Took nearly a year, but I've made it . . .
(I'll be right back)

Moving house today!
Unsettlingly quick decision, much uncertainty: jumping anyhoo.

Don't know when I'll be back online again - need to arrange a line and ISP from new premises (eek!)

Missing you all already - and well, have been for some time really.
(1007 unseen deviant postings on my watch list already)


Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible, but only if we can establish agreed parameters for the concept 'normal', and have ascertained it as a worthwhile goal.

till then

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Nothing much around this place but tumbleweed rolling through dust on a thin wind . . .

Been neglecting this site a bit while trying my best to cope with everything else life's been chucking at me, and haven't really had a lot of time or energy to spare.

Currently dealing with serious worries about my elderly parents, and trying to find new accommodation for myself. There's NEVER enough money at the best of times - and this ain't them - and don't even talk to me about relationships . . . oh please no . . .
Meanwhile, I'm trying to hold it together through a prolonged series of assessments to ascertain whether or not I'm a likely candidate for a permanent position doing the work I've been doing as a temp for a year and a half.
I'm not even sure how much I even want the position anymore - and despite the job security, better rate of pay etc, it's getting to be a grind. If I do get it I move from a weekly onto a monthly paycheque, with a month's 'lying time' i.e. two months till the next cheque arrives . . .

So forgive me if I've not been keeping up.

To quote Norm from Cheers "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone Underwear"



OK, that's my futile howl at the moon over . . . move along now, nothing more to see here . . .

May 10th - It's my beautiful talented wonderful daughter's birthday!

I can't celebrate with her because she's away at school (sniff) but we'll do something special next time we get together.

Posting a couple of pics of her now; and thinking about her all the time.

Have a great day sweetie - happy 14th!

You make my

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News of a deviant nature;

I've just started a stock account as ~stumbo-stock afew days ago: [link]

So far I've posted some landscape, water and sunset stuff from a day out last month, but plan to sift through my digital pics for other stuff I'd probably do something with myself if I wasn't so damn lazy - hopefully others might find some of it useful, and it gives me a chance to show off some of the stuff from my digital camera that I do like / think might be worth using, without cluttering up my 'art' (heeheh) account.

Guess I ought to ad a sig with links to my messagery.

My daughter kierah, home from school for easter holidays, spent some time on the account she opened here months ago as 'kikichunt' from a friend's house to drop me a mail. Li'l bugger, stole my only absolutely unique web name (a rude spoonerism at that!)
Anyhoo, she's uploaded an id pic, and posted some pictures over at: [link] if you're interested . . . including a b&w self portrait of me that I couldn't decide whether to post here or not (!) [link]

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News of a sad blog-like navel gazing nature;

STILL full of this bloody cold. bloody not even a metaphor at one point, having blown my nose till it bled. much fun with clotted blood and poisonous green snot ensued - damn, should have taken some macro shots . . . interesting abstract texture pack for 'resurgere' maybe? [link]

Convincing myself I've been getting better, still woke today feeling too tired and snotty to consider going out with a (really nice) friend to a through-night drinking session in a remote highland location - I'm unbelievably p*ssed off about that . . .

Why am I blogging here at all? In fact, what are any of us doing here showing our stuff off in our various ways for that matter? I mean, positive criticism of your stuff is nice, but I'm wondering / worrying about some deep underlying need for the attention . . . oh blah blah blah, yakketty schmacketty.

la di da di da . . . [ahCHOO!] sniff . . .

Throat Singing? [link]