Month: March 2026

First real album I ever bought or that I’d admit to having bought 🙂 –

Some great songs –

‘Lovely Rita’ – How come the beatles knew my mother?

‘When I’m sixty four’ – Used to be on the other side of that!

‘Getting better’ – Everytime – Hopefully true – Still trying

‘Strawberry fields for ever’ – Have visited those fields – Lovely

‘With a little help from my friends’ – We all need that

A day in the life – “woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head” – (No point these days) – Made my way downstairs and had a cup and looking up I noticed I was late …” A day in the life!! – James Joyce made a good book about that

We get to that piece of art and the rest of that great song soon

If Murakami can use song lyrics as inspiration then it should be good enough for me too

I do have further comments to make on ‘Does Art help’

There is no doubt here that Art helps – Whether admiring a piece in a gallery or creating oneself. For a while I kept a journal of artistic activities – That could be visit to cinema, gallery, play or creating a piece of pottery – Seems so important to insert these sort of activities into a daily life – Have done some drawing and painting and even pottery classes over last 3 years or more – Time to create some of my own work – Project for summer … if weather would only improve. As the wise one said there is no bad weather only bad equipment – 2 days writing – That’s an artistic endeavour – Will try to keep it all going

That’s for next few days –

Quoting from a famous Talking Heads song in mind – From 1980

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”

Needing to write … The fingers can express what voice can’t sometimes

Nearly 2 years since last post here

Nearly 10 years since last chemo session – That bit over For now.

Over a year since last CT – Messes with your head!

Nearly about to retire completely – Have been retired but keeping a finger in for last few years. Well hanging up the old keyboard and mouse next week. Long career in IT, Long time working, Longer than most I suspect.

So how did I get here? – To be honest – I will be writing about that soon – At present thinking about how am I going to get there (wherever that might be) – Haven’t read over much of earlier posts but know there was talk of art, philosophy, writing and that is how it will continue.

Mr Shiloh left a few weeks ago and still crying for him – He did as he was meant to and got me thru’ a cancer journey. Need to figure the rest out without him.