Douglas profile picture

Douglas

I am here for Friends

About Me

Just to let everybody know, my partner Bern died on Sunday 21st January 2007 having battled with cancer for the last two and a half years. When the end came, he was comfortable and at peace, and died sleeping, cuddled in my arms.Slowly coming out of my shell - I miss Bern all the time and "carrying on" with life is so so hard. In a way, I'm looking forward to meeting the person I'm going to be when I get to the other side of this journey. Hopefully it will be someone Bern would be proud of.*update* well, a year and a half later and I'm back in the land of the living having met a wonderful guy called Guy. we just got back from Latitude and had the best time.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I'd STILL like to meet loads of people at a Waterlaso gig in London one day! I meet a lot of people I'd never normally meet while I'm at work which is good.

My Blog

Ban Whalers

Hmm  I wonder how long this will last?   http://rateyourmusic.com/~Bolivar     All of a couple of days then.
Posted by on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:25:00 GMT

RYM threads

Well , I guess I should know better - finally got around to posting a couple of messages , and guess what? Yep , bolivar is at my throat , and the sanctimonious erlend is hovvering in the wings , no d...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:00:00 GMT

Ticket buying day

Ended up spending rather a lot of money on gig tickets today. There I was , chatting away to some of the usual gang in the #rym hangout , when first Sigur Ros was mentioned , and then Pixies. Well , h...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Jul 2005 06:36:00 GMT

Glastonbury

Well , another visit to the Glastonbury Festival has come and gone. Another year with mud sadly , but finding a stall selling wellies at 5am on Saturday morning saved the day. Bands seen included the ...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:12:00 GMT

May .. away :cool:

Well , at the risk of gloating , I'm going on holiday for 4 weeks (that's 28 days .. yee haa) on the 2nd of May , and unless I find an internet cafe somewhere , will be offline for that time. So ,...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:42:00 GMT

Is life back to normal? Quite possibly

Bern started back to work this week , albeit on light duties and shorter hours. It's one of those milestones that means a lot after cancer. We have had a difficult time I guess , with some setbacks le...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Mar 2005 01:32:00 GMT

Home , sweet home

Well , he's home. He's on the mend , and I'm much happier than I've been for ages! Dog comes home tomorrow - we decided to send him to a behavioural training course as he is so hyper-friendly and pos...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:08:00 GMT

A week from hell.

This really has been a difficult week. It started ok , Bern had his operation on Monday , and by Tuesday was making a good recovery. By Wednesday , he was back in the Intensive Care Unit with a multi...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Nov 2004 05:55:00 GMT

Hospital

Bern goes into hospital later today , and has his operation tomorrow. I couldn't sleep last night , but the fact that his snoring kept me awake was comforting for a change ... at least he's not that n...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Nov 2004 04:54:00 GMT

All change next week .....

 Well , Bern goes into hospital and Radley goes off for some behavioural training. So it's big change all round for everyone around me! Bit nervous about both events ... having half a lung remove...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Nov 2004 05:49:00 GMT