31 May
We were
up in the middles of the night this morning, well, 7.15 is middle of the night
to us, and right now I’m feeling it too. I’ve had to have a fasting blood test
and that means making an appointment, and that was for 8.05. Their list was all
over the place with names being called at all sorts of times and in any order.
Ah well, it’s done now and I shall make an appointment for diabetic clinic for
about 14 days time.
Ah, now
that’s better. I was sat here nodding off so I went back to bed for a couple of
hours. Can’t remember when I was that tired before.
Have you
noticed the growing number of writers who now have a second writer named on
their books? That was why I stopped buying and reading Tom Clancy books a few
years ago. I did but one or two and they were nowhere near as good as when he
was writing by himself. And here’s the thing, if he did have an input, there
was no way of knowing just how much of an input he had. I buy a book because I
like the named the writer, not because I like his ‘co-writer’. There’s quite a
lot of writers doing this now and I was disappointed when I saw the Wilbur
Smith had taken it up too. How sad … … …
Moving on
to mental illness again then; I have been wondering if by highlighting the
issue as much as I when on-line, and reading so much about too, whether it can
cause the condition to worsen. For me, I can feel depression coming on at
times, it’s like a think black cloud rolling in over me, sapping all the energy
from me. There is nothing I can do when it happens either other that wait for
it to roll off again. When it does roll off, I probably don’t realise it for a
couple of hours, it’s a really strange feeling too.
Me old
mate Bill Howe has been in touch with a history lesson on that man Spartacus.
It seems he was a real man and he was renown as a strategist. The scene in the
film where all his fighters were crucified along the Applian Way was indeed
true. I’ve since found the flowing which might be worth a read if you wish to
look into it … http://www.livius.org/sources/content/plutarch/plutarchs-crassus/plutarch-on-spartacus/?
Bill says that what happened to
Spartacus during this time is right, so any story that takes up his life after
that event is really up to the writer. Whatever, I am enjoying the read anyway.
There
does seem to be quite a few books around at the minute about the Roman Empire,
rising, falling, struggling along, corrupt and cruel in the extreme. This
current read is the first one I have tried, so maybe I might move on to others
when this one is finished, I’ll wait and see. I do have the two follow up books
anyway so they will get read at some time anyway. But there again, there’s a
new Ed James due out soon, Ian Rankin can’t be far off releasing another one.
Then there’s all the other crime writers I like, and don’t forget the sci-fi
and phantasies ae well. I don’t think I shall be running out of reading matter too
quickly. There’s a tee shirt out I fancy with the words, So Many Books, So Little
Time on the front. It’s true you know, oh so true.
Kile is
due here tomorrow for a few days and we have plans to take him to Twycross Zoo
on Thursday, dependant on weather of course. Twycross is only about seven miles
from us here and is an easy run along the A444, which is just at the bottom of
our street, a right turn, and it’s there in front of us. We have taken him
there before but he doesn’t remember it. Actually, he was in a bit of a strop
at the time anyway. This time when we take him, he will have his Sony DSLR with
him, and loves using that hunk of kit. Friday he is off to his asthma clinic at
his GP and he can back from there. We don’t want him here on Sunday because I
have a hospital appointment and we don’t want him worrying about it. He tends
to fret when one of us ill, better him not knowing I think.
So today’s
photo …
Kile and his Sony.
Today’s
funny …
What do you call a secret agent that hangs around department
stores?
A counterspy.
A counterspy.
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