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36years ago on 29288 I qualified as a Writer
36years ago on 29288 I qualified as a Writer ©
By
Michael Casey
As you all know Pad Webb said, Write a Book, so I did A Nation of Shopkeepers was the original title, but only the French would understand where the title came from, so The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker became the title. I did call myself Michael James in the spirit of having a nom de plume, another French connection. After a lodger who was like an uncle to me, but finally I became myself, and publishers still said Thank you for your pieces of Paper.
As you also know 20 years of constant listening to BBC Radio 4 was my University, along with living as part of a large family of 13+ as well as a cat and a dog, if you include lodgers. So then in 1986 I got my own house, and then thought what next? So in 1987 I started to write, scrapes of paper held together by a shoelace through the holes punched in the paper, in pencil of course. As I started in computers in 1978, yes 46 years ago, I could type, so I requisitioned the green family typewriter and started to use it. I sat on a broken backed barn chair with the typewriter perched on top o a red topped stool that dad had bought in 1973 at Digbeth Civic Hall. One of my sisters had been encouraged to learn to type, but the pull of Woolworths was greater. In fact one of my brothers taught himself Pitman and typing before I got the use of the typewriter.
Now if you count everything, from my sites not just the 20 books and book 21 Fresh Fields which I’m still compiling, there must be 3,000,000 words. I have readers all over the world, but I’m a failure in some people’s eyes as I’ve not made any money. And yes small Singapore is my greatest reader apart from USA, but Singapore refuses to be 2nd so they are marching through my site to take over. This is my main site https://butcherbakerundertaker.blogspot.com/ so Singapore that’s the target. 4600 pieces of writing on that one alone. 2 security backup Bloggers as well, and then the WordPress with translations galore https://michaelgcaseyfrombirminghamengland.wordpress.com/ and audio too if you click here https://profile.typepad.com/michaelgcasey and finally if you actually want to donate to me.
OK, let my restart the music behind me, Mylie Cyrus sings I used to be young
As if on cue. I’m still 20 in my head, so a PhD and a smile might tempt me, and you can type for me. I can offer nothing, a quadruple heart bypass and maybe dialysis by the end of the year already, so my bucket list would be 4 more half Oriental children.
You have to stay positive or you are already dead, even if the reality is heading to not the butcher’s nor the baker’s but probably the undertaker’s in the next decade.
Though my own dad in 1996 just 8 weeks after mum died in the marriage bed, he was given a week to live after a massive heart attack, but he carried on for 5.5 years and I got a family. It’s all in Padre Pio and Me. So, I’ll leave my Future up to God, and if I do have that new family, don’t say Where did he Buy Her, as some bastard did when I worked at the hotel and I had a young family 20 years ago and a Shanghai wife. No, just say God Bless Him, maybe a Singapore will discover me.
I can hear you all laughing, and puking into a bucket. Metal Trip was a Finnish Heavy Metal road comedy I saw the other night on TV, it was very funny. Maybe I dream to much, when I can actually sleep through Tinnitus. I have a whole Grammies Award ceremony in my bed every night, as I must have Music on permanently to drown the Tinnitus, and yes you can guess what would be better. And 3 to 4am is best time to conceive. I used to work the Graveyard shift at SMBC computer room, so I got home at 3am. Or maybe that’s too much information.
Writing is easy, getting paid for it is impossible. I have 55 years love of words now, and yes I’m still 20 in my head. Picasso had a child in his 90s, or is that an abstraction, but his footsteps are worth following in. I’ll finish now. I have bored some of you but talking about Putin too much these past 2 years. I’m hoping Russia rises up and removes Putin. Too many lives lost for one man’s vanity. I hope Trump goes to jail too, for he is just a Con Man. Sadly, USA has lost its honour, the GOP has become a Cult. While Ukraine bleeds because USA crossed by to the other side of the street. The Good Samaritan lost maybe forever. And all our kids the world over suffer. All these lives and all this money wasted. Mankind could be saved if it grew up and changed direction, and did not Love Money. And that is why I post pictures of myself, a Gorilla with a Rosary.
