Saturday, 21 May 2022

Japanese Ghosts TV. series we are watching tonight plus here's 12 hours or so of me READING ALOUD 207 of my stories

The Terror

The second season was co-created by Alexander Woo and Max Borenstein and is mostly set in an American-run Japanese internment camp during World War II. It stars Derek MioKiki SukezaneCristina RodloShingo UsamiNaoko MoriMiki Ishikawa, and George Takei.

worth a watch, a bit scary, very atmospheric 


Monday, 31 August 2020

Japanese Translation of The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker

over on my Wordpress I've loaded up the file of Translation in Japanese

for The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker







Japanese Translation of The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker



in front of the gas fire I wrote this book Leap Years Day 1988 I finished, years later my small daughter who is half Birmingham and half Shanghai
Pandas ar great  we have seen them at the zoo in Shanghai, hello to all the family there too

Listen to my Voice as you recover from Chinese New Year

 for anybody recovering from Chinese New Year

For JAPAN especially hear my Voice, 12 hours of Audio

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Michael Casey the AUDIO collection, hear me read aloud my stories

  Michael Casey the AUDIO collection, hear me read aloud my stories

Everything is in one take, same as the Writing

Hope you can stand my Voice

so follow your nose:-

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last load of audio 177 to 207 and I finish needing a drink

177.Peace Corps

178.Fashionistas strike again

179.From Lenny Bruce to Innuendo

180.FridgeFamilyCasey

181.Cooling Off

182.Waiting In

183.Move On

184.Sherlock Plays Badminton

185.7 year’s Old Prom

186.A quiet night In

187.Sampling Pop

188.Cross Dressing

189.Don’t Wine its only Wine

190.When and If I win the Lottery

191.Interviewing somebody

192.Healthy Wealthy and Wise

193.A child’s eye view

194.Why do men think they are perfect

195.Children are not ready for school at 5

196.Easy Listening

197.My Last Wishes

198.Government Dating Agency

199.Metaphor this

200.To Touch a Bearing Heart

201.Look at me I’m a Nobody

202.Space Galore

203.At the Bus Stop

204.Things to do Before I die Part 1

205.Paris inBirmingham

206.UTube are you ready

207.Gagging for a drink


TFAB Chapter2 old people’s home

f I had a legal secretary I could sit and dictate the sequel to The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker

TFAB Chapter2 old people’s home

as it is I’ll probably never finish the book, not unless I get the help of God  and two Policemen

still more audio:- 151 to 176

151.The Secret Prayer Society

152.What If

153.Christmas 2011

154.What is Poetry

155.From Short Wave Radio to Facebook

156.Talking to an Audience

157.Writing in my head

158.Facebook Data Mines

159.Facing Facebook

160.Disguises

161.Why are writers and poets so precious.mp3

162.Padre Pio and Me

163.Degree Madness

164.Returning to the Blog

165.Grammar or Style

166.Just Say No to Warren Buffet

167.Red Carpet

168.Inner Laughter

169.Resignation Pantomime

170.Turning Back the Clock

171.Star Trek

172. The Sky at Night

173. Burglar in Reverse

174.Rediscovering John Denver.mp3

175.Wood or Metal

176.How do you know you are not fat

even more audio:131 to 150

131.All things bright and beautiful

132.Pain Fear and God

133.Swimming Baths and Painting Eggs

134.Judging a book by its cover

135.Oxbridge and still cannot write an essay

136.Alistaire Alcohol and Me

137.Spring Family

138.To be a writer or to be a Preacher

139.Today’s Blog Is 1422012

140.Charles Dickens Xmas and all that

141 Tree Story (full)

142.Ebooks

143.29thFeb1988

144.LinkedIN Idea

145.Chinese mother I live that life

146.Ten Years Ago

147.Simon and Garfunkle

148.Hello World

149.Creative Writing Group on Daily Telegraph

150.Through my Letter Box

still more audio:- 116 to 130

116 One Dimensional

117.Growing Up for Dads

118.Look in the mirror and what do you see

119.from Bedowrth to Bookshelf and beyond

120.Ad Skipper Life Skipper

121.pens and penmanship

122.Alternative swearing

123.Bring Back Barter

124.Waiting.mp3

125.A rainy Saturday

126.Santa is stuck up the chimney

127.I want to be a radio star a love story

128.Hair

129.Data Mining

130.Internet Window Shoping

even more audio:- 96 to 115

96.Tempus Fugit

97.What If

98.Traffic and Bubble Bath

99.Extended Christmas

100.I hate Junk emails

101.Horror Stories and other stuff

102.How to bribe the kids while wife at dentist

103.The first Christmas Card

104.Pub to Bus Wisdom

105.Colours

106.Food and Panda

107.And the gold goes to

108.Flowers

109.Saturday with the girls

110.Uniforms

111.Tombstone

112.From a father to a daughter

113.Perspective

114.Nov 11th Remembered

115.Crockery or Cups and Saucers to you and me

more audio:- 81 to 95

81.Advertising Style

82.What makes me smile

83.Down my Street turn left

84.Food for thougtht think as you watch tv

85.Education reach for the stars

86.My stories my babies

87.Die Hard 4.0 or how to use your talents

88.Shakespeare in Love and other thoughts

89.If I were a fashion writer

90 seconds with Michael

91.whats under your bed

92.Wrapping Paper

93.The white door

94.Where do the tears go when they are shed

95.Pink Floyd Music and Me

more audio:- 66 to 80

66.Telephone Interviews

67.As these Tears Fall

68.The Light from a Candle

69.Having a Heat Wave

70.The Watch and Me

71.As I look out my window

72.The Library

73.If I were a rich man

74.Cake and Poison

75.My love of Radio

76.Why do you blog

77.Valentine Poem

78.The Trouble with Technology

79.My wife the house painter

80.From Shanghai to Birmingham6 Nov 2018 15:45:50 |

 BooksCurrent AffairsFilmFood and DrinkGameshumor,

more audio:- 51 to 65

51.It’s got to be Winnie the Pooh

52.The best years of your life

53.SO hypnotise me.mp3

54. Rice and Pizza

55.Home is where the heart is.mp3

56.Weather Forecast.mp3

57.Call Centres Calling

58.Go to sleep with the Japanese

59.My Old Age

60.My favourite sweets

61.Praise and Reward

62..A Child’s Love

63.Spare a Penny for Dad

64.Singing Songs

65.Butcher Baker Undertaker

 well I hope you are all enjoying these, in Nigeria or Russia or Denmark or anywhere.

more audio:- 41 to 50

41.Bycycle removal service

42.What is Prayer.mp3

43.Free software

44.We are having a baby

45. Learning to read aloud

46.I love my neighbour’s house

47.Target Thinking

48.where do tears do when they are shed

49.No Sat Nav Required

50.Read my Mind

more audio:- 31 to 40

31.Let there be light

32.The Dead and The Living

33.Presenting Story

34.A Life in a bag

35.My arm chair

36.Which way do you look

37.A winters day

38.My Atheist Friend

39.Words are for what.mp3

40.Cobwebs of Love

more audio:- 20 to 30

20.Kissing Goodbye

21.Its All in the Stars

22.Sock Test

23.Sheepdog Microphone Cover

24..Dreams of watches

25.Persistance

26.Stuffing Tony

27.Crawling Like a worm in the dirt

30.Writer’s Block

More Audio 11 to 19 and yes this i s my voice, I got a new microphone later on, everytghing in one take

11.Dreaming of my own Bathroom

12.We are Words poem

13.If Music be the food of Love

14.Bring on the tears

15.If you go down to the woods today

16.From Fireworks to the grave

17.Locked out of Facebook

18.Silly Song

19.Singing Sisters

me holding my life saver Movelat pain killer gel

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0.Introduction to Michael Casey

1.Window Shopping

2.Internet Story

3.I know your face

4.Explaining stories

5.Influences

6.Speakers

7.Microwaved food

8.Do your best

9.Dead

10.Counting Money3 Nov 2018 00:23:04 | BooksCurrent AffairsFilmFood and DrinkGameshumorMusicReligionScienceSportsTelevisionTravelWeb/TechWeblogs

I hope you all enjoy all this, with my posh Birmingham accent, too much listening to Radio4 years ago, and having Kerry Irish mom means I do not have a traditional Birmingham or Black Country accent.

So enjoy and send a postcard to Harry and Megs they should read my 1st book first

The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker

I’ve given them enough free publicity already, I was going to post the Deep Flake of Grannie…japanese-translation-of-the-butcher-the-baker-and-the-undertakerDownload

please Sir can I have some more sir,

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Joy From Birmingham a couple of stories from Birmingham where The Commonwealth Games will be very soon

 

Well I've been up an hour or so, and a Nigerian Omar Cy just delivered some shopping

So God Bless him

Now i've had my breakfast and morning meds, and Tinnitus has calmed down

I checked my figures here on my 3 Bloggers

Then as I read one piece I began to cry, it made me so happy

It reminded me just how the World should be, could be

Pease God Putin stops his Madness

Anyway as I read the story I remembered I had actually met a Doreen

she works with handicapped kids, she is black too and I met her

when I was standing in the street watching an Eclipse of the Moon anyway

and we got talking too

There even was a white nurse in our local shop who worked with special needs

I was talking to her a few months ago

Anyway Those kind of People are the Best, as they never treat anybody as 2nd best

They have my admiration the most, not WAGs in Courtrooms

So Here are 2 stories back to back and I hope you enjoy them again

You may even cry, and what's wrong with that

With all the turmoil in the world, I hope I can raise a laugh or two

Sunday, 22 September 2019

Doreen the Singer

Doreen the Singer ©
By
Michael Casey

Doreen was a Singer, she sang in a Pentecostal Choir and was always singing and moving, it was in her blood. She was good friends to Mrs Douglas and all her 9 children and to Mrs Casey and all her six children. So Doreen was always happy. She and the choir even sung for the Old Forge and Singing Anvil Children’s Home, she always smiled at the memory because Postman Pat tried to hide amongst the choir but the kids tracked him down. Young Tracy was now a Police Sergeant, so good were here tracking skills, her and her dog Bullet, so named not because he ran so fast, but because his pooh always looked like bullets.

Doreen sung like and angel and danced like a devil, she was perfect. Though there was a fly in the ointment, there always is, girls. You see Doreen couldn’t get a job, even though she had a Masters in Communications, which she got after a double first in English from York. However back home in Birmingham she struggled to get anything to match her skills. So she took a temporary job in a Care Home looking after old people. She loved the people and they loved her, so she stayed until the first death 18 months after she started. As much as she loved the job she could not bear it. Old Mrs Noonan died and it was Doreen who found the body in the morning as she breezed into her bedroom singing Morning has Broken. But it was Doreen who was broken, her friend and they did feel like friends, she was a friend a daughter to all of them, was dead in her bed.

Doreen just had to leave, it was a double blow, losing Mrs Noonan and her job too. But as one door closes another opens, so Doreen went to work for a Special Needs Home, you might say she was overqualified and these kinds of jobs were beneath her, but it was all God’s Plan was what Doreen said. She just loved the people she cared for and hopefully nobody would die, so it was a perfect fit for her.

Doreen would breeze in singing and moving, like the reed that bends, as opposed to Oliver Reed on a bender. There was Sunshine in her voice and in her smile. Hard to reach to residents opened up like flowers in the Springtime for Doreen. Her voice, her love, her hope was on just the right frequency for the residents and for the staff. You must all know somebody like Doreen, a dose of magic when she is around. Paul thought so too, he was the handyman who came to fix things and do work around the Home. He lit up when Doreen passed by, so soon the staff and the residents said she should go out with him. Doreen was a bit shy despite being such a bubbly girl, so she tried to avoid going out with him, a workmate was fine, but a boyfriend was bit too fast.

Doreen decided on the Elizabeth Taylor option, Elizabeth Taylor asked for a million dollars hoping to get rid of the film offer. Elizabeth Taylor then starred in Anthony and Cleopatra, so Doreen said if he can duet with me, and sing well only then will I go out with him. So Doreen started singing Ebony and Ivory, Paul looked downcast then looking around the staff and residents who had gathered he started to sing, badly ever so badly. So sadly I cannot go out with you, but we’ll be friends forever, Doreen started to improvise on Friends Forever. Paul started to walk away dejectedly, but there was a bounce in his walk, then he spun around like Wolverine, and opened his mouth to duet back with her. This time he sung like a Master, she was worth it, and now he was singing for his supper, and his very own Elizabeth Taylor, Doreen.

Uproar, Paul started to sing Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, the Elton John and Kiki Dee song, Doreen started to cry and joined in. All together they sung for 90 minutes. At the end Doreen knew he was the One, the only one, yes he had big rough hands and had forgotten when he last read a book. But she had hand cream, that’d make his hands softer and Mr Casey used washing powder when he came home from the Steel Works, and Mrs Casey said he had soft hands to match his heart.

Somebody at the back videoed it on their phone, and that would lead somewhere else. So Doreen and Paul started singing at the home every day and dating every night. It was perfect, they were Burton and Taylor, but without the million dollars. Everything was great, soon they’d be engaged and so on. But there is always a fly in the ointment, don’t you know it girls. You see the Council didn’t have enough money to keep all the staff on, there had to be cuts. The Council had built a fancy new library, but could not afford to keep it open, they had in fact built a Prison for Books, not a place where books could be read. So to afford staff to keep the new fancy library open cuts would be made in other areas and money shuffled. This meant Doreen and Paul would lose their jobs.

What can we do? We could be strolling Minstrels suggested Paul who’d seen it on BBC4 the night before. So they sat on a bench outside the new fancy library, Doreen started to cry, Paul sung to console her, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart. They sung more and more, Doreen stopped crying. They were about to move on but a few people had gathered so they carried on singing for each other. Taylor Burton had landed on a Birmingham street, the singing version.

More and more people gathered. Now next to where they sung was a 5 star hotel, so their voiced drifted upwards. It was a day off for JT and his crew while on a concert tour, but the sound of their voices was too much for them. A few dancers slipped out of the hotel and moved in time to Doreen and Paul’s singing. And still the songs drifted into the air, people started to film. On a Birmingham street. This had only happened once before when Anton Bollockoff danced the Ballet, when Birmingham is Ballet happened. But now, but now Doreen’s singing demanded attention. A few backing singers slipped out and arranged themselves behind Doreen and Paul, then followed her lead. Now Musicians Flock like Birds, so soon a band had formed behind Doreen.

Upstairs JT smiled and filmed putting it on his Twitter feed, Birmingham Rocks. But as you know JT has twisty feet, his singers, his dancers and his band were all on the street. So he grabbed a mac and a hat, he had to dance in the street. Doreen guested from his attire what song to sing, so on a Birmingham city centre street JT was singing and dancing Dancing in the Street.

JT followed her lead and was just the 3rd Man and the Vienna Patisserie right behind him so he spun and smiled, him his mac and hat and the Vienna Patisserie. This went on for 30 mins, being broadcast live on JT Twitter feed. Then the manager whistled and they went back to the hotel carrying great cakes, they had their cake and they would eat it. Doreen and Paul waved goodbye but were dance frog marched inside the 5 star hotel with them.

To cut a story short, JT left a link to raise funds for the care home, so Doreen and Paul could keep their jobs. That would have been the happy ending but JT was troubled, she should share her talent with the world. So they became pen friends, and when he discovered she also wrote songs he spun and danced and almost pranced like a ballet dancer in Birmingham had done before. So in the end Doreen became a singer/songwriter and backing singer. She kept her job at the care home too. Paul was a hausfrau when the children came along, they called their kids: Peter, Paul and Mary.










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