Monochrome Monday ~ Utah
the wilderness is not a place it’s a state of mind
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
the cold sea beckons
Tunes on Tuesday ~ Herb Alpert
drunk under the boardwalk, out of the sun
I never wanted t go to Mexico. and while I was in Mexico City I hated it with a passion But I would stop shaving and using deodorant to spend a week in Tijuana with my Californian friend.
I know she would like sitting at the bar, chatting up men.
But the stupid hat on me, maybe not.
I’m an Englishman, a legal alien.
The monster does it better.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
my friend drinks, smokes,
hangs out in bars too
Random Jottings ~ Vacations
English told to lock away their passports for a year
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forget California
no holidays for Brits for a year
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buy a sunlamp and some bags of sand
it’s the nearest you’re going to get to a vacation
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United Kingdom cut off from the rest of the world
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no sunshine holiday romances please, we’re British
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we English travel not to escape everyday life, but to escape Covid
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doctors say that having fun increases your risk of dying from COVID-19
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
no man needs a vacation so much as the man who has been in lockdown for 308 days
Monochrome Monday ~ Rugged Utah
everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Nothing’s been the same since I drove 900 miles on the I-15
Lindisfarne ~Winter Song
who are we as human beings
if we ignore the suffering of others?
At this time, perhaps above all others, we should remember the suffering of those less fortunate than we. Lindisfarne once was the home of a Holy Priory, Saint Cuthbert dwelt there. Spare a penny.
Lindisfarne, The Holy Island, holds an important place in the heart of all Christians from the very North of England.
Please listen with charity in your heart.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Lindisfarne, another Holy place sacked by the heathen Vikings
Songs on Saturday ~ Grease
who said that The Belgians have no sense of humour?
Back in the day I had a couple of Belgian clients, and let me tell you that they had a sense of humour ~ it’s just that the Flemish idea of something to laugh about is uniquely ‘European’. To be honest, I can see a Belgian crowd doing some public dancing ~ as long as it was perfectly drilled and well rehearsed. Just like in the clip.
I still need to learn how to moonwalk.
Enjoy with a smile on your face.
Unless you’re a Belgian.
From Antwerp.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
an ass picture would have been gratuitously sexist
Airports, ‘Planes, and Automobiles
it doesn’t matter where you’re going
it’s who you have beside you
it always seems to be dawn or sunset
This morning I’m heading to Newcastle upon Tyne airport for the first leg of my journey to Cancun in Mexico. Given a fair wind I will arrive some time tomorrow morning ~ after layovers at London Heathrow and Miami International.
If I ever get very bored and depressed with life I may write down every airport I’ve ever been to ~ that isn’t going to happen anytime soon. This trip I’m staying at a fabulous 5* hotel, and I do not expect to be bored at all.
When you travel, always travel in style.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
I don’t think my car to the airport will be anything like this
Random Jottings ~ Vacations
she had going to the wrong place,
with the wrong, man down to an art
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the trouble with real life vacations is there’s no background music
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women in bikinis pose, and sometimes that posing is an invitation
or so some men would like to believe
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‘I promise you I’ll make the sun shine every day…..’ he said
after that it rained a lot
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it’s unlucky to go back to work the day after you’ve been off
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never throw a message in a bottle into the sea
you could get arrested for littering
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it’s good to be bad on vacation
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
my favourite place to vacation
is anyplace by the ocean
Cancun Trip
if at first you don’t succeed, try something else
gently relaxing
You may be aware that here in England we’re suffering from 28 days of very strict coronavirus lockdown, which comes to an end on December 2nd. Except that’s not the end of it ~ when this period of miserable self-isolation ends we will be entering an indeterminate period of lockdown by tiers. Wouldn’t you know it, the whole of the North East of England is in the strictest tier 3, which is almost as bad as the bloody terrible state we are already suffering.
Of course the whole country is in an uproar, and I do not blame anyone for complaining in the bitterest terms. Prime Minister Boris Johnson won’t be able to get elected as a dog-catcher after this. And as for the sanctimonious twerp of a Health Secretary Matt Hancock ~ as his name says what a wanker.
Except, I’ve found an escape clause. There is nothing to stop me from going to an airport as long as I don’t stay overnight, and there’s nothing to stop me from boarding an aeroplane.
So, at 11:15 on Sunday December 6th I’m flying to Cancun, to stay in the utterly fantastic fabulously expensive, all inclusive, Royalton Suites Resort and Spa. How cool is that? Two weeks in the sun instead of two weeks of miserable lockdown in the cold, grey North of England.
Any volunteers to be a travelling companion can apply in the comments section.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
it’s tough at the top
Scenes on Sunday ~ Road Trip
keep cool ~ drive a Mustang convertible
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
California, a Mustang
and the girl riding shotgun
it doesn’t get any better than that
