Seeking my Utopia the starting point.

Here I am sitting in my living room awaiting the forecast morning of rain to start. It was to be a morning within the bounds of my humble garden but alas not this morning but maybe this afternoon as sunshine is forecast, So here I am in a position that I never expected to find my self a single man living alone trying to redefine my life as I see fit to live. I'm fast on my way to becoming zero and sixty. So I've avoided any unbecoming rebound behaviour victim after the news was broken to me that my relationship to my spouse is over. Taking time to slowly clear out the house of unwanted flotsam and jetsam of life. ( all the things she has not taken) Allowing me to consider life on my own terms of living. For I find that I have few real needs to life. For certainly I have the ongoing need to serve mammon and earn enough to cover the demands monetarily that the modern world imposes upon one. But I'm able to embrace the wonders of a slow life living a peace with myself in a almost hermit like solitude at times, or maybe a more monastic way of living. Quietly going about my home life in a more of a being able to care for the day to day necessities way of living. For all we need is sufficient for each day, and take each day as it comes. Not worry about the next for each day has its ill moments of being.

The car has gone, the television has be removed out of the house and what am I replacing thing with. Well I walk to the local railway station 1 1/2 miles away. The television has been replaced with a bookcase full of the classics that i have yet to read and many that I have read and a new radio for my favourite radio stations, radio 3 and 4.

Although I can cook after a fashion I'm having to work on my cooking skills. For there is now no pressure upon me to do what is considered correct meals. this has been a massive revelation for me as I find myself really enjoying the process. From fruit and vegetables purchasing or being home grown. Buying the other comestibles as required, the preparation of the meat, the cooking even the washing up and having the kitchen in a nice neat no clutter on the worktops status. Cooking extra to put in my lunch that I'm taking to work the next day. One of the greatest delights that I've strangely found is purchasing the various kitchen cooking equipment that had been removed from my home and I'm not going cheap on them. Putting the money in to them whilst I can. Other delights I'm finding is being able to have a good old fashioned mechanical clock from the 40's in the living room on the fireplace mantel piece that chimes. Pure delight. This brings me to say that I much refer vintage items and designs in things. Modernity I'm sure has its place but I really find that i prefer something with a more traditional taste in design. Designs that have stood the test of time. Furniture that has a life in its worn patina.

On a review of how my beliefs are I find myself a believer in the God Yahweh but I not here to push this. It is something that grounds me and I'm sure that this will weave its way through the fabric of this blog that I am attempting to create. For I find the standards that I'm trying to pursue are of the Christian view point on life.

For this is me now and able to seek out my Utopian life for what ever years God decides I now have left.

Maybe this will help others that find themselves on the scrapheap of life, that not all is lost. Grab the good that we all have deep down inside yourself that you've had to keep subdued to keep the peace with another person of cohabitation. Define the lost you and get this back. Let this blog be a place of uplifting virtue to a decent quiet more self sufficient way of living. A life of positivity good values of self for Gentlemen that are decent Gentlemen and hard working. For Gentlemen that want to say NO to the system of life that we find ourselves presented with. For the Gentlemen that have high decency of vintage values.

Until my next blog posting keep up the good work.