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Sometimes you make decisions in life, sometimes so painful, hard, downright sh*tty, that they make your soul ache. I am not good in these moments. I agonise. I ponder. And often don’t sleep agitating. Over the effect they have on the people concerned. The effect on myself goes mostly unnoticed, not a factor somehow because I know I can and will take it. Well mostly… I am not perfect. By no means. Not saintly in the slightest.  A man of many faults in fact. The best I can say is I try to make time for people when I can, when I am in that position where it matters I suppose, I try to make every conceivable allowance because I still want to believe in the worth of people, I still want to see the best and I want people to get the best from themselves, to go for it, to think that anything is possible and just GFDI ….. you can fill in the blanks. Not because I am great or some super human being that is entitled to make such magnanimous gestures etc, not because I am in myself worthy and so on etc ad nauseam. NO! Just for the simple reason I would want to be treated that way, to be given the chance. For someone to see what maybe I was capable of and could do but for X, Y and Z happening. That someone would give me the time of day and support me to do those things which I ought to be capable of. With a push and the right words. It’s what we all need sometimes isn’t it?

 There is a point to all this…….honestly 

Anyway and cutting to the chase (as this is not about me) I am saying a fond farewell to Deano, lately the bass player in the band. With a heavy heart. For, hand on heart, he is one of the funniest guys around. Downright bizarre sometimes even as I am sure he would not mind me saying. Not to mention possessing timing and rhythm second to none and an aptitude for his instrument that I hope some day gets fulfilled in the correct way that suits him.

But sometimes things don’t work out, they’re not meant to. There is some higher purpose to them not working possibly, I like to think that. It could simply be chemistry, taste, the wrong time, the wrong combination of people, different tastes, different stages. Any of the above. And that’s all it is. No recriminations.  Just a simple decision to move on. Its the right decision for everyone, not least of all Deano - I wont forget his(some might say highly dodgy jokes) about paedophilia and so on

so au revoir. good luck mate, gone but not forgotten….

cheers mate