Life
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Conversations
There is an old saying about wanting to be A Fly On The Wall when you know something is going to happen in another room or elsewhere, or when you think someone is going to snap, be emotional, forward, and really want to experience it before the story gets corrupted by the retelling, or hidden.
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That Special Person
We all have that special someone, or that small group of people, in our lives. It's a shame we don't celebrate our relationships more often, let them know - as here at the CSD in Bremerhaven - that they are the one(s).
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Bremerhaven: Waiting
There will always be someone who quotes that old chestnut "patience is a virtue" but who, like most of us, has no patience to wait when a delay effects them personally. I admit to being one of those without adequate patience when it comes to things that I cannot change, where the influence of a third party makes a difference to an arrival time,
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Bremerhaven: The Hidden
The Christopher Street Day parade in Bremerhaven is only three years old, one of the newest to join a massive following of Pride celebrations in Germany, and proudly taking its place among all the others as the movement grows, as more people show their true colours and come out onto the streets.
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Travelling: Tickets I Have Known.
I have been a traveller since the early Seventies, beginning in England, travelling and working in Wales and Scotland, exploring Northern Ireland and, later, Ireland. At a young age I made my first trip overseas to France where, mouth open in amazement, I discovered that the French, and other European foreigners, looked and acted much the same as we did on our small island. My first trust issues, especially of a specific teacher in my North Yorkshire school, began to surface.