Happy Christmas Gandalf

[Gandalf]

Thank you for the apology and the same in return as I said bad things at the start of that thread too. People say bad words, people respond with more bad words, and before you know it Dante's Inferno has set the forum alight.

Happy Christmas to all and I hope you are all fine and being nice to your families (including your Mother in-law and strange Uncle Bertie). I am going to be quieter for awhile as I need a break. I guess I burned myself out with stress over recent months and where most people look to relax outside of that to burn off the stress, I have been coming on to this forum taking all kinds of abuse. A bad mix, and so a rest from all things toxic. Just some gentle language study and private reading. It's a little how I imagine Syd Barrett started to live (don't call me out on that, note the word 'little').

That is my Christmas gift to you all, a little peace and quiet. Enjoy.

I look forward to reading more great posts from you 2014.

I'm breaking my vow too early, but when I go quiet I will go quiet.

I intend to chronicle the first 18 years of my life in book form over the first 6 months of next year. I will post, but want to get away from using that language here, as I think that is perfect for a book. There is a certain style I am looking to emulate.

Quite serious on the book idea. My upbringing is very Oliver Twist and would put to rest some of the notions that I was middle class. Seeing as I have given up sharing anecdotes on here already, it is best to use them as the basis of a series of books. The first would be from rags to nail polish.The story of a poor child jumbled, city to city, never having any stability, eventually moving half way across the country to a different universe where people spoke like Geoffrey Boycott. They put down family dog, the parental breakup, the homelessness, the eventual house where baby sister gets the big bedroom and me the tiny box, school absenteeism because of misery, made up illness to avoid school. Such a heartbreaking tale of hopelessness, but then eventually he discovers rock and roll and wears black nail polish to an economics class where he is called up to draw a diagram on the board. Whatever, will happen at this juncture? Some of the anecdotes could be very funny, but will I have the commitment, dunno, but I certainly have the time.