Monday, 1 January 2007
New Year's Day 2007
Mood: chillin'
Now Playing: Well, not Auld Lang Syne, I'm all Syned out...
Topic: Daily Doings
NEW YEAR’S DAY: I woke up at 3 or 4pm. As I said, I was going to go out “panhandling”like I used to… couldn’t bear to go back there.
A middle-aged man on a sleeping bag was sat by our nearest cashpoint begging in the pouring rain. He is still there this evening. He looks miserable as sin.
I tried to score but my current best dealers were (a) not answering and (b) hung over in bed. My phone was down to the last 60p in credit so I told man (b) to come round and not to be too long about it.
An hour and a half later when I was tapping in my “detox” post, below I rang man (a) who picked up only to waste my last bit of talktime telling me he’d be “on” tomorrow. So had to txt man (b) saying call me or I’m on my way up the road.
Having given (b) ten minutes’ grace, I called my dealer #3 who said come to a certain park (same as Xmas Day) which I duly did. An almighty rainstorm began to chuck it down. Of course right in the middle of this and just as I’m approaching the place for #3, man (b) calls back informing me he’s near my house: too late, mate, I’m not there. Sorry.
Soaking wet and glad at least to find his “runner” lurking there, I handed £10 to a shadow beneath a plane tree.
I trudged home in the cold and wet. And rather than ringing man (b) back as promised, I indulged in cyder, fresh (paid for) tobacco and beef in black bean sauce and egg fried rice from my nearest Chinese (about ten doors away from mine). I have all amenities here.
Laurie thank you for answering my Americana questionnaire: Come on all yous other Americans. Roll up! Roll up! Get answering! Anyone else from any other part of the world, just say where you’re from and answer my 7 questions anyway. I’m interested to know about the junkie life abroad…
Ta!
G
Posted by gledwood at 7:56 PM GMT
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Saturday, 20 January 2007
Cusp of New Year
Sunday, 31 December 2006
Cusp of New Year
Mood: celebratory
Now Playing: Auld Lang Syne!! Still!
Topic: Daily Doings
CLOSE TO THE CUSP of New Year’s Day; I am tempted to go out begging the revellers for change. But that would be going backwards a few years.
Sad as that may seem, I can’t do it. Also my gut feeling tells me to stay inside. I have my methadone. I’ve drunk quite some quantity in advance to prevent that nasty phenomenon of waking early feeling sick, like I did this morning. I was barely over the cusp of withdrawal — just a bit under the weather…
Posted by gledwood at 11:59 PM GMT
Cusp of New Year
Mood: celebratory
Now Playing: Auld Lang Syne!! Still!
Topic: Daily Doings
CLOSE TO THE CUSP of New Year’s Day; I am tempted to go out begging the revellers for change. But that would be going backwards a few years.
Sad as that may seem, I can’t do it. Also my gut feeling tells me to stay inside. I have my methadone. I’ve drunk quite some quantity in advance to prevent that nasty phenomenon of waking early feeling sick, like I did this morning. I was barely over the cusp of withdrawal — just a bit under the weather…
Posted by gledwood at 11:59 PM GMT
Happy New Year
Sunday, 31 December 2006
Happy New Year
Mood: cheeky
Now Playing: Auld Lang Syne
Topic: miscellaneous
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007 EVERYBODY!
Love
Gledwood
XxXxXxX
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Sunday, 31 December 2006 - 3:03 PM GMT
Name: "M. Simon"
Home Page: http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/
E-Mail: msimon@xta.com
Happy New Year to You.
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Sunday, 31 December 2006 - 8:28 PM GMT
Name: "mousie"
Home Page: http://plumpiemousie.blogspot.com
E-Mail: claudine.le-gac@laposte.net
I'm happy when I see you joking...
good you stop smoking, best for your health and your purse!!!
so I came to wish you:
BLOAVEZ MAD in breton, though I don't speak it...my husband is a true breton, he learnt French at school...didn't speak a word of it before 6...I'm from the Loire country...breton is a beautiful language, and Brittany a beautiful country...so have a glass of cider:
ar christr zo mad...the cider is good...
let's drink some together ...may 2007 brings you peace and love my friend...take care
love from Mum Mousie!!!!
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Monday, 1 January 2007 - 5:07 PM GMT
Name: "Robyne"
Home Page: http://www.creativewritintravel.blogspot.com
E-Mail: Creativetrips.writing@gmail.com
Happy New Year and an inspired 2007
Robyne
Happy New Year
Mood: cheeky
Now Playing: Auld Lang Syne
Topic: miscellaneous
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007 EVERYBODY!
Love
Gledwood
XxXxXxX
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Sunday, 31 December 2006 - 3:03 PM GMT
Name: "M. Simon"
Home Page: http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/
E-Mail: msimon@xta.com
Happy New Year to You.
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Sunday, 31 December 2006 - 8:28 PM GMT
Name: "mousie"
Home Page: http://plumpiemousie.blogspot.com
E-Mail: claudine.le-gac@laposte.net
I'm happy when I see you joking...
good you stop smoking, best for your health and your purse!!!
so I came to wish you:
BLOAVEZ MAD in breton, though I don't speak it...my husband is a true breton, he learnt French at school...didn't speak a word of it before 6...I'm from the Loire country...breton is a beautiful language, and Brittany a beautiful country...so have a glass of cider:
ar christr zo mad...the cider is good...
let's drink some together ...may 2007 brings you peace and love my friend...take care
love from Mum Mousie!!!!
Reply to this Comment
Monday, 1 January 2007 - 5:07 PM GMT
Name: "Robyne"
Home Page: http://www.creativewritintravel.blogspot.com
E-Mail: Creativetrips.writing@gmail.com
Happy New Year and an inspired 2007
Robyne
Pre-2007
Sunday, 31 December 2006
Pre-2007
Mood: lyrical
Now Playing: Auld Lang Syne (still)...
Topic: Daily Doings
NEW YEAR’S EVE and I’ve cut down smoking… not because of any New Year’s Resolution, though one friend of mine threatened to quit and I said (truthfully) that I’d do so too — if it happens. No, my lack of tobacco comes from rain (that has destroyed the local dogends collections) overzealous street-sweepers sweeping all the best butts away and my being too poor to be able to afford to buy any. So I’ve been on about five or ten a day, which is nothing to me. I had a cig just now, it gave me such a head-rush! People pay £5 to get something like that off crack! And mine came free courtesy of an old lady at a bus-stop…!
As you can see I’ve altered my colour-scheme. I would like to know whether people think it really is better…
I’ve been trying to send Happy New Year’s messages to everyone I know but have had problems getting through to the following: Micah — because Junkylife seems to be “down”. Ruth — the comments box won’t appear (and I keep getting the most extraordinary popups from your site). Istanbulwitchy — yours will only allow comments from googlers or blogspotters which I’m not so please alter the settings, I’d like to be able to talk to you! So a Happy New Year to all the above plus everyone else and thanks for all your support.
Re my longed-for hits-counter, I’d still appreciate all the tips and info anyone has… especially if there’s a Tripod blogger out there… Please keep the instructions coming…
I’m off now for Sunday lunch and a huge session of nature programme watching at my mate’s house… See yers in 2007.
And let's hope the new year is tons better than the old one!
G.
xx
Posted by gledwood at 2:00 PM GMT
Updated: Sunday, 31 December 2006 9:07 PM GMT
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Monday, 1 January 2007 - 1:08 AM GMT
Name: "ferdinand"
Home Page: http://www.diary-of-a-ginger-tom-cat.blogspot.com
Hello and a very very happy new year.
P.S Shove your code for your counter anywhere between the body tags
and ps statcounter is really good.
PPS Hope it dries up and they stop being so thorough on the broom handling activites.
And ppps Thanks for wishing me and us a happy new year.
Pre-2007
Mood: lyrical
Now Playing: Auld Lang Syne (still)...
Topic: Daily Doings
NEW YEAR’S EVE and I’ve cut down smoking… not because of any New Year’s Resolution, though one friend of mine threatened to quit and I said (truthfully) that I’d do so too — if it happens. No, my lack of tobacco comes from rain (that has destroyed the local dogends collections) overzealous street-sweepers sweeping all the best butts away and my being too poor to be able to afford to buy any. So I’ve been on about five or ten a day, which is nothing to me. I had a cig just now, it gave me such a head-rush! People pay £5 to get something like that off crack! And mine came free courtesy of an old lady at a bus-stop…!
As you can see I’ve altered my colour-scheme. I would like to know whether people think it really is better…
I’ve been trying to send Happy New Year’s messages to everyone I know but have had problems getting through to the following: Micah — because Junkylife seems to be “down”. Ruth — the comments box won’t appear (and I keep getting the most extraordinary popups from your site). Istanbulwitchy — yours will only allow comments from googlers or blogspotters which I’m not so please alter the settings, I’d like to be able to talk to you! So a Happy New Year to all the above plus everyone else and thanks for all your support.
Re my longed-for hits-counter, I’d still appreciate all the tips and info anyone has… especially if there’s a Tripod blogger out there… Please keep the instructions coming…
I’m off now for Sunday lunch and a huge session of nature programme watching at my mate’s house… See yers in 2007.
And let's hope the new year is tons better than the old one!
G.
xx
Posted by gledwood at 2:00 PM GMT
Updated: Sunday, 31 December 2006 9:07 PM GMT
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Monday, 1 January 2007 - 1:08 AM GMT
Name: "ferdinand"
Home Page: http://www.diary-of-a-ginger-tom-cat.blogspot.com
Hello and a very very happy new year.
P.S Shove your code for your counter anywhere between the body tags
and ps statcounter is really good.
PPS Hope it dries up and they stop being so thorough on the broom handling activites.
And ppps Thanks for wishing me and us a happy new year.
The Day After Boxing Day
Wednesday, 27 December 2006
THE DAY AFTER BOXING DAYMood: loudNow Playing: more sedately...Topic: Daily Doings
THE DAY AFTER BOXING DAY and life returns.
The High Street heaving, seething with all those people who wisely put off spending until what used to be called the “January Sales”. Even I, feeling generous with myself, splashed out £5 on a mobile phone battery I’ve needed for weeks but never got round to sorting out… (The old battery was so knackered you got three minutes talk time before you had to rush and plug the handset into the wall.) So typical of me to live with something like that. Most people would get driven up the wall and replace it on day one. Most people!! That’s not me… If I were “most people”, imagine the pickle our world would be in! Office hours would be midday to eight pm for starters. Have a good lie in when you can, I say. Street lights would be Vegas-style multicolours so the metropolis looked amazing from descending aeroplanes. Trafalgar Square would be the scene of a humungous rave each weekend. Everyone would come to London, New Official Centre of the Universe!!! I could go on but the world’s a crazy enough place already…
So we’re at a lull in the mass celebrations. People are composing themselves ready for New Year’s Eve. Now I did used to do New Year’s with some gusto, but two years in particular, 2000 and 2001 I think I overdid it. You shouldn’t have to recover from a night (+most of next day) partying as if you're convalescing from tuberculosis or cholera. That’s when “fun” is starting to go to unfunny extremes.
No, I just have a few drinks and let the evening pass by now. To be honest, I remember New Year's Eve as pressurized fun. Everything you do on a night out you have to do three or four hours earlier, e.g. getting into club at nine rather than one. Arranging cabs hours in advance. Lots of stress and organized chaos. No, I did have some fun in years gone by but I’m happy for a younger generation to have taken up the baton (or light-stick)…
Sometimes I muse about the 19-20somethings and wonder, is life as amazing for them as it seemed for us at that age? Everyone buries that amazing feeling of self-discovery in a rosy daze of nostalgia special only to them. People of my parents’ generation tended to rhapsodize over the 1960s. They’ve forgotten all the times they couldn’t have a drink because it was Sunday and the shops were shut, etc, etc. Our memories become canonized. We all do it.
There’s an old raver’s joke: How many clubbers does it take to change a lightbulb? Fifty. One to change the lightbulb and forty-nine to say lightbulbs ain't what they used to be...
Posted by gledwood at 11:57 PM GMT
Updated: Thursday, 28 December 2006 5:01 PM GMT
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Thursday, 28 December 2006 - 12:45 PM GMT
Name: "Old Head"
Great blog mate! You are an excellent writer.....Stay safe and look forward to better times in 2007. You should write for Black Poppy....(google it...)
Best,
An Old Head
THE DAY AFTER BOXING DAYMood: loudNow Playing: more sedately...Topic: Daily Doings
THE DAY AFTER BOXING DAY and life returns.
The High Street heaving, seething with all those people who wisely put off spending until what used to be called the “January Sales”. Even I, feeling generous with myself, splashed out £5 on a mobile phone battery I’ve needed for weeks but never got round to sorting out… (The old battery was so knackered you got three minutes talk time before you had to rush and plug the handset into the wall.) So typical of me to live with something like that. Most people would get driven up the wall and replace it on day one. Most people!! That’s not me… If I were “most people”, imagine the pickle our world would be in! Office hours would be midday to eight pm for starters. Have a good lie in when you can, I say. Street lights would be Vegas-style multicolours so the metropolis looked amazing from descending aeroplanes. Trafalgar Square would be the scene of a humungous rave each weekend. Everyone would come to London, New Official Centre of the Universe!!! I could go on but the world’s a crazy enough place already…
So we’re at a lull in the mass celebrations. People are composing themselves ready for New Year’s Eve. Now I did used to do New Year’s with some gusto, but two years in particular, 2000 and 2001 I think I overdid it. You shouldn’t have to recover from a night (+most of next day) partying as if you're convalescing from tuberculosis or cholera. That’s when “fun” is starting to go to unfunny extremes.
No, I just have a few drinks and let the evening pass by now. To be honest, I remember New Year's Eve as pressurized fun. Everything you do on a night out you have to do three or four hours earlier, e.g. getting into club at nine rather than one. Arranging cabs hours in advance. Lots of stress and organized chaos. No, I did have some fun in years gone by but I’m happy for a younger generation to have taken up the baton (or light-stick)…
Sometimes I muse about the 19-20somethings and wonder, is life as amazing for them as it seemed for us at that age? Everyone buries that amazing feeling of self-discovery in a rosy daze of nostalgia special only to them. People of my parents’ generation tended to rhapsodize over the 1960s. They’ve forgotten all the times they couldn’t have a drink because it was Sunday and the shops were shut, etc, etc. Our memories become canonized. We all do it.
There’s an old raver’s joke: How many clubbers does it take to change a lightbulb? Fifty. One to change the lightbulb and forty-nine to say lightbulbs ain't what they used to be...
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Updated: Thursday, 28 December 2006 5:01 PM GMT
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Thursday, 28 December 2006 - 12:45 PM GMT
Name: "Old Head"
Great blog mate! You are an excellent writer.....Stay safe and look forward to better times in 2007. You should write for Black Poppy....(google it...)
Best,
An Old Head
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