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Cold Comfort Shirt

I'm wearing my comfort shirt today - you know the one. It has holes in it, and it's way too big, even for me. Over the years it has gotten thin, and it seems to offer little warmth to me today. Inside it, I can feel myself trembling as I face the reality of the time ahead.

The last three weeks have been a time of heaven - of haven - for me. It has been a time of hope, of healing and of self discovery. An important time on every level I can think of, and probably every level that I can't. It's like the scales have fallen from my eyes and I have finally seen something that I should have seen years ago. Many years ago.

In short, it has been fantastic - I would struggle to conjure up sufficient superlatives to fully satisfy the feeling in my heart - either for the wonderfulness of her being here, or for the devastatingness of her being gone. My spell checker tells me that there is no such word as ”devastatingness“ - well, there should be, and there is now. It's as if my happiness is encased in a massive chunk of ice in front of me. I can see it, and observe it in almost every way - I just can't touch it and properly engage with it again.

I'm wearing my comfort shirt today, but it is not working. Maybe I'm spelling it wrong. Here, let me try again:

”chert“

...well, nearly.

Van on fire

It's not every day you see a van properly on fire on the road, but it happened to me this week. Being a blogger, and therefore part of the media...kinda, I felt it only right that I stop and take a picture of the event.

The cars along the other side of the road had all stopped, probably for fear of being blown to smithereens, or something. I wish I didn't find these things so entertaining and exciting. I am a pretty tragic rubber necker, I know.

No-one was hurt, you'll be glad to know, and the fire service was on the scene very soon after I took this - along with fully (count them) six police cars. Now I know where they are when they can't come and deal with the minutiae in my life.

NASA Picture of the day

That Hubble Space Telescope ain't all bad.

This nebula is actually exploding right now. I say right now, it might be quite a long time ago actually due to light traveling speeds. I really don't know. The lovely thing about it is that it doesn't really matter, it's just a very pretty picture.

I mean, isn't it?

Soul Doubt in massive FREE gig thriller. (pictures)

This is one of our few 'open to the public' gigs and all are welcome - The Black Pearl - formerly The Old Ship, Front Street Newbiggin by the Sea. It should be a fun night, and we'd love a crowd to turn out so please ask your friends and we'll see you down there. Thanks.

It's free. Oh yes. No charge.