This is interesting!  I'm eschewing Facebook and Twitter for Lent but the urge to put pen to paper - or the equivalent  -  is really strong.

I've decided to enter more competitions - after all it has been a very lucrative hobby for me in the past - but of course things move on and the majority of the comps are on Facebook and Twitter!

So much for my Lent promise.  But no - I'm not breaking it - not at all.  It will do me good to have a rest from so much.....What?  Well so much interaction with people, because that's really what I use them for.  I love to share about my life and my struggles and my good and bad times.  It really, really helps me.  Other people respond and I just love it - its not called SOCIAL media for nothing!

Yesterday after the football when Norwich city won - sorry drew- in the very last minute, I just wanted to meet up with all those happy people on Twitter.  People I've never met in real life but i feel a link to - I feel part of a community. If we did meet no doubt we would be able to immediately make the connection discussing the team selection, the tactics and the opposition.  I say tactics but you must understand never having played football I am somewhat at  a disadvantage.  I can discuss in general terms the fact that we play with one up front, that's fairly obvious.  Commenting on late substitutions is also something I feel comfortable discussing; disgracefully late all the time is my opinion!  Any deeper - say a mention of a left back or centre forward and the positioning of either of them - and I'm stuck.  Of course those who know about football understand that I'm an OK person to have a chat with but that's all.  A true pundit I could never be.  Nevertheless I love football; it makes me happy and that can only be a good thing.

Back to Lent then. I'm not being very spiritual.  Still praying, but that is all at the moment - and of course eschewing Facebook and Twitter. That's a discipline in itself.

Makes me wonder: if Jesus was here today would he be on Twitter? Facebook?  How many millions of followers would he have and what would he tweet about?  What a thought!

Grief

Well I suppose this is as good a way as any to get it off my chest!

My first Christmas without Mike. What was it like?  Christmas Day was fine; Christmas Eve was good; Boxing Day was fine.  The day after was good.  Now two days later and nothing is fine, nothing is good. I hate everything and everyone. I resent them for living.

Autumn’s best ‘bits’

Moving on from the lightness of summer to get to the darkness of winter - in the middle we stumble upon autumn.  It has some very ‘black’ elements to it which I think give this season a special feeling.  

Spring has hope, Summer has sun, Winter has Christmas (unless you’re stuck in a perpetual Narnia) but only Autumn promises something scary!

For two weeks at the end of October to the beginning of November we wallow in the occult, the unsavoury, the unpleasant and the downright bloody.  

People now call out  ‘Happy Halloween!’  Don’t they know the origin of ‘dressing up’ comes from disguising yourself so that evil spirits can’t recognise you and suck your brains out?  Yeah.......have a happy time :(

Bonfire night - now what could be ‘dark’ about lighting a fire? We ‘celebrate’ the capture of Guy Fawkes in his failed attempt to blow up the King and the houses of Parliament. Poor old Guy - he was the fall guy that night caught redhanded with the gunpowder!  Did you know he managed to jump from his scaffold before he was hanged?  No, he didn’t escape - he broke his neck!  But there’s a happy end to his tale......he wasn’t alive when they cut off his private parts, tore out his bowels, cut off his head and cut his body into four equal pieces!

Happy Bonfire night!

I love Autumn 

Spring Harvest

Off to Skegness to day (Tuesday) for 5 days to Spring Harvest. Not sure what to expect but lookin forward to it. Half-board so no cooking or clearing up! Not quite sure how we are going to be with a group of people from church we are not used too?

As for the hand- well its still there and I am getting used to a certain level of pain- maybe I'll be cured miraculously - I certainly hope so!

Crps

crps- used to be called RSD -so what- a nettle by any other name would sting as bad!

Tuesday 11thmarch

Finally found out how to access this thing.

Still in a lot of pain with my hand- the wound smells so bad. Dressing changed today so i'll see how it looks.

Well -I've started -what happens now?