Cee Tee Jackson's Blog, page 8

Will you miss me when I’m gone?

Hey! I’m not going far. And I certainly don’t have designs on moving to another spiritual plane. Not even temporarily. Not again. I’ll still be around, chipping in with comments on other posts and very likely popping up now and again with some random posts of my own. But over the next month or two […]

Knight of the Limerick.

(The prompt word today was ‘knee.’) KNIGHT OF THE LIMERICK. It was clear and easy to see,The pain as I fell to one knee.See, my right has arthritis(I didn’t tell His Highness)“For your poems, arise Sir Cee Tee.”

10 things I learned at Secondary School.

During my six years at Bearsden Academy (1970 -1976) I learned the following: · that gym shoes can be any colour (red, green, blue, pink, whatever ) so long as they’re black:this declaration was the initial declaration of our 1st Year PE teacher. Nicknamed ‘Boot,’ he gave the impression of an ex-army drill sergeant and […]

How I got into BASEBALL.

Back in the Twenties, my grandfather and his brother who were both professional fighters, boxed out of New York for some time. My Grandpa returned home to Glasgow after a while but my great uncle saw a better future in the States and brought his wife out to join him. They were young, not very […]

Heavy (& not so heavy) petting.

I’ve been running my own little Petcare business for seventeen years now. The bulk of bookings are for dog-walking services, and these take up the bulk of each day. At its pre-Covid peak, I was walking up to twenty-two dogs a day. It’s not just dogs I look after, though. I’ll visit cats in their […]

I’m cheap .. but I’m not for free!

I approached the young woman at the counter of the perfume shop.“Hi. I’m looking for an after-shave, please. Something small and cheap, I think.”“So – something that reflects you and your personality, then?” Her instinctive, instant and cheeky retort had me in stitches. She ensured a sale before I’d even tested any of the options […]

She’s the rebel of the modern town …

I’m struggling for time, so have reproduced the post I made to one of my other blogs (Once Upon a Time in The ’70s,) earlier today. _____ When it was recently suggested we celebrate International Women’s Day with a piece about one of our favourite female artists, I knew instantly who I’d be writing about. […]

Tumble out of bed, and stumble to the kitchen …

Until just about a year ago, within an hour of awakening, I’d have been out either to the gym at my tennis club, or for a run through the nearby country lanes. The latter, especially, was a lovely, invigorating way to start the day. Now though, it’s all changed. The alarm will go off around […]

I am the one and only …

I’ve spent way too much time thinking on this. What aspects do I think makes a person unique? We’re all unique. Even twins, triplets and quadruplets etc are unique. Can you imagine a world where everyone was the same? How bland and unexciting would that be? Nothing would get done. Not before teatime at any […]

In my honour?

In an ideal world, there would be a football stadium named after me here in Scotland, to acknowledge my success as a player. But sadly I had no success, and therefore no such stadium exists. I had hoped then perhaps an athletics stadium, either indoor or outdoor (I wouldn’t be too difficult to deal with) […]