THE HENWATCH BLOG

                                                             Throughout my life I have always kinda wanted to have some sort of hold on what goes on around me . You should probably be able to identify with what I am going to write . Or maybe not , either way it should hopefully provoke you into having an opinion . That when you get old enough and hopefully wise enough , you can decide confidently what path you should take in dealing with a particular problem .                                                               You see I can tend to oversimplify things , and maybe that's the root cause of my problem . For instance . If someone has a broken leg it should be fixed and reset in a particular manner . Yes ? If someone is having a bad time of it in school , I expect said problem to be dealt with by the appropriate channels . Yes ?  That if a doctor has told me I have terminal cancer , and I should start getting my shit in order , I would tend to believe him simply because tha

                                                                        Today's a good day ! The sun is shining , I have a chance to sit alone with my thoughts , and write them down . I don't get this opportunity often , so when I do I would normally read or watch a football match . But today is different . Today I am in conversation with myself , and I am having a discussion on whether it is right to talk to oneself , or is it just another idiosyncrasy that speaks to me every so often ?                                                                         Sometimes it's kinda okay to do this sort of thing . But then sometimes it can be a very bad idea . Mostly it depends upon your mood at any given time . You see a lot of our problems in life , well mine anyway , is that I tend to assume that other people feel and understand things the same way that I do .Not a very bright idea I have learned . You see just because I can deal with something , doesn't necessarily me

                                                                            It's been a while hasn't it ? And the reason for that has probably got a lot to do with where I am at the moment both physically and mentally . It seems that things spring to the surface when some sort of emotional disturbance might have caught my attention . And to be honest I can probably say without any hesitation that this is certainly one of those times . Let me simply  explain how this piece came about . Its in direct response to a video my son posted on line about gender confusion .                                                                            Whenever a family is blessed by whatever deity , in having a child who for whatever reason doesn't tick all of the expected boxes , gender wise , it can be a rather difficult time for those parents . More importantly it's even more difficult for the child in question who happens to be struggling with whatever identity crisis life has

                                                                   Am still trying to handle the bitch that is January . But am in a positive place today , and January is just another faint needle prick that is easily forgotten . Besides there are more pressing issues to be dealt with and to be faced . Issues that ordinarily I would just ignore or pass as being nothing more than another bloody annoying irritant . Now as we all know irritants can cause blotches on your skin , they can also make you itch in places you'd rather not have itches in . They can also annoy the fu.. out of your head . Now they are a special kind of irritant .To put it in a nutshell , these are what I would term two legged egotistical irritants . People who can't but annoy the arse out of you . You know the ones , don't you ?                                                                   I can almost sense the motion of you nodding to yourselves . Don't be surprised by this . Its a natural r

                                                                        I Fuc.... Hate January ! I detest everything about it . It is for me the worst time of the year . Its a nowhere month . It has no character . It has no warmth . It is empty of anything that promotes well being .                                                                         Even the poor people whose children's birthday's are in January hate the bastardin month. They've just gotten over the Christmas presents , and now they have birthdays . They should scrap all birthdays and do what they do with horses and set maybe the 1st of July as everyone's birthday from now on .( Just in case you didn't know , all horses were born on the 1st January ) ! You see how handy that would be ? I digress , January is still a shite month .                                                                         Your credit card bills hit you in January , and God help anyone who lost the run of themselve

                                                                          Yesterday was a good day ! No , let me correct myself , yesterday was a really good day ! You see on the 10th January 1975 I married my wife Catherine , and if I did only one thing right in the whole of my life , well then that would have been it .                                                                           That's not to say I got a lot wrong along the way , well maybe I did , but in her I really hit the jackpot . It's not everybody who can say that and really mean it   As its I suppose in men's eyes , sometimes not something that you would own up to for one reason or another . You see men sometimes forget who took them out of holes when no one else would . They also are not very prone to complimenting their wives very often . Don't ask me why , it's just something that we are not prone to doing . And we should . No excuses acceptable for not saying at times what needs to be sa