Saturday, 8 December 2012

Icarus skywriting # 44

Ol' Blue Eyes
I am sitting at the kitchen table, drinking early gray tea and ruminating, which is different from guddling. Earlier I was playing guitar and just for the hell of it I worked out the chords and then sang the old Elvis hit, You Were Always on my Mind just because I could. I like that kind of riffing and as I sit here pondering another song seems to be calling, I can hear the line slipping through my head, 'I wish I had a river, I could skate away on...' That's an old fave of course, I can play that just for fun. But this is the important thing, its Saturday and thereby an I can do anything day. I don't have to teach or talk or walk the academic walk I can just fiddle around if I like. Indeed right now I am off to the gym, then I will buy a Christmas tree so we have it when Abbi gets home, and then who knows I may have a Christmas coffee, Gingerbread and Mulled Wine flavour, or whatever, see if I can get Starbucks into profit in the UK. But that is the length and breadth of this post - its going to be a flippant day (with a wee bit football in the middle) - oh yay, oh yay, oh yay.