The Loop Guide to Clubbing, Drinking, plus West Essex and East London living.

‘May old acquaintance be forgot’, well yes they can especially the bad apple’s you’ve met in your life or just the people you wish to forget. I was given some good advice the other day by the lovely Nikki, she is my bro’s new girlfriend and I LOVE her! She said that all the disappointing people in your life will eventually fade away and she’s right I only have to look back on the disappointments and I can barely remember them and in the words of Celine Dion, they are all ‘just a page in my history’ ha ha I can’t believe she sung such a good song when she is sooo naff and has such a narrow face?
Anyway more importantly, so Christmas is upon us and as requested by my very good friend Mercedes I have decided not to leave it so long this time! There are a couple of things that have hit a nerve with me this month. I watched a programme last night its been on before and it’s a Louis Theroux documentary (I bloody love him and is it a bit weird that I sort of fancy him?) anyway it was about a prison in America, most of the inmates were there for life or at least a very long time. So the programme was about ‘life on the inside’ I kept getting the theme tune of prisoner cell block H in my head while watching it ‘he used to give me roses, I wish he would again’ you know the one Wenchies! Anyway it was obviously a documentary aimed at showing you the ‘softer side’ of a murders penitentiary, is there one? I hear you ask, well apparently there is and loving relationships can develop amongst the most normal of killers ha ha I am laughing to myself when I write this. What seemed to happen to a lot of them was, they knew they were going to be in prison forever so instead of no love or sex (even if it was same sex) they settled. There was one man, married with two kids and more notably was part of a Nazi gang who ended up having a relationship with a Jewish, gay (effeminate being the understatement of the year) he had a deep ‘loving’ connection with. So it made me wonder, when people say do you have a ‘type’? After seeing that, I would have to say no, the bottom line is as people we need love and when it comes down to it we’ll get it any which way but loose, and sometimes loose being the operative word! So if you meet someone and you both want to fall in love then you’ve got half a chance of being in a happy relationship and trust me they are out there, if you find any of the male version could you please pass them my way!

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So apart from learning that even evil killers & tortures can obtain loving relationships that was not the only reason I wanted to talk about that show, there was something else. I don’t know if you know this about me, but I hate money, I hate discussing it, earning it, I quite like spending it but find it hard to and I hate all that surrounds it. One of the life time servers in the prison that Louis interviewed was asked if he would be able to make a life in prison, he said you could and not only that but prison has its positives. No stress about money, an endless supply of food and clothes and more importantly a roof over his head, he basically said he would be looked after for the rest of his life. As I was watching I suddenly felt a sigh of relief and thought – oh how nice would that be, not having to worry. Of course there were things he would miss like, sailing a boat on the open water or having children or popping out for a beer but all in all a stress free life. He was in there for armed robbery and torturing people, nice! It made me think because people are soo stressed about money whether it’s earning enough to buy 300 Christmas presents or for people they see once a year or enough to just keep their homes, different people have their own set of problems that surround more. It leaves little time to enjoy actually living moments, so, ok, yes we have the freedom to go to the pub for a beer unlike Mr gang member USA but what do we do when we get there, we either sit there and moan about our troubles or drink so much to try and forget them? So with that in mind I am asking all four of the people that probably read this (most of them family or Wenchies) please live every moment to the full or you may as well rob a bank and risk going to prison because you have as much freedom in there as you do here when you’re controlled by money. When people say does money buy you happiness, I don’t think it does but its gives you freedom to enjoy every moment without worry so instead of gaining another set of problems, bloody enjoy it if you’ve got it!

Until Next Year MERRY CHIRSTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

P.S Am looking V forwards to Christmas with the Wenchies at Woolston Manor, all families joining, I love it!

P.P.S Can we all start writing letters and sending more Christmas cards because the Royal mail might have to start privatising some of it and that means no more royal mail or postman’s like before and you know how upset we were about Woolworths!

P.P.P.S Love to Trisha, I hope you and Ralph have a magical Christmas lots of love X