It`s been a while since I wrote anything here (the best part of 18 months now), and I decided to clear out the blog and start over. I suppose I wasn`t that focused as Gordon Brown – no doubt a muppet of the first order – seemed to be irrelevant. Things are different now: we`ve got David Cameron and his chums running things (and what a disaster that could be).
One thing I have enjoyed reading was an ex-soldier`s blog at http://bloodinthesand.blogspot.com. Although it has been taken down, I am going to keep the link to it active in the hope that the writer may return to blogging; as much of the content focused on his trying to come to terms with living back in civvy street (with PTSD) I know that it may be near-impossible for him to relive his experiences while staying well enough to function. I can only hope that he decides to continue at some point in the future as I found his writing very interesting and candid. Dealing with mental health services, the police and other people were documented in a no-holds-barred approach. I wish him (and all the other servicemen and women coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan) all the best. (For the record: I don`t support the wars, but I support the troops; I`ll be writing more stuff about related topics later on.)
OK, that`s me done for now. As I lack overpriced shit like Adobe Photoshop, I`m configuring GIMP for any image processing. It`s free software (so I`m going to encourage its use), and at just over 19MB, it`s refreshingly bloat-free.
