Farewell, my friend

 Evening Mugs,

Today we said goodbye to my father in law, my wifes dearly loved Dad. 76. Too young by todays standards. Struck down after being given a very good prognosis on Prostate Cancer, by a fucking incidious, underhanded cunt of a stroke. The Lord might giveth, and The Lord might taketh away, but in my view if The Lord exists then he's a absolutely vindictive bastard. Oi...Lord, just take the cunts yeah? 

 

He was kind, gentle, caring, loving, funny, odd, never angry, never vengeful. A man who had a great life, married a great woman , spent 60 years with her and sat at the head of the most loving family, all of us inspired by him.

 This sad passing has given me a jolt on how to live, how to love, how to spend time with those you love and how to spend what the fuck you want on what the fuck you want or who the fuck you want.

Life is just way too short, our existence way too ephemeral, our connection to life and existence and love and everything we cherish is gossamer thin and we take it for granted at our peril and then in the blink of an eye it's too late.

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you, no-one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

Take Care Mugs

Thought I'd something more to say......

 Morning Mugs

My last post was in July ffs. I promised there'd be more thoughts, notes, observations and stuff posted here, including an option to maybe lookat 'vlogging' for the older more mature person maybe.

But it didn't happen did it?  What a lazy git. How hard is it to spend 15 minutes a day dumping thoughts and ideas down on a public forum?

That no-one reads.

Loads of mundane stuff did, not exciting I grant, but maybe that's an advantage of lockdown....life quietened down for many of us. So, a list of things to discuss might be a good idea and then peridocially I will try and crack through it and add as necessary.

 

1. Holidays , or lack thereof and what I did with my leave
   
2. Days out I did do
3. New hobbies from days gone by - astronomy in this case and the reintroduction of walking football
   
4. Losing someone close unexpectedly
5. The joys of artificial grass and unnatural worry about the garden in general
6. Pensions, transferring out and all the worries
7. More gardening, ffs...something I never thought I'd enjoy but.... 
8. COVID bollocks - getting busy dying or getting busy living?
9. Stuff I've enjoyed watching, and of course stuff I've hated
10. Football under COVID
11. Dogs and cats.
12. Working from home, working in general. 
13. The perils and joys of online shopping
14. Why the hell do I seem to have more to do than ever before?

That'll do for now. Add grumbles about the weather , the government and all sort so other niggles  and maybe I can get some consistency going. 

Later Mugs, GJ