Saturday, 2 December 2023

Thatchers gold cider and putting bidy butter on our tortoise

Thatchers Gold Cider and putting Body Butter on our Tortoise

we have a wooden tortoise by our door, it’s all dried out over the years, I wanted to paint it

but I remembered the Body Butter in the bathroom cabinet, so I sat and massaged it in

looking like a SANTA in our window for passing kids to observe

Afterwards I decided to have one can of Thatcher’s Medium Dry cider, Gold on tin

and yes it was nice, nobody asked me to advertise

an over the entire Christmas period I may drink 5 or 10 then I may not drink again

till Easter

me as head boy aged 10 or so and maybe 5 in first snap

Published by michaelgcasey

I've updated this 18th March 2022 I'm Michael Casey from Birmingham England, the fat silver haired writer in shades. Beware of Others with the EXACT SAME NAME, they are not me, and would not want to be me ... use Google UK to find me, otherwise Posh Americans pop up I've done loads of writing, about 2,000,000 Words worth over 34years now But before I started to write, I LISTENED to BBC Radio 4 for 20 years, from the age of 10 or younger Frank Brown our lodger, went back to County Tyrone and he gifted us his Bush Radio. He'd be nearly 100 now if he is still alive, so say a prayer for him 54 years in love with words, and I still look so dashing. I have a picture in the attic, just like Dorian Gray I've also had an interest in Politics for 54 years with my dad heckling the tv and Politicians. I almost immediately had a hit, a play called Shoplife was accepted but not finally produced by a Theatre. The Kenneth More Theatre, so thank them for sparing you all. This was back in 1989 yes, 30 years plus ago, the play was written in 1988. So since then I'm more than good enough, as a writer. Anything else..... I also ignore those who just cannot write, pick your own candidate I tend to write Comedy as I'd rather make you laugh than cry I have written over 2000 short pieces of writing, yes 2000 " (c) by Michael Casey" If you include "chats" 3700 samples, all told, the chats do NOT go into my books when I compile them. My first book ,a full length comedy/drama is The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker You can read translations of it here on this site Up to 20 different languages/translations have been read on the same day via this site, here on Wordpress look fo Translations Galore page, and more And in over 90 Countries world wide too so you have no excuse, find your own language and read The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker or Quick Stories or any other of the books in Translation on my Wordpress This proves to me that the humour does travel I have readers in over 100 countries now, just to repeat myself From Nepal to American Samoa and all places North South East and West Or its just a hit man on the run, or whatever Unknown Region Means It may also mean that only non English Speakers like my stuff Coverage but lacking penetration as marketing folks might say I did get 21,000 readers in 3 weeks for the Polish version of In Search of an Indian Princess. which is basically the final 3 chapters of The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker all by word of mouth. And 50,000 plus in Christmas week 2021 If you add up all the downloads from my Wordpress + 13,000 when somebody stole the file. I have had more copies than Boris Johnson's Churchill book distributed. Maybe 40,000 copies . Not made a penny from it, free downloads in multiple languages. Reverse Logic, if the world knows me, eventually somebody will pay me But in reality I'll be dead first, and then just 2 pennies to pay the ferryman is enough I've cut the Plaudits, you can read/decide for yourself As for my life, I was born in the shadow of a Brewery, I was a computer operator for a market research company into alcohol sales, 21 years altogether, StatsMR Call centre guy, like everybody once in their life I was also a Trainee Betting Shop Manager I was a concierge and 10 other roles at Crowne Plaza NEC Birmingham for 3 years. Spent 3 years at Pinsent Masons Law firm in Birmingham I even hid a copy of my comic novel "BBU" in the Law Library at Pinsent Masons, well just for a day.. I did a few other jobs too, working life in reverse so to speak and I was an Esol English teacher in an Islamic school, for a year, I knew I could teach. I got Excellent, Excellent and Exemplary on the external assessment, yes really And I asked them to pray for me at least once a day beside which I've had a Shanghai connection for 20 years now, including 2 bilingual daughters and being a hausfrau a long time too, I'm a great dad, as I've had lots of time with my daughters I can always make somebody talk or laugh I believe my short stories could be used to teach English, just package them up correctly or App them Or a Tale a Day from Michael, a story telling App What else, I was brawn and brains, I used to be as strong as an Ox, now I just smell like one We have a cat called Totoro, my daughters wanted a pet I said they could have a dog if I died , or a cat if I had a heart attack. A few weeks after that in Jan 2015 I had an Unplanned Quadruple Heart Bypass , it was supposed to be a triple but it ended up a Quadruple, 33% extra free so to speak. Now with an add on Hernia, the size of your fist, pushing through my bypass scar, it hurts when I laugh, so don't make me laugh I also have arthritis and other hindrances that hobble my body and give me pain galore. But my mind is free, though having read my stories you may wish I didn't bother But I'll ignore you, and carry on regardless. I do get heckled by my own Tinnitus these past 3 years+, so I have music on all night long to drown it out. I sleep with Miley, Taylor, Eric Clapton and Will Young, maybe I should buy a bigger bed, or just get a better mattress. Tinnitus is a curse, just trust me I know, each day I wake up, Tinnitus SCREAMS at me for a full hour till it calms down That's the end of the tidy version of my life To finish here's the list of my 20 books, so far:- 1.The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker 2.Shoplife 3.Essays and Plays 4.Blogs 2011 5.300 and Not OUT 6.Shorts 2013 7.More Shorts 2014 8.Quick Stories 9.Still Alive 2015 10.Undiscovered Words 2016 11.Still Smiling 2017 12.Altogether Now 13.New Horizons 14.14 Up 15.15 Down 16.Sweet Sixteen 17. 17 Again 18. 18 New Views 19. The Final Cut of the 19th Hole 20. 2020 Words 21. 21 Door Keys, key to the door 21 on Bingo, hence title, 53,000 words so far I write bullet point stuff mainly now as Tinnitus stops me from getting in the zone to write, story stories. (c) by Michael Casey stuff though my bullet points are better than some "writers" discuss, miaow. That's why I dream of a speed typist, so I could dictate from the sofa https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC to buy ebooks Loads of Korean and Arabic translations downloaded from my Wordpress, 1000s of them Quick Stories in Korean is a big hit. Maybe Kim in North Korea should read my books, instead of wasting his countries resources on what? Just keeping one person in power, him? Instead of joining the real world and opening a string on golf courses. That way we could get rid of Trump too. Into the sunset, as they play golf. Tears for a Butcher will be the sequel to BBU, and it too will be 600pages, however I really need a speed typist to put it down, while I sit and dictate like Barbara Cartland, and hopefully my speed typist would be impressed. we'd marry have half Korean kids, and form a Kpop band with our 4 new kids, with me as manager. And yes this is more for my bucket list, as Tinnitus keeps me awake too much, 6 months of not sleeping till dawn is really killing me Michael Casey aka the fat silver haired writer in shades from Birmingham England https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/efda2dca0de5b9269191b7c8b0102473?s=400&d=mm 

Hello OTHERS reading ME

Hello OTHERS reading ME

It does not reveal where you are from on. my graph

You may be Russians afraid that Putin will Jail you for reading me

Or stuck somewhere reading me, undercover somewhere

I hope you are all entertained

and if you are Russians I hope you gather u enough courage

to remove PUTIN

He is not God, and surrounding himself with Gazprom built Churches

will not save his soul, as he does not Love his Neighbour

Neither does Trump, but a Americans are just moody teenagers

I have an itchy palm so I may chance the hill and get a lottery

Student daughters need money

and I'd love to leave them a House and a car and a dog Each

if you all actually bought books

and Jeff Bezo turned my shorts into films

then I could do that

but realistically like I said in the past

this is probably my last decade

Yes

I'd love to meet that typist and have 4 sons

and name them  after the Evangelists 

what else does a write call his kids

but I know its a bucket list more than a reality

or possibility 

But as somebody said Nothing is Impossible to God

yes padre pio said it, and due to my Tinnitus

I've been through Rosary Boot camp

what else

what is the best way to be introduced to Football

Going to see England women at  Wembley

Sit behind the Goal and watch them beat Holland

my daughter and her University friends were there 

last night

and it cost only 10 quid

I don't know if that was student price

10 quid and 5 goals

So check it out next time the team play

Theatre and Ballet is so expensive

Try ballet at least once

read my story Birmingham is Ballet  

Opera may be available too for students

So  give it a try

I sing along to my Amazon Music Unlimited

with my Tribit speaker

so pitch my neighbours

I'm sure  I overheard them say I should sing

Castrati

or were they saying something about

what they would do to the cat?

It's all kittens to me

I've annoyed you enough for today

but Korean readers wherever you are

Thanks for downloading so many

copies of Quick Stories in Korean

and I just hope stupid people realise

the Quick does not refer to something else

Its Quick Stories for BUSY people

nothing else, just my usual rubbish

here ends today's message in a bottle

pray for my Health

or don't bother if you've had enough of my rubbish






Friday, 1 December 2023

you can start saying Merry Christmas now

you can start saying Merry Christmas now

though the amount of Tinnitus induced terror I'm having

is beyond belief

believe it

University holidays beckon, so my small one will be home

while the other one who knows the future?

Koreans are reading more again

Singapore has read everything

but I'd still like EVERYBODY to carry on

I continue annoying the Russians

so holy Putin has icons besides him

500,000 dead Russian boys are not enough for him

So I'm hoping for a Xmas miracle and 

Greed is replaced by Humanity

and Putin is gone

or maybe he'll send me Salisbury Perfume

I won't fall out a window as I live in a basement

Trump is another threat to mankind

Nobody in UK would accept him

He'd be laughed out of town

But Trump may have Cancer

judging by all the weight loss and haggard look

Or maybe Trump does not like Orange jumpsuits

Orange is just for his makeup

Free speech does not give you the right

to intimidate and bully

But Trump thinks it does

and he can do anything because he is a liar and a bully

And USA Media is giving him a free ride

they MUST constantly interrupt him

That's a LIE, That's another LIE, yet another Lie

Only let him say true things, proven things

60 mins of Lies

otherwise Democracy dies

and it is on Life Support in USA

as Brown Nosing to Trump has destroyed the GOP

Hopefully a Judge will Jail him for a week 

For Contempt 

He can get a taste of Reality

and then SHUT UP

but he won't

so that's one reason I pray

 He's as much a Christian as Putin

neither loves their neighbour

finally the cold weather

triggers my tinnitus

so it physically hurts

and the noise drives you insane

and no that does not  explain my writing

Go to the Top of the Class

and Jump

a 50 year old joke

end for today

by the way

a very funny Taiwan film

about a gay ghost and a cop

Marry My Dead Body

and watch in Chinese with subtitles

never watch the dubbed English of anything



latest photo shaved and bathed 29 nov 2023

Thursday, 30 November 2023

Let There Be Peace on Earth Again

Let There Be Peace on Earth Again (c)

By Michael Casey

Let there be Peace on Earth Again

Let there be no more mindless invasions

Let there be no more intimidation

Let there be no more people shot dead in the street

Let there be no more bodies identified just by their nail designs

Let there be no more shallow graves

Let there be no more LIES

Let there be no more Theatre of the absurd to Justify those LIES

Let there be no more Hospitals destroyed

Let there be no more schools burnt down

Let there be no more Death while you sleep in your bed

Let there be no more Underground hiding places needed

Let Subway just be a sandwich again, not just a place of safety

Let Churches be open and full of celebration

Let Funerals stop being a constant, constant, constant event

Let Marriages take place with Joy

Not with eyes to the sky looking out for Death

Let Food shopping be fun again not a quick dash under attack

Let a walk in the park with Sunshine on your back return again

Let stopping to talk and chat be normal again

Let News be something different every day

Not just Putin's Insanity over and over and over again

Let there be time for making Love again


Idle lazy time, as your stoke her hair, and cuddle together

Again and Again and Again and On and On and On

Instead of stolen moments, as your Ears Listen in case of Attack

Let LOVE come back, Love, and Peace and Happiness

Let Hospitals have flowers all around again

Let Gossip and Laugher ring out again

Let Singing and Music fill the air again

Let skipping and bouncing for joy be in Children's Hearts again

Let Old Folk meet and greet slowly, ever so slowly again

Let Church Bells Ring Out again

Let the Lights come Back again

Let. there be Peace Again

Let there, Let there, Let there

Let there be ALL things again

BUT WHEN

When Russia is BEAT

For ONLY then

When the Immaculate Heart of Mary

WINS over Savagery and Bigots and Insanity

Only then

Can there be Peace on Earth again




All the colours of the Rainbow

All the colours of the Rainbow

The Pogues singer died, so God Bless him

a former Uk Chancellor died too

and Henry Kissinger died too

In the Tinnitus night I awoke

I dreamed of my Mother in the dream hiding the fact she had cancer

and the family were hiding it from me

So when I found out I gave her a big hug

You’re going Straight to Heaven and I was not alarmed in the slightest

In reality mum died in her sleep, next to her husband of nearly 50 years

Why I had this dream I do not know

Anyway every family will wonder how the baby/grandchild will look

I thought it would be nice if my daughters were to look

More Chinese than Irish

In the end they look Western but with fabulous hair

Though if you look closely they are mixed blood

need I say more

a big news storm here in UK

over NOTHING

absolutely NOTHING

Every Mixed Race family asks the same thing

the only handicap is having me as the DAD

especially as I look as old as a Granddad

Because I have a much younger wife

AND If ever I have another wife

she may be even younger still

Love is Love and Colour is Blind

and as my mum DID SAY

Love Conquers All

p.s. Can somebody send emails to Moscow as well as me,on a daily basis

maybe Alan Turing images too as PUTIN is afraid of EVERYTHING

that is not in his image. When WE ALL ARE IN GOD’S IMAGE

2001 maybe

Published by michaelgcasey

I've updated this 18th March 2022 I'm Michael Casey from Birmingham England, the fat silver haired writer in shades. Beware of Others with the EXACT SAME NAME, they are not me, and would not want to be me ... use Google UK to find me, otherwise Posh Americans pop up I've done loads of writing, about 2,000,000 Words worth over 34years now But before I started to write, I LISTENED to BBC Radio 4 for 20 years, from the age of 10 or younger Frank Brown our lodger, went back to County Tyrone and he gifted us his Bush Radio. He'd be nearly 100 now if he is still alive, so say a prayer for him 54 years in love with words, and I still look so dashing. I have a picture in the attic, just like Dorian Gray I've also had an interest in Politics for 54 years with my dad heckling the tv and Politicians. I almost immediately had a hit, a play called Shoplife was accepted but not finally produced by a Theatre. The Kenneth More Theatre, so thank them for sparing you all. This was back in 1989 yes, 30 years plus ago, the play was written in 1988. So since then I'm more than good enough, as a writer. Anything else..... I also ignore those who just cannot write, pick your own candidate I tend to write Comedy as I'd rather make you laugh than cry I have written over 2000 short pieces of writing, yes 2000 " (c) by Michael Casey" If you include "chats" 3700 samples, all told, the chats do NOT go into my books when I compile them. My first book ,a full length comedy/drama is The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker You can read translations of it here on this site Up to 20 different languages/translations have been read on the same day via this site, here on Wordpress look fo Translations Galore page, and more And in over 90 Countries world wide too so you have no excuse, find your own language and read The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker or Quick Stories or any other of the books in Translation on my Wordpress This proves to me that the humour does travel I have readers in over 100 countries now, just to repeat myself From Nepal to American Samoa and all places North South East and West Or its just a hit man on the run, or whatever Unknown Region Means It may also mean that only non English Speakers like my stuff Coverage but lacking penetration as marketing folks might say I did get 21,000 readers in 3 weeks for the Polish version of In Search of an Indian Princess. which is basically the final 3 chapters of The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker all by word of mouth. And 50,000 plus in Christmas week 2021 If you add up all the downloads from my Wordpress + 13,000 when somebody stole the file. I have had more copies than Boris Johnson's Churchill book distributed. Maybe 40,000 copies . Not made a penny from it, free downloads in multiple languages. Reverse Logic, if the world knows me, eventually somebody will pay me But in reality I'll be dead first, and then just 2 pennies to pay the ferryman is enough I've cut the Plaudits, you can read/decide for yourself As for my life, I was born in the shadow of a Brewery, I was a computer operator for a market research company into alcohol sales, 21 years altogether, StatsMR Call centre guy, like everybody once in their life I was also a Trainee Betting Shop Manager I was a concierge and 10 other roles at Crowne Plaza NEC Birmingham for 3 years. Spent 3 years at Pinsent Masons Law firm in Birmingham I even hid a copy of my comic novel "BBU" in the Law Library at Pinsent Masons, well just for a day.. I did a few other jobs too, working life in reverse so to speak and I was an Esol English teacher in an Islamic school, for a year, I knew I could teach. I got Excellent, Excellent and Exemplary on the external assessment, yes really And I asked them to pray for me at least once a day beside which I've had a Shanghai connection for 20 years now, including 2 bilingual daughters and being a hausfrau a long time too, I'm a great dad, as I've had lots of time with my daughters I can always make somebody talk or laugh I believe my short stories could be used to teach English, just package them up correctly or App them Or a Tale a Day from Michael, a story telling App What else, I was brawn and brains, I used to be as strong as an Ox, now I just smell like one We have a cat called Totoro, my daughters wanted a pet I said they could have a dog if I died , or a cat if I had a heart attack. A few weeks after that in Jan 2015 I had an Unplanned Quadruple Heart Bypass , it was supposed to be a triple but it ended up a Quadruple, 33% extra free so to speak. Now with an add on Hernia, the size of your fist, pushing through my bypass scar, it hurts when I laugh, so don't make me laugh I also have arthritis and other hindrances that hobble my body and give me pain galore. But my mind is free, though having read my stories you may wish I didn't bother But I'll ignore you, and carry on regardless. I do get heckled by my own Tinnitus these past 3 years+, so I have music on all night long to drown it out. I sleep with Miley, Taylor, Eric Clapton and Will Young, maybe I should buy a bigger bed, or just get a better mattress. Tinnitus is a curse, just trust me I know, each day I wake up, Tinnitus SCREAMS at me for a full hour till it calms down That's the end of the tidy version of my life To finish here's the list of my 20 books, so far:- 1.The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker 2.Shoplife 3.Essays and Plays 4.Blogs 2011 5.300 and Not OUT 6.Shorts 2013 7.More Shorts 2014 8.Quick Stories 9.Still Alive 2015 10.Undiscovered Words 2016 11.Still Smiling 2017 12.Altogether Now 13.New Horizons 14.14 Up 15.15 Down 16.Sweet Sixteen 17. 17 Again 18. 18 New Views 19. The Final Cut of the 19th Hole 20. 2020 Words 21. 21 Door Keys, key to the door 21 on Bingo, hence title, 53,000 words so far I write bullet point stuff mainly now as Tinnitus stops me from getting in the zone to write, story stories. (c) by Michael Casey stuff though my bullet points are better than some "writers" discuss, miaow. That's why I dream of a speed typist, so I could dictate from the sofa https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC to buy ebooks Loads of Korean and Arabic translations downloaded from my Wordpress, 1000s of them Quick Stories in Korean is a big hit. Maybe Kim in North Korea should read my books, instead of wasting his countries resources on what? Just keeping one person in power, him? Instead of joining the real world and opening a string on golf courses. That way we could get rid of Trump too. Into the sunset, as they play golf. Tears for a Butcher will be the sequel to BBU, and it too will be 600pages, however I really need a speed typist to put it down, while I sit and dictate like Barbara Cartland, and hopefully my speed typist would be impressed. we'd marry have half Korean kids, and form a Kpop band with our 4 new kids, with me as manager. And yes this is more for my bucket list, as Tinnitus keeps me awake too much, 6 months of not sleeping till dawn is really killing me Michael Casey aka the fat silver haired writer in shades from Birmingham England https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/efda2dca0de5b9269191b7c8b0102473?s=400&d=mm 

Tuesday, 28 November 2023

these are my friends

Your Giving Tuesday Mission:

Dear Michael,


Happy Giving Tuesday! Throughout the day we will share with you some information about Padre Pio’s hospital that you may not know. It is our hope that whether you donate or not, that you will read our emails and understand a bit more about Padre Pio and the hospital he built with Love and through Divine Providence.


Our Giving Tuesday mission will be to install much needed air conditioning in the Children’s Oncology Unit in Padre Pio’s hospital, La Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza.


We would love to give a breakdown of what $10 or $25 dollars can do as is a standard practice by many, but this is a collective request to all of our generous benefactors. This is a project that needs to be funded together. If everyone helps a little, we can help a lot! Just imagine these children who have cancer having to be so hot and sweaty while getting their treatments? As one of the oncologists told us, “Total air conditioning of the department would improve the well-being of our little patients." And they know best.


We are calling this “The Karson Project” because as we were preparing our Giving Tuesday emails to you, we received the heartbreaking news that our dear 11 year old friend, Karson, passed away from cancer.  He fought so hard. His best friends were his dad and Padre Pio. He loved Padre Pio and kept the blanket with the image of Padre Pio wrapped around him all the time.


Karson wanted to be a regular kid and he fought but this terrible disease took him too early from everyone who loved and adored him, his family and his friends.  


Our goal is to put air conditioning in the Children’s Oncology Unit and possibly help with other renovations requested by the doctors. They know best what their littlest patients need.

Click here to support the children at Padre Pio's Hospital!

“Love is the first ingredient in the 

relief of suffering.”


Padre Pio

The Padre Pio Foundation of America

463 Main Street

Cromwell, CT 06416

www.padrepio.com

860-455-5555

The Padre Pio Foundation of America | 463 Main StreetCromwell, CT 06416

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