve for such events and suddenly everyone is an expert on depression.
I wish people would try to educate themselves more about such things before they start spouting off in public.
Depression is a disease not a lifestyle choice and no, people who suffer can't 'snap out of it' or 'just get on with it' they, we, really do suffer and sometimes, more often than not in fact we can't pin down why, as Stephen Fry says, it just is and it can't be explained.
So please, if you know someone who suffers just let them know you are there for them when they need you and don't try 'tough love' or a 'good talking to' because that doesn't work. Sensitivity and empathy are what is needed not what sometimes can amount to bullying.
People who suffer from depression need help to recover and don't need to be pushed or cajoled. Believe me I know, such approaches are counter-productive and are likely to make things worse.
If you want to help, be there.
And on that note, ttfn.
Peace and Love. x

Here's one.

Grass don't grow.

I used to have a head of hair

but now it's gone I don't know where

I checked my chest and 

I checked my feet

but all I know is

Grass don't grow on a busy street.

Another poem

 

This one's a bit more cheerful. J

 

The evening sun (7 August 2014)

You have to love the evening sun

Shining out on everyone.

The shadows deepen but I don't care

The evening sun she is still there.

She helps us all to have some fun

Our good old friend the evening sun.

Drinking wine or even beer

Under that lovely girl, the evening sun.

Some Poems

Here are some poems I wrote. They aren't Wordsworth, but I try.

Green Tea (29 May 14)

Green Tea is good for you

Refreshing and tasty

It beats coffee too

Although I might be hasty

 

Money (29 May 14)

Money.

Who needs it?

We all do.

Don't we?

 

Separation (6 Aug 14)

Separation is an awful thing

Which leaves us all bereft

Loneliness and longing come

In waves over the poor soul who

Has been left

Sadness comes in waves

Between attempts to laugh

Renew life and forget

The hurt

When does the pain of separation leave?

Unlike the one who has gone

Never.

 

I drink to forget (6 Aug 14)

I drink to forget

Forget what?

I don't recall.

 

 

As darkness falls (6 Aug 14)

As darkness falls

The walls

Close in.

As darkness falls

The light

Goes.

As darkness falls

The sadness

Comes.

As darkness falls

My hope

Leaves.

As darkness falls.

 

New Love (6 Aug 14)

It will never end

New Love.

Happiness is eternal

New Love.

We touch and can't

Be apart.

New Love

We call and text

Good Morning

And

Good Night.

Then we stop.

It's gone

New Love.

Wanderlust

I have something of a wanderlust on me at the moment.
You'd think it would be enough that over the next few months I have trips coming up for both work and pleasure, not that work isn't pleasure since I love being a trainer but it's still work. Anyway, I digress, even though I travel a lot and have trips planned through to next April I still wish I could travel more. I wonder all the time about where to go and what to do when I get there.
I travel in my mind, through books, Google Maps, strange foreign web sites (no, not THAT sort of strange foreign website, you tinkers), magazines and newspapers wondering about the lives people lead in other countries, not even other countries, other parts of this country exercise my imagination as well.
I hope, all things being equal to be able to afford to travel even more once, if, I'm able to retire and am still fit enough to wander the streets of cities, familiar and unfamiliar, explore coastlines and countryside and all the time write down what I've seen and done for the edification and entertainment of both myself and anyone else who cares to read my ramblings.
I adore travel, meeting new people, making new friends and reacquainting myself with old ones. Travel broadens the mind so it is said and I've been fortunate over the last few years to have been able, thanks in no small part to a certain ex-wife of mine to travel to places I would never have otherwise visited and met people I would never have met which has indeed broadened said mind.
I always loved the idea of travel, I remember as a small boy when my Uncle went to Europe on holiday, we always holidayed at home, or talked about his time in Canada as a trainee pilot during the Second World War thinking that I would love to go to the places he talked about. He gave me a map of Canada and I travelled through that great country in my imagination many times and always wished I could go there. I did eventually get there some 40-odd years later and was not disappointed.
There was a point to all this which I seem to have lost somewhere along the way but never mind, suffice to say that I love travel and hope to be able to continue. And on that note I will close and say ttfn.
Peace and Love. x

Do cats Burp?

Just a thought.

It has been a long time.

I haven't written anything on here for ages as I've run out of things to say.
The old mood has been up and down like a thing that goes up and down a lot, from feeling happy and content one day to feeling completely lost the next; but on balance I suppose I have been OK.
Still, I suppose that isn't of any interest to anyone who reads this drivel so apart from reporting that I was in Essex yesterday visiting some old friends, which was fun, and that I've booked a trio of trips for later this year and early next I have nothing to say.
So, in conclusion, I have been a boring old man sitting at home, in the club or on a train to go and deliver another training course.
On that scintillating note this is Mr Boring saying ttfn.

Peace and Love x