Ordinary Life

Blog 3 – day 2?- ordinary life

So what do you do at five thirty apart from going back to sleep? Well, being a retired person (I’m totally at a loss with all the new genders we have today. When I was a lot (well not too much) younger half of these gender names were characters out of Flash Gordon -- you know ‘Gordon’s alive!!’ –Queen? – don’t worry your grandparents will enlighten you.

So I’ll be known as “ALAN” chose your own gender, I once tried to be known as being English as an entry on my passport. No chance ‘you’re not allowed to say that’. (how come being that) I’m an Essex lad, born in Ilford, to parents born …….. here we go, checking on my genes, I’m more mongrel than English or even British. Check these heredity credentials.

Father: born in what I think was Pakistan not sure as to either east or west. Second son to Walter and Mary, care of British army posted abroad between the wars raging all over the world.

Mother: eldest child and daughter to William and Mary – sounds awfully regal being they were both Irish, explains a lot about you know who.

I’m incredibly proud of my dad’s heritage, Army through and through, uncles and uncles-in-law all military in one form or another.

I’m incredibly proud of my mother’s heritage. Rebels through and through, with uncles and uncles-in-law all revolting against what become known as the Brits – No, not the music awards, it’s the armed response to Ireland becoming a united single state, free from British tyranny.

Reflecting that I was only young at the time and didn’t completely understand what they were talking about, with the irish desire to live every experience eternally and the soldiers attitude of wanting to go the extra mile for king and country, grandad and mum regaled us with battles fought by the “rebel terrorist” against the “black and tans” on a street by street basis, it’s little wonder I grew up confused. Still less of that, let’s go back to five thirty.

So what do you do? You get up and do the odd jobs around the house without being overly noisy or do you sit and catch up on movies, tv tv series, soaps OR DO YOU do something else? Having mentioned my mixed heritage I thought ‘I know. I’ll check out the ancestry, you ever know I might find a rich vein of royalty or a regal vein of richness.

Think of it, I mean look what they found out about that actor chappie – you know the one, couldn’t even be posh in a picture.

What I mean is any body can be royalty, or related to bill gates. It just takes a bit of research. My daughter in law started checking out her ancestry and you’ll never guess who she found links to? Wyatt Earp – don’t ask. She also found the amazing relationship she and our grandson has with ???????????????? Oden – the MYTHICAL norse god.

Isn’t that incredible or did she just make a slip somewhere in the DIM and distant past, or she could be plain stu….

Now now Alan, kind thoughts, my only thoughts were of her looking like something from the ring cycle a valkerie perhaps, she got the figure for it on the shy side of being three foot six and twenty stone. How’s your imagination ? stretched I reckon. There’s so much rubbish on the net I don’t know where to start. hold up I can hear bodies doing things, and the sun is up, and I could do with a cup of tea.

I know I’ll start tomorrow