With the help of God and Two Policemen

With the help of God and Two Policemen was what my mother used to say. So today we may have just finally found a house. In fact two popped up. I went for a walk to test out the area and its ok, not perfect but ok. Its big enough for us and hopefully they'll take our offer.

If we don't get one we may get the other, but things are never straight forward in house buying. My wife fell in love with another house last weekend which is in a better area but I said it was not worth the asking price, and she decided to offer what I thought it  was worth. Which was rejected.

Another house which is in the best area for us but the owner is totally unrealistic about the price, when we viewed it I told the agent the cost of all the work needed on it. The owner was asking what was the correct price BUT only if all the work had been done on it, but owners believe agents, and then waste 6 months before selling it at a reasonable price.

We had another house like that where the owner rejected our offer but now 6 months later his asking price is near what we offered 6 months ago. Only the family no longer likes it.

Other houses we bid on but where we live is very hot property market so the nice houses go in a week. So even if you have the money you may still not get it. Because you need the help of God and Two Policemen as my mother used to say.

I would love to live in the house with a sauna in B17 which you can find on rightmove.co.uk or in the brand new houses down the road in the same street which you can find on rightmove, should take you 20 seconds to find it if you are good on the keyboard. But that would take a lottery win, or for you all to buy my books on Amazon.

But my mother also said God is Good, so who knows maybe a wealthy arab decides to invest in my teaching English via comedy idea and then I could afford to buy a new 5 bed house with garage. I'd also buy a puppy dog. My daughter wants a labrador, but as I always tend to wear shades people might think I'm blind.Me, I think perhaps a Portuguese water dog might be nice.

 But to be honest just living to see my girls grow up and become a Dr and maybe an actress or writer that would be enough. Because the only wealth worth having is Health, and my dad said that.

A woman's Beauty

A Woman’s Beauty ©

By Michael Casey

A woman's beauty has many seasons too, the first smile that floors any man, the kind word that heals any hurt, the tears that break any heart.  The touch that offers sympathy,  the consoling hug. The softness that brings hope to all of us. Softness is strength. All kinds of graces that are like pearls throw before swine, swine being men in the main.

A woman loves from her  heart, a man tends to love from his loins until he is educated  by the love of a good woman. Women don’t battle and try to win all the time, tender words are given to children, and men are just children who pretend they are all grown up. Words and curses are used and it’s the women who are the peacemakers, when all the wars are over its women who are left to bring the family together.

Family is woman, the home the hearth is woman, men are out working and the mother glues the family together while the men are at work. Times changed but still its mum and the kids, they are the family, dad is out working up to 16hours a day, at least my dad was. When dad is off work for the weekend then the family is full and complete, laughter rings out and when the ice cream van is heard in the street dad sends us out to get some ice creams. TV shows are watched together, kids snuggle up to dad to rest their head on his fat belly, dad’s Winnie  The Pooh like belly.

As kids it’s the mother who teaches the children their first prayers, it’s the mother who spread the Faith, but why is it that only men are the priests? A mother encourages and soothes, a dad gives the pocket money out  at the weekend so you can go to the Grove Cinema. On a Sunday there is cake and tea, dad goes to the pub and comes home with cheese and onion crisps in his pockets. Warm memories, memories that make up Family, then one Saturday night in May , mum is gone. Mum is dead, the priest comes to the house in the early hours returning with brother and sister, dad cries it finally hits him, his wife of nearly 50years is gone. 

Dad said mom had all the Graces, “She was as strong as a horse” which is high praise coming from a blacksmith.

女性の美容©

マイケル・ケイシー

女性の美しさには多くの季節があります。最初の笑顔はどんな男性でも、傷つけられるヒント、心を壊す涙です。同情、抱き合う抱擁を提供するタッチ。私たち全員に希望をもたらす柔らかさ。柔らかさは強さです。真珠に似たあらゆる種類の恵みが豚の前に投げかけ、豚は主人の男性である。

女性は彼女の心を愛し、男は良い女性の愛によって教育されるまで、彼の腰から愛する傾向があります。女性はいつも戦いをして勝つつもりはなく、子供たちには柔らかい言葉が与えられ、男性は彼らがすべて育ったと思っているただの子供です。言葉と呪いが使用されています。すべての戦争が家族を一緒に連れて来る女性たちの上にいるとき、それは平和の仲間である女性です。

家族は女性、家は家の女性、男性は仕事を外しているし、男性は仕事中に家族を一緒にグルーミングしています。時間は変わりましたが、まだ母親と子供たち、彼らは家族、父親は一日16時間まで仕事をしています。少なくとも私のお父さんはいました。お父さんが週末のために仕事をしていないとき、家族は一杯になり、笑い声が鳴り出し、ストリートでアイスクリームのバンが聞こえたら、パパは私たちにいくつかのアイスクリームを贈ろうとします。テレビ番組は一緒に見られる、子供たちは彼の太った腹の上に頭を置くためにパパに抱きついている、お父さんの甘い腹のようなプーさん。

子供たちは子供たちに最初の祈りを教える母親ですが、それは信仰を広める母親ですが、なぜ男性だけが司祭なのですか？母親が励ましてくれると、お父さんは週末にお金を出してグローブシネマに行くことができます。日曜日にはケーキとお茶があり、パパに行くとパパにチーズとタマネギチップが入って家に帰ってきます。暖かい思い出、家族を構成する思い出、そして5月の土曜日の夜、お母さんはいなくなりました。ママは死んでいる、兄弟姉妹と戻って早期に家に司祭が来る、それは最終的に彼をヒットする父の叫び、ほぼ50年の彼の妻がなくなっている。お父さんによると、母親は「馬ほど強く、鍛冶屋からの高い評価を受けています。

just a quick word

well I did not write anything new today,  I was tying to secure all our family photo collection.
17 or so years worth.
I did lots of computer backups in my computer room days.
Google lets you upload unlimited amounts of photos so I've been using that.

the pain monster came out to play too.

but otherwise not a bad day.

If you are Polish I do hope you enjoy all the stuff further down the site.

I've left open the 298 stories on my other site, in English


https://michaelcaseyfrombirminghamengland.blogspot.co.uk

so there is plenty for you all to read

AND YES IT REMAINS MY COPYRIGHT SO IF YOU ARE MEDIA GET IN TOUCH AND PAY ME TO USE IT. I HAVE  RECORDED 200 PLUS STORIES ABOUT 11 HOURS WORTH PERFECT FOR RADIO... IN MY POSH BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND ACCENT.

Jokers are sending me emails for trials of arthritis drugs etc
I still have chest pains post quadruple heart bypass
but if you google so do lots of people
but I only take paracetamol because I don't want to destroy my brain nor my imagination
and I only take it when it really hurts. I also take pain killer gel Movelat

iF PAIN IS PRAYER then I am very holy, all prayers from all Faiths and none are appreciated.

One last piece before my bedtime

I was about to go to bed, I've been to the dentist today to have a root removed so I'm a bit off today, I stumbled over this piece so I'm sharing it. Don't forget all the Polish pieces further down the site. 

Starting Over 2017

By Michael Casey

This will be my 11^th book Hope you like it

Someplace Else ©

By Michael Casey

Hello again, well I’ve had to decamp from the family PC to a laptop, as the mouse drivers on the family PC have ran away, our cat Totoro has no doubt scared them off. I plan to accost one of our neighbours to help me fix this problem, thank God I’m not your neighbour. I will of course pay £20 or 20 pints of Stella Artois as a reward.

I’m one click away from fixing this, only I cannot find the correct combination for a final fix. So close and  yet so far away, the  lock to the chastity  belt could not be opened. I throw in these occasional ripe metaphors to check if you are listening and have I made you prick up your ears, it’s all in the mind,  as Jill used to say, I lead you up the garden path. God bless Jill, she has her own cross to carry, she was a great lady from my computer days at Stats.

So as I sit here writing my first ever laptop piece, my 730 something  all together piece I’m thinking what would it be like to use a laptop all the time. In my imagination I’m at an airport writing between flights. If only we could go to Malta again, and be a writer on the go, which in my case normally means going to the toilet. Malta is great and you can even get Deep Heat there, which was a godsend back in 2013.

Someplace else also means a state of mind, your location does influence  what you write, as does the keyboard you use  I’m finding that out right now. I can see the gas fire in front of me, there 28 years ago I sat writing my first novel, The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker, so by looking forward I am in fact looking back into my own History.

I met a new “friend” this week a Simon Pegg look alike security guard and his buddy a tattooed guy, it was as if he leant on a hedge and the image was transferred to his arms, very floral, he should be dancing with Terry Wogan. They were very nice guys they got me a taxi. I mention them because you don’t know when or where you’ll meet a kindred spirit.  I have done a few years of security as well as everything else when I was at CPNEC Birmingham so there is a camaraderie between security people, as well as many bunions,  but not John Bunion, he never has bad feet.

This room is too quiet, then the clock strikes 11.15, God always has the last word, well he started it with  the 1st Word, though Bill Gates may dispute that. See somebody else provided the material for the last sentence, am I just a puppet, they would have to be very strong to pull a 100kilo man’s strings, and  yes I’ve lied about my weight, I’m more than  that. After 15 months I’ve loosened my monastic diet so I’ve put back 5 of the 10 kilos I lost post op and diet change. Though I do look 20 kilo lighter than I am thanks to it being tight fat and not wobbly fat.

It feels like a desert island now, the clock strikes 11.30 God always interrupts when I’m trying to write, though He would say when I’m trying his patience. I was 2 hours away from Death, so I won’t complain if He plays with Time, who am I to argue if I paraphrase Francis, and did I tell you I guessed Francis would be the name of the Pope, if only I had a bet on it.

All in all Someplace Else Has not been too bad, though I need to sort out my sitting position, then I have to backup and secure my words, before posting them online, I started as a computer operator back in 1978 so in a way I’ve gone full circle. I just  hope I can make a few quid for my girls  before the Clock strikes End. 

Celebrating Polish Readers Today so I've loaded up a load of Polish Translations via Google Translate

Celebrating Polish Readers Today

   so I've loaded up a load of Polish Translations

via Google Translate

IF you look down the site I've put  your favorite stories online in the following posts.

I hope you all enjoy them

THEN MAYBE YOU'LL MENTION MY WRITING TO YOUR MEDIA AND MAYBE JUST MAYBE i MAY GET A FEW PENNIES FOR MY WRITING.

ALSO THANK YOU UKRAINE, YOU SEEM TO LIKE MY WRITING TOO, YOUR FIGURES ARE CATCHING UP POLAND'S

i'LL TIDY UP MY SITE IN A WEEK SO CATCH THE POLISH TRANSLATIONS WHILE  YOU CAN.




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