Esendex – an interesting idea

I just spent the last hour setting up this phone to send updates direct to my blog

Mobile post from the Esendex BlogIt service

Beardless

Hi Folks, here are some pics of me without my beard.  Enjoy it while it lasts as I might be growing it back soon, lol

Bye
G

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The Valkyrie and the Bear

This poem has been bubbling up for some time and I just needed to write it down. I hope you all enjoy it, it means a fair bit to me for reasons undisclosed, but then most of my poems do…….

The Valkyrie and the Bear

He lay there in a shroud of fur, brown and grey with age,
Resting in the cold night air at the entrance to his lair.
The heavy embrace of the rock offering him protection,
content with his lot in life, living in a stupour.

Occasionally his eyes look up and gaze upon the stars,
As he wonders what they are and why he yearns them so.
Grizzled jaws with escaping vapours let out an eternal sigh,
Eyelids growing heavy as the aging bear retires.

Rising up from his sleep, a distant noise disturbs,
The gentle but insistent flapping of some feathered wings.
Dreary eyes open up and look up at the storm,
Watching with fascination as the black winged valkyrie flies.

She settles down upon the earth, her ebon wings enfolding,
concealing in the darkness her ivory body shaking.
In a brief unprotected moment she gives herself to grief,
And cries her tears into the rain where none will ever see.

The bear disturbed by what he sees rises off his hounches,
And with deliberate but ponderous gait sets off in her direction.
Startled by the disquiet undergrowth she lifts up off the ground,
To look into the deep dark eyes of the grizzly bear.

She hovers there upon her wings, gently flapping in the rain,
Her eyes locked with his and wondering why he stares.
Moments pass without a move, until the bear decides,
His hounches down, his eyes soften and then she settles down.

Her feet caress the ground beneath, all sodden in the rain,
As she circles around the bear, no danger to be found.
Then she talks, her voice angelic, of her troubles plently,
As the bear sits and watches, wisdom apparant on his brow.

She does not cease and does not care and does not understand,
Why she stands and tells this bear of her fears and woes.
Her darkest secrets all exposed and vulnerable to him,
And yet he sits and nods understanding every tale.

Days and nights start to merge, blurring in the background,
As the angel from the stars discourses her inner feelings.
The bear content to listen to the music her lips create,
compassion dawning in his grizzy brown eyes.

Then he starts towards her, his fascination rife,
Paw outstretched to touch her wings, to prove her no delusion.
In startled shock she turns and flinches, his outstretched claw grazing,
Into flight she suddenly lifts, leaving only scattered feathers behind.

The bear stands there all confused, wondering if she burst,
Perhaps she was just a dream or a fantasy unreal.
So once more he lets out a sigh from his grizzled maw,
And steps along the muddy track once more to his darked cave.

His eyes close as he starts to fail, sleep his only aim,
As the Valkyrie on her perch looks down upon his form.
Then she sheds another tear confused by what they lost,
Then lifts up into the storm ridden sky never to return.

The Kilvey Shaman

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My goodness – Is that me

I had this photo taken today and I had to look twice at my own face as I felt that it was not me I was looking at.  Its like another person (with Neil Diamond Eyebrows).  Its odd how now and then one photo will shove it in your face that you have changed.  This one seems to show the weight loss more than any photo before it.

G – Neil Diamond lookalike

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Mid life tattoo Crisis

OK then folks, here it is. my latest mid life crisis, although I thought that this tattoo is absolutely amazing, definitely the best tattoo that I have ever had too date…..

Loving you all, especially all you tattooed folk that I know and love

G – The Tattooed Head

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Unseen Friends

I wrote this poem last year for a close frined of mine, Tamsin. Unfortunately we have grown apart it seems over the last 6 months or so, Something I should like to rectify soon.

Unseen friends

Two spirits that found each other across the void
Two star crossed lovers in another life
Two damned souls that cry out to each other
Two stars that spin in each others grip.

All they have is a longing to be seen
And exchange their loves, fears and pain
A desire for just a brief moment to touch
Assuring each other that they will survive

Maybe one day fate will draw them together
Misty eyed their souls will connect
Mixed feelings and confusion will abound
Mustering the courage to finally talk

So far fate has kept them apart
Sometimes they have almost brushed
Some may think that fate is playing
Some futile, silly and painful game

Inside their hearts they have already touched
Inseperable they are, as friends eternal
Igniting hope in each others dark times
Illuminating their footsteps along the path

Nothing can sway them from each other
Never to talk again is too hard a thought
Naming each other in their souls
Nonetheless they remain as unseen friends

weight loss update – progress report

18 stone 11lb

a short term loss of 4.7lb in 9 days

G

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To DS or not DS

I just spent nearly 2 hours changing the case on a nintendo ds to only mess it up when i tore the ribbon cable.  Phone dup a company and its like £23 to sort out a new screen, coz the ribbon does not come on its own, figures init

Now this fixing has now cost nearly £60 and my time, should of just bought another DS second hand, but the money is already spent so hear we go. Round two tomorrow where I pull more heair out when I snap another ribbon cable……….

G

Weight loss Update – Getting back on the scales!

Ok bad news first

19stone 1.7lb

Thats an increase of about 2.5lb since last time, but last time was 6 weeks ago so, overall, not that bad really.

So its up the gym in like 15 minutes and the start of freaky 3 weeks.  I did it not so long ago (In January) where I lost a stone in three weeks and I think its time I did that again and then ease up a bit.  However I got a wedding on August 2nd which is just under 4 weeks away and I want to be at the most 18 stone 7lb when I put on my suit again, but would prefer to be in the top end of 17 stone.  So here is to madness as I descend into it for a few weeks to make sure the weight comes off.

G