"brighten the night sky"

1 complete month of blips!!! :) that's an achievement in itself! And it is true, it just becomes part of your daily routine whilst also challenging you to be more creative with the everyday sights and sounds that are around you!

This was the scene that met me as I crossed the Tay rail bridge this evening at the start of my crazy 5 hour trek to Liverpool for my Christmas present! Sometimes I wonder why I find myself not liking Dundee when it gives you skies like this! Yes the photo was taken on a phone and through a train window but you get the idea of the colours! O what could have been achieved with a proper camera and lens! :)

In answer to the above question, in recent months I've realised that the things keeping me in Dundee, or liking it so to speak, are a job of course, but most importantly my friends! Without that small group of people I'd be lost and life just feels that little bit emptier when they aren't around or if I haven't seen them in a while!

After that horrible feeling of being stranded in an unknown train station, namely Wigan, and not knowing where to go or what to do, I found 'safety' in the pub across the way until I am where I find myself now - on another train, and once again stranded somewhere in the English countryside between Wigan and Liverpool due to a fatality on the tracks. Situations like these are difficult and I have the greatest amount of sympathy for the train driver who has to look upon it, but these people need a huge amount of help - ending their life is not the answer to the problems they may face, although they may believe it to be so. They need someone to talk to, take an interest in their life, make them feel valued, etc. Having been to a suicide on scenes placement at university in 2011 perhaps I've become emotionally hardened to it all now but there is always another answer! They don't realise the hurt they leave behind, and in the case of my scenes experience - a baby boy of 18 months who will never know his father, all because his dad couldn't see another way out of his problems. I think about that little guy a lot...

Enough doom and gloom, positive thoughts! With Jayney now on her way to rescue me from this train journey nightmare, when I eventually get to Liverpool I'm looking forward to our weekend adventures and a catch up with the Cronins!

O, and a final thought on the day.....did you know you can buy a car worth 1 million pounds??!!!!!

# The Night Sky - Keane #