Claptrap from a one armed Black Chap: March 2014

Thursday 20 March 2014

'IT'S MY BIRTHDAY...I'LL WRITE WHAT I WANT TO!'

Hi everyone! I just wanted to do a quick posting before I go out to celebrate my Birthday which is today. I like it when I have good reason to party, although having said that and then thought it through, why do I need a reason or excuse to go out and let my hair down? (Not literally of course...you've all seen my photos and I don't do hair as you can clearly see. Well not since my Apollo Creed days of the 80's at least).

Anyway, I'm not Blogging today just to tell you that I'm the 'Birthday Boy' because there is another reason why I'm chuffed with myself...My new e-book 'Together Forever' that I told you about a few weeks ago goes live today on 'Amazon' and I know that if you like my Blog then you will like my book. I really hope that you will buy yourself a copy and more to the point enjoy reading it and any reviews on Amazon will be much appreciated. (I nearly said 'good reviews' will be appreciated but I know you will all love it!)

Right... that's enough plugging of the new book, I'm off now to get Merry as Trudie and Jaja are taking me out to a lovely Italian Restaurant nearby where there is great food and wine to be consumed by yours truly.
Oops! final book plug...the link to Amazon is below....enjoy.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00J4PXRE8

About Me

I suppose I could say it's all in the title 'Claptrap from a one armed Black Chap' but if I expect you to follow my blog then I feel that it's only right that I tell you more about myself.

I don't need you to know who I am and where I've been in order to justify or give credibility to the things I say because if something needs to be said I will say it. I have a viewpoint and I'm not afraid to use it as my wife Trudie often points out....There you see, you now know that I am married, 27 years in fact. 12 of those years were spent going through IVF treatment in order to realise our dream of having a baby and that baby is now a handsome young man of 14 who goes by the name of Jaja (pronounced Jay Jay and means 'Gift from God').

We wrote a book about our 12 year struggle with infertility and the financial problems we encountered that culminated in me being made Bankrupt 4 years ago...see there's something else you now know about me! Bankrupt and an author... The book is called 'Dreams Do Come True' and is available to buy at Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dreams-Do-Come-True-Bankruptcy/dp/190829308X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391956997&sr=1-2&keywords=dreams+do+come+true and can be ordered through WH Smiths and Waterstones. according to the many reviews it's a great read so check it out. (This is my Blog so I'll plug my book if I want to!)

I suppose you may be wondering what the 'one armed black chap' stuff is all about and maybe you think I'm a bit strange? No? You weren't wondering?....then it's you that's strange!

I was born in this country to Jamaican parents and that's where the black bit comes in. I contracted Polio as a child and that's where the one armed bit came in. I do actually have two whole arms but one of them doesn't really work and is only really useful for filling out the left sleeves of my clothes. I suppose my fingers were useful at school when I needed to count to more than 5 before the invention of calculators but the arm was no help to me as I learned to swim. I just worked extra hard with my legs and good arm to stop myself from swimming around in circles and there you get the first clue as to who and what 'The one armed Black Chap' is all about....

I'm all about getting on with living my life! I don't need or seek any sympathy for anything that has occurred in my life that others may see as being a disadvantage to me! I never look at another person and wish I was in their shoes instead of mine!

People have asked "what was it like being the only black boy in a school of 2000 pupils?" I say brilliant! I was special, everyone knew who I was! "What was it like growing up with a disability?" I say "I don't have a disability but I know what you mean and again it was brilliant, it made me double special!

In later years people have wondered how we survived 27 years in a mixed race marriage and 12 years on IVF but we look at it as a journey that prepared us for the wonderful outcome that was our precious son.

Friends and family alike think I should be bitter and vengeful of the circumstances surrounding my bankruptcy but like I said 'I don't do looking back and lamenting what if or if only because I made the choices that led to the outcome of every area of my life and being a true believer in 'The Law of Attraction' I know that my living reality is of my own making. I am in complete control of my own destiny.

So that's me and mine in a nutshell. I have a lot to say (hence the blog) a lot of it tongue in cheek because I like to look for the good and funny side of everything because I really do believe that everything you can think of has a good side and if you look carefully enough you can always come up with a funny side too...

Don't believe me? Follow my Blog and eventually you will see that it's not all claptrap from the One Armed Black Chap as I do speak sense from time to time.

Claptrap from a one armed Black Chap

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Thursday 20 March 2014

'IT'S MY BIRTHDAY...I'LL WRITE WHAT I WANT TO!'

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