BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #19 It was 1997 and we were coming home from my birthday party we'd been to the cinema or a pub and it was late, very late to be out with Jenny and Anna. One of the things I liked about being with Jenny and Anna is that it was all moments, no gasping highs and dreadful lows, just moments - little bits of music, food, walks interspersed with mugs of coco and good coffee. We'd been together on our birthdays at 18, 21 and now it was 1997. I was a bit starting to feel really lost but still 'acceptabil
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #17 This is the opening line and the one that shows on facebook so it better be good! Hell's teeth batman! Ok I could see how you think this is two days in a row I have skipped, but really it is one. Why? I am on the way home after clearing my head into Trello and Mindmister. This means I don't have to come up for air until Monday, well Sunday night. I am on the N25 "down the Ronford Road" we have just passed "Grafters Agency" which is on the right as you head towards sunny Ilford. What a day,
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #16 I have always been thinking how many dumb things I say to #babybernie and then expect him to NOT follow my lead. I have this 'thing' about not shouting at him or loosing my temper, it is hard sometimes but really, what is the point? "Never did me any harm...and I got shouted at all the time." Is what people will say, so if it does not make any difference given the choice would you have been happier off being shouted at or not shouted at? Having said that... I did shout a bit when he got to t
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #15 It was all going so well and then it happened. I woke up and quickly wrote my 750words.com and then headed out for the day. I had therapy and then the dentist with the rest of the family and then went home. Honestly, I just could not face walking across the wind and rain swept Olympic park, or getting the bus. So this is why I missed a day yesterday... #Supercoolwife and I dropped the boy back and nursery and sneaked off to our favourite Polish restaurant for some lunch before getting on wi
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #14 I am very sure that porn and inspirational quotes are what keep the internet going, we'd hate to admit it but what teenage boys thrive off is also what most of the human race with access to the internet seeks out. Every time I stick a few words over a picture it seems to propel what ever message I am pimping that week, it also annoys the hell out of me that posting a quote on twitter early in the morning is certain way to get a few early morning RT's (Re-tweets) - while we are here can you tell
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #13 So there I was wandering through the back garden of 90 Mainyard (some people call it the Olympic Park - but really it is our back garden) chatting on the phone, this is something I do less and less these days. In the days of Nokia you could not get me off the phone, these days I hardly talk on it and hide it at weekends. When I say hide it I mean I don't even take it out with me and I still reach in my pocket to check it, look at facebook, write something down, quickly check email, rearrange my
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #12 So reader, I married him. Well I did not I just needed a way to start writing and that always pops in my head. In fact there are so many things that have been popping in my head for years and I am starting to try and deal with them. During our HUGE mindfulness meditations I have suddenly had the very vivid image of frying a fish in a pan on an open fire on a beach, I have never done this but it is real. Equally dumb are these: every time I see someone open a glass washer in a bar I think of th
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #11 Shock horror. I missed a day, I did fret about what you - my other reader, would think. Should a start again? That is what happens in 750words.com when you miss a day - your streak is broken! That is it tough Shit. I had done 55 days in a row and then I FORGOT to write one day and was back to Zero! Here is a nice photo of my good mate Simon Sinek and world class business woman Lena - I needed a photo and Simon was in my head. New conversation: I hope it comes across that I am sharing how I f
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #10 Whoops! Bollox! It was 3:30pm just now and I was going to post a blog. Now it is 10:48pm and I have just realised I a few seconds left. So what to say? Er.. How is it going? What you getting out of the blogging then Bernie? I get up and check what riffs we are playing! This is day 10 and right now I am up for carrying this on past the 30 days. It is 'hard' but it is not really, the 'HARD' part is dithering around and procrastinating not the actual writing like I am doing now - I could just
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #9 I am on my way home from the latest Food Assembly to launch in London. I jump on the 67 bus on Kingsland Road and jump off by the Golden Heart on Commercial Road by Spitafields Market. For me this is like time travel. In the past Kingsland Road was where we'd head for Vietmanise food, I had no idea which place to go to or even what to order. I'd always find someone to go with so I'd end up eating something new, I still never know what order. The bus drives past the "oh now so cool" Shored
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #8 It is October and I have started to get the winter blues. I know they are just the winter blues and that sunshine all day does a lot more for your vitamin D levels than being wrapped in a coat and shivering. I have always taken a dip in the winter time, at school it was the run up to Christmas and plays and reports and the I'd just started a new school year. School years always seemed to start with a sense of 'don't fuck this one up too'. No one actually ever said that to me but it was the sens
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #7 Everyday just as I am about to write on 750words.com my head goes blank - so instead of walking around waiting for my muse I just write to see what happens. Of course this comes with the health warning that it could be total drivel by the time I post it here. I am writing here to 'ship' not win fans or get a book contract. If you are reading this in 2020 and have gone back to my past blogs you'd be right think either of these two things: 1. Fuck? What happened Bernie's writing was much better
