4. Zliczanie pieniędzy © Michael Casey I'll write something new tomorow

4. Zliczanie pieniędzy ©

Michael Casey

Król znajdował się w jego domu liczącym

pieniądze, gdy przybył Blackbird ...

Wszyscy pamiętamy to od dni szkolnych, dni coraz

dalej od nas cały czas.

Wszyscy wiemy, jak zaoszczędzić grosze, zaoszczędzić grosze i

funty dbają o siebie.

Koniec końców, co to znaczy, dotykając palców

może?

Odgarbić i ratować, rzeczy są ciasne, czy to znaczy, że jesteś

gruby? Lub brak pieniędzy.

Wszyscy się uczymy o pieniądzach, gdy jesteśmy mali. Pamiętamy

odgłos luźnej zmiany kieszonki taty.

Dostaliśmy ucztę, ponieważ tata zarabiał pieniądze

na zewnątrz, słyszeliśmy dźwięk, który był szczęśliwy.

Jestem na tyle stary, aby pamiętać prawdziwe pieniądze, centy sztywne

i pieniędzmi.

To było 12 groszy na shilling i 20 szylingów do a

funt i konie były sprzedawane w guinnie, jeśli to sprecyzowałem

dobrze.

Nasze pieniądze mylili moich amerykańskich kuzynów, ale to było zabawne

wyjaśniając im. Półpenny, grosz, trreepenny

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bit, półpiętro, szyling, florina, połowa korony,

korony, które zobaczyłem, pomarańczową notatkę 10 szylingów, a następnie a

funt notatki, a potem inne notatki, których nigdy nie widziałem

bo byłem za mały.

Wytłumacz wszystko to cudzoziemcowi i byli całkowicie

zagubiony, chodzący na księżyc był łatwiejszy do zrozumienia.

Jestem na tyle stary, aby pamiętać radość lądowania Apolla,

byliśmy światem, wszystko było tak ekscytujące, Apollo i

Ali nie wspominając o Beatlesach i prawdziwych pieniądzach.

Penny był zrobiony z miedzi i tak był pół grosza,

threepenny bit był sześciokątny z portcullis projekt na

to, z wiekiem stało się zielone. Sześciopadencja była bardzo szczupła

szczuplejsze, że dzisiejsze 5 nowych pensów. Szyling był

grubsze i może większe niż dzisiejsze 10pence. To było

prawdziwe pieniądze i słodycze, które kupił, były o wiele lepsze

niż dzisiejsze słodycze, albo tak się wydaje.

Wiedzieliśmy o pieniądzach, ponieważ mieliśmy najemników i przyszli

do tylnych drzwi, aby płacić czynsz, czasami ledwie

wstać, palić dym i piwo nad nami dzieciakami. Są

dobrze, pani Casey? Kiedy leżą na nadprobie

poparcie, znowu sięgając po knajpkę.

Gaz i mierniki elektryczne musiały zostać opróżnione, a

liczy się pieniądze. Mieliśmy miedziany metalowy dzbanek, który

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miał klucze do zamków na metrach wewnątrz niego, kiedy

tata wtedy wiedział, że wkrótce liczy. Opróżnił

pieniądze na stole w kuchni i zaczęły liczyć,

stosy monet, szylingów i florinów.

Tato był jak krupier w kasynie liczy i układa

monety. Potem, kiedy skończył, wpakował monety

małe plastikowe torby, a potem w małej skórze

czarny plecak. To był jego torba na lunch do pracy w

odlewni, ale gdy przyszedł gaz lub rachunek elektryczny

torba na pieniądze. Zostałem oskarżony o to, że poszedłem

w narożnym sklepie, przedstawiłam pieniądze panu posłowi Singhowi

kto by nawet nie ważył, po prostu rzucił to w swoje bezpieczne i

zdejmij pieniądze z bardzo dużego węża z tyłu

kieszeń. Uśmiechnęliśmy się, że pożegnaliśmy się zarówno zadowoleni z

wymieniać się. Kto potrzebuje banku, gdy masz sklep narożny?

Są jeszcze opowieści, ale oszczędzam

kolejny dzień.

TTFN

Michaeł

Cobwebs of Love

Cobwebs of Love (c)

By Michael Casey

Kids need good parents, friends we choose for ourselves, your families you get anyway.

I'm lucky I had great parents. Faith does help, but kids get bigger and decide for themselves if their parents were talking rubbish or were worth listening to.

Kids travel and find their own way home to their faith and their families. Elastic is very important in relationships and faith. If you try to keep things set in stone then you will be in for a fall. Nothing is set in stone, friendships change and alter and our own understandings change and alter.

Have a bit of elastic in your life is my best advice. You are not in an army and getting up at 5am and doing all the marching and so forth. Yes have discipline and rules, but be aware IF you force somebody to do something when they have the chance to rebel then they will. You

cannot chain anybody to you or your faith, brainwashing is a bad idea, listen to the Genesis song Jesus we know him.......

So you bind your family and friends and faith to you by cobwebs of love and nothing stronger than cobwebs of love. Love should be like that its a cobweb of love, also be happy to have a Prodigal Son in your life, happy because you will always welcome them back. If you're lucky you'll never have any Prodigal sons

in your life but I already tell my kids I'll always love them and they can always come home, leave your doors open with cobwebs of love waiting there

***********

Its 3am the pain has awoke me again, that's why you have this old piece from 2011  you can buy 1200 or 1300 stories or whatever at 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

3. Znam twoją twarz Znam swoją twarz © Michael Casey from Blogs2011 so buy a copy

3. Znam twoją twarz

Znam swoją twarz ©

Michael Casey

Ktoś powiedział, że zna dziś moją twarz, patrzy na a

zdjęcie mnie na mojej stronie www.michaelgcasey.multiply.com Ale

100 000 ludzi znają moją twarz, pracowałem w 4-gwiazdkowym hotelu

przez kilka lat, tak że wielu gości musiało mnie widzieć. ja

mieć braci i kuzynów, więc przypuszczam, że moja twarz może

wygląda podobnie. Moje włosy są charakterystyczne, białe,

srebrny, jeśli jesteś hojny dla mnie, srebrny 20 lat

zanim będzie to konieczne. Jestem "dziadkiem" w szkole.

W piosenkach twarz zmienia rzeczy ", kiedy zobaczyłem jej twarz"

Monkees zaśpiewał, byłem mały, gdy ich pokaz był w telewizji.

"Zrób to z twojej twarzy" śpiewa kolejna piosenka. Dla

Chińczycy nie o utratę twarzy, ratując twarz

ważny. Określenie twarzy na to, co mówimy, kiedy

spotykamy się po prostu telefon lub e-mail kontakt. Twarze są

ważne, widzimy się wzajemnie, możemy się wzajemnie widzieć

reakcje, spojrzenie miłości czy szyderstwo pogardy.

Strach na twarzy, zmęczony i zmęczony, smutne oczy,

bolesne oczy to wszystko na twarzy. Ale co z a

twarz matki, miłość jest napisana nad nim, życzliwość i

współczucia i śmiechu. Moja żona zabrała moją matkę

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zdjęcie do Szanghaju, aby wprowadzić ją do mojej chińskiej rodziny,

moja matka zmarła kilka lat wcześniej, ale zdjęcie

pokazał im głęboki miłości, oceany miłości, wszystko

z tego uśmiechu na twarzy. Twarz jest drzwiami

dusza, droga do serca, znak wskazujący na to, jak

dużo ducha miłości jest wewnątrz osoby. Twarz jest droga

mapa miłości, więc zawsze bądź otwarta, ciężka, niezręczna, ciężka

wygląd jest samobójczy, jestem silny, zostaw twarz

pociągając sam, pozostaw to dla ciężkich bokserów. Ja ja

Mam nadzieję, że mam gotowy uśmiech, ciepły wygląd, tak jak był

dana mi przez moich rodziców i przez moje dziedzictwo. Jego twarz

przypomina mi Święty Mikołaj, teraz to jest twarz warta zachowania.

Uśmiechaj się wszyscy.

I hope my Polish readers enjoy this.

Love and Chocolate something from June 2003 made me cry

Love and Chocolate (c)

 by Michael Casey

Michaelgcasey@hotmail.com   13/june/2003

The child in me , was always there , but the child in me is the child of mine fast asleep in the rocking chair . Her mum fast asleep beside her , another child swims around inside my wife’s belly waiting for his call to centre stage when he is ready to appear . So though I want to stay a child its time for me to grow up , but I decided I won’t . I’ll stay a child too , I’ll be a big kid , a 40 something big kid . Why waste my life being all grown up , I want to enjoy childhood forever and that is what I’ll teach my kids . Be a child forever , refuse to grow up , be a kid forever . Its more fun that way , why give up chocolate and pop ,just for grown up beer or wine and just an occasional treat . I know what tastes better , its pop and Cadbury’s , so I refuse to grow up . If I encourage my children to do the same then they’ll always have that quality that’ll make them different , more interesting than the bland “grown up “ qualities of adults , the pretend attitudes , the hidden lusts . Just be open and natural , that’s what I believe in and I hope my children will follow this example . Sure I want them to be clever and go to  great universities and even win a Nobel Prize , but the greatest prize is a family love , a simple , perhaps even naïve love , which is based on the love of pop and chocolate .

My pollution has reached Australia today

so today Australia is reading my Rubbish as well as Russia and USA

so hello to you all

you should be paying the worker

so

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

to buy a ebook for 3usd each

but prayers for my health are more useful.

and yes Poland is always there, so thanks to you too.

don't forget my other site, lots and lots of Translations there, and it does auto translate for you too.

https://michaelgcaseyfrombirminghamengland.wordpress.com

I just wish my Arthritis would auto remove itself and the tooth fairy left the keys to a new home under my pillow....

What am I allowed to say?

What am I allowed to say?

By

Michael Casey

I’m a bit tired but I want to write something new before the day is over, to have a chat, I could not think what to talk about for a while, I am a Postcard from Birmingham not Letter from America after all. Then as I was skimming the newspapers, I only read the interesting stuff, why waste my energy, some stuff isn’t worth my spit after all if I can misuse a Chinese expression. So I’ve decided to talk about What am I allowed to Say.

Kids or students are all so Politically Correct now, you cannot say this or say that because you are “attacking” somebody’s dignity. We even have a case in tonight’s news where somebody overheard a private conversation between 2 friends and reports it, so that one of them is sacked. The “victim” is not even asked about the “crime”, you can find it for yourselves in the newspapers.

In the living room my girls are watching Pitch Perfect again and I am listening to the music with half an ear. Do the cast stop acting and tap the tv screen and say I am insulting them by not giving the film my full attention? Do the politicians throw rotten vegetables through the tv screen at the general public for jeering them from the comfort of their sofas in front of those very tv screens? Life is a two way street after all.

When asked how I am I tend to say, “I’m still fat” am I not allowed to say that because I am impinging my own dignity. Americans or so it seems from this side of the Atlantic have an over valued sense of their own “dignity” and will sue for millions for “hurt dignity”. Though that is more likely because lawyers have too much influence in society. Or will I be classed as Un-American for saying that? McCarthyism at its worst?

Or am I not allowed to comment because I’m here in Birmingham, the real one, the one in England? Have I now offended everybody in the deep South because a lawyer would infer a slur on the dignity of the land of cotton, or is that another slur? The Brummie or Birmingham England accent is mocked by the rest of England, but we don’t sulk. If you want to hear my posh Brummie accent you can go to www.michaelgcasey.typepad.com and other places. I speak the way I do because I have listened to 20 years of BBC Radio 4, which is our PSB if I translate, or am I classed as being condescending for explaining? I spent 20 years from 8 to 28 listening to Radio4 constantly, and since then 30 years writing. I also have a Shanghai wife and if I did not speak clearly she would have never understood a word, and I would not have 2 daughters now. Both sound very clear posh English, like in American films where Americans fake the accent. And by voice only I cannot tell them apart on the phone, and I made them.

We all have jokes among friends and certain things we say and do amongst friends we don’t do outside the group. We are not destroying each others’ dignity, we are in the company of friends. I’m sure Navy Seals have nicknames for each other. I have a story ready in my head which features Navy Seals, the 69ers because they don’t give a golly gosh about the enemy, and golly gosh is what the enemy says when they are left in the rubble. Now I’ve used the term golly gosh as I don’t want the Navy Seals, the 69ers to blush, they are in acapella choir dressed as priests in my story, just before they take out some North Koreans who are about to kill a pregnant escapee. Or am I not allowed to upset North Koreans just in case they track me down to an airport. Or would I be accused of being airportist?

Give me Strength.

People are People and should be left alone to talk and laugh and joke with each other. You should be able to ask silly questions of each other without lawyers appearing on your shoulder like the Devil in a very old Tom and Jerry cartoon. Some things go without saying, so I’m not going to waste my spit on the obvious safeguards and tolerances. Yes we should and must look after the genuinely weak in society.

45 years ago and more a Down’s Syndrome boy was watching Aston Villa play football in Birmingham, he was being bullied by somebody. The lone bully was part of what was then called the Quinton Mob, obviously the boy was very upset, but the wrath of God soon saved him. Suddenly a teenager dropped the nut, or headbutted if you are American, on the bully. The Quinton Mob could have attacked the teenage, but the leader of the pack agreed with the teenager that his gang member had been out of order. So the Down’s Syndrome boy was left in peace to watch Aston Villa. Rough Justice or what? I’ll let the lawyers amongst you decide.

The Inanity of Conversation and Its Therapeutic Effects

The Inanity Of Conversation and Its Therapeutic Effects ©

By

Michael Casey

Ok, its the longest and stupidest title I have ever used. I just got off the phone with my sister and I had a thought, and that led to the title, and for what you are about to receive…

Now learned people, or clever dicks will ask about the nature of conversation and so on. I’m not as clever as them but what I write is understood by 100% of the population not 30% so I think I’ll carry on writing or rather talking to you all the way I do. Recently I heard somebody say you should write so your grannie and your children understand you, and if you don’t rip it up and start again. I did do 3 years as a concierge and everything else at CPNEC Birmingham, so I may have spoken to 100,000 people over that time. As well as having a writer’s eye, so I hope, ok I’ll say know, no need for false modesty, that I can get on anybody’s wavelength. And yes on their nerves, or on their tits, should I choose to use common parlance.

So what’s so special about having a gossip, having a chat, talking to the cat, or just plain old sex. Well it relieves pressure, I’m back to conversation now, I’ve got your attention so now I have you I’ll lead you down another garden path. If your brain is focused on just one topic it just clogs up, it swells so nothing else can fill it. John Gordon about 20 years ago advised me to have a holiday as all I was doing was working and visiting my dad in the old people’s home. If by a miracle JG reads this in New Zealand then give him a job or promote him as he is really sound. Having a holiday was just what I needed, you don’t love anybody less if you have a holiday from 3 years of visits, every single day. Just as carers need holidays too.

Now some condemn people for talking too much, and yes I am a talker, as you can tell by my writing style. If you take the talker out the room, then the room dies. The talker may not be the life and soul of the party but they are the spoon that stirs the cocktail. And yes you do get the converse or reverse, some big word anyway. The S*&^ stirrer who can destroy all relationships, all friendships by their negative words and emails. Yes I know a few people like that and have suffered at their hands too, we all have. One person got demoted because one of their emails, so think before you hit send.

I am limited now due to the fact that I am at home all the time, if I were at a place of work, pretentious speak for if I had a real job, then I’d have a larger number of people to annoy, or is that fake modesty speaking? See I like to mix and match my words to see if you are all paying attention, Boris put that vodka bottle down its only 1.30 in the afternoon. Pay attention and practice your English with me.

You have a chat about old Mrs Moon’s wok or cat or her old dead husband, but as you listen or 1/2 listen you forget all your troubles, they are packed up in an old kit bag. You are distracted away from your day to day troubles, I really do hate the word “issues”, its a *****ing trouble or problem, you’ve met my girlfriend, my boyfriend or my whatever. By having a chat or a gossip, talking about flea powder, and next time you are buying plant food for your non existent plants, could you buy a flea collar for Tiddles her cat. Then you can’t even remember your own name, and thus, good word thus, so good I’ll use it thrice, thus your problems are forgotten. Not as good as 17 pints of Stella Artois but talking flea powder with old Mrs Moon does seem to cheer you up.

The Inanity Of Conversation and Its Therapeutic Effects really does work, even if it does sound a bit like the Harry Potter Prequel film title. Your spirits lift, a bit like bumping into Steven Hawkins at a strip club, you forget all your troubles, you are star struck, or bra struck by a pole dancer. Conversation, having a chat, a good old gossip, on the phone or in the street really does work. You may not really be even listening to Fred’s list of sexual conquests, all imaginary, or how Janet had her boobs enlarged or reduced, you weren’t even listening, or how Flora won at the bingo, not the money but with the juicy security guard. Or the priest telling about the best buys at Iceland, after he absolved you of all your sins, some real, some imaginary, you just need to have a talk and hear a man’s voice, you miss your husband’s voice so much.

There are many many examples of how conversation saves us, sometimes literally, that kind word stops a suicide, or gives hope and love and encouragement, or just a shared joke that the old lady will talk to her cat about when she gets home. Empathy, or just a face, listening or pretending to listen relaxes and relieves all of us. No man is a island, and we are made the way we are made so that we fit together. We are jigsaws, we are Lego, we are made to couple.