Thursday, 14 June 2018
Seventeen Again
Seventeen Again ©
By
Michael Casey
Well
tomorrow is another day, and today the pain has ebbed away so let’s see
if I can make you laugh, and maybe me too. I’m still wondering why I
get the cursor dancing all over my screen, it could be North Korea
hacking me for a free read, or it could be Barron Trump, or maybe it’s
just Microsoft Windows 10 being a bit strange. Or even my keyboard tray
is vibrating because of Billy Joel dancing on his piano talking about it
all being about Soul. The cursor has stopped dancing now, maybe the
North Koreans ran out of dance steps.
I
can of course step dance or Irish dance, my sisters did it so I kind of
leant how to do it. The trouble with tap dancing is that you keep on
falling over in the sink, that was a 1970s style joke, I don’t know what
you’ll make of it, but the sink could be a Belfast sink, now that’ll
really confuse some of my foreign readers.
What
can you expect in this book Seventeen Again, or is it 17 Again? I have
no idea as I said yesterday it should be ready by Christmas 2018,
assuming I don’t die. And with all the pain I have that’s not just black
humour, so enjoy me while I’m here, now is this emotional blackmail
with my readers? Not if you are my neighbours hearing me moan and scream
in the night, and they thought it was the foxes mating.
Summer
holidays approach so my girls will be demanding a greater variety of
food as they are home all day. My small daughter will no doubt read 3
books a week, while the bigger one says she’ll study hard as next year
she wants to get into a good University. Though nowadays getting into
university means getting into 35 to £60,000 worth of debt. Frankly I’d
say get a loan and start a business instead in some cases, or some
Caseys.
My
big daughter has decided for now that Medicine is not for her, so she
may do Bio-Chemistry. Which is fast turning into a family thing. My best
friend, he’s laughing at this now, he has a PhD in Bio-Chemistry, my
wife did it in Shanghai, and my nephew is just finishing at York in
Bio-Chemistry. So that’s 4 Bio-Chemistry people, the only bio-chemistry I
make is down the toilet.
My
other daughter is yet to decide which way to go, Arts or Science so if
you keep on reading my epistles you’ll find out in a few years time.
Remember both are bilingual in English and Chinese so I have no worries
for their future, I just hope they face-time me in my dotage. Kim from
North Korea may have been talking about me, and not the Donald. Both of
them could copy my hairstyles.
What
else can I share? Yes Bavarian sausages are nice, they are so big that
just one is enough as a meal with bread and a few vegetables or other
stuff. My local store has them ,though I have to watch my fat content,
no I don’t mean look at my own belly, I mean look what I put into my
belly. I’ll be having one soon as it’s nearly my dinnertime. Listen to
Billy Joel with me, We Didn’t Start the Fire. It’s good. Well I had a
look in the fridge while you were listening, I did turn the volume up so
you weren’t all alone in my “study”. It’s soon time for me to start the
fire under my frying pan and eat.
My
local store has 2 pizza and 4 budweiser for a fiver so I may go out and
buy that, I’ve not had alcohol for months and months. They say the
World Cup starts tomorrow. I was in Lourdes France in 1966, maybe it was
our prayers that helped us win. The nice thing about Music is that it
IS company and also it fires the imagination if it has words, a word
from a song can lead my story one way or another. Its a split second
thing.
Though
with words they can lead you into “trouble”. Our neighbour knocked on
the door asking for jump leads as his battery was flat, I happened to be
wearing only one loose layer, so I flashed my belly and my surgery
scars saying they used jump leads on me here. Where I had my quadruple
heart bypass. He went away unimpressed mumbled the area had gone done,
and he’d have to catch a bus.
Aren’t
you glad you don’t live next door to me? I also have scars on each leg
from the groin to my ankle bone, where my veins were harvested. Luckily
for him he did not ask to borrow my evening dress. Speaking of which my
wife has to put her’s on tonight as she is going to a Gala Dinner,
meanwhile I’ll be having strawberry jam on toast, it cost 1.79 from the
Polish shop. Enough of this talk I really must eat now, I hope you’ll
enjoy Seventeen Again when I launch it at Xmas 2018, but now I must head
for the kitchen and hope Totoro hasn’t helped herself to my Bavarian
sausage.
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