Tag: favourite

My Cockroaches – 15th November 2022

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Lizards are my cockroaches
Skittering everywhere
Hiding in dark corners
Always on a tear
Cats always chasing
Mostly without reward
Lizard shit on everything
Cannot be ignored
Second life and tailless
Laying eggs in sheets
Cute little babies run
And so it all repeats

We are so focused on improving our lives, we forget how to live them.

paraphrase Alan Watts

Today I’m feeling:
Happy
Today I’m grateful for:
Breaking routine and going to Sammakhi to meet Kamboom instead of going home straight after classes. Sometimes it takes an effort to get out of my comfort zone.
The best thing about today was:
Walking around Sammakhi with Kamboom and meeting a couple of other old students of mine. It was interesting to be on the grounds of another school and Kamboom is a good kid with a lot of potential and is in a good place to realise it. I also understand better that where I work isn’t so bad for the students when I consider that some of the old Anuban students are now at Sammakhi and they were very poorly skilled before. Sammakhi is supposed to be the better school but I imagine they also have to cater for a wide range of skill levels.
Daily thought
What are you in doubt about at the moment?
I doubt when I talk myself into it.
I have felt doubt about how things will be when Amy returns but when I’m thinking about it now I know everything will be fine.
I doubt myself on bad days at school but that turns around when the next day is fine. These doubts are good reminders though, not to take things for granted.
Who is your favourite singer or musical artist right now?
At my age, it is so difficult to answer a question like this. There’s too much information in my head, too many favourites from the past, from maybe yesterday to last week, year or decade. Why even force a decision like this? It’s a conversation question but not really a journal question. 20-year-old me wouldn’t even hesitate to answer this though. Is 55-year-old me smarter or wiser?

I took this picture because Don’s new puppy was at 22 Grams today and I haven’t met before. The same type of dog as Amy’s dad and just as bouncy and active.

*1981’s Top 28 or so – 30th December 1981

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  1. B-Movie – Remembrance Day
  2. The Jam – Going Underground
  3. Angelic Upstarts – We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
  4. The Professionals – Just Another Dream
  5. Clash – Clash City Rockers
  6. Sex Pistols – No One Is Innocent
  7. UK Subs – Keep On Running
  8. Exploited – Dogs of War
  9. UK Subs – CID
  10. The Members – Solitary Confinement
  11. Generation X – King Rocker
  12. Bow Wow Wow – C30 C60 C90 GO!
  13. UK Subs – Tomorrow’s Girls
  14. The Damned – Dr Jykell and Mr Hyde
  15. The Mutants – Hard Time
  16. Tenpole Tudor – Who Killed Bambi?
  17. The Members – Sound of the Suburbs
  18. Stiff Little Fingers – Sound of the Suburbs
  19. Undertones – My Perfect Cousin
  20. The Professionals – 1-2-3
  21. Cockney Rejects – Here We Go Again
  22. The Damned – Wait For The Blackout
  23. Tenpole Tudor – Rock Around The Clock
  24. Stiff Little Fingers – Johnny Was
  25. The Damned – Curtain Call
  26. Sex Pistols – Black Leather
  27. Stiff Little Fingers – Just Fade Away
  28. Tenpole Tudor – Swords of a Thousand Men

3rd Feb 2023 – This list is from the back of my diary and on the page following is a revision, top 25 only, though it looks like I planned more. That list added Stiff Little Fingers – Picadilly Circus, Adam and the Ants – Stand and Deliver, Stiff Little Fingers – Silver Lining and Clash – Magnificent Seven.