Cee Tee Jackson's Blog, page 5

While my wife gently weeps.

I’ve never been any good when it comes to playing music. I was totally rubbish at school and to be honest, I was more interested in being out on the running track or football pitch. However lately, now fifty years down the line, with my athletics and football days way behind me, I’ve been wishing […]

The Beatles – please tell me I’m not alone!

Perhaps I should mention, for the benefit of those who don’t know me: it’s not in my nature to be deliberately confrontational, but I’m proud to be non-conventional. I think this results from being Scottish; old; grumpy, and a martyr to ‘small man syndrome.’ I’m also an ageing punk, rocking a dodgy mohawk hairstyle . […]

There’s a Light That Never Goes Out.

Wednesday afternoon, around 4pm, my phone rang. It showed an incoming call from long-time pal, Tony McDonagh, but the voice was that of Denise, his wife. I was suddenly filled with a sense of dread and just knew what Denise was about to tell me. Tony had passed away that morning. Though we’d never met, […]

A few wise words …

The other night, I watched a reality television programme about a British ‘boy band’ that were sent to Korea in order to learn what’s required to become big in the world of K-Pop. Neither reality shows nor K-Pop are my bag, really, but it was still an interesting watch. At the end of their intensive […]

Brand new wardrobe.

I’ve never really been one for ‘branded’ goods. I don’t know if my parents were true ‘canny’ Scots when it came to money, or just plain tight, but I could never compete with the other kids when it came to having the latest and supposedly best clothes and toys. I’m not complaining, and I’m not […]

‘Why Mummy Drinks On Holiday,’ by Gill Sims.

In these enlightened days of equality and non-stereotyping, there’s no such thing as a ‘man’s book’ or a ‘woman’s book.’ So there should be nothing odd about my buying a hardback copy of this, the latest in the ‘Why Mummy …’ series by Gill Sims. That said – it is a ‘woman’s book.’ So why […]

Life without music?

Are you kidding me? Life without music? That’s just not going to work, is it? I’ll tell you one thing – my life would be a LOT quieter, for a start. And I’d have a lot more spare cash too. OK – that’s two things. It’s strange that someone so rubbish at music in school […]

Just do it … !!!

How many readers of this nonsense, I wonder, have written and published a book or are even contemplating doing so?Yeah? That many? I have a question for you … how do you cope with the daily barrage of ‘helpful’ tips, promises to publish your books and turn your manuscript into a bestseller? I’ve written and […]

A Goan Adventure: a story about the furthest I’ve ever traveled from home.

The distance from Glasgow to Goa, western India, is 4,890 miles.( … and yes, this is the same post I used to answer the very same WP prompt around this same date last year! 😀 ) So, another adventure in Goa, India draws  to a close ‘Adventure?’ Perhaps that’s an exaggeration. The word prompts thoughts […]

A Space Hopper Killed My Hamster!

Remember these? They were all the rage in the early to mid-Seventies, having been introduced by the toy manufacturer, Mettoy-Corgi in 1969. Made of sturdy, heavy-duty rubber, they took some amount of blowing up. Strictly speaking, they could be inflated by bicycle pump. But there weren’t many kids, boy or girl, walking the streets with […]