My x2b told me she wasn't going to our joint meeting with the council today. i phoned them and asked if there was any point attending alone, not really so I cancelled it. Half an hour before it had been due she phoned again, is it still on? She told me I shouldn't have cancelled! I phoned and got it back and even gave her a lift there. She said she wanted us to pop into her solicitor's first - like you can just do that!what planet is she on these days? She also kept saying "now we have an agreement..." I counted 4 times that I told her we DON'T have an agreement: I have two proposals from her

"I saw 2 shooting stars last night, I wished on them, but they were only satellites,

it's wrong to wish on space hardware, I wish, Iwish, Iwish you cared..." Billy Bragg, New England.

 Went out walking the dog late last night to clear my head and grab a glimpse of the much trailed meteorite shower - not so much as a glimmer; seems to sum up my life at the moment and especially my all too brief marriage. A wonderful day followed by a series of disappointments at least for my wife for some reason. Maybe one day she'll share with me what went wrong, but for now she's just interested in getting

"I'm going down that long, lonesome road, where I'm bound, who can tell?

but goodbye is too good a word, babe, so I'll just say fare thee well,

I'm thinking and wonderin' all the way down the road, I once loved a woman, a child I'm told,

I gave her my heart and she wanted my soul, but don't think twice it's all right." Bob Dylan

 Sorry, writing at 5 in the morning brings out the lonesome poet in me!

 At least the football season's started again: groans from at least 50% of the membership, but you see from my point of view it is now completely acceptable for me to cry and show anger in public. When