I’ve decided to rest up on the motorcycle travel part of this blog for the minute, or at least until I have finished writing up our entire European trip from the summer of 06. This could take a while and in the meantime my bike is due have new shoes put on, a major service and an M.O.T. Don’t these things always seem to come at once, usually just after Christmas when you are already strapped for cash. Then as soon as all this is done I have booked a couple of days off work to travel down to Cornwall to see Mo. I am going to take it easy on the way down though, possibly travelling through Wales and stopping off there somewhere overnight.
So in the meanwhile I am going to be using my blog as a vehicle to air my views and feelings on stuff that I see around me on a daily basis. Get the things out that in general I tend to keep bottled up inside.
I have made a couple of decisions for this year and hopefully when I read back through this towards the end of the year I will be able to say I have achieved them. I wouldn’t call my decisions ‘New Year Resolutions’, as that would suggest that I have ‘got’ to follow them through, these are just things that I want to try and do in 07.
Firstly, for my own sanity I have decided to stop watching and listening to the news on the TV and radio, as well as reading it in the paper. In general I like to keep abreast of current affairs, but with all the shit going on in my head recently I have decided that all the news does is depress you. Soldiers dying in a pointless war in Iraq, hospitals having to lay off vital nurses and doctors due to insufficient funding even though we are paying ever higher taxes, children being given ASBO’s, politicians demanding 40% pay rises to top up their already sound pay and benefits packages, global warming from carbon emissions, the list is endless. Then there is the ‘so called’ news that you get in rags like The Sun; Jade Goody ‘shocking confessions’ in the ‘Celebrity’ Big Brother household, Nicky and that looser with tourettes split up (he broke my heart), no-mark Pete Doherty wasted outside yet another nightclub. WHO FUCKING CARES? Trust me, if you cut these things out of your life you will feel the benefit. As I write this it is only the 17th day of my news cold turkey and I am already feeling better for it.
Secondly I ‘am’ going to buy a house, or at least be in a position to buy one by the end of the year. Nearly five years after being ripped off for all I owned by an ex who never worked a day in her life, and in that time watching house prices go through the roof (so to speak) I am finally in a position to do it. Just need to get the deposit together now so long hours in work are going to be a must for me this year.
Finally I am going to stop being taken for a mug by the ex, emotionally blackmailing me with my daughter. I’ll try not to go on about her, either here or in future blogs as I know I am not the only man in the world that’s been suckered before. The only thing I will say is that to me, a band called Terrorvision could have been singing about her in a song called Bad Actress when they said ‘You never gave me anything, but I ended up with less’. Wish I could write down stuff like that, it says more in one line from a song than I could write on a whole page. Someone in that band had obviously been taken for a ride at some point also!
Anyway on a different, brighter note, things aren’t all bad in the world. Liverpool are still third in the league and it looks like the takeover of the club will go ahead some time soon, putting much needed money into the club and hopefully putting us on a level playing field with the top three. As well as this I have my daughter overnight tonight and get to take her into school tomorrow. When you don’t see them for a few days, the day you do have them seems to drag until you pick them up.
Hope it’s not too late to wish anyone who reads this a happy and prosperous 2007!
So in the meanwhile I am going to be using my blog as a vehicle to air my views and feelings on stuff that I see around me on a daily basis. Get the things out that in general I tend to keep bottled up inside.
I have made a couple of decisions for this year and hopefully when I read back through this towards the end of the year I will be able to say I have achieved them. I wouldn’t call my decisions ‘New Year Resolutions’, as that would suggest that I have ‘got’ to follow them through, these are just things that I want to try and do in 07.
Firstly, for my own sanity I have decided to stop watching and listening to the news on the TV and radio, as well as reading it in the paper. In general I like to keep abreast of current affairs, but with all the shit going on in my head recently I have decided that all the news does is depress you. Soldiers dying in a pointless war in Iraq, hospitals having to lay off vital nurses and doctors due to insufficient funding even though we are paying ever higher taxes, children being given ASBO’s, politicians demanding 40% pay rises to top up their already sound pay and benefits packages, global warming from carbon emissions, the list is endless. Then there is the ‘so called’ news that you get in rags like The Sun; Jade Goody ‘shocking confessions’ in the ‘Celebrity’ Big Brother household, Nicky and that looser with tourettes split up (he broke my heart), no-mark Pete Doherty wasted outside yet another nightclub. WHO FUCKING CARES? Trust me, if you cut these things out of your life you will feel the benefit. As I write this it is only the 17th day of my news cold turkey and I am already feeling better for it.
Secondly I ‘am’ going to buy a house, or at least be in a position to buy one by the end of the year. Nearly five years after being ripped off for all I owned by an ex who never worked a day in her life, and in that time watching house prices go through the roof (so to speak) I am finally in a position to do it. Just need to get the deposit together now so long hours in work are going to be a must for me this year.
Finally I am going to stop being taken for a mug by the ex, emotionally blackmailing me with my daughter. I’ll try not to go on about her, either here or in future blogs as I know I am not the only man in the world that’s been suckered before. The only thing I will say is that to me, a band called Terrorvision could have been singing about her in a song called Bad Actress when they said ‘You never gave me anything, but I ended up with less’. Wish I could write down stuff like that, it says more in one line from a song than I could write on a whole page. Someone in that band had obviously been taken for a ride at some point also!
Anyway on a different, brighter note, things aren’t all bad in the world. Liverpool are still third in the league and it looks like the takeover of the club will go ahead some time soon, putting much needed money into the club and hopefully putting us on a level playing field with the top three. As well as this I have my daughter overnight tonight and get to take her into school tomorrow. When you don’t see them for a few days, the day you do have them seems to drag until you pick them up.
Hope it’s not too late to wish anyone who reads this a happy and prosperous 2007!
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