Brae. A gay woman's tale!

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Today is a sad day.  Today we said goodbye to a lady I didn’t know, but  who influenced my life through her music.

Aretha Franklin was the woman who made me fall in love with music, every song she sung lit up my heart just a wee bit more.

Today, I will play some of her songs… in her memory … in my sorrow for a woman who I didn’t know

You can read all about her life here

The life of Aretha Franklin

Sprout giving Duffy a cuddle!

I had my wee boy Duffy back at Vetrica again today …. that is the second time they have seen him since the horrific bill from Inglis (Vetrica are my usual vets) … Bob is delighted with his progress and said he no longer has to be caged (yeahh!! no more litter tray stinking my bedroom out!) … and that I can now allow him to have a room to wander about in.

I brought him home, making sure the doors were closed to the living room (and then access to the kitchen and the outdoors!) … let him out and Sprout took a running leap at the living room door… Duffy scampered away after her (with a dodgy limp just like me!) … and legged it outside … he is now hiding in bushes and won’t come in.

Stupid cat!… but I am glad he is on the mend … he is my “wee man”… now to try to get him back in … this will be fun!

Recent experiences have made me sit down and think …. a lot about me, my life and the trust I put in people.

I think because I am an open person, sometimes too open, I expect people will be the same way.   Sadly, I have recently been proven wrong twice.

The first was my ex … who told me right at the beginning she wasn’t good enough for me … I poo pooed the idea … I thought she was great … but as it turned out .. she was right and I was wrong.

Her reasons behind our break up were pathetic … but to her justified to cover the fact that she was already involved (either emotionally but I suspect physically too), with someone else.  So be it.  Her choice, her loss, her guilt that she can live with, she knows she lied… and so proved her originally comment of not being good enough to be exactly right.

The second was a woman I had a couple of coffee meetings and dates with … thankfully it never went any further than a couple of kisses … she told me she was single but had a very jealous housemate … but a friend that she loved.   It was a bit of a weird situation and especially weird when I found out that she hadn’t even told this “housemate” that we had even met up!

Although I broke contact with her, at the weekend I had to text her.  It was a closed text, not needing a reply …. but I received a phonecall.

She asked me when the last time was when we were in contact … and I realised I was was on speaker phone … I told her about 6 to 8 weeks ago … and she asked me to repeat it so this “housemate” could hear … I said “it was none of her F***ing business” and from the background came the response “well stay away from my girlfriend” …

What the real situation is … I have no idea ..  but whatever it is, it is truly a situation that is unhealthy and quite frankly freaky.

I have no room in my life for liars, cheats or people who will treat people so badly.

Unsurprisingly there is a common factor here.  Alcohol.  Although you can guarantee that none will admit it.

I do not wish any harm on these people … I think they are managing to fuck up their own lives quite well without me being in it.  I intend to keep it that way.

And then you will not lose all respect and trust that I have in you.

But if you want to be a lily livered arse … carry on ….