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Just before taking the dog out for her night time walk, at about 1:30am my mother comes in while I'm trying to knit a sakura pattern (I've been making a blanket for about 2 and a half years now, by knitting patches of 40x40 and sewing them together, my latest one is a cute sakura blossom.) She asks me to remove a slug from the kitchen while she takes the dog out. Eh? can't you see I'm tied up but what the hell. I finish the row I'm doing and scavenge a card box from the bin to scoop the little bugger ...

I'm just gonna use bullets, I think.

• I think I like poetry.
• I try to read poetry. I don't do a very good job. This makes me very sad. When I see what other people come up with when they read poetry, I find myself thinking that their way of viewing poetry is very odd.
• The other day I went to poetry group. This guy said he didn't like this poem cause it needed a metaphor. This other guy (very intelligent, in my opinion) made him look kind of silly when he proved that the poem

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today is my kind of summer weather, it's warm but not to warm and just a little breeze. My son is playing in the garden and my dog is sleeping in the shadow and I am sitting by the door so I can stay in the shade a bit. my brother calls me a shadow creature cause I never walk on the sunny side of the street, I always prefer the shade.

tomorrow is a holiday and we have a birthday to go to, I am getting more social these days, I always hated these things but I am fine with it now, ...

How important is a father to a daughter I wonder. I can't help wondering that now. Napoleon's annoying me. Do you mind if I vent a little? No one actually has to read this, it's not my normal kind of entry where I secretly hope I'll get lots of views and comments this one's just done purely for the sake of it.
For those of you who don't know Napoleon is what I call...........................my dad. Apologies for the long pause. Even my hands seem to resist saying that. It just feels wrong ...

it is raining now, finally that means I don't have to clean my garden furniture after the ash. I always love the rain, I am gonna go see my brother later on for coffee, he is my best friend and we talk on the phone everyday for at least 40 minuets, his girlfriend is not so happy about it, don't know why.

I feel like I have gone a whole circle this past year when it comes to my feelings and longings in life. I have been happier than I was before but now for the first time I feel ...