October - and still in limbo

That's not to suggest that I am fit and enjoying a pastime where the participants try to almost fall backwards whilst 'walking' under a very low stick. Not in a millenia!

No, it means that although I have had some updates and news on my head condition, there's still a long way to go, and a long time to wait, for news on my retirement. The current news is that I have a condition that is akin to encephalitis. It attacks the brain and leads to memory loss, pain, cognitive impairment and other cool things.

My initial treatment has ceased (steroids but I never got to look like the Incredible Hulk. Well, I was never green anyway...) and I am due back to see my Consultant in November. I am still appealing the initial decision from my work and await the next stage of that with eager anticipation...

I am helping to put together a Recipe Book to raise funds for my daughters school, have helped a little with my Son's Poetry Collection (@A Lonely Man's Diary') and have still written a few poems of my own. Often I write at the time Laura comes home from school; or just before. Many of the later poems are being written in that quiet time before things have to start again - it is liberating to find oneself with a first line, or a few lines, of poetry in your head and let it shape and form itself onto the screen.

I can keep my demons at bay, my anger and resentment under a balance and turn my mind to other thoughts, other experiences, other stories. I was approached by Kathryn at School who knows of my poetic endeavours, and she asked me to get involved in a project that she is leading for the school.

It fired my enthusiasm and my creativity and took me off into another direction; not away from hers as the two overlap, but combining poetry, music and photography into one. Once the original pieces have been finalised and given to the school; I'll try to upload my part of it to a dark corner of the web and post the location in one of these ramblings.

I mean, it's not like anyone will ever take the time to have a look at it, is it?

​Take Care, thanks for reading..