The Long Overdue Boy Behind The Glasses Update – May 2023

And So…

I’ve not written an update for The Boy Behind The Glasses (TBBTG) for some time, well over a year. There has been a number of reasons for this. Primarily it is a sense of laziness and the need to keep going on this site. Secondly i that I moved, or I should say we moved, that is me, Mrs G and the two cats. We moved from Devon in the UK up to North Yorkshire, bought a house, renovated said house and got new jobs in the space of a year. Time consuming stuff which happened over the last year. I might explain in another update why we moved and what led to us moving. All this has conspired to post less and update less, particularly last year.
But in that time I have seen subscribers increase to the site and I realise it must be quite boring for people to keep receiving updates and read through endless poems which probably don’t mean much on their own. I can direct people back to the introduction but I thought I should really explain again or remind everyone what this nonsense is all about.
So it seems during 1992 at the age of 17 I decided to start writing down things in writing pads and then, well then then it didn’t stop and here we are thirty one years later and I am still doing it. The problem is that until 2019 those writing pads were just sitting in boxes. It was a miracle that they not only existed still but had survived. I have moved countless times and across the country. How I have not lost them or lost more, well it is a miracle. About ten years ago I had talked about writing them all up. Back then it was maybe as books or maybe a website, I wasn’t sure and then, like so many ideas and plans in my life, nothing came of it.
Fast forward to 2019 and the WordPress format appeared to fit the bill. It wasn’t quite ideal, I am not exactly blogging but it does allow me to construct something that can store and archive what I’ve written.
I decided that I loved the very nature of the pads and what was written in them, in the sense, I like the original scrawl of what i had written. It’s like deconstructing the creative process. With that in mind i decided to include the original from my writing pads as well as a typed up version. In fact the scanner I have used since 2019 is slowly coming apart, last week the lid broke, then the power cable decided to give up. One power cable lead later but still no lid it’s still going.
So what you have here is me daily typing up my writing pads in no particular order and having to go through the process of looking back, something I will talk about in another update.
I am not overtly driven by likes, I am not a writer or poet who wants or who is trying to get more likes, I don’t want to be a writer or a poet, I am not into self promotion. I just need to get my writing archived however, i do feel subscribers have nothing to buy into. I am just uploading poems and perhaps it would help if people had more interaction from me. The prime of TBBTG is to archive all my writing. It’s not about the quality of writing, my writing is not a technical masterclass, it was always about expression, capturing my life and capturing how I feel and who I was at points in my life. But the sum here, is greater than the whole. To have an archive of your life is a wonderful thing and I want to preserve that.
Thank you for those who regularly like, I really do appreciate it, it means a lot that you take time to read and comment .I am still writing so in effect I am always chasing my tail but I will continue to upload and yes, there will be another update soon. I would like to talk about personal toxicity and how you may never see it but there will be for the next update.