My mind is ready to explode

I’m edging closer to that deep dark place again, my mind is ready to explode. I just want peace and quiet a place where I can get away for a couple of hours so I can gather my thoughts. Any slight bit of noise out of the ordinary just annoys me more than ever  lately. You get to that stage where you don’t want to socialise too much. You start to feel sorry for yourself and be grumpy and irritating to...

Waiting

Have you noticed we seem to spend a vast proportion of our life waiting? Whether it be waiting for a phone call, waiting for public transport, waiting in a queue to be served, waiting in a waiting room to be seen. We always seem to be waiting for something or someone.

Trainspotting what is the fascination?

If you’ve been following my twitter stream and facebook page you will know that I went to Birmingham on the train yesterday. I walked into the waiting room and there were 3 trainspotters in there taking down locomotive numbers. This post isn’t setting out to ridicule what they do, just curious as to what the fascination is sitting all day in a station writing down these numbers.

Old School is Old Hat

When someone says to me that they’re “old school” automatically makes me think they haven’t moved with the times, they’re stuck in the past. My eyes have been opened in recent years. I used to think old school was great, it meant old values, the good old days, now I just think that the old ways aren’t always the best. Old school can also mean closed mind, someone who...

Toothache update

Received a letter from my local hospital this morning asking me to phone them to make an appointment to see a consultant in the Oral Surgery department. Unfortunately there won’t be any appointments available until September. So going to have to endure a little more pain as I wait for an...