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Before I had time to think of what to do/not to do today my father came with the food I didn't bring back from him yesterday, so we went to the park and had tea and have just put the washing in and done more washing up. The ex from the north had such a nice time on her birthday she's coming again tomorrow, I really would rather not (she's an ex for a reason isn't she) but have got her to accept the easy trips than the original demands.
The usual ex is coming later as Tuesday and as it's one of the four Jewish holidays in a row the kosher shop was closed so have to go next week now. No biscuits for her to fill her pockets with either, which isn't such a bad thing. One thing about working with angels is before I expected nothing and got about that, now I wonder if something will happen as I'm meant to be doing something about it, and so far can't see much difference. But sooner or later we'll be having our first group meeting and catch up with the others and see if they've got better results. |
Reply #1121. Oct 09 12, 11:40 AM
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I saw a video from David Icke last night, and realised how my political work was designed, and have rewritten it now to express the mission, breaking the illusion. My position is that once I suspected one policy and found it to be false had a formula both for recognising and testing them, and have saved everyone else the trouble as all now posted on my website. The new entry summarises each illusion and how it is broken, and completes the actual purpose of the entire work as it is all about seeing through the false facade to the utter maggoty rotten filth behind it. Maybe by explaining how the system is broken it will allow people to see it a lot more easily than just seeing it as my word against theirs.
The ex made it on time today, and after the usual fight not to go to Hampstead (or anywhere else) after agreeing to go where we went last time (her idea as well) gave in and turned out the cafe was closed there, I did buy the plant for my bedroom they didn't have last time and decided the cafe in the park was the best bet, although being a large tent expected a large dose of stick when she saw it. We arrived and where the tent had been was a new log cabin, twice the size of the tent and instead of bark chips had a proper wooden floor. That was a relief, and it closed a few minutes after we got there so very lucky we didn't miss out entirely.
Tomorrow's free, unless I do a photo trip I've got nothing worked out until the two person psychic group (unless the new arrival arrives) and will see if it produces something with or without my input, although I don't really feel like going north for very little benefit as it's just parallel with two other roads I've got either side already. I really don't have a single other idea and not wasting energy trying to think of one as most just turn up on their own anyway. Better to be free at all though. |
Reply #1122. Oct 10 12, 3:28 PM
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It rained today but the shopping list had built up, the photo paper about a fifth the price of normal was no longer being sold locally but the company sent me a few others. One today I can get to was gone already, and I rang a closer branch of another who say they will call me when it comes in. I am taking about saving around £60 so quite a big deal. I pretty much got everything else now the kosher shop is open after the holidays, and have non chocolate biscuits for my friend tonight who's allergic. The almost new washing machine blocked yesterday and made rude smells throughout the house. I have no instructions and the cleaner tried to fix it and broke one of the same clips I'd left alone so as not to break them. It also meant washing it all over again and will see if it works this time, it's only been used a few times before it stopped emptying and when the filter did come out it was completely clear of gunk but all the water left that way. Luckily it's a stone floor on a slope and drains under the back door to outside. I'm sure it doesn't need a new part yet and must have something nasty caught deep inside the works, or a sock.
I expect I'll get used to not taking photos far and wide for the dark months, there are always other things to do but just prefer collecting if I can. It's an interesting experiment to trust the system and assume everything which happens is sending me exactly where I should be, including Hendon in the pouring rain of course. |
Reply #1123. Oct 11 12, 11:00 AM
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I am getting withdrawal symptoms now and must find something else to replace adding photos to my map until the season starts again next year. It can be hard work but driving 100 miles or more in an afternoon is very compulsive when you know you've added another patch beyond the existing area, although I will probably relax if I get out beyond the existing 100km squares covered one more time as that's quite far enough.
At least I've seen people every day this week instead, even though one was the dreaded northern ex, who now wants to come again next week. Meanwhile my new friend meant to be coming yesterday after cancelling the previous week didn't even call, so either I live too far or she's not as enthusiastic as appeared. Maybe as I am so laid back it attracts others who don't really think about arrangements seriously. I've just been given my mum's old TV to deliver to the charity shop tomorrow and means leaving in full view (partially covered) in the back of my car overnight- I don't even know if they're open tomorrow but should be. There are no opening hours online and the only shop for about 10 miles which takes electricals so if they're closed I'm buggered, excuse my Welsh (why should the French always get it?). No plans ahead as yet but besides doing what I can not to see the ex yet again I expect something will turn up one way or another. |
Reply #1124. Oct 12 12, 4:49 PM
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With regard to our lovely angels! I am a practitioner of Angelic Reiki and I also channel. I have been aware of the power of the angels for many years, but over the last 8 years have worked with them and over the last year have been qualified with regard to 'Angelic Reiki'. I am also a Usui Reiki Master.
The angels love to help and all you have to do is ask. Sometimes with regard to requests, patience is a virtue and the reason that requests don't appear to be fulfilled, is because 'bigger things are planned', or perhaps it's not the right direction for you to be steered in at that moment.
Look for the signs of angels being around you in your day to day life, a single white feather floating by, or finding one in your home ( when you don't have feather pillows :)), finding a penny on the ground, the shapes of clouds...
When I make requests to the angels (a wonderful lady I know calls them 'her lads upstairs'), I usually have a candle lit or incense burning. If I have made a request in writing, I seal it an envelope and then burn it. A very important factor, in my opinion, is to thank the angels in advance for their intervention.
Alas, I can't look upon the angels as an 'experiment', to be measured by the results of 'what they deliver'. The question is 'Do you believe in angels?'
Reply #1125. Oct 12 12, 5:13 PM
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Very intersting there, I'm also a reiki and seichem master, but haven't exploited the potential beyond the healing and teaching. But I'm not a person with faith in anything beyond my own intuition simply as it's always been with me and worked. Otherwise I have to be a scientist, imagine asking them to believe in anything, even gravity, without years of experiments and repeated tests until a theory can become formulated.
Of course angels created first before science, but can't use science to find them or how they did it as our instruments can't measure outside these dimensions and boundaries, but are now finding quantum physics is bridging intention and physical matter. I'm sure in the end it's all science but I can't introduce belief anywhere in my own mind as if you simply believe in angels then where else do you stop? If your intuition tells you they or anything else exist that is different, as it's a higher knowing than direct experience, but that's the polar opposite of belief. |
Reply #1126. Oct 12 12, 8:39 PM
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One thing I do know the system provides is information, and when you look into any area it comes in in all sorts of ways. I'm not sure angels require belief in them before they help but every academic subject needs scientific method so it's impossible to believe anything in advance as that is religious and I am not.
Otherwise I managed to use one of the final long days and got to Hampshire yesterday, besides that it's been very quiet and whatever short or long term results the angels have been requested to produce haven't yet become apparent. My new friend didn't let me know about coming to the group on Thursday and hasn't contacted me since. I may have problems with travelling but when I didn't the journey from here to there wasn't any trouble for me. Go figure. The rest of the week looks quite similar to the last, the ex from the north had such a good time last week she wants to return yet again this one, and otherwise it might be gardening and housework (which I didn't last week), plus it's Grace's birthday today and I'm not available but she has loads of friends so sure she'll have gone out somewhere I wouldn't be seen dead in with them. Besides the weight (and financial) issue more visits to Sunnyhill Park cafe would be nice now it's rebuilt, as half the other places I went to are gone like Borders. |
Reply #1127. Oct 15 12, 12:15 PM
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I am not overly religious, I have a firm belief in Angels, I don't need a scientific explanation to qualify my beliefs. I am of the opinion that reiki works and crystals heal, that we have spirit guides and there are ghosts and spirits, amongst other things. I am not one to over analyse, I just go with flow. I guess that we are all different.
My daughter on the other hand, is very scientific, she doesn't believe in God, Angels, ghosts, reiki or spirt guides...but that is her choice, she is a lovely young lady and I am very proud of her.
I am sure that your requests haven't fallen on deaf ears. Belief is not necessary, but there must be an element of belief to ask the angels for help in the first place.
I do find that meditation and self healing helps me. The angelic aura sprays are amazing!
Reply #1128. Oct 15 12, 3:57 PM
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I think the default position for me at least is I'll try anything before dismissing it, but can't accept anything is real until there are enough clues at the very least. Scientists are actually less likely to do this as they have often decided what is impossible already so don't either try and look or accept any other claims however good they may be. In the end reality wins but the time wasted by dismissing decent claims- anti gravity, free energy, you name it, which they unanimously claim to be impossible, many years are lost which could have brought new discoveries far sooner. But that's a human failing and not connected with intellect or intelligence as affects every level of people affected by it. The reiki nicely crosses the boundaries between science and belief though as apart from the cost of training (not a lot for the 1st degree which is enough to do the job) the results which follow are clear I'm sure for most of us who do it. But science only knows what it knows, and has a wonderful habit of catching up with itself when something totally new is discovered as if everything they'd dismissed before hadn't happened. But they still continue to dismiss anything new despite that until one by one someone finds they're real. Quantum physics does explain pretty much everything but means if it applies at this level as well as it has to then we need a new set of parameters to take this into account. The only thing stopping it is our ability to exploit quantum phenomena, although they can already teleport, and proved twinned cells and blood cells react instantly when separated at infinte distances, meaning time and space do not apply outside the known three dimensions.
Ultimately our minds are also capable of utilising the field, leaving this physical plane and seeing and influencing what goes on on the other side. Throughout history people have almost killed themselves taking drugs and other dangerous activities to block the brain from hiding what lies beyond, and we still have no easy method of doing so safely and either happens randomly to a few people who rarely have a clue what's happening, or the most serious and persistent students of meditation. But we only see a small fraction of what's really there, that I do know.
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Reply #1129. Oct 16 12, 12:54 PM
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Mentioning no names, it is interesting I had one conversation about what I can only call aspects of paranoia and how to deal with them, and the next call was exactly the same almost word for word but from a different viewpoint and quite a bit of insight into what may be going on.
Now that has told me that the standard symptoms of paranoia of nasty voices and the idea your mind is being probed are clearly something which needs to be treated, and exploit a physical weakness in the brain, and as a result allows in all sorts from wherever it's coming from. As we all have different dreams each night, let alone different from other people, which are usually generated internally, then surely if people who hear voices were accessing the same sort of mechanism then they'd get totally different things but they don't. Having both worked with and known many typical paranoids the similarity in what they are hearing is so close you'd assume it was all coming from the same place, although we really don't know where. But if someone has a problem with the brain which normally blocks out such communications, why would it all be negative? The answer of course is that it isn't, but if you hear positive and helpful voices you are considered a channeler and great teacher, and would very rarely complain or be diagnosed with mental illness as you are being given genuine information with practical benefits.
So the first likely conclusion is that due to physical weaknesses in the brain these communications enter the awareness, but depending if positive or negative are either diagnosed with paranoia or seen as a great mind. On a personal note I have found very little quality in such teachings myself, most seems like recycled commonsense or judgment which is almost as negative as the other type but dressed up as beneficial. When I've looked further into it it usually tells people they are doing things wrong and if they think right they'll get better results in life. Then they almost kill themselves trying to change, get no better results, and then feel even worse.
So basically you start with the similarities which imply the voices people hear are more likely to have an external than internal source, although we can't yet locate it. Then the nature is either destructive or apparently positive, but maybe similar material posing in different ways. I expect a little of it would be genuinely helpful but having teased through a few decades of channeled material most is trite truism and of little practical use although there is probably a small fraction which is the real thing, but anyone connecting to something positive wouldn't normally be considered mentally ill although still receiving voices but not disturbed by it. But it's all very real one way or another. |
Reply #1130. Oct 16 12, 6:00 PM
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It's been an interesting day, honestly! The football was off last night due to flooding and postponed till today, while I recorded the presidential debate and watched that next. There was plenty on TV after and apart from a short walk have pretty much relaxed and learnt things. Having done a further trip over the weekend than expected really don't need to do a less demanding one between two I've done already now just because I can, I really should get other things done till the next season where distance isn't important when it gets dark after 7pm again.
Tomorrow's free and haven't even thought what to do, although the tidying up here is waiting when I get back. The rest is a mystery so far, including why my new friend now appears to be avoiding me (the only possible reason was I said classes need to be held here and not in some public place which I thought was perfectly reasonable). I do know there's no limit to the strange behaviour someone is capable of, and come across it far more than I'd like to directly. |
Reply #1131. Oct 17 12, 4:15 PM
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It occurred to me although I've got photos of a 20km (their measurements not mine, it could be anything from that figure) square around this point I hadn't taken any videos for a while, although many are on VHS there's a lot to cover on digital. I have a box designed to take digital from VHS but it's got normal leads no video in our family owns, and although I have a scart converter it isn't converting anything now so may need either a new one or possibly a new video with the right outputs although I haven't a clue if the problem is the plug or the unit itself.
So I took the camera to Kenwood, where I took some of my first photos in 1968 onwards, and had a nice walk round and am just waiting for it to upload so I can see it. Then I was free to start tidying at last, and have plenty of TV to watch tonight so did manage to think of something especially as the weather was so nice. The ex wants to come Saturday instead now and I've done all I can to try and put her off but the message isn't getting through. If she lived further south I'd try and set her up with Merv, they may drive each other mad instead of us here.
I think that's about it, and if the new friend blows me out on a single disagreement over where we'd meet she must be way less reasonable than she seemed when I met her. Like nearly every other woman I meet really. |
Reply #1132. Oct 18 12, 12:19 PM
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He sees women in terms of their benefit to him, sexually and financially: car essential because he doesn't drive, and he says he admires a woman who pays her way! That's after she's given him dinner and a lift. She must be prepared to listen to him with mute admiration. That "mute" is important. His idea of a conversation is him talking. Your idea of a conversation, he says is you interrupting him talking.
He had one lady friend who fed and watered him and otherwise entertained him (this is a family site), drove him everywhere he wanted to go, and even did his laundry - and he shook his head and said he thought she was getting a bit clingy.
Do you think they deserve each other? He is prepared to travel!
Reply #1133. Oct 18 12, 3:51 PM
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She's quite caring actually but extremely demanding (less so with age as I've had a lot of time to work on it), but who knows, she's in Manchester but at the moment she is more interested in me regardless of what I want. Rocks, hard places and frying pans come to mind.
Every now and again I do get a little message in my head that gets me to check something out at apparently random, and although it was due I checked out my TV programmes to see if and when they were being repeated, and found one more is online. I am sure I pick up lots of information and we probably all do if we recognise and act on it. As I did a quite long trip over the weekend I was under no pressure for more, and remembered I can always make videos as well so got me to Kenwood yesterday where I hadn't been for ages. I haven't a darn clue what else I'm doing except the other ex is still threatening to come again tomorrow after cancelling the other days this week. Maybe Merv could save us both.
The other bit of news is the magazine which published my first public (as opposed to professional journal) article is supposed to be returning to the shops later in the year, and the new editor is now reading the other two articles I'd written before they went bust. The first one was waiting here for some while before I could find somewhere to look at it, and have such a collection now maybe more will find homes in a similar way. I've done the work, so am now ready for results. And finally Esther I've just discovered the email of a woman I was very impressed with when I was very young and she was older, nowadays such a difference is probably trivial but of course nearly all are married and I only ever met her once, and she may also now live abroad. But a reply will be nice and if she remembers me as well even better. I will see. |
Reply #1134. Oct 19 12, 7:34 PM
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Caring and interested is good. Help is quite good too - shall I send him up?
Kenwood's lovely. I can't remember the last time I was there. Might even be when I lived in Hampstead, and that was a long time ago.
Exciting news about your articles. Keep us posted please.
Reply #1135. Oct 19 12, 8:25 PM
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Well I was lucky this week, she cancelled each day saying she'd come the next and didn't, which was far more like her usual pattern and I got a break. She's off to France for a few days but guess where she goes through on the way back...
I tend to adapt to changing conditions even when I haven't in advance. So I did two videos instead of photos, and am collecting another (the 5th) 10km square as I found another one which didn't need much and started today (in the rain and getting dark). Then when I got back not one but three old signs turned up in Leighton Buzzard, the equivalent of the outhouse if Britain was a house. Out of the way and although has something you need is not a pleasant location to do it in.
So next week is probably taken care of, as the angels, system or whatever else started by providing road signs and still hoping for something extra. Ideally something which changes my life for the better rather than gifts however nice. I suppose new articles and TV appearance count, they pay a total of zero and are so spread out it can't make me famous, but they are part of a lifetime's career and when you consider I've had one article I've written ever published in 52 years each one is rather important. I've had others written about me but you don't get famous that way either (or rich, I think one paid me about £20 for a session of hypnosis they wrote about). Obviously if you write crap you can't get God itself to help as the product would be under par, but as I've been writing privately for about 15 years that can't be the case, and am just part of the usual world pool of talent in any one area where a tiny fraction is used based partly on persistence, partly on pure chance and mostly on connections, which I have none of.
So I am adapting to the closing light, managing Hampshire last weekend and still taking photos in new areas locally and making films again, and with the road signs to fill the gaps am still keeping going one way or another. I suppose the biggest issue for my angels is to shift blockages, like using articles I send out, how women respond, how the media report known frauds in public office etc. I am sure the identical situation can arise, and one will get a huge response and another almost none, purely down to the energy at the time. That to me appears the most important, as you see similar events throughout history and some are lost and others made much of despite often being far less important. They just captured the public interest and was etched in history although the others which may have been highly important to learn from need digging and patience to discover at all.
So really, as I've known for years, it seems as if in many areas the brakes appear to be on, although only maybe in comparison to what most others seem to have without any more effort than me. Then the outside world, where things should be happening but are suppressed possibly endlessly- the breakup of the Euro and EU as a possible result, prosecuting those responsible for fixing financial markets (only happened in Iceland, despite them doing the same as everywhere else where it wasn't even considered illegal), etc etc. When things are blocked they've either become so well done they are sealed, come loose gradually or get a buildup of pressure for ages which eventually reaches the point of being enough to break them. Recently two leaks have come out, the Libor fixing which took over ten years to surface, and the Hillsborough fraud of rewriting police evidence, 23 years later. In both cases there was an incredible delay, but as present from the start the truth did come out eventually, and so far not considered criminal although Hillsborough will take years to determine since it's only just been discovered. But they are the leaks which demonstrate the general rather than the particular, as my own enquiries have told me that is 21st century (and clearly before) 'business as usual', and now people are aware it happens at all then maybe if they trace Libor to the Bank of England (they have), and then the government above (only a matter of luck in getting the right evidence) heads will roll and votes will change. Maybe if I was 30 or 40 I could be more patient, but I don't want things to turn out like when people retire and die soon after. If it hits the fan I want some time to enjoy it. |
Reply #1136. Oct 21 12, 3:42 PM
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Although it's been raining making it get dark an hour before normal I've been out collecting map squares and gradually getting enough for the 5th 10km square while getting covered with mud as two squares are off-road. I do want the signs but means going to Leighton Buzzard sooner or later, I thought the long trip season was over last weekend with the final one and am ready for a rest, but this is important.
The ex cancelled France but means she'll probably have more energy to come here instead, and I've sent a final message to the new friend which is pretty much kill or cure time for the friendship having heard nothing from her since I turned down her request to shift my home psychic group to some unnamed place in town. Which was her idea originally. Maybe she reads my column here and doesn't like being discussed in front of at least three people, despite the fact no one in my life gets off the hook especially my grandma when she was alive. It's called journalism (check Liz Jones' diary if you don't believe me), who did what we call blogging before anyone did in a newspaper column she still writes. It's one of the best I know.
So the week ahead seems free plus the trip, I've been on that road twice already and would call it 'average but tedious', plenty of villages and traffic lights slowing it down to a crawl and hopefully not the trip too far. The train goes there as well but it's ages since I went more than a few miles on a train, I'd probably reproduce a convincing heart attack if I did with my nerves, shot to buggery. Back to the angels the only noticed difference was arrangements going smoothly, until you know who dropped off the radar. I am also running out of photo paper as the cheap good stuff is so hard to find, and don't want a backlog as I forget where it all is after a while. So if the angels are reading they have a chance to tidy up all these loose and mucky ends this week and give me a decent free run. Please! |
Reply #1137. Oct 22 12, 4:39 PM
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I am being directed to trust the system, so whatever appears to go wrong should both send you in the right direction you wouldn't have otherwise and if you're not doing what you wanted to you're always doing something else, albeit not so in prison or hospital. Today was a perfect example, as the ex yet again said she was coming although I wanted to go north, then the cleaner was coming so had to wait anyhow, and turns out the cleaner came an hour early, the ex didn't, but as my doorbell's been out for months (I have others but they aren't really effective which forced me to buy the new one) I didn't know and opened the door at 4pm to find she'd been wandering around for an hour as she was early and I didn't hear the door. The ex now wants to come on saturday (definitely thinking Merv would solve the problem and she does deserve him) so they can drive each other meshuggeh and leave innocent people alone. So by the time she arrived I couldn't get myself together for the road signs and took my video camera to another park as having done all the roads for miles am now walking round the parks and filming those.
My other friend has now replied and we are meeting near where she works, as there was no reason for her to get deterred after such a short time it was just a matter of waiting a bit longer. She is convinced the angels are working for me as well, although some of my friends have such dire health problems, including one who is most convinced of their existence it does make me wonder. Sometimes it seems the more theory you know the less you see it in practice. Our current major issue in my little group is however much we learn nothing seems to have changed. This either means it's all nonsense or we're still missing something. Then one teacher says I hardly do any work and another person says I try too hard. In the end it's down to your own discretion and have to find what works for you.
At least I don't have to go to Tillingham which was my last (albeit open ended) duty after missing a bit the first time I went, and really only the pressure to go before the weekend as once the clocks go back I may have trouble getting there in time and old road signs are short term ephemera which is why the photos are so important to get. I don't like pressure and am far better motivated by interest and the opportunity to go when it suits me. I must rise to these occasions though, angels or not. |
Reply #1138. Oct 24 12, 5:10 PM
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Up till now the angels have been good (with my own help of course), as despite not having the chance to get the signs 'up north' Tuesday or Wednesday despite not getting the chance till it was getting late yesterday decided the new camera may well manage tasks beyond the compact and risked it anyway as I had the whole day free. Apart from one photo in the light on the way on a road I hadn't covered yet it was dark by the time I got there, and raining. The signs were up on a wall, beyond the flash meaning it only had half the power it needed, but took a bunch and then selected the best angles, and overexposed the results till they looked as if the flash had reached them. That wasn't possible with the compact as the pixels would probably have appeared making it unusable. I used the night vision capability (combined with flash as otherwise it may need a long exposure I didn't bother to stand in the rain testing before trying) and got reasonable results covered with little white spots which wasn't ich (anyone got tropical fish?) as looked like it but the flash reflected by the rain. It did mean I only covered two spots in the town and none on the couple of miles off the main road to get there, as it had no buildings to illuminate or anywhere to stop but really just needed the signs.
The ex has vowed to come tomorrow but as I'm free I'll just have to suck it up, and have to have dinner (you'll love this) next week with my mother's local rabbi who invited the neighbours over. That'll be fun... Had I permission to film it and edit the best bits for Youtube I'd see it as a project, but otherwise for me needs to be tolerated like the upcoming wedding. As far as weddings and funerals go I'd rather only go to my own now as had more than enough for one lifetime. I suppose besides getting up for it as long as the ex doesn't make me go anywhere dodgy I can manage tomorrow and not missing anything else, and will just carry on regardless after considering the clocks are going back and won't be going anywhere new for photos much past London till late March.
Beyond tomorrow is a mystery within the normal boundaries, diminished for the autumn. I can make local videos before it gets dark, meditate and do my compulsory annual professional courses online, and hopefully am taking Grace to the gym as she's probably the only person left who would use the free ticket. I'm seeing the new one the following week and hope she's happy where I want to take her, and if not accepts the few possible alternatives I will insist on, as she doesn't know my anxiety issues and won't until she knows me far better. If I told everyone I met maybe two would understand and 98 wouldn't want to see me again, that's how it works and people mistrust others not like them in any way. I also wonder if you have one problem they assume you must have others, eg- depression and psychosis, or deaf and stupid etc, it appears to be human nature and seen many psychiatric patients who still don't get others with different problems as if theirs is the only one that's real.
It's a tough situation but my situation, a bit like a stain on a carpet you can't replace or cover up, and have to explain to every visitor the first time they see it for the rest of your life. Of course here only a few people will meet me and have to work round it, but will have got to know me well enough by then to get it, but not someone who's only known me a short time. First impressions count and weird isn't ever the best one to start with. |
Reply #1139. Oct 26 12, 5:23 PM
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How did it go David? Well since you ask, I was 10 minutes late at the station picking up the Oz reject (I musn't be so wicked - get it?- but this is literature) and she was 15 so both didn't have to hang about or explain my own lateness. After the standard routine orders to go to Brent Cross (while we were stuck in almost a mile long queue of people waiting to get in) or Hampstead (dead bodies come to mind) I dragged her kicking and screaming to the garden centre (the equivalent of the Cheers Bar or Cafe Nervosa) to find the cafe was 'in hibernation' for the winter. Luckily despite London NW11 being shut for shabbos the log cabin was not, and we had a nice meal, served in a couple of minutes and very acceptable (again), and she was so happy she was prepared to come to my house rather than another assault on the shops (it's her addiction, always was). So that went smoothly and dropped her off to get her train and put it in the box marked 'been there done that'.
I can both rest on my laurels and stay local now as the clocks (and sun) going back have kept me on light duties for 5 months, and the new year only has 60 plus mile trips left which get me further than before to Ely, Mersea Island and Bournemouth. I'll be happy to even do one, Mersea Island is easily the least demanding unless there's traffic, which there often is, unlike the days we went in the 70s when it was a straight run, even in the 90s when I went to Colchester. Now regardless of the roads (one with more traffic lights than Dunstable per mile, the other a 6 lane road now capable of standstill, photo available) it's a gamble and the other route is long, winding and only 50 mph plus just short of Chelmsford, ie nearly the whole way there. As there's the English Channel south I can't go any further as I've already met it, minus swimming kit, on one of the hottest days of the year. A hundred yards from an old direction sign I didn't know existed till I got home. East isn't easy either as the North Sea does the same job and I've got almost there as the road stops a mile away as it's farmland. Mersea is NE by hugging the coast till you hit a river and stop. Otherwise all routes are via the bridge at Colchester, which was not possible when I went as the road was jammed for 20 miles or so.
I've got a few small plans the next couple of days and will take Grace to the gym if she still wants to go (no one else does, fancy that), and the other bookings building up with and without my influence. If more signs turn up all the better, my camera can provide the light there 365 days a year. |
Reply #1140. Oct 27 12, 6:20 PM
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