My AA Costume

This picture is me at AA on Monday taken with my mate, Uncle Buck’s camera phone, as you can see our AA group has a special costume to identify their home group membership, this being a simple Jedi like gown and a green scarfe we call our doop.
We like to think we are dressed like the Jedi’s from the Star Wars film, no I’m only joking, we found the gown in the church and I just could not resist trying it on and like I say my good friend Uncle Bock couldn’t resist showing off his new internet phone.
I look like a complete idiot, but then again you gotta laugh at yourself haven’t you, at the moment and for the next few weeks Ill be opening up and Uncle Buck is doing the teas so we are there long before anyone else, this week Yoda showed off by reversing his van up the ice covered drive to the church and I threw a snowball at him.
The drive home was a bit scary in some parts, Holmfirth where its situated (the home of the TV series “The Last Of The Summer Wine”) is notorious for its blocked roads when we just eight miles West of us get maybe 5 inches.
At home my dad was and still is in a lot of pain, a doctor who came see him mid week reckons he has probably fractured his cheekbone, I have had to carry him once more up the stairs and back down so he could go to the toilet.
We have now got a chemical camping toilet in the room, but on the last time I carried him he felt quite light, he hasn’t been eating and I joked carrying him back down that he was much lighter still.
We have been giving him Complan to try and feed him and thankfully for the last few days he has been sat up in his chair and quite talkative and is now determined to try and walk again with the aid of his frame.
I also got him some St Johns Wort which will hopefully help a bit with his low spirits and I have read in quite a few places on the internet that the herb is beneficial for the lack of dopamine in the brain which is the cause of the disease in essence.
Tonight he seems much improved, he was supposed to be picked up in an ambulance today and taken to the hospital for an X-ray but the ambulance said he couldn’t carry him so left him behind, if I had known about this I could easily of booked the day as a holiday.
As I write this, its Friday night and I am listening to a copy I have found of Madonna’s new album a “Greatest Hits” package with all the songs from 2003 to 2008, starting with “Die Another Day” and culminating with her latest Hard Candy hits “4 Minutes” and the No38 Smash “Miles Away”
The Album is called GH3 and I will definitely buy it legitimately whenever it comes out on CD, it has two new songs “Get Stupid” and “Leave Me Alone” the latter I reckon will be her next single I assume.
I am really enjoying the journey of the last 6 years of my life, “Love Profusion” was right at the height of my drinking and a horrible lonely Christmas when I was descending steeply into an alcoholic abyss.
“Hung Up” and the other tracks from the “Confessions” Album were anthems of the good times at “The Lost World”, every song takes my mind to a place in the past, I like enjoy Madonna music so much that I even have a blogger blog about her discography at http://michael-madonna.blogspot.com/
Anyway where was I oh yes, Tuesday I went to Luke’s school to see some presentation about his options, anyway we watched this show done by some kids from the drama school, it was quite good.
Then we were all herded out of the hall and into the library to have a chat and sign a piece of paper about the subjects we had chosen, only I guess being back “at school” had a strange effect on some us parents, me included.
I was queuing to see Luke’s form teacher with Luke and behind us was this west Indian chap, it was my turn to sit and chat next with his form teacher when this Urdu lady pushed in and sat down, which I then said she was a “pusher” and the guy behind me agreed with me far more vocally.
The Urdu lady then reluctantly got up and went to join the queue leaving me next, it then turned out the required form we needed to fill in was in short supply so his form teacher looking a bit bemused at what had just taken place wrote Luke’s choices on a scrap of paper she had found but then realised she could hardly expect me and Luke to sign this scrap of paper.
Me and Luke agreed to go and find an official copy of the form, I could not believe the disorganisation, I also bumped into The Ice Maidens old neighbour Trisha, in the end we did get sorted but in retrospect it was a bit of a laugh, Luke says he could not believe that parents were behaving like children themselves.
I told him that at least I didn’t go dressed as Boba Fett out of Star Wars or with my AA gear on.
Wednesday was a bad day weather-wise, this time it was subzero temperatures, Ice and the lack of grit for the Ice Road which caused another mishap on the early morning run which once again I missed but Betty was in the middle of so I can use her witness statement…
… then FL17 Fork truck which was trying to grit the road with table salt from Sainsbury’s due to the shortage of Grit… he ended up in Mr Angry’s chicken run then Barnsley Bill appeared with more bags of salt and managed to free me with a bit of help from The Chimney Sweep.
Its silly though, they put all the grit on the road then the Road sweeper goes down and sweeps it all back up, I mean I rather have a bit of mud rather than Ice, they don’t have the common sense they are born with they don’t.
I mean Miss Bickerdyke nearly skidded with water from the silly road sweeper when it was discharging its water the night before, no I don’t think it was the fork truck that caused it, I reckon the driver got out of the truck to see if the fork truck driver was okay and couldn’t get started again…”
Its not fair I thought I always miss all these exciting early morning mishaps, the drivers chart has meanwhile taken more change with the second week of a bitterly cold February.
I didn’t manage to get todays figures but I reckon we must have done another ¾ million George who was last weeks top player now drops back to number 8 with the same number of bricks he had last week
>> NE 10 Dave AY55ASU 21,696
▲ 57 9 Scott T500TTF 23,504
▲ 49 8 George P30COD 24,408
Harry has suffered many set backs due to the weather and then his truck breaking down, he also managed to leave it over night at Bettys old haunt and it became trapped by snow, so he falls steeply from last months pole position and just crawls to number 6, a joint position he holds with The Crowman.
This week The Monastery had a visit by one of the Royal Ewoks from the higher echelons of the company and he had a chat with The Crowman about motorbikes, the Crowman said afterwards he didn’t realise he was the main man.
Both Harry and The Crowman have managed 3 full loads
▼ 1 6 Harry Potter 31,188
▲ 17 7 The Crowman 31,188
Burty drops from last months end position of No2 to the mid month position of number 5 but there is still time for him to add to his four loads, in fact if I had added todays figures I reckon he would have been even higher because I remembering him coming in today and pinching a sarnie out of the leftovers from the managers buffet.
I would of eaten more of the leftovers but Billy Bunny had brought me fish and chips like he usually does on Friday, Betty I reckon knew that there would be loads of grub going later because she refrained from Fish and Chips and then spent the afternoon going past me with legs of chicken, onion bargees, cheese and buiscuits which got me started.
Maximum Moaner jumps into the Top 5 for the first time for ages and he joins Van Damn with four full loads each, Van Damn was earlier in the week for a brief time at Number 1 but Keith Chicken and Orville were not having that
▼ 2 5 Burty Basset 40,672
▲ 14 4 Maximum Moaner 41,584
> 4 3 Van Damn 41,584
So both the “birds” occupy the top two positions but Orville just sneaks past him because one of Chickens five loads wasn’t quite a full flock, when interviewed today about his mid month dominance he said “I just wish I could fly”
▲ 3 2 Keith Chicken 47,460
▲ 5 1 Orville 51,980
I have now got my entire bedroom to myself with Luke having moved into my parent’s old bedroom after they moved downstairs due to my dad being unable to walk and tonight Luke has gone to a place called “Society”.
It’s a meeting place for people in there early teens, a sort of nightclub without the alcohol and he has gone to meet his lady friend who I call Sally Cineman to annoy him, he promises to phone me to pick him up somewhere around 10-11pm.
At the moment Luke’s cousin and the son of Dwain Dibbly, Mr Popple is in there playing PS3 on the net with his microphone and headphones on; he has been with Luke most of the week since he has had his own room.
I have not been doing as much reading now because I can finally watch I-player without competing with Luke’s PS3 war games and the other night I was fascinated with this documentary about dreams.
Despite all the research poured into the study of our nocturnal activities scientists still don’t know much about where they come from or what there purpose are but it recognised Lucid dreaming as a very powerful skill to learn.
Lucid dreaming is when in your dream you are aware that you are in a dream and this happens quite regularly to me, in fact the best bits of my life still happen when I am asleep.
I mean really in a way when we are awake we are in a dream in that what we see and hear with our senses is a construct of our mind, its only the fact that we can agree on the objects we see when seen by others that we can share our “awake dream”.
maybe the dream we call reality is in fact the dream of a mind even more powerful than ours in that our minds are just a tiny part?