@Pat_Walrond: Thank you.

@Pat_Walrond: Thanks for the welcome.

@LnzyHou: Thank you.

It can be a hard old battle, especially in the early days, but it is so, so worth it.

Am so pleased for you that your boys made it. So many don't.

@JGSchaeffer: Thank you.

Yes, that I finally surrendered on the 14th Feb wasn't particularly planned as such. But when I realised, the significance of the date was not lost on me.

@RuthEd : Thank you.

@Rickbflony: Thank you.

@dw98439: Thank you.

@stueytheround: Thank you.

25 years clean and sober today.

Still grateful for every day that I don't spend in the hell that is active addiction.

@silent_dystopia: I'm just a happier wee person when I'm doing something creative.

@tiptoeing: Thank you so very much for such a considered response.

@silent_dystopia: Linking to Poe is good.

It's a line of prose from the novella I'm working on.

It's horror, obvs.

What sounds best?

1 - It was the shadows here that held sway.

or

2 - It was shadow here that held sway.

@killingfloorman: Cool place to live.

I squatted near there for a couple of years. I loved it.

@killingfloorman: Thank you.

And good luck with the season (I live about 20 mins walk from Emirates).

@mickcarty: Yeah, you're not having a good season.

We're having another glorious season of mid-table obscurity.

@mickcarty: Touching and honest blog. One I'm sure many will relate to. I used alcohol and drugs for many years to cope with my internal tornado's.

We survived, many didn't.

Writing is good way to channel the energies.

Hats off to you bud.

@Rickbflony : Thank you.

@Rickbflony Dr Oadwin: The Making of a Maniac. Should be available sometime this year.

House is cleaned.

Now on with our chilled Sunday.

Will see if I can get more work done on my novella. Wrote some words yesterday I particularly liked.