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Daily writing prompt

If you started a sports team, what would the colors and mascot be?

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Going off topic a bit here but now I’m feeling a bit better with good nutrition (and lots of coke) I decided to visit a proper East End pub, The Boleyn, for a good old cockney knees up to remind myself of the good old days: cockles and muscles and a real Dick Van Dyke playing the old Joanna. He hit a few bum notes but the whole boozer booed him and he tried to up his game.

A goodnight’s fun all round.

As for the mascot that’d be a chocolate lizard and black and white would be the colours (with a touch of green).

Daily writing prompt

You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like?

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Just for a change I’m being sincere when I tell you God is real and the Holy Bible is His book.

For the last six months or so since being released from Goodmayes psychiatric gulag I’ve been hearing voices almost constantly. At first I thought it was just the powerful drugs they forced on me there, then I came to believe it was the security services using some sort of special synthetic telepathy to recruit me but over Christmas and Boxing Day I came to know that the Lord had finally revealed himself to me and wanted me to seek absolution for a lifetime of sin including violence and the serious hurt I’d caused other people without thought and he showed me both his love and his wrath.

I prayed.

He has told me He will choose my judgement as He will all men when it is their time and He has ordered me to attend Church on a Sunday for the rest of my life and to help an elderly friend and neighbour with mobility problems attend Church himself (which he has done his whole life). I had been thinking about going anyway because he was a nice man and a friend of the family and he knew and wanted to save my soul through the Lord.

I know I must attend Church, God willing for the rest of my life and pray earnestly for my sins and in time He will reveal His purpose for you as he did me.

I’ve been told to help the NHS improve the mental Health Services as much as possible because so many fine people have had their whole lives blighted, shortened and ended through poor medical care as I have. He’s already educated me in ways to do this and I have found the correct way to get this message across and tested and proven safely and because I know so many patients locally I know that there are some fantastic observations in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest because they all seem like ordinary people with personalities, interests, dreams and desires like the rest of us, but from an early age they end up spending their whole lives lonely and alone, dependent, drowsy, shaky and damaged unnecessarily.

Amen

Daily writing prompt

Who are the biggest influences in your life?

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How can someone so big come down my chimney and empty his sack full of presents to fill me with Christmas cheer?

He manages it every year without fail and I’m sure he’ll come back this year once he’s had a good sleigh ride around the world.

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and all the best for another year of good health.

Daily writing prompt

What was the last thing you did for play or fun?

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I invented a dangerous new razor; Arthur’s Razor. It’s sharp and it’ll make your hair curl.

It’s a brain teaser for the future, place your bets and remember, everyone’s a winner.

Is it better to know life’s changed but to feel the same or for life to stay the same but to feel different.

Please think about it carefully.

Robert David Jackson

Daily writing prompt

What cities do you want to visit?

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Not just cities, but towns and cities in new countries I either haven’t visited or haven’t visited in decades.

Back in my 20’s and 30’s I did a lot of sailing and lived on my own small yacht in the Mediterranean for 5 years which I thoroughly enjoyed.

At the age of 53 and possibly having a mid life crisis along with some other trauma and life changing and possibly affirming events over the last couple of years I have decided I would like to sail again while the spirit is willing and the flesh just about up to it too.

This time I thought I’d like to see more of the UK, Europe’s Atlantic coastline and the Baltic. Writing this post I’ve even thought of a potential route, weather, winds and tides permitting: from the UK down to the Channel Islands, across to Brittany, north to the Baltic and then eventually back via the Shetlands. There seem to be so many fantastic and beautiful old towns on this route and sailing is a cheap and efficient way to see them (as long as you don’t get too scared or seasick).

I’ve even started looking for boats that would be suitable and found the below one, the Vindo 40. They’re beautiful boats and very seaworthy, unsurprising having been built in Sweden, but they’re not the only type I’d consider as long as it can cope with the odd gale.

Adios, aggravation

Daily writing prompt

What’s your favorite cartoon?

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From sterile to virile to febrile once more in the manner of Neil Armstrong.

We have a problem.

Daily writing prompt

What is one thing you would change about yourself?

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Yes folks it’s time for another potcast, I just can’t stop buying pottery and porcelain of dubious worth because it’s interesting to me (it may be an autistic trait).

Here’s today’s charity shop find (along with some CD’s I’ve been listening to all afternoon).

It’s a little Japanese egg cup (I suppose it could double as a sake cup!) that probably dates from the 1950’s or thereabouts. There’s a few similar for sale on ebay but not too many although they really don’t appear to be particularly sought after looking at prices.

I particularly like the decoration in bold primary colours but now I’ve bought it I’m wondering whether it’s not my eggs that are hard boiled but is in fact my wits that are completely scrambled.

Daily writing prompt

What technology would you be better off without, why?

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I’m gonna go against convention and think of a technology I have to live without but wish I didn’t.

And here it is! in all its glory:

The mobile phone key finder and spectacle finder app.

It can’t be that hard can it? An app on your phone that sends a signal to a small receiver in a key fob or your specs that causes them to screech their current location to you for those senior moments.

Maybe that’s the problem, the bright young things of today that design these things won’t experience those frustrations for another 30 years.

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Do you or your family make any special dishes for the holidays?

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As a Brit I’ll be having a M&S pasta microwave meal for lunch today but since most of the few of you who visit my blog are either American or Indian I thought I’d take this opportunity to wish the Americans amongst you a very happy holidays, I hope you all get to spend it in the manner you wish.