My Birthday!!

Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee!!!

That's not bad is it...

This young guy should go far!

Just found this pic of me and Mike Randle on my computer. Can't remember where it was taken, it may well have been York as it was sent to me by the fabulous Mr Chris Jones.

Lizzy and I have met some great people and had some great experiences all the way through the Love thang - here's hoping that there's more of the same in the foreseeable future.

I was listening to something on Radio 2 yesterday about the boom in "old" music i.e Cream, Pink Floyd reformed, etc etc, and Johnny Walker came up with a quote from David Lee Roth - "We're giving people their youth back..." Well here's to all of you rockers out there giving us our youth back, and long may it continue.

Happy Birthday to me!

This is a picture of Keith and me on our recent holiday in Crete looking very cheery - it was a lovely holiday, although it seems a long time ago now. Freezing cold British weather and the stresses and strains of life have taken their toll on both of us since we came back home.

I am 52 years old tomorrow.

I don't feel good or bad about that, its just a fact. In some ways I'm in good shape for my age - some of the people I work with who are younger than me, look and act a lot older than I do (or so I'm told - it may just be flattery, to which I am very susceptible!!). In some other ways I feel about 90 years old and that I have the weight of the world on my shoulders.

But I have some really good friends, a great family, and, apart from a few minor blips along the way, good health - so lets count those blessings peeps!

Hey ho

View of Myrtos, Crete from the west.

This is the village in Crete we visited in October half-term. I feel very much at home there, its a "real" place rather than a tourist resort. People remembered us from last year - maybe the very drunken night in Katerina's taverna with a group of German bikers had something to do with that.

I'm off to see Lizzy tomorrow. Just a day trip but it'll be really good to see her, it seems like a while.

Right at the start of this blog I said that I had been on the periphery of something terrible that had happened in the family of some very close friends of ours. The whole sorry case reached some sort of conclusion this week - details are here

Its the stuff of your worst nightmares, especially if you're a parent.