Marv’s Midlife Meanderings

  What’s Goin’ On? (What happened) - Work is on Christmas hours, as the office are closed until January 2nd, so the hours of mobile are all over the place.  I’d started my Monday night shift at five in the evening, and finished at five in the morning. I got home on Tuesday morning for around 6 in the morning, when I was in bed for seven and awake at about half past eleven. Mid afternoon saw me and Louise going to my mum’s old flat to do some clearing up of her bits. We were there for about seven hours and barely touched the surface seemingly. Louise was feeling sick as well, but we had to soldier on.  We got back in for about eleven o’clock in the night, when I finally got something to eat, having not had anything since breakfast at half past eleven that morning.  At half past midnight myself, Ed and Kit recording for the February episodes of Toppermost of the Poppermost, until 3:30 in the morning, leaving us to record some more on Wednesday afternoon my time. Wednesday afternoon also

  Yes, once again I worked a night shift on Christmas night, as well as Christmas Eve night time as well. It’s the way life is. Abused as a child, and it has carried on into adulthood, although obviously not in the same way. It’s still like a mental torture when I remember family get togethers at Christmas when I was a child.  Merry Christmas to everyone, or whatever the greeting is for those who don’t partake, but instead have other thingummajigs going on.  The ‘casts - (Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember (Changed tactic now where starred dialogue denotes quoting from the show’s own notes) The Gerry Anderson Podcast - (1:22) pod 289: 25 December 2023: intro includes a Christmas message. Chat. Opening 30 year old Anderson based crackers that were purchased from Boots the chemist. Fab fact - puppets named after real life people. Christmas bombshell. Listeners feedback. Terry Adlam joins them for some festive fun and to chat more about his history working with Gerry And