Welcome 2019!...… May your watch will be filled with humanity, joy, prosperity and bountiful cheer. Hopefully you prove to be a sage-like mistress, shepherding us along a path of self-growth, enlightenment and the inception of more frequent '3 for 2' Haribo gummy bear offers at Sainsburys. Amongst my smallish list of desires for this year,... Continue Reading →
The Luckier I Get?
Yesterday afternoon I spent quite some time creating three seperate books in readiness for self-publication. These tomes bearing narratives I wrote at various points during 2015; prose not previously incorporated amongst the other twenty four literary chronicles I've written. I'm unsure why, unlike everything I've written since the start of 2016, I'd never previously recorded... Continue Reading →
Still Chasing
Inspirational quotes - Well meaning advocacies supporting those venturing along a path in search of aspiration fulfillment. In particular, it's intended audience of the disillusioned, disheartened or fatigued dreamer. Words of guidance encouraging those whose half full glass has mutated into one that's half empty, that nothing good comes without strong foundations and tenacity when... Continue Reading →
Puma Boots & Sock Tags
As a child growing up in the 1970's, my aspirations for adulthood were to mirror my then hero Allan Clarke. A fledgling dream to lead Leeds United's (LUFC) strike force to domestic and European honours, like Clarke, clad in Puma football boots and gleaming number 8 sock tags. Unfortunately, they were existential desires that were... Continue Reading →
Unachievable Aspirations?
Perching my posterior on a dining chair ready to commence today's prose, the whirring of power tools are my uninvited audio companion. This din not a consequence of my wife's new addiction to the Sky Pneumatic Drill channel on cable TV. No, this audible intrusion the result of my neighbour's ongoing conversion...... Thankfully, Karen only... Continue Reading →
See A Penny……
The old Penny-Farthing bicycle, Dennis Potter's play Pennies from Heaven, priceless stamp the Penny Black and amusement halls Penny Arcades - All deriving their monikers from the centuries old penny coin. "See a penny. Pick it up. All day long you'll have good luck." an adage my mum occasionally proffered to her offspring during their... Continue Reading →
Book With The Orange Cover
I'm penning today's narrative in a waiting area of a Leeds hospital's Bexley Wing. A consequence of accompanying my wife Karen during her four weekly receipt of oncological treatment. As I aimlessly type seeking inspiration for a 500+ worded monologue, Karen is sitting patiently poring through her current read. Due to the angle she's holding... Continue Reading →
Ornaments That Take The Biscuit
I ventured to a wondrous place this afternoon. In the company of my wife and mon mater we journeyed to a domain where there was a santa's grotto, a plethora of garden lighting consumables, more pot pours than the Frank Edward's Pot Pourri Emporium and bejewelled gardening gloves fit for Liberace....... Well they would be if... Continue Reading →
Dedication Is What You Need
My current existential circumstances are contributing to an unwanted neurological fog at the moment. Yesterday (Monday), I was so confused that I posted a Throwback Tuesday blog, and today I'm dressed in my Sunday best. Not knowing what day it is has been passed down generations of Strachan males. This wasn't the consequence of any mental capability deficiently, moreover the misguided family... Continue Reading →