05/07/21
Hello and welcome to part 16 of my blog 59 to 60 if anyone has read these well i hop you are enjoying them, picture is of me in Egypt at a very famous tomb TUT ANKH AMON and i shall go into holidays more as i go on but first Helen is watching Tennis and i am not long home from work so i thought i would take the opportunity to start this week, work was fine no issues today, weather wise well it has been rubbish heavy rain most of the day and does not look any better for my only day off until Saturday.
Well as i have been writing this and doing bits about myself growing up i came across a photo on a Facebook page called meh Dundee and it is a picture of Balgowan Ave as you know where i spent the first 21years of my life, it is a very old picture and as you will see it does not even look like the house we stayed in has been built so i have no idea what year this is.
A very old picture of Balgowan Ave
I love this photo it is before i was born maybe 50s maybe earlier but i recognise the street and I think i know where the bus stop was as well, there was a bus stop near a set of shops not far from our house and this does look like it, the shops were always busy we also used to have a savings bank there also a spar a news agent a chip shop and butchers and bakers, it was fine during the day but could get bit wild at night, my brother peter worked in the bakers and i seemed to remember a story he once told about working over night, whilst working the shop up from the bakers the Spar was broken in to and when the police came Peter who was just finishing his work and the police asked him if he had seen anyone with a pick axe? (They went through the roof to get in) to which he replied yeah every bloody night 😂 aye rough indeed. The shops were at times a source of entertainment with Huns hanging about there in there blue and yellow colours. Well enough for the moment feeling bit sleepy 😴 but more tomorrow.
06/07/21
Well good morning the photo above is me with the tangerine top on and a mate called Steve Gudmunsen who used to stay at 128 Balgowan Ave he stay abroad now but we still stay in touch, his mum and dad were so nice and helped my mum through some tough times, his dad owned a car and in these days that was a rare thing and they also moved to a bigger house near strathmartine road which i used to call my second house as was never away from there at times. But a wee story of a day i was hit by a car and again it involved Chris my brother, we were out playing one day the year i can’t remember but we were all just making about Chris had crossed the road onto the grass in the middle of the dual carriageway, i was wanting to cross as well but their were few cars parked in the street that day and i could not see if anything was coming so i looked at Chris and he told me to cross ( why did i ever trust him 😂) so i did all i remember was the grill of a van as it hit me and next thing I knew was being in the back of the van getting rushed to hospital and it was with Mrs Gudmunsen as i think mum was working, i remember getting pushed through a corridor and for some reason i thought i was in a bakers 😂 but i was not as i ended up getting stitches in my head and you can still see the mark to this day and i also cant remember if i got kept in but i think i was let home, oh and far as i know nothing happened to Chris. To this day i can remember the grill of the van and i am sure it was a Bedford van as well. How did i get to this age 😂
So onto today and cant see much happening as again not great out but we shall see what the day brings, the photo is of me at the Star Trek convention so beam me up.
So just back in but never really did that much as again it is raining and have to say I’ve not been feeling to good today, i woke up about 4am only to discover that i had been sweating a lot and my pillow was damp with it and since then i have just felt bit weary so am glad to be home and try to relax probably a sleep as well see if it helps.
I have so many memories of growing up some good and maybe some not so good but i think mainly good, as i have said we were a big family so there was always something going on in the house and weekends were always the best, but week days were well after school good as well, for as long as i can remember at 9pm mum would make supper and it would consist of tea some sandwiches and KitKats and there was always a rush for the KitKat 😂 but mum always knew who had an extra bit the night before, suppers became that popular that mates would stay so they can get some to greedy feckers, there were times you would look at mum near supper time and depending on who it was or who’s mate it was she would give you the nod to get rid of them ha ha she was very subtle at times. I remember one morning when one of our mates stayed over without mum knowing, she kept shouting up the stairs for us to get up but we kept ignoring her mmmmm how stupid we were, we heard her coming up stairs and told Raymond (Paddy) to hide and he did behind the bedroom door, our mum burst in and started shouting WOULD YOU TWO GET UP ITS NEARLY HALF THE DAY GONE OH AND I DONT WANT THAT RAYMOND PERSON OVER HERE ALL THE TIME I DONT LIKE HIM….just at that she turned round and saw Ray standing there face red and probably scared she looked right at him and said oh hello Raymond hows you family 😂 😂 it was funniest thing i had seen and truthfully when i went down stairs mum was laughing her head off and very embarrassed oh god love her… but we used to talk about that night even when Raymond was there and laugh about it aye happy days.
Raymond far right in first photo and him now and Maw
So be a quite night tonight as work for the next three days but if i have time and feel ok i will try to do a bit more.
10/07/21
Well three days at work finished at last two days off and I need it as it has been busy and bit weird, I have been waking up around 4am sweating mainly from the back of my head no where else just my head 😂 fekin weirdo. Work was fine but was busy and think it took more out of me with the sweating and the heat in the unit. Good news is that my arm seems to be well on the mend just every now and again I get a bit of pain so maybe couple days rest mow will be a great help but am sure missing getting out on bike, saying that weather is not great today rain and very low mist but hoping by Tuesday i can get out for a good cycle run. I found some photos of Kirkton for my looking back bit just need wee edit so will be back soon to do bit more.
Just back strange day sun out at the ferry but back home bite clouded over, was out at first fixing mountain bike manage to sort it i hope but needed up putting to much pressure in back tyre i knew this when i heard an Big Bang 😂 so had to replace it and all seems fine now will find out tomorrow as going to put in few miles. When i was growing up their was a hill not far from us called the hillocks being yoiung they looked big but i recently went back and though mmm no that big, they were where to go for bit excitement and well to have a fight with the prodies ( Protestant) yes every St Patricks day the catholic’s used to fight or chase or run away from each other ha ha if you managed to get to the top of the hillocks before the other lot then you had more chance of wining as you were able to throw dokies (rocks) at them or easier to run away ha ha funny as the next day you probably passed them in the street and say hi bloody funny days.
This photo is of the path that leads up or down the Hillocks with St Columbus Chapel where we used to go until we discovered this big mountain 😂 one story is of our mum who used to take us to chapel it was a Sunday morning and mum took us to the steps that lead to the chapel but she said now you two go up and inside, she turned round and headed home so me and Chris decided an em no going lets go up the hillocks and wait for it to end then we can go hame, So we got to the top and just sat there waiting for it to come out, about 50min later the door opened and all the people started coming out one of which was yup you guessed it MUM we both looked at each other and just thought oh shit were deed how the hell did mum get in there? Well i think i don’t need to say anymore apart from my bloody ears were red after a good slap from mum and was tell tae get up tae ma room and there be no supper or tv for us ha ha…. But after mum calmed down and she had her first cigarette of the day she let us back out the room and we did get supper. Mum never swore apart from once when she saw a photo of David Bowie and she called him a poof ha ha now please remember this was the 70s and days were different and I’m sure when mum saw all our faces she was as shocked as us, she always had a cigarette around 1800hrs and she was a different person she was calm and if you wanted to ask something like can a mate stay over you were better waiting for her to have her Fag she still might say no bit it will be a calm no. God bless her i wish she could have had more of a calm life because if you got her laughing she could set everyone of laughing.
This photo is from top of the hillocks and ass you can see on the left the nursery this is the school i talked about that was down from our house and where the steps were where we used to hang out most nights and some days. I climbed on the roof of the school one day then could not get back down had to get some help and i say no more on this ha ha.
So down in ferry today having a coffee there was a rig being towed out very impressive watching this so i leave you with a time lapse video of this.
11/07/2021
Well good day today decided to try first ten miles on bike since i had steroid jab in arm and although was a bit sore it was fine so i shall try a few more mile on road bike on Tuesday then build it up from there, took the workhorse today (mtb) after manage to get it sorted yesterday tightened few things up and fixed the tyre that popped yesterday, just few circuits which was fine and 10miles was good way to get back into it and as i say arm fine.
This old retro bike is great and works fine was good we 1.5hrs on it. Got back home and now have decided to cut the grass if the rain stays off and then back in to have a chill as it is back to work tomorrow.
Well as we draw to the end of another week and another part of my blog it is amazing how fast time is going, but i am enjoying doing this especially looking back, and although a lot of it has been about my very young days maybe next blog i shall concentrate on teenage days we shall see. But one last thing you will remember me writing about that walk i did and how all the places like my schools have all gone? Well when i think about it things move on i still feel like part of my young life has been wiped out but just through my memories but i suppose writing them down does keep them alive, i look back to times of no mobile phones no cds not many gyms health was a second thought, you ate sugary sweets you drank sugary drinks no diet shite you have these days, kids are under so much pressure these days to have the newest phone to be thin or whatever just to fit in where my day all we bothered about was getting out and doing daft things and laughing about it. Do i wish to be a young person now mmm well no nit really maybe 30s but no way i would want to be a teenager again. Anyway thank you all again if you read this and until next week bye.
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