I have a tree in my back garden

This picture comes from the post called The Shoe Tree on Doreen's Blog. Jensen also used the picture and talked about the shoe tree in the post called Alone on his blog.

And here's my story about the shoe tree...

I have a tree in my back garden with 18 pairs of trainers, WHAT I hear people exclaim , i thought were you lived was not to bad!!!

Well its not down, by ROCK PARK,, now that sounds nice and tranquil and you can see the ferries on a good day , and is GREAT new year when you can look over the mersey and see the fireworks , I always think people on our side gets the better option as we look onto the famous waterfront but is more difficult for the liverpool side to look at view of themselves (oh enough about that rambling onand on)

I have always been proud of were I live but as with most places began to fall apart in the 70s and maybe Even before then, that is when the toffee nose developers start sayin g "WE have some wonderful ideas about how we are going to improve your lives" and where do the developers probably the other side of wirral HESWELL only the other side of the peninsulia but probably a different t life to us (not that I ever go their to frightened feel they are DIFFERENT and to tell you the truth , I am frightened of anything tha tis slightly out of the ordinary,b

I never noticed the tree for quite awhile, lost in my own world,and all of a sudden i noticed that

their was a trainer their....

(to be continued!)

i missed this weeks session for two reasons and no they are not excuses .The blogging day was on a different day this week so knew would be only to show my face for a short period of time and no i was swearing about the day not literally!!!!!!!
The change of day means i have to remember my other commitments as singing in various old peoples homes , people just laugh when i tell them what i do and dont the people suffer enough without me singing for them , But it is a singing GROUP i said nothing about a choir adn it is purely FUN with a capital F.

Good got that off my chest i need not have worried as i was really sick for about 3 days and never moved off the sofa(get the violins out)so i never wen blogging and i never went singing wot did i do errrrrr sleepping and puking!!!

I heard on the grapevine that the group touched on how to link the stories together sound interesting still feal very much out on alimb as have no photography skills but you never know!! need something to brighten this up!!!1 and be a ray of sunshine instead of GLOOM AND DOOM

I was looking forward to going again to the blogging wotsit although you know that feeling all is well and all of a sudden you feel as if world war 999 is upon you.
The computer or alfie as i call him has a mind of his own pretty much like a toddler, and if he decides not to play blogging with me well he won,t and he does not like me editing my posts so having a bit of difficulty finishing off the stories as Alfie wont let me
.BOO HOO(who cares bothered)

We talked about the stories we had picked , most people seem used to putting photographs etc and i am just getting the hang of blogging so a bit wary of all these tecnologicalgadgets but the group is very friendly and when we are talking it is yap, yap yap as we havw known each other for always and not just for a few weeksso who knows what new skills i will learn as the course continues., well we can all dream cant we.

WE talked in pairs about were we could set our stories and the history of wirral such as the park the houses that people lived their lives in homes before progress came and bulldozed their lives out of the way!!!!
One of the issueswe talked about was sterotyping people and places such as certain areas in the wirral are classed as snobby and others you would not walk down the street witout bodyguards !!! ( get the picture)
Time flies when u are having fun and it was soon time for the most important dinner and yes i was fealing hungery.yum yum got a pastie , i am not obsessed with food honestly!!!!

iwas never allowed on the ferry

I wasn,t allowed to cross the water but I watched the ferries . I found it relaxing the waves were
somhow soothing and had a rhythm about i found it soothing just standing at the shore . I knew I was only 10 well 1o and and 3/4 dont forget that bit but i felt awful telling my mates i wasn't allowed over to the other side when everyone else was allowed to!!! especially when well i dont know if you know him Billy jones who had the fish shop well he was allowed to go and he was only nine the other Saturday talk about being embarrassed!!!!!!

I think because i was told not to got their , that made the desire to go all the more especially when all the other kids in our neck of the woods seemed to have a full reign of all the exciting places in the neighbour hood and what could i do just stand and watch

I was invited over to the other side the promised land i used to ask my mam all the time what was it that made her not want me to go over to the other side
.

As time went on i felt more and more tempted to follow the others, as i felt my brain was being split in two and one side was well - behaved telling me not to go and the other side my devil side was saying go on go what harm can you do what can be possibly over their that cant be harmful.


I felt as if a war was going on inside my head and who was going to win would it be angel or devil good or evil only-time would tel

Well i think it is obvious to most people without going any further , that the DEVIL side won and i ignored my mothers advice and went with my so called friends over to the unforbidden

(to be continued...)

What do you think should come next?

Diary out on a limb

9.4.10

Yesterday I started the out on a limb course type of thing I think that the word course can be a bit frightening to some people but I quite enjoy it as their is a definiate begining and end .

I had missed the first 2 sessions as i had an appointment at the Diabetic clinic which was quite a waste of time !!!! and last week the venue was at a place,that was difficult to get to if you rely om public transport , no disrespect to any bus drivers out their.

I was a bit wary about going to the libary yesterday as I am new to this world of cyberspace,

and I did not want to be the only technophobe in the room. It was therefore a relief that their was a dolly mixture of people was complete beginers and also people who obviously knew what they were doing!!!!

A few of my friends I knew would be on the course but the other faces were friendly so cool i decided this was going to be a place for meas i have fealings about places an if not comfortable iget frazzled as i have aspergers syndrome ehich is a form of autismso as you can imagine how relievied i was that this was a friendly place to be .

WE discusssed the course and what we would be doing and thought of were we would place a story if we were going to do this proved quite a discssion and various settings from of course the famous MERSEY and its Ferry had to get amention to local parks , victorian type swimming pools , I chose the place ROCK _ PARK were all the gentry used to live as rockferry used to be a place for the rich , Many years ago the people who should know better

chose to put a by-PASS through and in my mind desroying the community and knocking down houses all with stories to tellunbeknown to us Jen was listening very carefully to what we were saying and all will be revealed afer dinner.

YUM had dinner whcich I was glad about as being diabetic one does obviously have to eat, Jenn then let us know what she had been up and using various quotes from our conversations had to make a story up using freestyle which is what I really enjoy just letting the thoughts in your head

to flow freelywithout worrying about the structire and grammer and WHO CARES if it all falls about chose a story from a quote but NOT YOUR OWN

An old lady said

An old lady told me I had moved into a witches cavern, I must admit I had no reasonto feal their was anything was strange about the place but once I heard that well to put it into plain English, french, Spanish in fact any language at all i , well yes I panicked!!!!!!!AAAAAAAAAAhh an yes freaked out!!!!!

I thought I was going to be safe here after the bad luck i have had over the years, i actually thought my luck,well at least maybe not change but may just alter by a tiny second millimetre., anything !!!!
I had an uneventful childhood, just me mumand dad and a cat , dog,and a hamster,OH and i nearly forgot a much older brother, well I say BROTHER, he was not a totally full blooded one as he used to think himself as he was most definitely only half a brother,as he was dads son from a previous relationship long before meeting mum. I actually knew very little about him til my 8th birthday one i will never forget not because I got the correct present,that i spent all of my life dreaming about. WHY i thought angrily do people presume that because i am a girl that therefore i must enjoy playing with dolls and sewing and least of all cooking . YUK ! YUk! and DOUBLE YUK!!!!!!!
NO this will be the birthday i will never forget and always remember as that was the one their was an uninvited guest at MY PARTY and this was supposed to have been someone i was PLEASED to meet, MY BROTHER who just appeared out of the sky like an alien come to stay
in MY house as his mother was apparently having some sort of problem, something to do with her head, but somehow i got the feeling , she had not fallen and hit her head but something not quite right with her head, i can remember thinking as if it was yesterday, WHAT could be wrong with her head?????
Maybe just Maybe she had an elephants head on a perfectly normal body, who knows, all i can remember is the raised voices that the stranger had brought with him

That is all i wrote in the 15 minute slot we were given and as you can see total free writing who knows were the story would go in longer time!!!! This shows how a story starts at one point and then tosess and turns and ends up in somewhere completely different then expected!!!!!!!