Well it’s about a million years since I posted to this Blog. Time is THE enemy I guess or maybe what has been happening in my life I can’t write about here in a public forum. Yeh I know that sounds mystic but I am different to most people; I’m a human-being who acts by my own internal morals and clock so that often I seem to be ‘odd’. But that’s OK; I don’t mind and increasingly most of my friends and loved ones are accepting me just as I am (BUT there are still things I can’t write about herein ha ha ha ;-))

Writing: I’ve produced a chap-book which was fun; designed the cover, wrote the 70 poems, did the type-setting and now have sent copies to the people I love. It was a fun exercise and I guess it got rid of some money; it’s called Bum-Rap. I seem to have enough of the latter as I get older. If you know me you’ll know I’m not at all rich but I have ‘enough’ and as the cliché goes ‘enough is as good as a feast’; thus in this life of mine I am involved in a continual feast which can’t be bad. :-)

Writing also involves erbacce of course which I edit with Andy Taylor; we are expanding into producing chap-books and of course Bum-Rap is an imprint of erbacce publications. Selecting and type-setting poetry is wonderfully soothing and I can easily spend an eight-hour stretch on my PC without even realising where the time has gone; the finished erbacce journals are now highly professional and polished and carry the slogan; ‘Proudly independent since May-Day 2004’ which is cool. .

Working hard now for my full-accreditation as a psychotherapist and have a wealth of wonderful clients who are teaching me a lot. It’s odd how perceptions change when you are faced with someone you expect to act in a certain manner. Schizophrenics for example; I devour the label and prepare to meet someone ‘odd’ or ‘different’ and then lo-and-behold I meet someone who is more ‘normal’ than most people I’ve met. I have quickly grown to distrust ‘labels’; now I don’t even look at clients' files because that may raise in me preconceptions or expectations. Have to say it is the most rewarding job I have ever done (except for when I was a coal-digger and could steal coal ;-) )

Working also at developing my massage techniques. I have discovered that foot-massage is incredibly relaxing and am toying with the idea of somehow incorporating it into psychotherapy when I set up my own Private Practice (watch this space ;-) )

Love-life however is (currently)zero. Well I mean I take women out for meals and to the opera and theatre… and I spend loads of time with the opposite sex who are close to me but there is no one ‘special’ and indeed when I think about it, how the hell could there be. I seem to have a knack for falling in love with unsuitable people OR (more likely) I am totally unsuitable for women. Yeh the latter gets my vote I guess.

That’s it. Boring fucking Blog entry over. When will I be able to write the WHOLE scenario eh? I guess when society catches UP with me on the evolutionary scale! Ha ha ha ;-)