grayb

Oh, I don't know about that. Here's a MCC member (Marylebone Cricket Club who own and run Lords) with a keen eye for the non-stop action................

Ha! I was at Lords too! hey grayb-computer problems have kept me away but no longer. Thank you for your comments and your blog. Everything I read makes me want to come and visit your fair land. I shall be better at keep in touch now that I have some form of communication device

Your support and best wishes are always gratefully received. I want to thank you for always taking the time to read my blogs, and give me such excellent feedback.

People in companies like mine are in an invidious position. We are not poverty line crisis cases. We are not living on less than $2 a day. Far from it. Salary wise, we get paid a good wage to do a highly specialised job. And yet.....to spend your days constantly looking over your shoulder is no way to live. Thanks again. And all the best to you - I hope you are getting out and about on the trails.

Yes, I started as an Admin Assistant, down at the bottom. You don't forget your roots, do you? I do, on occasion, leak material to the union. Particularly on potential site closures in the UK. A lot of my old colleagues could be impacted by one of them.
Anyway, thanks again. And all the best for your Manhattan trip! I went walking on Sunday (I will post the pics when I get the chance).....and I got a little climbing in

Good news for a change. I posted something new that looks promising.

Excellent bridge photo -I've always wanted to stop and really scope the Kociuszko bridge down South-ish in NY state.

that sounds great! .... and how come it souds like you have better Irish and Scottish festivals over there than we do over here! That's just not fair!

I exercised!!!!
FUCK I AM PROUD!

Absolutely. I'll post something as soon as I know what I'm doing. The only problem might be if I'm available and I don't hear back from you by Monday morning at about 8. I gave youy my phone # a while back. I'll pm it to you again if you don't have it anymore, so you can call me during the day, since I'll be im my program and won't have access to SG.

Of course, it will be a moot point if I'm able to work at my friend's club that night.

that sounds like a great festival! Over here at the moment there is glastonbury,,,, and it rained and rained and rained the first day!
did the camera ever turn up!?

Wow, I just got a little blast from the past. My grandparents lived in manhattan when they were alive. We could see the brooklyn bridge from their bedroom window. I remember it lit up at night.

Good for you for taking charge of your health. Walking is one of the best things for your health. and it feels good.

Thank you! Very busy with a certain little puppy right now, but I hope to post some pics tomorrow. All I can do to stop him chewing the computer wires at present!

All the best!

Grayb, I never know what to say when people tell me things like you wrote. I usually just hug them.

that is an amazing post to go with some amazing pictures.... i can say nothing otehr than "welcome back"... although i'm not actually sure i feel worthy enought to "welcome you back"! You have been on qute a journey, and it only seems fitting that you should come home by going on another journey.

... hello "friend" i didn't disapper from yer list , i don't think we had done that bit LOL

Yes is very great
and in small so for me is toooooooooooo big :p

I always went for the dark literata being angsty in the corner. I agree that many people you meet these days didn't get any more mature than the 10th grade. Reading your blog and comments I should think you'd be surrounded by a large circle of intelligent, well-grounded friends. Then again, calm waters do tend to draw dinghies.

Hopefully it's not the swine flu, at my daughter's school there is 3 cases of children who have it. Hope you feel better

lol under wraps that's funny lol, thank you, a lot of people didn't like this blog but well I like to open people up to different ways of thinking

why thank you sir, and if there's a development you shall be told! its hard with film festivals and the like if the line-up isn't spot on. Sometimes your 'nothing ventured, nothing gained' mantra is worth remembering, but its also a lot of effort for an event which may turn out to have little to commend it. I hope that your weekend has been glorious, though, however you elected to spend it! much love sir

Thank you very much Grayb-I'll let everyone know what happens.

And you're right; maybe the council can be a positive force for change and I should not be so doubtful. What I do know, present company included, is that I have met wonderful and amazing people here that I would be sad to say farewell to

Ya can try the passive/aggressive approach:
get some of the Fox Urine powder, or take
some of your cat box refuse [ let it ferment a few days ]
and scatter it where you don't want the furry Bandito. If
from the cat-box where you won't Step in it.

On another positive note. Lyrical, who's hardly on SG anymore contacted me the other day. She knew I might be worried about her since it was a while since we last corresponded. She gave me her new e-mail address so I don't have to through SG to message her anymore.

Interesting that she still cares enough to stay in touch and Mae-Ann, who constantly bad-mouthed her wound up being the one that left me high and dry. Of course, as I've come to realize, she did me a huge favor.

That's exactly why I kiss my sleeping daughter every night, and tell her I love her. Just in case.

Our esteemed Stephen Fry did a wonderful documentary on his experience of bipolarity, and it was terribly personal, showing those moments when he just couldn't engage with anyone, or even function in the most basic way. He talked to other people who were bipolar, such as Carrie Fisher, and Richard Dreyfus. But what was most interesting was how almost all of them had tried treatment (usually lithium) and rejected it. Because, despite all its downsides, their biploarity was an expression of themselves, and they were less of a person when they suppressed it. Often their biggest issues were with other people not understanding.

Anyway, that aside, it's good to have you back communicating.

You sure that headache isn't caused by the malt?

WHERE ARE YOU???????
WHAT ARE YOU DOING???
COME IN MY FRIEND I MISS YOU!!!

Do I need to get naked? Fly out and hunt you down?

We are all missing shots from your hammock. Get back here, or I will get naked instead of Gyllien.