Lets get one thing straight , Blogger.com needs to let me set my default font instead of always going back to the Torygraph like Times New Roman shit. I'm a Verdana man, simple as that.
I've been doing a little free course on creative writing so you might see bits here from time to time. I'm still forcing myself to try and write something punchy here day after day, but the fact is I am a lazy bastard and also the idea of constant moaning as was the way can be very ....well let's just say that sometimes the cathartic nature of writing about life as a Grumpy Bloke can also become a self fulfilling prophecy and I don't want that to be come my default 'brand' . Over the years I've embraced the grumpiness borne of getting older, watching my children grow up into lovely balanced young women, watching my grand-daughter come into the world and the amazement that every new experience brings to her face and all the time realising that my role and my usefulness is now slowly shuffling towards the still hopefully distant exit door.
My cynicism remains intact, but I want to hide it away more often these days so that the youngsters won't get sick of me sniping like some bitter old wreck. No, my stance is to try and smile and go with the flow and allow them to fuck up like I did. Like we all have at some point. Inside I am quite content but recent events and the way society is moving both culturally and politically is always going to keep firing up the militant fires smouldering inside of me. I am, no doubt, further to the left of politics than I have been for some time although I could not bring myself to vote for a party led by an underhand, power crazed hypocrite like Jeremy Corbyn. I was and am a proud New Labour person, fighting for a fairer society whilst embracing the uncomfortable fact that capitalism is and always will be a necessary evil to generate innovation and fund that fairer society. I like that stance a lot. yes new Labour snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the end by replacing Blair with the dull and serious Brown, but for me the politics, including misguided wars was sound.
So, yes, I'm now following a little course to help me write creatively, and the hope is this will lead me to write more stuff here. Its not about promised anymore, it's about delivering. So I'll start with updating the sister blog to this, the cast and characters in my life...and who knows maybe in something else later on :)
Later Mugs, GJ
