“Say something. Shout it from the rooftops of your head” – Noel Gallagher.
Glory Days Loyal, Can’t Stop Living, What Am I Doing in 2023?
Glory Days Loyal, Can’t Stop Living, What Am I Doing in 2023? Not even sure this article knows it, but internally I do but I can’t stop living, I think I intertwined myself with my youngest brother to form this one. I love him but it’s hard to show that away from the life that told us how to be (I don’t believe and I don’t conform – bollocks to the EU).
“You were there for summer dreaming and you gave me what I need and I hope you’ll find your freedom for eternity” – Robbie Williams.
The way you make me feel
There are about 1,000 blog posts and chapters for books that are ALREADY written but never uploaded or released to the world and why the duck not?? It’s not just about time. I’m too busy living. I can’t stop living, I don’t stop living, I won’t stop living. If I could I’d release a NEW BOOK and a NEW BLOG POST everyday and believe me, I have enough material for that, but it would mean spending 24 hours everyday on my laptop doing just that. I need to keep living. I’ll drink cocktails in Cuba, talk to pretty bar girls in Poland, watch football in Haiti and wear jeans to weddings. Yeah, nothing changed there. Bit of a Northern Irish standard aren’t we? I put my own quotes in my writing because nobody else could write or say it the way I needed…move over Ernest Hemingway just for a split second.
“I’m a timeless image of my homeland heritage” – Jonny Scott Blair.
Ash away
When Cuba met Northern Ireland
I could crave a decent secretary for sure and I had a lady called Imee from The Philippines working for me on this blog and on my travel life. I never really spoke or wrote about the blog outreach and potential. But the reality hit a few years back when this blog alone hit the $100,000 US Dollar landmark. I didn’t think it was possible to earn that much money as a travel blogger. Remember, I wrote this one…
“In desert suns, I’ve no shadow” – Jonny Blair.
“Where were you while we were getting high?” – Noel Gallagher.
I guess it was a mixture of these things –
1.Working endlessly.
2.Being real – remember MY photo and a photo of ME goes on most posts because this is MY blog. No fakes here.
3.Having other jobs. If I was only a blogger, I’d have made $500,000 in the same timeframe. Who needs that. Fakes and small time petty thieves!
“Don’t call me Theo Wallcott?” (actually that’s a bad example).
I’m off to write poetry and edit the latest book “Starogard Girl” which could be centred on the young lady, who is vivacious, strong and cool.
STAROGARD GIRL – maybe the book.
Just close it on the best one of Ash…because Tim Wheeler is a genius, and a proper writer. The night I met him, he was reading a book on a bus and could not be disturbed and then my best mate Rafal grabbed him and said to him “Jonny Blair wants to meet you and talk to you. You don’t know him but he’s Northern Irish”.
Tim Wheeler and Jonny Blair in Warszawa, Poland
“I drift Lethe-wards on the current.
I look beatific in the torrent
The rain blowing in my face down the avenue
Tide of forgetfulness in the bloodstream
Slip between consciousness
Fade in and out of dreams
And across the dark Atlantic, Belfast lies asleep
And the River Quoile still winds its way down to the sea” – Tim Wheeler.