The eleventh month.

November has begun here on the beach, and I don't believe I'll be moving too far away from it this month.  Halo's Eve over for another year, bores the shite out of me. Now for the debauchery that All Halo's Day brings.

Earth sea and sky

I see

Dancers came to say hi

School

Happy birthday

Happy birthday to my beautiful youngest son, ten years old today. I love and miss you.

No apology needed

Hong Kong 'journalists' embarass themselves at economic forum and get thrown out for shouting at Phillipine president. Over a criminal act commited by one man 3 years ago. They then stupidly get supporters to demonstrate outside Indonesian and Phillipine consulates. They also ask why Chief Executive is smiling at the economic forum, CY Leung needs to get some balls and tell these idiots they embarrassed Hong Kong, and why shouldn't he smile at a meeting of world leaders. The hostage issue is over and attempts to bully the Phillipines and now Indonesian governments are useless.Thousands of domestic helpers  are mistreated in Hong Kong every day. How about an apology for their treatment?

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=138322&sid=40580145&con_type=1

Odd

Does seem odd when I think about it. 2am and I am sat quite happily on my own private beach as I have been for the last 3 hours, and countless nights before. I see stars, i hear and see the waves rolling in, it is 26c, I looked round at the big electronic sign to check. I have my tunes on full blast on the boom box, a fag and a beer. And of course my internet connection to the rest of humanity. This is my living room, even when home I sit outside unless I am in bed sleeping. I spent last winter cocooned inside a box in England, never ever ever ever again. I can't handle it, that is a solid immovable truth. The solitude of the deserted beach has its dangers, e-mails, texts, and once in a blue moon a phone call will find me, a quarrel, disturbing news, the end of a relationship, still find their way here mostly, some of them ephemeral passing in the night, as do my thoughts, others more substantial. The demons come and go, what starts out as a jolly on the beach can in a moment turn into a heart tearing struggle for calm and composure after another vitriolic message from the ether. But this is my motherfucking living room, and here I shall motherfucking stay, riding out the waves, real, metaphorically or imaginary. Odd.

Religious intolerance

This is the same guy who attends with hundreds of others any tragedy such as multiple shootings or tornadoes brandishing signs saying it was God's punishment. 2 million bikers heading to Washington to confront Muslims, muslims like MOHAMMED ALI, and thousands of other black Americans who converted to Islam after realising it was Christianity that enabled their ancestors to be be enslaved for generations, that subjegated women for millennia and kept all of our ancestors in perpetual poverty, unless you belong to a royal family...do you? No, I thought not. Those dickhead biker redneck motherfuckers should head south instead, and rid American politics of the religious right who insist on teaching creationism in the classrooms and who won't let women control their own bodies, even after rape.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pastor-terry-jones-arrested-in-florida-in-another-plan-to-burn-korans-8811355.html

Alone

Some scars don't heal.

Damien Rice - Older Chests Acoustic

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Beach

Clarity in the mist

Happy 8th Birthday blog.

This blog is 8 years old today. I haven't been as prolific recently, but that may once again change now I am back in Hong Kong for the for seeable future. Check back soon. Check out the links to my other blogs too.

Auto me

Had a fantastic Skype session with my boys yesterday.  I took them from Shek o on the bus and Mtr to Tseung Kwan O using the front camera on the phone.They were sat eating their breakfast in England and as Joseph said, 'it's just like being you Dad'. Got a few funny looks on the train, but then again,  I always do. That got me thinking,  someone needs to invent an ' auto you'   a remote control robot that can be operated by you and wearing a set of glasses and using your voice, I could take the kids to school or sit and make them do their homework all from the garden in Hong Kong. Get your fingers out boffins, and when the fuck is my hover board arriving, and my flying car?

Tories use murdered children for political gain.

How low can they go?

George Osborne has been branded "sick" byLabour after he appeared to link the case ofchild killer Mick Philpott to his wish to cut benefits.Wansbeck MP Ian Lavery said he was "horrified" that the chancellor would seek to exploit the deaths of six children for political ends."Sick, sick, sick, Osborne outrageously using the unspeakable Philpott case in an attempt to boost public support for cutting welfare," he said on Twitter.