I am on the outskirts of Wolverhampton<\/p>\n
The sky is grey as are the people and the town<\/p>\n
If I had a pistol I would shoot myself in the head<\/p>\n
I am a travelling rep for an insulation company (do not laugh)<\/em><\/p>\n It is a thankless job and my life is on the road<\/p>\n I live alone in a flat in Basingstoke which I do not own<\/p>\n Women tent to avoid me as I am short and fat and do not look my age (thirty-seven)<\/em><\/p>\n My clothes are ill fitting and I tend to waddle instead of walk<\/p>\n Jim Smith my immediate superior tells me that I remind him of a Somerset Maugham character<\/p>\n Mynheer Evert Gruyter is his name but as I have never met him his joke falls on my deaf ears<\/p>\n I meet a lot of women but they take little notice of me as I look strange to their conventional eyes<\/p>\n This used to upset me but I have now grown used to it as I bury myself deep in la chanson francaise<\/em><\/p>\n I am deeply in love with them all and I know that they love me for what I am and nothing else<\/p>\n My favourite for many years the girl with the golden eyes Marie Laforet but she died last year<\/p>\n This broke my heart and I cried for days as I could not think of life without her<\/p>\n But of late I have found someone new and she soothes me as much as Marie had done<\/p>\n Her name is Beatrice Martin although she is better know as Coeur de pirate (pirate heart)<\/em><\/p>\n I have all her recordings and play these as I drive between these drab northern towns<\/p>\n Her music lifts my spirits and what was once grey is now a beautiful red<\/p>\n My figures have improved and there is talk of the me heading up the much sought after south west<\/p>\n Mummy once said to me before she died that I must always look into the light and ensure that the darkness is unseen<\/p>\n I am beginning to thin that she was right as I am actually looking forward to parking in front of Alloy Tubes<\/p>\n And selling our useless products to the company (I do not think that they will survive the year as China has killed them)<\/em><\/p>\n But to hell with that it is all about number one dog eat dog I am not going to stare into the abyss as others do<\/p>\n I have booked a cruise in July (covid permitting)<\/em> and hope to sail the seven seas with my favourite pirate and her music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am on the outskirts of Wolverhampton The sky is grey as are the people and the town If I had a pistol I would shoot myself in the head I am a travelling rep for an insulation company (do not laugh) It is a thankless job and my life is on the road I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}