“Mostly, I’m tired of people being ugly to each other. I’m tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day…” John Coffey ~ The Green Mile I’ve seen a few posts on social media asking what’s one thing that being in downtime (lockdown) has taught you. I responded to one […]
Well!! 2020 has certainly come in all guns blazing! I’m not one for New Years resolutions, but I did have an idea as to how I’d like it to be…needless to say it looked nothing like this! From the get go there have been occurrences all around the world of biblical proportions. Not that I’m […]
⚠️WARNING!!: If you’ve read my blogs before you’ll be aware I like the odd smattering of expletives here and there. I could apologise but I won’t. It’s MY real talk and how I express myself, obviously not all the time – there is a time and a place. HERE IS MY TIME AND MY PLACE! […]
“What’s worse, lookin’ jealous or crazy? Jealous or crazy? Or like, being walked all over lately, walked all over lately. I’d rather be crazy.”… Beyoncé ~ Hold Up Two weeks ago my mum unexpectedly passed away. As you can imagine it hasn’t been an easy time. Despite her being in her twilight years and having […]
Well! What a shitty end to the year and decade! And what a decade it’s been! I was hoping I’d have me a Bobby Ewing* moment and wake up in the shower to realise it was all a dream! At the start I thought I’d realised the importance of how precious time was by leaving […]
I know a lot of you are wondering where Tales Of The Dales has disappeared to. Don’t worry, I haven’t been silenced and I’m very much alive! There’s only one way I’ll be stopped and that’s via a court order, so until that happens – keep watching this space. They will return! The fact of […]
Sister Sista! “I haven’t time to waste my time with the likes of you!…” I would think by now you’ve read enough to understand some of the reasons as to why mine and Dales relationship is the way it is. Since my teens there has been a steady flow and varying degrees of shit, so […]
Wtf!? Are Ukipping Me!? “The situation between myself and Dawn Williams has always been an issue, for whatever reason she has chosen to create problems for me…” I’m sure that by now some of you, possibly a lot of you, are still questioning why I’ve chosen to air and share. For the paracats and those […]
Affairs Of The Heart “The situation between myself and Dawn Williams has always been an issue, for whatever reason she has chosen to create problems for me…” And we’re back to that line! We’ll be coming back to it a few more times still, but for now if you’ve read It’s A Family Affair you’ll […]
This was originally published a few years ago but is relevant reading for Tales Of The Dales. Family. A bunch of people affiliated by blood, marriage or whatever. They can bring you joy, pain, sunshine and rain and this week I was reminded of that. My impression of family doesn’t stop at the bloodline. It […]