Day Four For The Charles Lloyd

Yep Let Us Start To Party

Yes it is all very exciting. After the Cycling accident I thought I was never going to get in front of the camera until the jaw was fixed, but hey Vine came to the rescue. Early I know to get back into the public life, but hey if you wait to get started you never start. It is strange now to think of the cold and depressed me that started this blog and now meeting the wonderful new people I have met to share #Ivybridge with: I feel like the old me again. The Guy that was ready to go off to Drama School and start his career. Thank you all for being around for this.

Back to the Plot 

Wednesday was a bit of a flat day for me, the computer programs I use do not all agree with each other and so the work is harder than I would like. Hey the sun is shining and this is a good thing. After last year spending all the light hours at Devontees working with dad to save the company was in my mind. Then his passing and the fiends stealing it from me while I was getting used to his loss. I have no intention of missing a moment of sun this year. The 40 days has helped me get rid of the anger issues I have for the vile characters that saw it fit to push me from the company and I have a new one starting. So let's party. 

A ramble of a blog today, but I have my son with me and we are off swimming. Thanks for the read. 

It's Five Now For The Charles Lloyd

It Really Is Spring

Yes there Is #Ivybridge on a sunny day in 2014. To help me think I like to walk, I also like to food shop well, so now the weather is good I take myself to the Large Tesco's Store in the next village for items I can not buy in the home town. Behind the Pub is a view of the large hill, if you are a genius with all the kit to take great Photo's there are some great shots there.

Anyway

Today was good, my son was over for the afternoon, always good fun having solo time together. With three you are swapping attention all the time. The girls are having a great time in the States with their grand parents and I am loving FaceTime. Think just five years ago, it would have been a bad  video connection or a phone. Thank you computer wizards for all your mavellous gadgets.

The Plot Please Charles

Yes the project was going good that day.

Land Mark

OK you have heard about me rave about Vine. Well personally I think this is the new Social Media. FaceBook is very tedious now and with the Link to my Social media of Choice Twitter it beats Instagram for me at least. It is all about who you are following, like my Twitter Followers, I have chatted to all of them, I do not want to buy followers or be famous, I just want a platform to keep up with people and share.
Walking home from dropping my son back to his mother I came up with the Idea for a Vine movie, as luck would have it a genius of a viner also was up for the idea of helping. So today the idea was born.
The last week is not what I had pictured, but this has been one mighty journey. Thanks for the read.  

Six To Go For The Charles Lloyd.

Yes the end is Near.

At last the town was Alive, people buzzing around the town and ambitious feeling from most people I was talking too. I was in a spring clean mood, so aired the flat and did all the paper work I needed to do. I may self was having a few issues of self doubt but to conquer that I took more than one long walk. Made up my mind it is time to buy a new computer to work the business and took an early night.

The three give ups were routine so I took the day as a doing day with no issues. Sorry for the short post, but lots to do and little time. More tomorrow as a new venture is being tried out. Laters 😊

Counting Down From 7 For The Charles Lloyd

Yep I have To Say, I am very excited.

Like this Solar Farm being built on the way to Totnes From #Ivybridge, the sun was out and I was getting ready to push the energy needed to work the Brand. The new social media site I visit now: Vine has introduced me to some very fine people. All sending out short videos of fun to the world if they have the spare 6 seconds. So checking in what has happened over night if you are with the right people is fun. 

Now forgive me for one paragraph, in my life I have had three near death experiences. The first one I was only nine and did not know what could have happened. The second two I knew full well, those two times I did a lot of asking to God if I could have some more time. Another time I was out of ideas was about to loose my house and with children that is a very bad thing. On my own I went up to the church and asked for help. I am still here and inside. Three times is more than enough for me to prove the fact something is going on, it may not be in the rituals and words set down by some that manage their life or others with, but I am not going to question the fact that something is going on. Also I am not going to stop saying thank you that I am still here with not one but two houses. One for the children and their mom, one for me. So now I go as regularly as I can to say thank you. I am not going to push what I do down your throats and would ask the same respect. This is my personal time.

OK that is done, if you are still reading, Sunday I pop up to church to say thank you and have a chat with my Dad who is no longer with us. My private time, let my thoughts go up to the sky. Not boring anyone with what is troubling me & saying cheers for being here still myself. On the way this day I made a Vine & went in with a big smile. When my Dad died the only place I was able to let go was on Christmas Day at the service, being split from the children I knew I was not going to see them & as I had not stopped working it was the first day I had had a break to accept what had happened. The people there are not nosey & just get on with their thing, so it was great to celebrate Palm Sunday there & the churches AGM.

The rest of the day was great, I made some vines, got some Instagram down of #Ivybridge, did some writing as some very good ideas were running through the Brain. In the evening I would have loved to have sat in the Beer Garden at The Old Smithy, having a smoke, chatting with some friends after a roast beef dinner, but that is at the finishing line and which is in seven days.

So here we go. Thanks for reading, if you could respect my personal belief that would be good as I am not going to convert anyone or be converted. You are you & I am me. Happy in my skin, hope you are in yours. Life is a personal journey and no one knows what really is at the finishing line. So let's see what happens at the end of this one. 

Saturday & time to start to close things up.

This is me recovering from the accident.

Yep if you have seen the vines and the Youtube footage you will notice I talk a bit funny and hold my head in different positions to hide the jaw. I went over the handle bars at speed on my bicycle and woke up in a mess at A&E a bit later. It is almost a year since the event & I will be able to have the face all fixed so I can get back to my normal self. 

I have been very pleased to find the Vine as at last I am practicing my skills again in an environment of a great bunch of people, of whom are there to have fun.

So I is now seven days to go until this is all over, I can chomp on a steak, sip the red wine and relax in a beer garden with maybe a smoke.

I started this all a bit lost, my father had just died, lost the business and really had lost all direction. I had some anger issues and this has been a perfect excuse to dump all that is bad and plan the next phase of my life. The one thing that had stayed the same was the children, I do not post photos of them or name them here as we live in a vile world and really I want to keep them out of it. Until they are old enough to enter of their own accord.  They live with their mom and the Ex and I have agreed on at least one thing, we do not use them against each other.

I am of two minds of to adding pages on the side about some of the emotions I have been through here, or just bottle it up and keep it to myself. See how the week goes.

OK Charles Now You Have Bored Us With That, The Plot Please?

Oh yes, I just want to get the heavy stuff out of the way first.

So woke looking forward to putting some vines down and taking the day as a Saturday like people the work Monday to Friday and not for themselves. My son was supposed to be coming over in the afternoon, so I was keen to get things done early. I went out in the town, got some Instagram down & a spot of vine, but then the phone went, my boy was not coming over.

Pow the energy left me & I retired home. So I allowed the day to be a bit of a let down. I think after having such a good day on Friday I had to hit a low to level out. 

Yep it would have been great to have a drink that night, but not really worth it. 

Food wise, was not hungry & as for the smoke, I had two patches on & loads of gum.

Anyway sorry if this post has been a downer one. The count down starts tomorrow and off we go. 

Thanks for the read. Fun, Fun, Fun until the waiter takes the T bone away 😎

Friday for The Charles Lloyd

Only One More Of These

There is an old photo of when I used to stage manage Operas. That is grange park, an old stately home near Basingstoke that has a theatre in it. Some people think Opera is all posh and dull, well we did Thais a French one and I can promise you it was far form that indeed. We may have all been in dinner suits being fancy & posh but the opera was a tad off the wall. 

When I got this job I could just about read music and needed to score read for it, so I spent every waking hour learning very note of every part on this production.

So Why Are You Telling Us This Charles?

Good point folks. Well I am spending every waking hour playing with the new tools I need for the brand. I think as Adults we forget that all our major skill came to us through play until we got to the senior schools. Well that is what I did with the opera, being all big and acting out the music so it went in my head. The @vineapp seems to be taking up a lot of time at the moment, so I am going with it. It has opened my mind to observation in a completely different way. 

All very good, but the 40 Days Thing?

So yes, sorry guys. Have to say all three of the puppies were far from my mind. The energy levels were a bit low, so after dinner I just went to bed and the issue was closed. Can not do any of them when I am asleep I guess. Thanks for the read. Enjoy the day.

Thursday Again For The Charles Lloyd

Yes Here We Go Again. The guys from @IaAIvybridge has asked me to get some Instagram down of the town. I am loving trying to make a Video in 6 seconds on Vine, so the extra time on that app was a completely different experience. Also Thursday had filled the town, so lot's of local youths in the back ground doing what I would have done in my teenage. With the six seconds you get away with them not getting in the back ground fooling around 😄

Anyway I go off script. Up there is the new Twitter Photo. After my fathers Death I think more about changing things, silly I know, but the world is moving on and so must I. The two good meeting this week have left in a playful mood, plus getting the new IT stuff in the brain. For the last two weeks it has been a struggle to stay positive and focused as I hate being a student. My son was coming over to the flat in the afternoon, so I got my work done early, had a go on Instagram & got ready. He has swimming classes that day as well, so we had plenty packed in to do. The night before I had had a great chat with the girl's over face time. They seem to be having a great time with their Grand Parents in Michigan. Always a bit odd having the Ex In laws in the back ground, but they are nice to my face and my back is too far away to stab anyway. 

So to the plot, as luck would have it, baked beans and baked potato were requested for dinner, so I did not have to face the meat thing, as in the morning I had had to cope with the smell of pasties Cooking from the local meat market. Booze would not have been on the menu anyway and as for smoking, yep one would have been great. The Brand is shaping up well too. Life is good, thanks for the read.