Good morning Everybody. Is Everybody fine? Happy New Year to you! I hope you’re well rested and ready to face 2023 firing on all cylinders. I’ve cleared the table ready for us to begin afresh with new tales, tea and biscuits. I’ve had a think about some resolutions but haven’t managed to commit to any yet. How about you? There’s still time, Januarys do tend to be slow to get moving I find… Ideal time to take inspiration from this week’s share as someone is about to make a new start…
Living on the Edge 197; Joy Division…
It wasn’t that things had gone wrong that bothered Blenkinsop. He had learned to deal with that, to make lemonade with life’s lemons, to find silver linings and even how to make silk purses from the ears of sows. He was well able, if he coaxed himself, to find the good in almost any situation. What bothered him greatly was the fact that, no matter how much positive energy he poured into anything, Ogden was always there to bring proceedings to an abrupt and miserable halt.
Ogden was not unskilled. He could take the current disappointment in hand and add to it a slew of other glooms until he had crafted an enormously long chain of worriment that he would then hang heavily around Blenkinsop like a necklace of despair.
For his part Blenkinsop did his best to polish up each bead but, in truth, Ogden’s Eeyore-esque ways were dragging Blenkinsop to the brink. There was nothing else for it, he was going to have to make an escape… xxx
