Good Evening!!!

Ha-ha!

I LOVE saying that, in my full-on English accent! LOL

It's become a bit of a trade-mark of mine - or, conversely, one of the minor annoyances - that eventually everyone I work with becomes familiar.

Welcome to The Barney Blogs!

What's this blog about, and who is Barney, anyway?

Well - Barney was my nickname a long, long time ago, way back at High School, (more commonly known as South Shields Grammar-Technical School for Boys!), where I was a member of a small group of miscreants known as The Flock.  Most of us either had, or were subsequently given, weird and wonderful nicknames.  Mine was Barney (Barney Googoo in full - don't ask!), and others were Olly Beak (quite normal, really, that one), Clag, Sos, and - wait for it - the (in)famous Arnold Vou-Bag Winklepicker!  We got up to a lot of nefarious activities, and earned a few stripes - if you get my drift! - but, all-in-all, we were a pretty harmless bunch of proto-nerds, that have since developed into a bunch of older nerds - those of us that have survived so far.

 

So, the name stuck, and, as one of my companion blogs will attest, I subsequently suffixed the Barney with Bolanoid - Barney Bolanoid - because I was, and still am, a huge Marc Bolan fan and officianado - although age has both mellowed and expanded my musical horizons - but that's what the other blog is for!!

 

So - that's the who!  The why?

 

Well, like all semi-sentient under-achievers, the older you get, the more time you spend reminiscing about - queue Bruce - The Glory Days - i.e. those days long ago when you and your pals dreamed - actually fantasised really - about all of the wonderful prospects and achievements you would achieve over the long span of life remaining to you.  With the benefit of crystal-clear hindsight, you can look back through the span of years between then and now, and think about all of the good, indifferent, and bad times, that are sprinkled along the path of Time.  Some of these events are actually worth recounting and sharing - either as entertainment, or as educational experiences, or, further, as opportunities to rant and rave about the many odd and strange occurrences we all experience.

 

So - that's why The Barney Blogs exists - reminiscences of the Glory Days revisited for your entertainment and enlightenment. I hope you find them as enjoyable and stimulating to read as I will to write them, and take the time to let me know with a comment of two.

 

Nice to meet you!!

 

Barney