In words & pictures
I use My Soapbox to express personal opinions. It matters not whether you agree or disagree, as I don’t allow anyone to respond with replies, it just gives me the chance to get things off my chest. I may also use it to express myself in other ways, whether this be with the occasional bit of poetry or some other attempt at creativity…
Retirement! So that’s it then. I’ve finally gone and done it. After thinking about it for over a year, I’ve actually plucked up the courage to jump a sinking ship and set sail on my own! I’ve heard other people say that when they retire they don’t seem to have any spare time, and so far that’s been pretty much …
Read moreI just happened to be browsing through some old stuff on a CD when I came across these images that I created many years ago. I think at the time I had hopes of becoming a graphic designer or something, but that dream (like many) never materialised. I think I must have been in a surrealist kind of mood when …
Read moreWas it really 13 years ago? They say time seems to go faster as you get older, and the problem is, we’re now going downhill! 2006, and the first of many visits to London, we had to drive as we couldn’t get a train, and for some reason I had the insane idea that it would only take about two …
Read moreLate in 2002 – stress at work, coupled with the break-up of a long term relationship, the death of a close friend, and the fact that I still hadn’t come to terms with watching my mum die a couple of years before this, led me to what was probably the lowest point in my life. I decided to do an …
Read moreWhen I did my schooling, a very long time ago, we did something called lessons in English. We were taught mysterious subjects such as ‘grammar’, ‘spelling’, and suchlike…. I wonder when it was they stopped teaching those? Kids these days often leave school with little idea of how to use their own langauge, indeed many of the foreigners which we …
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