After the Guitar

Today a decision has been made. How that pans out and if I can keep it is what this blog is all about.

I have never done a blog before so this will also, of necessity be about how quickly, or not, that I learn how to do this.

A bit of personal history. Two years ago (Has it really been that long!), May the 10th 2014 to be exact, my then wife of thirty two years dropped the bombshell on me. She wanted to split. I now find myself living in a three bedroom maisonette in an area of Birmingham called Chelmsley Wood. (My two teenage sons have named it Chavsley Wood!) I will on days when it gets the better of me, I am sure, be writing chapter and verse on the unfairness of where I find myself and some of the lies that I have uncovered but for now the topic is

THE DECISION.

The truth is I am lonely. Very lonely. I have contemplated ending it all on numerous occasions. Motorway bridges seem to be a particular attraction at the moment allthough the window from my flat (easier to spell than maisonette!) nearly got me a week ago. I havent been able to see a way out of this loneliness, I am no great catch. I am old.(57) I am heavier than I want to be. And have little money. If it wasnt for my two lads...............

Well I am sure you get the picture.

But today I decided that I am going to at least try to prove myself wrong. So I am signing up to some dating sites and seeing what happens. I am going to treat it like a science project. I will try different things and different approaches and see. This blog will be an honest account of what happens. I imagine I will want to talk about other things too, we will see. It will be as interesting to me as it will (hopefully) to you.

So today will be the first day 'After the Guitar'. Why? Because to mark my decision and to give it its true importance I took one of my favourite possessions and took it to a nearby river. Today I let go of one of my guitar's and lobbed it into the river. 

Wish me luck.

Michael.