Especially in the dead of the night, after eating cheese. They stare at me with their oily black eyes until I’m stood stock still, rigid with fear. Then, on some kind of psychic cue, they slip back their lips to show me the killer razors they have for teeth. One of them, the leader of the pack, then goes for my throat in a single leap, as if projected from a spring. His fellow beasts see that as a signal and lunge likewise at whichever part of my body looks tasty. After five minutes there isn’t much of me left. That’s when I wake up.
I'm originally from Liverpool and worked as a national magazine journalist for more than 30 years before suffering a stroke at age 53. I started blogging as part of a neuro-rehabilitation programme and wrote the very first entries with one finger of my disabled left hand. Later, art became another therapy for me at Headway East London's Submit To Love Studios. I write about my daily activities and encounters. In 1988, I married Jane. We are still together today, sharing our lives and making each other laugh.
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