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Me? I’m Just a random angry old bloke!

In 2016 my wife and I did 600+km on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela and I kept a blog on Blogger.com. Unfortunately, having not posted for a while, I went back to it to post and found that everything after our third night on the walk had been lost. For some reason which I’m not really clear about, this encouraged me to start blogging again. I stop and start with the blog but I am currently on a roll. I’ll post links on my Facebook page and hopefully some people with nothing better to do might read it. If not it will become my diary and my children can publish it to great acclaim when I’m no longer here!

My Anchor
Chillout time in the Dog & Gun Keswick
Long ago in a galaxy far, far away

I am now 73 years of age and I am one of the 1 in 8 guys who have prostate cancer, which is, happily, being successfully controlled. My wife Heather and I are living in Lytham St. Annes, which is virtually the only place in the north west of England that returned a Tory at the last general election. We have 2 sons, both married, each with 1 son. One lives locally and one in Cumbria.

  • I enjoy walking, but going up and down hills is becoming a bit more difficult than it used to be
  • I enjoy going to gigs: Ruby Turner, Springsteen, Bellowhead last year. Fairport Convention this year
  • I enjoy going out for meals. “Taste of Cumbria” at The Kings Arms, Stainton in a couple of weeks
  • I enjoy reading. Currently on Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy for the second time
  • I love watching Liverpool Football Club, but hate the Premier League, FA, FIFA, UEFA and Manchester Utd.
  • I love the NHS as it is, currently, keeping me alive. Long may it continue.
  • I loathe and detest right wing politicians and I’m currently not that kean on the, reputedly, left leaning government of the UK
  • I am proud to say I voted to Remain but sad to see all the fears I had about leaving being rrealised.
  • I read The Guardian and The Times in the hope of getting a balanced view of what’s going on in the world and often fail.
  • I build plastic model cars in the winter months. Yes, I’m a part-time nerd!
  • My family is far and away the most important thing in my life.

 I’m trying to make this blog into a regularly updated thing, something I’ve never managed in the past because I get bored!

Read on. Comments would be greatly appreciated, otherwise I will be like an old guy, standing on a street corner, shouting into the wind!

old guy, standing on a street corner, shouting into the wind!

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