May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
And…speaking of survivors. Here’s a little heroine I’d like you to meet. My great niece, Alex, preparing for her end-of-year dance recital. The photo was taken by her mum, my niece, Madeline. Both of them make me so proud. They have more courage than I have in my pinky finger. Both escaped an abusive relationship….
So…my Facebook feed tonight threw this one up at me. A piece of poetry I wrote. It was based on going out for a meal in Sydney’s northern suburbs with my sister to a place called Sambal. There we are outside it. One of my favourite dishes is laksa and this place were doing a…
Christmas 2019 was spent with my sister, brother-in-law, three nieces, one nephew (and their partners) and my nine great nieces and nephews. Beautiful chaos…
My family are nuts… but I wouldn’t swap them for the world ??
Oh, but I am still missing the “cherry on top” – the reply comments. I miss that element. It feels like a positive reinforcement when it happens. When it stops or doesn’t happen for a while I tend to think “Oh, he’s as sick of me as everyone else is! Lol.” And then I tend…
I try to limit the personal content on here. I try to keep it much more about Simple Minds, music in general, my art and my own musical journey. But this…this just made me laugh so much and just…what a woman she is! No…not the Queen or Kate (though…you know…hmmm), but the tit-grab offender. That’s…
It’s coming up to 9 years since Jim Kerr released his first solo album, under the moniker “Lostboy! AKA”. And it appears as if it will be destined to remain Lostboy’s only solo venture. There was a promise of more to come for 2011 with a follow up album earmarked. Sadly personal family issues took…
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Is *not* a thing I imagine Jim is thinking right now of me. Lol. He’s probably relishing being 12,000 miles away! If there is even a thought about it at all. In the story of the Kerr family’s ALMOST emmigration to Australia, I am also glad his mum had a change of heart, because there…
A really heavy conversation on the phone with my sister last night. Again, something that is better for me to say here rather than on FB (my nieces and nephews never visit here). She told me of the times when I was a kid when she’d by laying in the bath…languishing in the water…looking at…
Some time back, I’d read a reference to a “Joe Kerr” and I was like “Pffft! As if! His parents wouldn’t be so cruel to have a son and name him Joe!” And Jim would make references about a house of FOUR boys…and I would think “you…Paul…Mark…unless you’re counting your dad in…who’s the fourth boy?”…