Potrait of Me

I hope you all like the pic I have of myself. This was taken a few years ago so it is not how I might look today...my hair is shorter. I've discovered that I have very little decent photos of me. There just aren't any to be found...a few from when I was a young lad but alas there are no present day ones. Maybe this is a position that may not change. Generally I just don't like any photos of myself....tis ' a rare snap that I might like. Some people can have pictures of themselves plastered all over their walls. Not me.
People change so much in such a little amount of time. Especially now that the clock seems to be speeding up. There isn't a watchmaker for miles that can produce a watch that can pause time...even for the moment when you are at your peak. Since that picture was taken I think I have aged somewhat in years...it wasn't all that long ago. Today I was doing a bit of a clean up and came across some photos that were taken of me when I was 22- 23 years of age ...a rollercoaster period of my life...and by jimny do I look young. I'm not being pretentious here people.... but I do. I was shocked to the very core...the old "Look how young you were there, love!"..I don't want to hear that comment.
I want to hear the.."Jaysus, you still look as good now as you did then!!"...comment with sincerity. I even see it in my friends and family. The year's wait for no man. It's not as if I never knew that this was going to happen. I'm never considered myself to be a Dorian Gray figurehead but there was always the hope that somehow one day I would accidently fall into the fountain of youth. I didn't expect to be falling off the horse in Tir na Og unawares to myself.
Don't get me wrong now people...I still have some traces of my youth....grasping at straws here now but all we can do is hope for that Salmon to come leaping out of the water one day into our laps!!!!
There's always the old reliable cliches.."Your'e only as young as you feel!!"...thats no good when your'e pushing a zimmerframe around the place. I hope I don't get to that stage. There should be a service for that onset that just creeps up on us. An agency that monitors you through life, keeping an eye on your physical fitness and mental health.
"How far will you let yourself go sir!...Would you like our premium SAS package or are you happy with the bi-yearly checkup scenario??"
An agency that snuffs you out like a candle if your specified criteria in life are not being met. Some people have different standards to others so the agency has to be real clear. Only they should know when the reaper will appear....because after all when the time comes we might change our mind!
That's the thng with ageing...it creeps up on you when you weren't looking. Only for the photos today I thought the roses in my garden still had some bloom left in them. Age is a slow mover...some people age quicker than others but the average person never really double checks on the old sand trickling through that egg timer. Just when you thought you had enough grains of sand to build a bloody pyramid...your diving to that timer trying to turn it around to get another run through. Some people make it there just in time ...others are constantly monitoring those grains. Never keep your eyes from that bloody timer.... my fickle friends. Your life just might depend on it!
Maybe I'm jumping ahead a bit but you have to be prepared for these things. I won't be ringing up the agency just yet but i will be keeping their number on speed dial. There are lots of vacancies for other types of agencies like that one...I can't really go into them on these pages...my wife is monitoring me...suffice is to say that there wouldn't be any recession for all the problems that needed to be solved. Where is MacGyver when you need him?.....now he was the kind of fella to get you sorted in a jiffy!!!!

Lisbon One Way Ticket

Yesterday I cast my vote for Europe and I've just found out that it looks very like a YES all the way. Hopefully something good may come of it but it will probably be too late for all of us at this late stage. It's like closing the gate after the Llamas have bolted. And we all know what happens when the Llamas get...havoc!!

It seems like ages since I even bothered to post on this blog but I have returned and with a force that you have never seen before...more images... stories.......possibly a better layout in the near future. Bear with me.

The winter is coming in fast. I can hear the wind outside ....the leaves are already brown on the ground. The blinds are flapping on that window near my desk...a cool wind is blowing. There's something about the Autumn which gives a feeling of freshness in the air that has been missing for so long. It's like old Mother Nature needs to get everything cleaned out for the coming year. A fresh start...no messing around. If things have to go, they just have to go. Make way for the new. I suppose it's like most things in life that we have to go through.

It may sound pretentious but I feel like that now...there is so much change going on in my life. I haven't experienced this so much of a metamorposis since I left college. Every year a new year...always something diffeerent...new subjects..teachers...new challenges. I don't know if I always met those challenges but one thing I know is that I had no other choice but to make a stab at them. Let the chips fall where they may. The time has come again for me to return to those halcyon days and meet all those challenges again. It seems like the last few years I have been living in some kind of a human cocoon and now is my time to be reborn into ....the same person I always was but with a whole new perspespective on life. My butterfly wings may not be showing but inside I feel like a Red Admiral....