What's happening?

It's Tuesday evening. My computer clock says that it is just after 23:10. The house and it's occupants are winding down for the night and I really should be getting off to sleep. In my new home I have the delightful company of amongst several others two splendid dogs. Luna is a little milky eyed cross breed with a corkscrew tail and a character to go with it. Sidney the other dog in my life is a real Bobbi dog. She is an Irish Wolf hound and is absolutely gorgeous. Luna is small and fiery and has the temperament to match her stature. She is shrill and loud and yet there is something delightful and amusing about her. She never misses an opportunity to elicit even the smallest degree of attention from me. Sidney on the other hand is much more of a go it alone character with a stubbornness to match her size. She has a long grey woolly coat and when she has just been washed she looks absolutely gorgeous.

Since Bina went away for a couple of days with Uwe last week, I have been really enjoying having the dogs at my disposal. I have been waking up in the morning and feeding them and then going off for an early morning walk with them and really making the most of it. The area where I now live means that on the whole when you go walking out with the dogs you seldom meet many people and mostly none at all. It is very relaxing to be able to feel safe and free at the same time. I never tire of looking at the beautiful nature that surrounds us here and almost every time we go walking there is something new and fresh to savour. Why, only this morning while out walking the dogs with Lisa and Lea we came across a super little deer grazing away in the middle of the day as if it didn't have a care in the world. Even when it saw us it didn't immediately run away. Just a few days ago I was cooking the first coffee of the day when looking out the kitchen window I say a antlered deer grazing in the newly prepared horse paddock just across the road from our house. The sun was rising out of a mist filled musky morning and this splendid deer really did look wonderful in that early morning light and freshness.

Thank god (or should it be God?) that's all over

What the hell am I talking about? Well, you see summer is a very bad time for me. I earn practically no money at all during the summer holidays and this year the only saving grace has been the fact that I have moved in with Bina and that has at least been keeping me busy and I haven't really had the time to do too much deep thinking.

On the other hand I have been busy building up my collection of useful books and software. I have also been reading "Dune" again and have really been enjoying it.

On the domestic front I have really started to settle in with Bina and the girls and I have to tell you that I am finding it most satisfying and enjoyable. So much has changed since I came here to live. My diet is so much better now than for twenty years before. I finally have the dog(s) that I always wanted and I am able once more to get stuck into my music and other stuff that has been evading me for so long over the last two years. I know that there is still quite a lot to do with regards the old apartment but while that arsehole is still around the house during the day I have decided to stay away. My bedroom furniture must be thrown away or burnt and the garden really does have to be cleaned up before I leave there. I have absolutely no enthusiasm for the work and would in fact prefer to pay somebody to do it for me. The lawn is absolutely the most important thing for me to complete.

Where will it all end

I have been experimenting with Joomla and have until now at least been very happy with what I have found. The only problem is that when something goes wrong, like it has done now, you really are stuck up to your neck in shit. Helpppppppp

I'm Back

On July the 4th 2007 I was reborn. Don't know what I am talking about? Then don't worry about it. Its probably not all that important. It's just a simple fact that I wanted to record here.

I have moved again. Well there is a surprise huh? OK not really. Anybody who knows me will know that I have lived in more than 30 different houses in my life and its more than possible that I will live in 30 more before my time here is up.

Interestingly, this brings me to a theme that has been roaming around in my head a lot recently. As I am getting older I find myself more and more concerned with the question trying to find meaning to life. I am not particularly interested in the others. I'm just interested in trying to find some meaning to my life.

I can remember a time when such thoughts simply didn't enter my mind. I was more involved in simply being than thinking about it. Actually, if I am honest, I can't really remember much about the past. I have reinvented myself so often that even I don't know which of the many versions I have proffered up is the correct or real one. Does it matter? I doubt it.

I've had a good day today. Or at least I think it was a good day. I woke early but because of a misunderstanding between Bina and myself I turned back over and after reading for a while I managed to get back off to sleep. I am reading Dune again at the moment and doing it via a nice little Symbian programme called "Mobiread". It's even better than a book because I can lie in bed and read without having to put a light on to do so. It is very easy to operate and when I wear my glasses I am able to read the little screen very easily.

The misunderstanding between Bina and myself was that I thought she had told me that she had arranged a meeting with Stefan for seven o'clock and for some strange reason I had assumed she meant seven o'clock in the morning. I think it was fate because I clearly needed the extra time in bed. Anyway, at about a quarter to nine I got up and we had breakfast together. Poor Lisa looks really poorly at the moment. She has not been eating very much recently and looks dreadful. It all started off with a sore throat but seems to have escalated into a full blown cold or even worse. I am still not entirely happy with how things are here at the moment but let me tell you that compared to living in the house in Marlberg it is like having won the lotto or something.

After breakfast I drove up to the old house to collect a few more things and in particular to fetch the Cannelloni for today's meal. As got into the car the sun was shining and it occurred to me to drop the roof down. Sometimes it is all too easy to forget why I bought the Cabrio(Cabriolet). Why, fresh air of course. So with a full tummy, a good feeling and the sun rising in the sky (clouds too) I set off for Marlberg. Wind in ones hair is one thing, but I didn't want to lose my stying so I decided to take the Brunerweg route and nipped out through Bricht and crossing the B58 I weaved my way onto Brunerweg. To my horror I discovered that I had stumbled upon a typical Sunday morning in Schermbeck. Bloody cyclists everywhere. If there is one thing I have a real problem with here in my version of heaven then it is the arrogance of the cyclists who having donned their strange Lycra suits and space age helmets take to the roads at the weekend and exhibit a behaviour that all but brings me to want to murder them. I can't imaging a better reason for staying at home at the weekend than to avoid these stupid fellows and their insane insistence in winding me up.