well,i got to northampton.

i miss the old bus-station.
it's like somebody picked it up,
and dunked it in steralising fluid.
there's no atmosphere now.

a bit like the old st.pancras,
before eurostar.
without the champagne-bar and carluccios.

used to walk into the bus-station,
and the air,you could taste it,
fag-ash,grime,people.
a different kind of people,
it brought with it a kind of under-class.
old boys walking up and down the station,
one each side,
trawling for discarded fag-ends,
a dosser or two,mostly ageing,in their 50s.
taking shelter from the elements.
an old woman with her world in a shoping trolley.
where did they go?
and what's that say about me?

i went dressed to kill.
work-clothes,work-boots,
a grubby old hooded parka,black.
and 4 days of stubble on my chin.
it's my
"no,i haven't got any spare change,or fags."
look.
i needen't have bothered.
no sleeping bags in shop doorways.
i don't miss the beggars.

those who genuinely need money,food,help,
don't ask,or very rarely ask,
in my experience.
what do i know?
and who could refuse a genuine cry for help?

i hate to see it,
and really wish it could be sorted.
the last time i was asked for money,
a teenage girl,
i don't think she was living on the street.
should have asked her for sex,
that would have fucked her right off.
might even have done her a favour.
and then,
she might have done me one.
ha'ha'ha.
yeah right.
as if.

but seriously,
for some it's a career option.

so anyway;
i grabbed a bag of chips on the market,
and headed for morrison's.
MG! i got some fresh figs .
and dried ones for my oats.
i'll let you know what i think to them.
a couple of bottles of gut-rot,
and pack-up for next week.
not looking forward to work.
i won a tenner on the lotto yesters,
not enough is it.

and now,
i'm home.
boring the living shit out of you two.
or is it three?

and i got no bets today.



SO HOW WAS YOUR DAY?

you are very eloquent eric.i hate some of they new buildings weve got.a beautiful old pub was pulled down to make a fukin car park
my day was ok.got worse when i got home, weve been trying to move a bed but i think i need an alan key.i have to now to unplumb the washer

oh mg,
you're a martyr.
it's never ending isn't it.

i've told the wife that some day pretty soon,
i just won't get out of bed,
the white flag will be hoisted,
and they'll just have to cart me off.
running on empty here.

i think that the family have black-ball me.
i criticised my sister for butting in when my brother took an overdose.

why can't society understand about that?
when's it gonna change?

eloquent?

thank you mg.

morning_glory wrote:you are very eloquent eric.i hate some of they new buildings weve got.a beautiful old pub was pulled down to make a fukin car park
my day was ok.got worse when i got home, weve been trying to move a bed but i think i need an alan key.i have to now to unplumb the washer

que supertramp:

"on and on it seems t'go,but y'don't what you got 'til it's gone.............
y'take paradise,put up a parkin lot.
oooooooooooo ah'ah'ah,
ooooooooooooooooooooo".

exactly.

i like new buildings in the main , decay depresses me , so unless they are kept very well i perfer to see the old stuff done away with

oh mj,
i love decay,
old and grimey.
it tells a story.
it's somewhere to hide,
lose one's self.
where the are no rules,
and no obligations,
where you don't have to BE anything.
just be.

wouldn't want to live in it of course,
but i used to love poking around old derelict buildings.

hey diego.
thought you'd left us.
good t'see yer.

missj wrote:i like new buildings in the main , decay depresses me , so unless they are kept very well i perfer to see the old stuff done away with

sheffield was notorious for leaving things to decay, so they then could be pulled down.that is wrong.
if you go on the tram to meadowhall shopping mall, that would depress you.that is decay. old factories, buildings rubble, god knows what visitors think.something definately needs doing about that.

erixter wrote:

morning_glory wrote:you are very eloquent eric.i hate some of they new buildings weve got.a beautiful old pub was pulled down to make a fukin car park
my day was ok.got worse when i got home, weve been trying to move a bed but i think i need an alan key.i have to now to unplumb the washer

que supertramp:

"on and on it seems t'go,but y'don't what you got 'til it's gone.............
y'take paradise,put up a parkin lot.
oooooooooooo ah'ah'ah,
ooooooooooooooooooooo".

Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell, surely?

erixter wrote:oh mj,
i love decay,
old and grimey.
it tells a story.
it's somewhere to hide,
lose one's self.
where the are no rules,
and no obligations,
where you don't have to BE anything.
just be.

wouldn't want to live in it of course,
but i used to love poking around old derelict buildings.

im like that eric.
when i was about 16 my b/f had some rooms in an old Victorian house.looking back, I didn't appreciate the cornicing, original fireplaces etc.I would love to live in that house now

reckon i might like sheffield,
home of def leppard.

i hate antiques too ,, dusty old bits of stinky shite

my nans was full of knic nacks , and i mean every fucking square inch had some tat in it , some expensive some not ,, after she died clearing all that made me feel better for some reason

home comforts mj.

MJ, I feel as if I should write something about being allowed to clean out your knick knacks and so forth, but I'm a bit busy.

Can you just assume I did a smutty gag and give me a disapproving smiley I can get off on?

Thanks in advance.

That's the ticket.

If you're giving stuff away, meanwhile, a boob shot would be appreciated . Chips, if you look in, you haven't ante'd up yet either...

Bert wrote:That's the ticket.

If you're giving stuff away, meanwhile, a boob shot would be appreciated . Chips, if you look in, you haven't ante'd up yet either...

Sorry, the Chips one should read "haven't ante'd up yet this week". I believe we'd agreed on a Western theme? The milkmaid ones came out really well, meanwhile...

tut.tut.

Same goes for you, Eric. We only allow nipples if it's done tastefully, however. Be warned

, i see you havent got the topless smily over here