Friday, 31 July 2020

It Aint half hot, mum 2929


It Aint half hot, mum ©
By Michael Casey

The title refers to a top comedy show from long ago, based on an Army Entertainers group, nowadays it would not be Politically Correct, but I’m using the title because it is just too hot, and I want to test your attitudes and tolerances. Round the Horne was a top radio show from 1965 to 1968 on the BBC, and no it’s nothing to do with sex, it did have much innuendo and Camp comedy and so forth. It was ahead of its time and the Law too. You can find it online, and you will laugh like a drain, if you don’t then maybe you should not be reading me either. I am very eclectic and have broad tastes, as well and a fat belly to prove it, though I look 25 kilos less than I am. I weigh more  than Tyson Fury but he is 11 inches taller. So don’t ever make me angry or the hulk or is it the bulk in me will show you my fists of fury, I am no Saxon, but you have been warned.

It’s aways best to amuse your reader, so hello to my reader trapped in the toilet, I can hear him banging on the bathroom door, or is it my neighbour next door, Taylor Swift is not her cup of tea, she wouldn’t even give her 8/10. One reviewer did just that, and now she’s getting death threats, come on Taylor stop dusting my high shelves and tell folks to get a life, and let her alone. None of my readers would threaten others, you did not love Michael Casey the fat silver haired writer in shades from Birmingham England, so die. This is ridiculous, almost as bad as Taylor Swift’s dusting skills, I only keep her on because she needs the exercise, otherwise she’d be as  fat as me. Ok, Taylor stand where the Christmas tree will be and sing your songs, and I’ll give you a left over donut, they are a bit stale, but Totoro our cat won’t eat them.

Now Taylor is ever so happy, but in between songs she has to sew some buttons on my shirt, no not because my fat belly  is so fat but because my shirts are so old. Ok, the Guinness advert is over, so Taylor can continue.

I’ll leave Taylor alone now, Beyonce is coming around later to cook for me, so I don’t want them to meet. They both think they are my only home help, it’s better to keep them both sweet. Jay Zee knows of course, Snoop Dogg told him at Bible class, they are good friends of mine. If you Google Kenny Everett you will discover video galore, from 40 years ago some of it, I still feel 20 in my head, but when I reference somebody I realise the years are going by.

I’m borrowing the style, you can also Google The Two Ronnies, if you think I’m rubbish then watch them instead, but don’t tell the Germans, which leads to Faulty Towers a John Cleese classic. Also did you know  John Cleese went to Downing College Cambridge University, my brother went there too, no, not on a school trip, or to clean the drains, he did Economics there in the  70s. Another brother went to Queens Oxford. Yes, I am just the Silly Irriot in the family, though I have a Shanghai connection, not French, which leads you to Benny Hill, and yes I’m closer to him, just size of my waist that is. I do look like a corpulent version of Dave Allen, with all my digits, but with plenty of  scars.

There’s enough Comedy Education for you, now let me open the door for Beyonce. She does bring a marching brass band with her, so they fill me garden, as she dances around the kitchen making me cake. She is so good to me I don’t deserve it, I blame her for my waistline, but she donated an old pair of her pregnancy pants to me, they wer a perfect fit. So I have my cake and eat it, while wearing the pants, or maybe there’s a message in there, like I’m PANTS, which means RUBBISH in England. Though she’s too nice to even think of that. She did show me a few dance moves too, I tried them out, but fainted. Nobody in the band wanted to revive me, but old Mrs Taylor who was visiting for the cake, no relation to Taylor Swift, she pushed her Zimmer frame to one side and locked lips with me. Even at 88 she is such a great kisser, she had 8 children you know, 32 grandchildren, as well as a pussy called Fatcat.

It took 4 members of the brass band to pull old Mrs Taylor off me, she’s been a widow of 10 years now, so any chance to lock lips is too much temptation for her. But I’m still alive and my teeth are so clean too, thanks to her. When all the baking was done and my lawn was ever so flat now, thanks to all the marching, rather like one of those Quadrangles at an Ox/Bridge college. An American tourist once asked how to you get the grass like that? Love, and 300 years of rolling was the answer, but thanks to Beyonce’s marching brass band my humble lawn can look any Oxbridge quadrangle in the  face. Everybody tucked in and as they left Beyonce reminded me that her Visual Album was streaming on Disney today. Don’t Miss It, as if I would. I’ll even give you more marks out of ten than Taylor Swift got I shouted as Jay Zee rolled up in a 2CV, he’s so humble. Well to tell the truth only a 2CV  will squeeze past the parked cars in our street.

I had a cuppa then I’d be  ready for Ellen D, she’s my 3rd home help, she has a very strong stomach, she throws me over her shoulder like a continental soldier and carries me upstairs where she strips me naked and washes me in the bath. That’s why she needs the strong stomach. I do splash a lot too, so she wears a plastic mac, nothing else just a plastic mac, as she bathes me. I tell her  it will be good for her Humility. She practices her interview questions with me as I have a good soak. Ellen D naked apart from a plastic mac, sat on my toilet asking me hard questions, like what is my favourite colour, and do I take milk in my tea, while I’m naked in my bath. She isn’t put off by all my bypass scars either, or my very hairy left shoulder, she keeps on asking me those questions as  I splash away.  If only she were Korean, she could be my next wife, though me an Ellen do actually share  a bath. Or rather when I get out with her help, I shake myself all over her, like a buffalo shaking off the rain.  Then I get dressed, but as my water is still hot Ellen climbs in, handing me the plastic mac, so she can have a quick soak before she has to do yet another show.

Now before you go, I need to tell you none  of this really happened, apart from all of it that did actually happen. Fact and fiction combined, I do have very clean high shelves and a very flat lawn and I do blow my own trumpet. So I hope this too hot to write today story fits the bill for all  of you. I’m going to watch Hotel del Lune K drama, a hotel for ghosts. Yes I’ve fallen in love with  Lee Ji-eun …..







post 2928 on this Blogger site

post 2928 on this Blogger site

so you have loads to read

The Final Cut of the 19th Hole  which was my 19th book

is being read here

I've pruned my Amazon offerings

Though if you are a media guy there's 3 full books still there

one is an omnibus, so in fact 4 books

The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker

300 and Not OUT

Quick Stories  (omnibus + 40 extra stories)



click here and see for yourself

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

if you click on USA Amazon you get a different version of my bio

https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

Meanwhile over on Wordpress Poland and Bangladesh are

both reading translations of The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker

In Search of an Indian Princess is the final gripping 3 chapter finale

It's very hot today so I may not give you anything new to read today

but if you search my sites there is plenty to read

So Happy Eid to my Muslim readers

and if it was you in Saudi who did not buy that football club

why not invest 1% of the price of a football club in me instead

and then I'll do what I've promised to do

It will bring the entire world much happiness

and your name will be blessed, I can stay in the shadows always

because it is cooler in every sense of the world

so once more Happy Eid everybody


michaelgcasey – Just some of my 8000 pages by the fat silver ...

Thursday, 30 July 2020

Trump the Reverse Churchill



Trump the Reverse Churchill


WE all know our History
Churchill stood up to the Nazis
yes we all know about other stuff, but learn from All History
not just your favourite bits
Who invented Concentration Camps by the way
The British to beat the Boers in South Africa
But back to Trump and Churchill
Trump inherited a good economy
But he only takes Praise for Any Upside
And denies knowledge or says he is NOT responsible for any downside
Where does the BUCK stop?
Not me, I’m only a trumped up salesman
who ran away from multiple bankruptcies worth $3,000,000,000
Who hides everything via the Law
and now thinks he is a King, so he is the Law
But he is NOT, the cat is out of the bag
Everybody needs to take a day off on Election Day
and vote him OUT
Churchill saved Britain, but he was still voted OUT
So follow Britain’s lead, and vote out your would be King, who is the reverse of Churchill
Churchill went on to win Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953
Trump won’t get that ever
because he never reads let alone writes
It is time to put away foolish things and return to Nobility
Trump has trashed USA, that’s the World’s opinion
But they had to put up with the Bully with the loaded gun
Now he is naked, so vote him out
The Emperor’s clothes have all peeled away
All corruption must be washed away by a Tsunami of VOTES
In 2 years time in 2022 you can correct the new guy
But now the ship of state is sinking
Why have you allowed and put up with this FOOL for so long
Or is a Simpson episode the New Reality
*************
Political comment, I’ve watched Politics for 50 years now, but never never never
has such madness ever appeared. Trump should be made to resign 15th August
is feast of the Assumption……

Wednesday, 29 July 2020

Good morning Italy and Saudi

well I hope you are all well today

Italy probably heard from Don  Camillo that I was a good writer

so they are reading me, I have read all his stuff several times

Chapter 7 is called For Your Penance,

 in The Butcher The Baker  and The Undertaker

you'll even find it in Italian over on Wordpress

or even here on Blogger

so if you are priest reading me, forgive me

Forgiveness or Mercy is what we do not deserve

You can discuss that with your Saudi friends

I've updated my screen today, I was using a ten year old one

so I've spoilt myself with something newer

spoil myself before I die, because nobody else will

No, I'm still not planning on dying soon

I still pray for the Big Grace etc

But sometimes...

Anyway I've also cleared up my desk and have a new sitting position because

my screen is lower, so I've returned  to keyboard on lap look

we sit on our mother's lap and are breast fed

when we grow up, we still enjoy the breast

but it's our wives' or lovers and too much of that

leads to babies at the breast and the circle is repeated

and we are ousted from our favourite position

Life is all about positions

In queues for food

In order of seniority

In the order we reach the grave

In order of recognition

Before or after the grave

Society is different

Italy or Saudi

different but similar

Faith and Family and Love of Children

So whatever your position

just come back and read me some day

In the meantime just Pray

Any which way

it won't improve my writing

but it may make it more palatable

Stay happy wherever you are and come back soon

as Anastacia sings Don't Stop Doing it Baby behind me







Tuesday, 28 July 2020

A trip to the Dentist a piece from 5 years ago


A Trip to the Dentist (c)

By Michael Casey

My daughter decided that her teeth were not good enough so she had braces fitted, so now we have something to tease her about, for a few years. I told her that her uncle had a gap between his teeth, it meant you'd travel a lot, that's what grannie, my mum used to say. It's true too my brother was like a gypsie, travelling far and wide. As for my daughter, I think she's been to Shanghai 6 times now, so her gap between her teeth has proved she's an international traveller. So once the gap disappears thanks to the braces maybe I'll have to pay for less international air tickets, or grannie in Shanghai will start to visit us instead.

So as the trip to the dentist, or should I say orthodontist was on a school day I had to attend with her, which feels like a waste of my time, but they do have BBC news channel on tv in the waiting room. So I walked all the way to her school and waited in the sunshine outside. That used to be no big deal but post quadruple heart bypass with arthritis returning I have to pace myself. So I walked up the hill, then had a rest while I watched the traffic and enjoyed the pollution before heading downhill again towards the school.

Now it is a known fact that if you stay still in one position long enough you will see the whole world, a bit like how mariners navigate if you think about it. So I stood at the corner of the street waiting for my daughter to leave school, and who did I see over the road on his phone, only Mr Singh who used to own the corner shop where I used to live 30 years ago. It appears his hard work has paid off and he now lives in a £750,000 house. He is actually immortalised in The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker, but he'll have to buy a copy of the book to see if he can spot himself or his actions.

Pretty Indian girls jogged past in one direction then another, they may have even been Mr Singh's granddaughters. Then I could see a gardener walking towards me with his “napsac” on his back, and his tools strapped to his body. It was my neighbour Brian, so I said hello and explained what I was doing hanging around a street corner, looking like a well-dressed criminal casing  or should I say Caseying a house. Though I do look at www.rightmove.co.uk often, dreaming of the day I can have a bigger house in the posh area near my daughters' school.

My daughter emerged from her school, thankfully it’s in the top 1% of schools in the country, it’s a grammar school in all but name. In fact it’s so good the head has been asked to go over the field and assist the boy's school, so she's now the head of both schools. Me and my daughter had plenty of time, we could have even walked to the dentists, though I soon decided my body could not cope with that, so we sat and chatted at the bus stop. The bus sailed past as we talked, so we waited 10 minutes then the next one arrived.

My daughter told me that she discovered that her orthodontist went to her school, my daughter was also musing about being a dentist. I just told her only do it if she could hold her breath, a lifetime of having bad breath in your face, no wonder they wear masks. So while my daughter had the braces tightened I watched BBC news channel, though I did think Kwickfit might have been closer, it was similar work, spanners and so forth.

Time passed quickly, my daughter told me she'd been away 25 mins, I thought it was only 10, so I must have been enjoying myself, I just hope my daughter did too. Looking at my watch I suggested we dive into the pub on the  way back to school. They had a meal deal, two meals for  £10 I had spotted it on the outward journey. Though it turned out we'd only have time for a drink and a huge pack of crisps each. On the bus back to school/pub the driver was unique. He had curly hair and big dangly ear rings on, plus stick on nails and a bra. He was in drag. Or that may have been his normal attire.

Once in the pub I needed the toilet, I couldn't use the toilet in the church opposite the dentist as they locked them up. Toilets only available on Sundays. I was tempted to pee in the Holy Water fonts. Instead on the bus I just dared not sit down, in case the extra pressure caused me to erupt like a water font. So finding the pub toilet was like being in a haunted house going up and down and round and around, while trying to keep my legs crossed at the same time. I was relieved to say the least. Then my daughter had followed my lead, so I had to look for her too, a fool searching for a fool.

We waited to be served and the barmaid raised half an eyebrow, it was not quite like a Saint Trinians girl with Arthur Dayley, but my daughter is very tall. As time was now pressing we both had a drink and some crisps, before my daughter grabbed her school bag and dashed back to school. As for me I jumped on the next bus and went back home via Aldi, as I did need to buy some sprouts for the wife.



BRIGHT SPARK




 and see what a fine head of hair I have, should I donate to the T word

or use my hair for wigs and sell them on Amazon?






Take That


Take That

Hold up the Light they sing and I groove along, Take That are one of the bands I listen too, I listen to Will Young a lot too, and a bit of Taylor Swift, that trio are my main bedfellows as I fight Tinnitus through the night. So have a listen, there are loads of others but they are my regulars, I have loads more I like. I did used to meet lots of bands when I worked at the hotel as the area was just a spit away. So if any of you recognise me, I hope you are healthier than I have become. I’ve just switched to Tina Turner, and wasn’t that the name of the nice lady I used to work with at the hotel, hello to her too.
I’m just chilling after a massive pain attack, lots theses past 3 weeks. Movelat rules ok,I couldn’t have a holiday even if I wanted one, as a pain attack going through customs wouldn’t go down well. So stay home, put your money in the pockets of your fellow man, and help get the country back together again. I’d say this wherever you are in the world. Vacations will return, but the virus must be put back in its box. Remember Pandora’s box, HOPE came out last, and what is The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker all about, it’s all about Hope and Love and Charity wrapped up in NON PC LOADS OF LAUGHS, that’s why you are all reading it world wide. Snobs will never like it, I write for all the common people, like the Blur song?, and nobody is more common than me.
So be Simply the Best like Tina Turner, and turn this world back to what it can be and should be, without little Hitlers of every description, even some with dyed hair.
me in the pink of Health long ago
hello to Seychelles too, why are you wasting your time on me, I'd be paddling in the sea and drinking Stella Artois through a straw........

Monday, 27 July 2020

A Winter's Day from 2009



A Winter’s Day
By michaelgcasey  (that's me)
                     
As I look from my window I see the blue blue sky. Birds dive and soar better than any circus acrobat, they are painting a picture with their wings. Tiny tiny wisps of white cloud remain, like left over candy floss on a child's face, like white whiskers on a very old woman’s face.

Curtains are pulled open and windows are  inched open too, daylight and fresh air to bedrooms shuttered down against a cold winters night. People stand  and yarn and scratch too as they struggle to wake up fully. Then one or two realise they don’t wear any pyjamas so they hurry away from their windows, their wives, their husbands, their lovers laughing at their stupidity. At least old Mrs Jones may have had a thrill.

The sounds of morning, of daylight rise. Slowly the sound of the milk float, the sounds of milk bottles clinking together as the milkman does his rounds, this way and that. The sound of of Mrs Murphy walking her dog, the dog panting in the cold winters air. He doesn’t have a sheepskin coat to keep him warm. He has his own fur coat but this winter is a cold one, so Goldie the dog could do with an extra coat too.

People dance down their door steps to  their car, nagging children to hurry up as its cold. Children write their name in the frost on their neighbours’ cars before being told off. John the neigborhood jogger rushes past, the kids stick their tongue out at him, he does the same, they all laugh, only for John to miss his stride slip on an icy patch and fall to the ground hurting his elbow as he does so. Still laughing the kids get in the car and are taken off to see grandpa, John is rubbing his elbow and his bum as he gets up gingerly.

The lads, we are so hard, appear from their homes to noisily attack the day, Sunday is for shouting, but not too loud, as they have headaches and hangovers, did they really chat up that ugly fat girl, but they gave her his brother’s mobile number and not his own. They stride off to the news agent for The News Of The World, just for the sports pages, their mum's can read the scandal section and the horoscopes.

One or two black people wearing their Sunday best pass by on their way to church, a throwback to decades before when people still went to church and when people still wore their Sunday best. People used to dress up to go to the theatre too, but now, but now.

I reach for the kettle and have my first coffee of the day, coffee with milk and no sugar, the way English people have coffee, not the American way, just the soft English way. My kids want toast and peanut butter, or cheese on toast, so my 3 slices of toast become one slice of toast as I feed my girls. I nag them to put slippers and socks on, yes we have nice carpet but in the winter’s weather they are always getting colds, so I nag them, I nag them. My wife nags them in Chinese too, or Shanghai dialect. The phone rings, its Germany calling, or rather my wife’s best friend who’s calling from  Germany, the cackle or hens, of chickens clucking is the noise these 2 Shanghai girls make, as they talk in Shanghai, when are we coming back to Germany is the message. Cluck cluck cluck.

The sky has changed the blue has changed to grey, will the snow return, its been a snowy winter over here in Birmingham, some parts of the country have had the worse weather in 20years. The children have quietened down, my wife has relented and put a nature program on the tv for them. As for me I was going to try and write a poem but instead you see what’s before you. I’m half listening to Mike and The Mechanics a cd I’ve loaded to the computer, “give me the simple life” he sings, I suppose my life is a simple life too. But if we can see  the poetry in life then we enjoy the simple things which make up all are lives. All our lives are  poetry if only we take the time to watch and listen, while we’re making toast for the kids

p.s. This piece was from last Winter.

 the slim look post quadruple heart bypass in 2015

A Tsunami of my words

I'm reposting this from my wordpress site

So you can all suffer equally

who knows will I ever get paid/discovered/adored

so here's a Tsunami of my Words

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It is nice to see every day where you all are as you read my stories
It is over 80 places worldwide
I’ve covered all the major language groups and you can all buy my Original English
I only read emails in ENGLISH with a decent subject line and I never click links
Junk emails just get deleted unread
Now curl up in bed and read my stories
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yes this is me on  14th Oct 2019, I think

5054. Maldives

 Maldives why waste time reading me on Wordpress I'd not bother looking at myself if I were there BUT thanks for the passing by the fume...