Today's page if anyone is interested !
Good morning – Good morning – We’re all wide awake – Good morning
to you ! Not sure that I am wide awake,
8.01am and I am propping up my eye lids which is a bit unusual. Let’s see what
happens as I write today’s page. Time out for breakfast, back in a moment.
8.30am and I am back so off we go with Dave’s Diary, the diary that nobody
reads.
SMILE OF THE DAY: If you live your life as if
everything is about you… You’ll be left with just that. YOU ! Surfing Facebook you can see so many people
who thing they are the centre of everything. For the past week I have been
sending SMILE of the day to various self-important areas of the media. No
response of course. Well the world, no the universe does revolve around the
likes of the BBC and the Sun newspaper.
ON THIS DAY: Let me take a quick dip into Wikiwhatnot and find out what was
happening on 18th January from the year 1950 through to 2020.
Ah ! 2020 is going down in history as the
year that never was. 18th January – the day that never was. Nothing
of note in the events bit and as for the births there’s nobody I recognise.
However, in the deaths:
18th January 1963 Hugh Gaitskell
who was born in 1906 left us. This is something I remember so very clearly
although I was only twelve years old I remember this gentleman’s death. He had
been leader of the Labour Party but never made it to Downing Street. After
illness he died of organ failure. Organ transplantation was very new and the
public did not understand what was involved but thousands offered a kidney to
save this man’s life.
I do not remember why, it must have been an
assignment set by the school English teacher, as I write these words I can
picture myself sitting at my desk writing a news report of Hugh Gaitskell’s
death.
WORDS:
Yesterday I penned 4,724 words bringing my
2021 total so far to 206,440.
My diary topped out at 1,398 words, not sure
I will equal that number today. For my pub quiz I completed the 1950’s and 1960’s
pages writing 1,393 words. As for the diary of a serial killer OMG how I am
getting into that story ! 1,933 words. I can’t wait to get back to the story
today.
BEHIND THE NUMBERS: Thirty-eight thousand, five hundred and ninety-eight new cases
yesterday. A new hospital admission is happening every thirty seconds ! Can you comprehend that ? I can’t. The media keeps talking of the NHS
being overwhelmed, IT IS ALREADY OVERWHELMED but it is NOT collapsing. It is
not collapsing because its amazing staff, tired and stressed out of their
brains are stepping up love and care for every patient every thirty seconds
every day.
During World War Two my grandfather was a
fire warden within the home guard. I have his badge. I do hope and desire so
much that when this pandemic is over our NHS staff will not be given a badge as
Granddad was but a medal, a medal of honour.
Just pause a moment, I am going to put that
paragraph on facebook. OK done that – back.
Six hundred and seventy-one more deaths
yesterday. Six hundred and seventy-one real people no longer with us. Six
hundred and seventy-one families and loved ones grieving beyond measure. NHS
staff who loved and cared for six hundred and seventy-one real people and are
having to cope with their deaths.
Those numbers are down significantly on
previous days, I do hope this is not just a week-end glitch in the records.
Real people can never be glitches in numbers.
4am MOMENT: I didn’t
actually have a 4am moment today. At 10pm last night the next couple of
thousand words I was planning to write this morning in BY THE PRICKING OF MY
THUMBS THE DIARY OF A SERIAL KILLER have changed, there is going to be a major
twist in the plot.
I criticise Agatha Christie for failing to
develop her characters, the come out of a story in exactly the same way as they
go in. Within the police investigation team I am concentrating on the character
of the senior investigating officer Superintendent Jack Jackson. I am now going
to bring in some of his team who thus far have just been in the background. I
want to write a crime novel later in the project A COP IN TIME SOLVES THE
CRIME. The main character there will be a detective Darren Cartwright who will
be nick named Darren Alwaysright. At 2am this morning my brain told me to write
him into this story as a humble Detective Sergeant and develop his character to
be always right.
If you look at the TV cop series, particularly
retro-TV like Morse, Wycliffe, Frost and so on these are short stories. A
writer did not ramble on to a full length novel as did Agatha Christie. My
story is 6,266 words long as of yesterday. I am thinking it will end up no
longer than fifteen thousand words. The story does not need any more to tell
what is happening. That’s OK for an e-book but no good for a novel which needs
to be a minimum of 40,000 words. I have an idea for a sequel but that’s the
subject for tomorrow’s 4am moment.
ALTERNATIVE DIARY: As I write I am listening to an episode of Mrs Dale’s Diary, January 1958.
Oh dear ! The BBC was rubbish back then
just as it is now.
READERS: Dave’s
Diary, the diary that nobody reads pulled a staggering five people. Wonder what
will happen today. I don’t think this is a particularly good edition, I just
want to get it done and finished so I can write more of my book BY THE PRICKING
OF MY THUMBS SOMNETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES – THE DIARY OF A SERAIL KILLER.
BOOK OF THE WEEK: Monday, that means I have to put up a new book of the week. I have not
decided yet, need to get my act together, but probably it will be PETER’S MAGIC
FOUNTAIN PEN. This is a story I originally wrote
for my son as a present on his 12th birthday. That was way back in 1990. He is
grown up now with children of his own. The book was published in paperback form
but has been out of print for years. Now it is available on Amazon
as an e-book for 99p
GEEK OF THE WEEK: I hate geeks ! Today I am going to name and shame the failing design
geeks at Remington Shavers. I have a wet and dry electric shaver which does
give a close shave, very nice. However, the idiots who designed it put the on
off button on the handle EXACTLY where the thumb naturally sits so I have to
mis hold the shaver if I want it to work properly. DAMN GEEKS I HATE THEM ALL.
9.49am 1,185 words. Time to sign off.
Speak again tomorrow
Dave
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