HAVE I EVER

performed on stage or given a speech?

if talking about the latter, can I count delivering the reading at Mass a couple of times at school? What the reading was or from which book I have no idea, it was fourty odd years ago and that was a little while ago. But whatever the subject was the Headmaster must have liked it, cause he asked me to do it again. As for being on stage, sure I had to play the role of a shepherd in the school nativity. My task was naturally to point out the star with my staff, there is a photo somewhere but woun’t post it here, cause then I would have to ask everybody else if they did not mind first. The other time was playing the role of a Dormouse at my public school and that was shite. Something to do woth the Mad Hatters Tea Party and Alice Through The Looking Glass.

Neither of these experiences has marked me out as a thespian or to be religiously inclined, far from it in fact. There a thousand better things to be done than listening to priests and their stories, as for being a luvvie. Fat chance!

The weather these last couple of days has been lousy, pissing with rain and on Monday a howling gale with more rain. This is made worse by the fact that Christmas is looming, traditionally the worst time of year. (for me anyway) This year the obligation to shut myself away. is getting more powerful by the day. Though I may go and see my girlfriend, but she is the same way inclined. We both have cats you see, perhaps too many with s desire to have more but the common sense to say no more. ( Not yet ) If we had a bigger house,then yes and probably a snake as well. But not at the moment as snakes and cats need their own living quarters. There has not been much going on, stress is being kept to a minimum, though I suspect the black dog is at the door and its not the neighbours one. Seeing this increasingly dark weather over the horizon, will do some good, but until then at least I have the means of dealing with it all.

I will be five years sober in the next week or so. I thought about having a ‘smoke’ a few days ago, then remembered it did no good the last time. In fact it left me feeling bad tempered and depressed. There is still a little hashish in the tub, I will keep it for another rainy day. In the meantime there are other things to be getting on with.