Well… if nothing else… I look happy, even if I am properly grey. Annoyingly I’ve still not got rid of the cough from Feb, the lump on my wrist doesn’t seem to be going away, and my marvellous gut appears to be turning me in to a one man global warming issue with the amount of methane coming out of my butt!
Well, who saw that coming? Certainly not me!
I was out and about on a cold afternoon, plonked in the pub and waffling to friends when a lass I’d known for ages came in, plonked down, and started ordering jagers! And so the evening descended into madness. Very drunk, we headed home and I insisted because we were so drunk that we would do nothing we would regret in the morning, and so behaved as best two addled adults can. A few days passed with.. a sort of embarrassed back and fro chit chat and then we decided to meet up again on the Friday night. She’d a concert to go to and I was due doing the singy thingy round the corner so I left her to it, and uttered as Arnie-esque as I can get… “I’ll be back!” to which she told me she’d probably still be there when I returned.
She was.
And so things progressed!
It came out of nowhere. The ex was still doing her thing, which I’ve ignored, and in truth for the last month I’ve not even looked her up. It’s been weird. For the last month, I’ve been out with someone, and not had to worry if she’s going to flip on me and run back to her ex or my ex work colleagues to lie about me, she’s not going to tell me she loves me and then dump me within hours of leaving the house, not going to complain about being in pictures together in case someone sees, not going to block me on FB and WhatsApp so that she can change her pic to pics of her with someone else, and is actually proud of being with me and seems to be shouting it from the rooftops cos she’s happy rather than stringing me along, hiding me from everyone she knows, and psychologically torturing and gaslighting me over and over again. She has her own stuff, so I don’t need to fund that, doesn’t scream at me if another woman talks to me, or if I say.. “ooh you’d look good in that top”.. etc etc. It’s just been relaxed, chilled, fun, new, and very very different to the last 3 years. She was here when my FB memory popped up showing the first day 3 years ago the ex walked into the guy’s loo in work, pinned me up against the wall and kissed me, and rather than get stroppy about an ex, she just comforted me about it’s ok for things to end etc.
And then there’s the reaction from everyone. 164 people and counting. Everyone’s hugging us, wherever we go. This… is how it should be. No lies. No issues. It’s been lovely.
Long may it continue!
it seems impossible it’s a year since I took Kel to the Magnum concert. I just don’t know where the time has gone. The symphony hall in Brum was beautiful.
For some reason one of the setlist songs is not on Spotify. No idea why. It was… quite an evening. She took better pics of us but this is all I have left of what I took. It doesn’t matter how many lies, and how much bullshit came after, this cannot be corrupted.
Giving this a listen before heading out. Apparently she’s never giving up. That’s my valentines day card picture she’s used. It’s all a bit Rick Astley though.. pretty sure he was never going to give up either.
Actually to be fair this one sometimes gets some hammer too but the issue is it starts with that sodding blobby song all the time and while I do like the sentiment of the picture message.. it’s not quite the same lol
i plonked in a search on my Google photos for “love” as I was looking for a specific picture with the word used within it, and in it’s wisdom it threw up this
Thanks Google!
I’m confused.
If they’re being human trafficked, they’re not illegal immigrants… They’re victims of a crime.
Asylum seeking is probably the last thing on their mind. They’re likely far more worried about being sold into slavery for the rest of their working lives as the trade in humans is second only to drugs around the world.
I don’t know, but upon discovering a bunch of kidnapped people, I’d hope we’d exhibit compassion, aid, and fight for justice for them rather than imprison and then subsequently deport them to Rwanda with no possibility to return.
As for the actual asylum seeking people.. perhaps not bombing and destroying the infrastructure of the countries they’re coming from should be considered before we stop accomodating them. Although, to be fair, there’s a very very small demographic, who should ever be denied the opportunity for asylum anyway because of the very nature of what asylum means!
And if you think that’s far fetched re the human trafficking.. here’s a bit of an eye opener from YEARS ago.
https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/child-sacrifices-in-london-7267353.html
“Boys from Africa are being murdered as human sacrifices in London churches. They are brought into the capital to be offered up in rituals by fundamentalist Christian sects, according to a shocking report by Scotland Yard”
and “Last month Scotland Yard revealed it had traced just two out of 300 black boys aged four to seven reported missing from London schools in a three-month period.”
I wrote about this years ago. Can you imagine the disparity of outcry if they were white kids? Cos I’m betting not one person on my friends list has even heard of this.. transposed to a year that’s 1192 black kids gone.. in just one area of London in a year! And no one batted an eyelid
The thing is this comparison is exactly like what’s happening now with asylum seekers here. Europe opened up its countries and absorbed 2 million Ukrainians because.. get this.. according to politicians .. these are not like Syrian or Afghany refugees… They’re white with blond hair and blue eyes and drive cars like us!
And they got away with saying that!
Pernicious use of language, fear mongering by the press, and a congenital urge to hate what is not familiar, coerses the people en masse to accept abhorrent treatment of those who are vulnerable and even support it, through the perpetuation of ignorance and misrepresentation.
Convince a person he’s being threatend and you can control their reaction said Goebbels. Hells teeth he was on the money!
And by God, do the politicians and agenda driven media know it.
Here’s a link to my original article re missing kids … which I wrote waaaay back in 2005
https://aliwiseman.wordpress.com/2005/06/18/the-world-we-live-in/
I cant get this out of my head!
Love
It moves
Silent. Unseen.
Changing all within its path.
For better, or for worse,
Bringing such varying symptoms of its passing,
That those who lack experience,
Would swear their affliction was far differing from others.
They’d be wrong!
Distress, joy, death and life anew.
Singularly, in pairs, or all too often together,
For those unfortunate souls immersed within its waves.
Ensconced in emotions, too powerful to control.
Devastating conflictions of heart and mind.
Where those touched will never be at rest again.
Some, overflowing with joy,
Elation at feelings newly discovered.
Meaning, where before was only agony and discord.
Then, some destroyed.
Laid barren. Laid bare.
Crushed by the enormity of loss that envelopes them.
Lives crumbling, devoid of reason.
Such is the turmoil left within its wake.
Yet others still there are,
Consumed with longing,
Hoping even,
That, by some twist of fate,
They’ll be chosen next.
Risking self-destruction for promises of utopia,
Though they know not, that which awaits them.
And so, with souls such as these,
It spreads.
This beautiful, cataclysmic virus,
Called Love.
Yeah yeah, I’m a day late! But to be fair I did write this over 20 years ago! I’ve amended a couple of things as it was originally posted via a mobile browser online and my proof reading was terrible.
This. All of this!
This is seriously getting to me. What a song.
Do we make sense….?
I think we do!
Although this is also kinda also playing on my mind!
Tell me the truth!
Chance’d be a fine thing!
Alistair Wiseman's marvellous worldly wafflings! 