My rambling blog posts!

We all make mistakes, it's human nature, nobody is perfect and as the saying goes; "to err is human, to forgive is divine". As the picture above shows, one of my all-time favourite bands made a mistake. A joke was made that, in hindsight, probably shouldn't have been. Kyle Gass apologised at the time and subsequently on social media. His bandmate Jack Black also apologised and then went one step further and cancelled the rest of their tour and future projects. I feel it was just a misjudged joke and the uproar about it was o.t.t. considering they both apologised and I've definitely heard worse bad taste jokes on a stage before. I will always adore Tenacious D and just chalked this one down to a spur of the moment joke that ultimately was a mistake.  This story made me make a mistake too - I posted about this incident but maybe should have worded it better and checked if anyone else got hurt at the Trump rally, (I genuinely thought he had just got shot in the ear, ...

  I like creating things, keeping myself busy and hopefully raising a smile here and there. I've created many things over the years; hundreds of notes, letters, drawings, models, paintings, mix tapes, poems, cards, scrapbooks, videos, etc, etc. However I appear to have hit a wall currently in regards to what comes next.  The one thing I did notice was that the things I enjoyed creating the most were the things that other people enjoyed, that appeared to spur me on. Thd photo above was taken during lockdown when I drew a daily whiteboard quote and placed in my front garden each day. This was by far the most popular thing I've ever done; not just amongst passers-by and friends but also online. In fact some of my proudest moments were when some of my favourite performers whose quotes I used thanked me! It made my day and continues to bring a smile to my face whenever I think of it. I also feel pleased reading the positive comments from people who were enjoying them, such a lovely...