Well I've launched or dumped 2020 Words on Amazon books
I did not sleep last night thanks to Tinnitus
So I'm so exhausted now that I will finally sleep
If you have not ever watched a Kdrama
then do start, I'm watching 2 at the moment
How long does it take to film 16 or 20 episodes?
Maybe 3 months, I'll Google later
and hello to Korea, thanks for reading me
michaelgcasey@hotmail.com if you want to talk
Though I do get so much rubbish from all over the world
But Kdramas are the spice of my life
I normally listen with volume so very high, in Korean
and read English subtitles
I'm watching a Ghost busters style thing
plus the Wok of Love if I got the title right
the actor who was the baddie in The Good Manager is in it
I'm really enjoying it. I did work in a hotel for 3 years
Now what else
2021 should bring happiness back to the world
2020 was bad year in our family even without Covid 19
One of my sisters died, and that's unlocked too many memories
I hope 2021 will be a Renaissance for me and all the world
I'll try and do more Comedy, Trump's blatant corruption and GOP
not standing up to him is so disheartening, the world over
More safeguards must be put in place so no new dictator can attempt
to take over the USA. This is how the world feels in my opinion
I may write a new piece later, here's something to keep you going
from 3 years ago
A New Day
or Get Up and Start Again ©
By
Michael
Casey
I’m
yawning I’m had my breakfast and the pain is subsiding, yes it’s boring for you
to hear this you just want to hear the next story, but pain does slow the
Writer, me, down. So today I’ll talk to you about Sleep, I just decided 2
seconds ago after the yawn that I’ll be sleep talking, or rather talking about
sleep. Yes my ideas are as clever as that, so let’s see where the story will
take us. If I were clever I’d sweat over the words the meaning and the commas.
As this is Radio I never worry, and frankly its what the words are and how they
flow off the page, or from my mouth that matters. Note to writers who cannot
write, I won’t read anything that is badly written, no matter how good the
ideas. I got that tip from Mary a radio producer at the BBC maybe 30 years ago.
And the rest is History.
I’ve
probably sent you to sleep by now, but sleep really is so important, I speak as
somebody who wakes every 2 hours, and on some occasions when I wake I say “that
was deep sleep” or if I have to get up because of the pain after an hour or two
up I go back to bed when I’m so tired I’ll sleep through the pain. Sorry I’m
boring you again, by the way Boris in Poland YOU never have that problem
because you work so hard you sleep like a baby. Besides which your wife helps
you sleep.
When we
are kids we don’t want to go op bed we want to stop up and watch Grimm on Tv,
so dad has to carry us up to bed and tuck us in. This is all fine and good, but
carrying kids up the stairs to bed when dad is tired is dangerous. Once in the
children’s bedroom I tripped over the bedsheets while still carrying a child,
and fell heavily on the bed. Breaking the bed. Yes really. If suddenly 115
kilos falls on a bed it will break. In The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker
Patrick and June break the bed and have to superglue it back together, but that
was while creating a baby, before June was carrying a baby inside her. And that
was 30 years ago when I wrote it, then Patrick was made organise a fete for the
children’s home as a penance set by his priest, go read the book.
So sleep
is so important, especially for kids, nowadays just switch off the Wifi and
they will soon go to bed and sleep. In the old days we would listen to the
radio and fall asleep with it on bedsides us. I got hooked on radio when I was
maybe 8, and I remember missing the end of The Ghost and Mrs Muir on the Book
at Bedtime, my brother had to tell me what happened, we had the radio in bed
with us.
Gentle
music does aid sleep, as does gentle lighting, nobody had screens and phones and
so on when I was growing up 50 years ago, yes I’m that old, but still so
handsome, swoon all you ladies out there, ok just remember to rinse your false
teeth and put them under your pillow. You do have to prepare for sleep, wash
your feet at least, and any other important bits. We used to wash in the
kitchen sink, an old Belfast sink as they call them, then a bath at the
weekend. Yes the good old days, but we did get an inside toilet when I was 10.
Before we got rid of the lodgers from the family house my dad used to carry
down a piss pot belonging to an old lady struck off doctor, yes such sweet
memories.
Yes,
darkness is needed to sleep, so thick curtains might be needed like they have
in hotels. But you may hate total darkness so you leave a chink in the
curtains, or you sleep with the landing light on. All of which is great until
your cat becomes a teenager, 2 in our years. So I am on my 2 hour catnap, and
then Totoro wakes me up, not the children or anybody else, just me. She claws
at the window, its not a burglar, just a cat wanting a tin roof because she’s
so hot. I wake suddenly so I have to let her out the window, telling her not to
come back pregnant. In actual fact we think she’s adopted a little Polish boy a
few doors away, or it could be the Indian corner shop owner, we’ll never know
as cats don’t tell, they are as quiet as
the Sicilian Mafia, or the grave.
Meanwhile
I go back to sleep, back to my one sided position, my scars don’t allow me to
rotate like a kebab on a spit any more. Sleeping in the nude means my scars on
my legs rub together, and lately my nipple on the left chest is mega sensitive.
If you blow on my nipple I’ll scream and jump 2 feet into the air. Apart from
that I have perfect blood pressure. Then I drift off dreaming my dreams. We all
have our dreams but I’ll keep mine to myself. Some things I don’t share.
Most
people toss and turn in their sleep, its almost like watching sailors using
flags for messages, all the various positions. Beds and sleeping are so much
nicer nowadays. Though I have broken 2 other beds. My main bed, a pine bed lasted
over 20 years. I replaced it with a metal one, only it buckled under my 17.5
stones, or 112kilos of tossing and turning, that was when I could toss and turn
and rotate like that kebab on a spit. So we left it outside, the legs like a
collapsed giraffe. A passing Pole in a van took it away, then once he was at
the corner he took it out and banged it back into position. I’m sure he must
have though that fat bastard is just too fat, this’ll do for me and my Maria.
So God Bless him, and Maria and all their babies.
The other
broken bed was actually a wooden one, it had a tiny crack in it when I put it
together, then 3 years later the crack kept on growing. BANG. In the middle of
the night it broke on one side and I was in a mattress sandwich. So then I
bought an industrial strength bed. I could barely lift it and fix it together.
This was over 3 years ago, before the heart business. Its a really nice looking
bed, but if ever we do finally move house, it will stay in the house as I could
never shift it. Some days I can barely carry the shopping home, remember my
breast bone was cut open to fix my heart, and the arthritis comes and does so I
limp or don’t limp.
Anyway
lets get back to bed, now there’s a offer, no Boris not you, I only really like
Oriental girls, my wife is a Shanghai girl remember. So in the old days Duvets
were not even invented. You just had 6 blankets on top of your bed in winter,
that’s why you have such strong arm muscles, pulling the blankets over you. You
really need a pulley to pull them. We did have an eiderdown 50 years ago, just
the one on my brother’s bed. But duvets were not even invented. Just a
note, when you went on holiday you had to bring your own sheets and pillowcases,
so as a family we had 6 cases for the Casey’s bed linen.
I
remember now I had a fold up metal bed, that I used to strum on the big springs
at the side, thinking I was musical only for one of my brothers to shout shut
up we want to sleep. I spent a lot of time in bed when I was unemployed, then
one day I just decided to change and then my Protestant work ethic kicked in,
I’m catholic by the way Boris, hence my 1,200,000Words sending you all to sleep.
The other
thing about my own sleep experience is shift working, I did 14 years of night
shifts. So I used to go to bed at 9am and sleep till 5pm, this really does ruin
your body. But I did get to see naked Dawn every morning, the Sky Boris not the
girl in the flat opposite who never closes her curtains. As children Christine
at the bottom of the garden always used to undress as far as her bra and
knickers before only then retreating out of view, this was our sex education.
She would be 80 now. But Dawn, in the sky was fantastic and we all used to stop
work at 5am or so to watch her over the Blues’ ground.
You are
always tired when you work shifts, the 1st day off is recovery day,
then you enjoy your other days, but suddenly you are back on nights again, 50%
of my working time was nights. My mother once woke me with the news that John
Paul II had been shot, I remember crying before I’d even got out of bed.
I could
tell you more about sleep or is it beds or sex education? But I have to eat now
and eating always important, you cannot sleep or work or even enjoy sex on an
empty belly. Though I’m sure Boris in Poland and his cousin in Ukraine have
stories of their own, maybe they’ll start their own blog instead of reading
mine, or are they just stealing them and calling themselves Boris Casey the
Pole in Birmingham? I don’t know, so long as I can see a few readers on the
score board, sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite. One final thing
Boris, I used to work another shift pattern when I got home at 3am. We
discovered it was the perfect time to conceive, so you can either get a job as
a bouncer and come home and play doctors and nurses at 3am. Or set your alarm
clock. Sleep tight Boris and wife, but in 9 months time you will only have
sleepless nights…
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