Articles tagged with diary
Diary Tuesday 31st March 2015
My mum was taking our surviving cat to the vets as she is fretting and distressed to the point of barely eating in the months since the death of her Ginger Tom unidentical twin brother. The only time I went out was to sort out my mum’s paper-bills an
Diary – Sunday 29th March 2015
Diary – Sunday 29th March 2015 Just as I’m working out how little money I can spend in a very frugal tightly stretched financial week, my computer mouse died, forcing me to add the cost of a replacement mouse to my weekly budget, thoug
Diary – Tuesday 24th March 2014
A quiet day mercifully after my Mum’s frightening fall in the kitchen last night. Though she is just a little bruised and shaken no bones were broken (she has a brittle bone condition). We are now very short on kitchen and dining plates though. &nbs
Diary Wednesday 25th March 2015
I’m continuing to look at alternative pay to write platforms. Though I love Persona Papers it has taken me over 220 articles here to earn just under $10.00, which is half of what I need to write to claim. Financially at present it is an immense
Diary – Saturday 21st March 2015
A long awaited seriously overdue employment record was finally delivered to me today, though I can’t forward a copy to the other department of my welfare team for them to send it to a potential employer until Monday now. The drama writing gr
Diary Sunday 22nd March 2014
A day of nothing but online activity and some TV viewing. I looked up old radio plays that have been preserved online. There are quite a lot available. I was quite excited by some of my discoveries, which may well be reviewed over the months to co
Diary Thursday 19th March 2014
Welfare day, and a rare chance for me to criticise them for compromising my job searching, rather than just being tutted at for not yet having gained paid work. A potential employer can’t proceed further with my application process unt
Diary Friday 20th March 2015
I started the day by checking to see if my library books were due back today or next Friday only to see that I should have returned them on Tuesday. I have a modest overdue fine to pay today. Grrr. My much needed work history confirmation slip sti
Diary Wednesday 18th March 2015
In the evening I attended an important Annual General Meeting (AGM )of the real ale group of which I am a member. Though most committee members there are continuing to serve, our treasurer has stepped down and no one, myself included, is currently able to
Diary – Tuesday 17th March 2015
Manchester usually has a whole festival of activity over the weeks leading to Saint Patrick’s Day, but there was no such event this year apart from the annual Irish Parade which I sadly missed. My day was dominated by my second of three intense inte
Diary – Monday 16th March 2015
Diary – Monday 16th March 2015 Another day of nothing much until late afternoon, when I was called to the second of three potential interviews for some work at the airport for lunchtime tomorrow, though half of the information I’m expe
Diary – Sunday 15th March 2015
It's Mother’s Day, or Mothering Sunday for the UK today. I think it falls on different dates in some countries. I don’t have too much money with not working at the present time, so I bought my Mum a DVD of The Best Exotic Marigold
Diary Saturday 14th March 2015
What is there to say about a day when my only venture out at all was to post a letter? The famous Chinese curse ‘May you live in interesting times’ was uttered by someone who obviously prefers days like this. Overall it is better than
Diary – Friday 13th March 2015
My first of potentially three interview processes towards a warehousing role connected to Manchester Airport, which used to be called Ringway Airport, dominated the morning. The first interview was nowhere near the airport, but in a welfare office
Diary Thursday 12th March 2015
A heavy job-seeking day as I had to make my regular report to my employment broker this afternoon. He was impressed by recent job search activity and disappointed that an interview cancelled by one of his colleagues has not yet been re-organized. His colle
Diary – Wednesday 11th March 2015
One of those days when I kept thinking it was a different day entirely. I kept convincing myself it was already Thursday. During the day I was online throughout but with a real ale pub crawl round Eccles in the evening. We had planned to visit jus
Diary – Tuesday 10th March 2015
A very worrying start to the day as my bank card told me my usually as regular as clockwork fortnightly welfare payments hadn’t gone to my account but they were just delayed not stopped. They normally transfer automatically at midnight but for some r
Diary Sunday 8th March 2015
A very dead day in which I barely left my own bedroom computer alone. Strangely I never noticed that I had been doing that until about 4pm. I get so absorbed in writing and online activity that I lose all track of time and place. One day I’l
Diary Monday 9th March 2015
A routine job hunting day followed by a night participating in the latest Three Minute Theatre movie spoof comedy and verse night known as Flim Night, which this month was based around the cult teen movie, Mean Girls. My contribution was a sketch
Book #14 in 2015 : Christopher's Diary : Echoes of Dollanganger by V.C. Andrews with spoilers
This afternoon I finished reading the 14th book this year. The book is called "Christopher's Diary : Echoes of Dollanganger" by V.C. Andrews. It is book 2 in The Diaries Series. It is 357 pages of fiction. I liked the first book in this series but this wa
Diary Saturday 7th March 2015
I woke still feeling numb after resigning from my radio show, due largely to other pressures on my time and I still half thinking of the tunes I would have presented and the things I would have talked of. I got lots of messages of thanks fro
Diary Thursday 5th March 2015
My signing on for welfare payments went smoothly as they were very impressed by my recent theatre show activity which dominated my job search records. The afternoon was dominated by a job interview at a waste-disposal and recycling plant in Gorton, though
Freedom writers
Last Saturday (Philippine time) around 12:30 midnight, I cannot sleep yet, so, I decided to watch a movie from a DVD player. What I picked was a story about an English teacher for freshmen in Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. The story entitled
Diary Wednesday 4th March 2015
An evening at Three Minute Theatre followed a day of writing and preparing for Thursday’s job hunting activity. I wasn’t performing in the short radio plays tonight – just watching various plays set to three, six and nine minute lengths.
Diary Tuesday 3rd March 2014
A day when my diary ought to be just a blank line – but I am determined not to miss a day out. I have been asked, if not summoned to make a new studio ident for my radio show, which is the old one on a new day and the boss seems to exp
Diary Sunday 1st March 2015
Wow, March already, and such dreadful weather to herald in the month. I spent virtually the entire day on my computer working round several writing projects old and new including; a script for my next proposed radio / stage play following the warm
Diary – Wednesday 25th February 2015
A busy morning spent job hunting, but failing to catch any, followed by real ale activity and going to the movies. It was the night of a selection process meeting for our real ale group’s region to pick the pubs from our area for inclusion i
Diary Friday 27th February 2015 My First Radio Play
A much awaited and exciting day for me as my radio play, Wendigo Water, about shipwreck survivors, and demonic possession, was to be recorded before a live theatre audience at Manchester’s delightful Three Minute Theatre. I checked the text
Diary – Thursday 26th February 2015 – Audition Day
An exciting morning for me today, as it was the day of my first ever acting audition. Having never taken drama at school, which I regret, I have had minor roles in a few science fiction convention comedy dramas as well as performing my own poetry
Diary Tuesday 24th February 2015
I had a tedious morning writing out job application letters. One job I don’t qualify for anyway was sent to me with mandatory instructions to complete is lengthy application form, and send it back to my job brokers for their approval before they post
Diary – Friday February 20th 2015
The day of the heavily promised interview with a leading High Street Supermarket’s biggest warehouse loomed and fizzled out like a damp squib. Having completed an irrelevant training course that promised the interview at its end, I got up ea
Diary – Monday 23rd February 2015
The day was dominated by writing, job searching and preparing for activities to come later in the week. My grief over the senseless death of my old cat due to a local drunkard losing control of a viscous dog on Saturday still
A Good Tuesday Morning to You!
Just a few minutes and then I must get myself in the shower to start my day. I am probably pushing it a bit on the time, as I need to be on podium to teach in 45 minutes. Thankfully, I live five minutes from my work site this week. Howeve
My Ups and Downs Today
Today has been an up-and-down sort of day. Right now, it is an up moment, because I can still smell the cinnamon buns that I just made. I had a number of things I wanted/needed to accomplish today and did: Wrote three things for Persona Paper to
Diary Sunday 22nd February 2015
I woke feeling numb from the horrific death of my ageing cat last night (see my previous post). I was overwhelmed by messages of support and condolences from friends across the internet. I checked my Mum was OK, and she is taking the loss re
Diary Thursday 19th February 2015
A very mixed day ending with some shattering news for me from which I have yet to recover. The morning involved seeing my welfare officers at two different centres. The first was my signing on briefing, which was quick as my interrogator was unabl
Diary – Wednesday 18th February 2015
The long pointless warehousing theory course finally came to an end today. After three days we were shown the Earth shattering conclusion we all identified in the first three minutes of the first day – doing a job properly gets it done quicker and to
Diary Tuesday 17th February 2015
An annoying, frustrating, boring day for me. It started with a comment on my PP comments box that a reader finds titles like ‘Diary’ uninformative and chooses not to read my work any more – bye then. I’ve crossed that contr
Diary Monday 16th February 2015
My phone has gone missing. It is either on silent or out of power so I can’t trace it, though it is somewhere in the house – very frustrating. Today marked the start of the three day warehousing work training programme in Gorton, Manch
So Much to Say and Little Time, But...
I thought that I would write a few minutes before I head back out the door to meet friends for dinner this evening. This week was a busy week and I have a lot to share in these next few days. Forgive me, if I repeat myself. Monday: I took RGD to ca
Diary Sunday 15th February 2015
I had to buy my second pair of shoes in three months after my last pair fell apart. I walked to the North Manchester shoe shop in the old pair, changed into the new ones right after I left, as I sat at a bus stop, dumped the old ones in a litter bin and ca
Diary – Friday 13th February 2015
A very varied day of mixed experiences and moods. I have no Friday 13th superstitions, but this day was the anniversary of my Step-father’s heart attack death in 2011. I went to Manchester for what I was told was to be a work placem
Diary – Thursday 12th February 2015
It was a great relief not to have to get up and go to the farcical call centre job which wasn’t paying staff any more. I got a pleasant lie in for the first time in weeks. Later in the day my job brokers sent me details of a new job, with a supermar
Diary – Wednesday 11th February 2015
I sent an angry pleading e-mail to my job broker asking how they came to put me on a work placement with a sales company that doesn’t pay staff and treated my attendance as an interview. I was two hours into my second day on the job when I r
Diary Tuesday 10th February 2015
After the four blissful days of my birthday celebrations came a day of living Hell. I was ordered by my job brokers to attend a mandatory job interview today, which they already falsely accused me of failing to attend on Friday before I sent them
Diary Monday 9th February 2015
My 53rd birthday. Happy birthday to me / Happy birthday to me / Happy birthday dear meeee / Happy birthday to me! Seriously a happy, glorious day. Most of my celebrating was done on Sunday when my friends were free to come out for a meal and drink
Diary – Friday 6th February 2015 - Evening
After the frightful conflicts with the dole office hired-gun government licensed bandit job-brokers that dominated the day the late afternoon and evening were wonderful. I prepared some notes for tomorrow’s radio show and then headed out to
Diary Thursday 5th February 2015
The roller coaster of expected hectic scheduling really began today. As with every second week on Thursday I had appointments with two separate welfare departments, each trigger happy to crush benefits claims with sanctions on the slightest technicality as
Diary – Wednesday 4th February 2015
A hectic day today, with a short visit to the theatre preparing to stage my show later this month, and contacting a new cast member to take on one of the roles in my radio drama. From there, I hit the Central Manchester library for a few hours, be
Diary – Tuesday 3rd February 2015
One of the few days this month with no appointments to keep or anywhere I need to be. I caught up with edits of my radio play, Wendigo Water, and highlighted the sound effects for it, mostly water related as much of the story concerns shipwreck su
Diary – Monday 2nd February 2015
Daytime – writing, job-search, yada yada yada. Skipping all that palaver as my giddy and excited mind was focussed on the evening activity – the read through / rehearsal of my horror themed radio play, Wendigo Water, which is due to go
Diary – Sunday 1st February 2015
A new month and a leap into the past for me, as today I joined friends from the Cottonopolis Coglective Steampunk Society and allies from other steampunk groups in North West England, for tours of two city centre museums and art galleries. We met
Diary – Saturday 31st January 2015
After a glorious sunny day dominated by one radio show, I set out to attend a meeting / launch party at a Manchester theatre where they are turning one of my short horror stories into a radio play, scripted by me. As I was leaving the stat
Diary Friday 30th January 2015
Much of today was spent creating a calendar page for my computer to keep up with coming events. February is already looking very busy and expensive for me, and I have events scheduled as far out as October. I’ll be spending so much time in the coming
Diary – Thursday 29th January 2015
A lot of little tasks today, and mainly sorting out a restaurant deposit for my birthday meal a week on Sunday. I travelled through increasingly horrible weather into Manchester by Metrolink tram, and after going to the restaurant, I hit the centr
Diary – Wednesday 28th January 2015
Dull as the proverbial dishwater up to the evening when I went on a Northern Quarter of Manchester city centre bar crawl, despite wind, hail, rain, and later, snow. I caught a bus to the first sanctuary from the elements, The Angel Inn, in Collyhu
Diary – Monday 26th January 2015
A day with so little activity for me that I’d rather like to live it again or have it erased from the calendar. Would anyone else miss it? It is the day the Greek singer, Demis Roussos died. He was a favourite of my late father in the
Diary – Sunday 25th January 2015
A busy day involving performance of a burlesque routine I created, presented by the wonderful ‘Princess Of Darkness’ and myself. This was staged after much planning at the first 2015 meeting of the Manchester based North West B
Diary – Thursday 22nd January 2015
I had to report to two separate welfare advisors today. Initially the appointments clashed but I was able to move the second mandatory meeting back a few hours. The first was just to sign on, where they check my job searching activity is on-going.
Diary – Monday 19th January 2015
Another day when I barely left my keyboard. I got hit with some spam, even on Persona Papers but that was quickly intercepted and annihilated straight away once reported by me. Interestingly it came from an account that was still listed as pending
Diary – Sunday 18th January 2015
A big writing day that left me little time for online writing. I have been invited to present a paper to a philosophy group on the nature of evil. Having already written a short book on the topic, I prepared an edited version of the text as my scr
Diary – Friday 16th January 2015
A day heavily spent preparing for my Saturday presentation on broadcast live community radio. With a special guest taking part to promote the region’s biggest beer festival, and a new presenter taking up the slot right after my own, I knew I
Diary – Thursday 15th January 2015
My job-broker has changed again. I am now on my third job search-specialist in about ten months, and the chap in the middle did nothing at all for me before being replaced in another reshuffle at their offices. Aside from that yesterday was an ina
Diary – Wednesday 14th January 2015
A quite sedate day writing at home, and later at the library in Manchester City Centre which was very busy as the students have started back at the colleges and already have their course work assignments to study. I left the library to dreadful we
Diary – Tuesday 13th January 2014
A big day for challenges online with the Persona Pages listing several worthy challenges to try out including a challenge to write for each of the categories offered for our articles. Another, which I completed, was to read and comment on somethin
Diary – Monday 12th January 2014
A day spent almost entirely online – I feel like a character in Tron, except I’ll just be chased round the game matrix by words and letters. I helped my Mum fold down our dining table, which was set larger for entertaining guests over
Diary – Sunday 11th January 2015
My Mum played her annual get someone else to put the decorations away game again. Though taken down last Monday the decorations have had to wait until my estranged brother in law was free to come round and put them in the ceiling loft. Tho
Diary – Friday 9th January 2015
Lots of minor errands to do; library visit, preparing my radio show, chasing after guests invited to my birthday bash in February who haven’t ASAP’d. Going out in really horrible weather is becoming the norm at present. I felt li
Diary – Thursday 8th January 2015
I had to claim welfare in the morning, my first regular fortnightly claim this year and since my Xmas work contract ran out. It went easily and I was back home by 10 AM. In the late afternoon I called in the library, picking out a few graphic nove
Diary – Tuesday 6th January 2014
I went to the shops for my mum, and discovered that she won a small prize in the lottery – just enough to cover the cost of her next set of lottery tickets, which is nice. It was very cloudy out but I just made it home before the rain starte
Diary – Monday 5th January 2014
Twelfth Day / Twelfth Night, with the day being quite mundane for me. I rarely left my room where I job searched and wrote up various articles. The evening was much more interesting as I headed to a city centre bar, The Seven Stars in Manche
Dear Diary
My ten-year old nephew introduced me to the #Diary of A Wimpy Kid series. I am struck by the some of the lines of the book that diaries are for sissies so he prefers to call it a journal. I do not find a huge difference between a journal and a diary. IA d
