Zach asked me to write a poem about him so here it is...

You filled an empty space
I didn't know I had
You made me happy when
I didn't know I was sad
You changed my life in oh...
so many different ways
You poured love into my heart
and brightened all my days

Happy Birthday to Mark J

ok...?

N: Hi how are you?
J: I'm ok - bit down in dumps but ok
N: oh not good is all ok?
J: yeah everything's 'ok' it's just not 'great' ...I don't want to be happy I want to be ecstatic!
N: at the mo I'm being philosophical and'ok' is just fine sadly - but I do know what you mean
J: I just want to be madly in love with someone who's madly in love with me - is that really too much to ask?
N: you're asking the wrong person really - but keep your chin up girl!
J: ok I will - have just come back from yoga so I can pretty much contort myself into any position! Slight exageration but I was pleased to discover that I'm getting better at it
N: I want to go yoga that's on my list - sounds fab, all those positions hey , good for the soul?
J: oh it doesn't do you any good on a list you actually have to go... I had it on my list for ages but I didn't improve at all until I actually went...

what you doing Blue...

What you doing Blue? by Julie Switzer Cook | BOOK INFO

what's the matter

A: I was just ringing to see how you got on at the accountants
J: Oh I've just left - I'm walking...no I'm running back to my car. I couldn't get out of there fast enough to be honest. It's like Rodney and I are 2 entirely different species we just don't talk the same language at all and our brains work in totally different ways. He always looks at me somewhat pityingly - the way most english people treat foreigners!
A: I know I always worry when you're there. I don't think you and Rodney should ever be left alone in a room together and you should NEVER ever shake hands with him - it would be like matter meeting antimatter the resulting explosion could destroy the known universe!

She walks like she don't care..walking on imported air...

you can sometimes find wisdom is the weirdest places....

"If you are on a train, will you reach your destination quicker by running up and down the corridors? Some processes just need to take as long as they need to take. That's not easy when you feel a burning desire to get them over with as quickly as possible. Yet that's actually all the more reason to make sure that you don't waste your energy. Even if it means incurring the disapproval of people who do not understand, you need to pull back a little and pace yourself this month. Focus on what can be done, and become less agitated about whatever, for now, cannot be altered."

poem by Zach aged 9

There are only dreams
There might yet be hope for me
For love I will not forget like summer blue
Autumn and winter, spring too...
I am a drawing, you are the colour
and you give life to me

...so tell me darling do you wish we'd fall in love?