Time is like a river, history repeats...

...and I return to blogging whilst nestled neath my sheets. I don't know do any of you do that, I feel an irresistible urge to rhyme as often as possible in my head. Or out loud as the case may be. Approximately 7 months ago I started this blog with the best of intentions. This was to be my public little scrapbook where I would air my dirty linen in public for all the proletariat to see, to see how the aristocrats live and work and breathe. However since I have become unemployed in the intervening period I felt the blogs purpose became redundant. I am no longer one of the blue blooded employed, I can no longer lord myself over the doley tracksuits, the brandy soaked denizens of pub porches, huddling and clutching their cigarettes whilst watching puddles shimmer in the rain. Nay, I am but an urchin, a ragamuffin, an unemployed scamp. How did this happen? Well this little thing called the credit crunch intervened in my life in the past year and a half and boy oh boy did it take quite a sock at old Joey Geebags.

Anyway, it's not all doom and gloom. I am still, for the most part, ninja. Economic hardship does not, after all, affect ones innate charm and good looks - both qualities of which I have in spades (if not shovels). So life is progressing reasonably well. I am quite content. The air is sweet, the wind whistles my tunes and the rain patters most satisfyingly against my window. Jobs come and go my friends. Contentment is something that cannot be applied for no matter what the quality of your CV. And so for that I thank God, Allah, Vishnu and whatever other deity wishes for my gratitude.

When asked the question "Can you live without working?" Raoul Vaneigem replied "One can ONLY live without working." His contention being that work was a necessity, something we endured to survive. The essence of life, he maintained, was creativity, the antithesis of which was monotonous and sonambulant work. So let's hope I can use this brief period of unemployment to do something worthwhile eh?

And thus ends my latest blog entry, perhaps my last for some time. Who knows? So let's 'ave a noice little video to 'ave a laff at eh? Say what you like about Oasis and the Gallagher brothers but I challenge you not to admire Noel's attitude towards life. Adios friends.