
Hello to you all,I don't know who is likely to read this but if you do I hope you get some idea of who I am and what I tend to rant about.
So the first thing is why "A hard life in the city". To be honest that is a pretty simple question to answer.
I have travelled all round the world from pole to pole and round the equator more times than I care to remember ( I had filled two passports by the time I was 22 )
Why so much travelling, because I love to travel, not so much these days because there are very few places I have not seen.
I now live in Nottingham , which by the way is a great city although like most cities it has it's troubles and trouble spots. The secret is to stay away from those spots.
I have never been much of a city dweller, I love the great outdoors and the sea is one of the modt beautiful things in the universe.
All sorts of people say "Well one bit of water is much the same as the next" . Not so, not so at all how on earth can you say that the North sea is like the Caribbean sea, for one there are very few thing in the North sea that can eat you. No my friends water all over the world is different and very beautiful.
Excuse me I am straying from the topic of hard and city.
I can live almost anywhere and have done, but cities to me are places where there is never enough time and everyone is rushing about trying to do three dozen things at the same time.
They never have time to just sit and talk or look up at the sky or just stop and think "you know there is more to life than this, and why because they are city folk and that is something that is quite different to most folk.
How on earth people can live in London or Birmingham is beyond me.
I remember when in the 1980s I was doing some work for the BBC and ended up living in Chelsea, oh yes people these days think it is a fine address to have but let me tell you this . I lived in one room which I could sit on the edge of the bed and touch all four walls around me and this room was costing £375 a week.
A fine address indeed but a proper shit hole. I stayed there for about 18 months and was glad to get out.
You see this is what I mean by a hard life in the city, people ned to slow down and relax a little never mind doing things that need to be done yesterday, if thats the case why weren't they done yesterday in the first place.
I will be adding more thoughts soon.
Please forgive my spelling and punctuation as it is not very often I get to type anything least of all do this kind of thing.
I will tell you more about me and what I do and have done in the past, also what I am hoping to do in the future, some of it I am sure will make you smile, some of it may make you weep but at least you will get to know me as one of those people that may just have something to say.

2 comments:
dad, i look forward to reading more :-)
You are very right about water. And also about cities. Traveling teaches one so much. I guess most people don't even take the time anymore to travel in their own minds or with their own minds.
"And at the chime of the city clock
Put up your road block
Hang on to your crown.
For a stone in a tin can
Is wealth to the city man
Who leaves his armour down"
- Nick Drake
Rest of the lyrics in case you're interested;
http://www.ancient-enchantments.net/nickdrake/lyrics/a.htm#chime
x D
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