Geraint Roberts - Ramblings of a would-be published novelist

Will the real Geraint Roberts stand up...

Funny, I thought my name was unique. Especially in Northampton. I should have known better, even working for Bt, I was one of three. My dopplegangers were a wideband engineer in Llanfairfechan and someone in the valleys. The former was a top bloke, but then he spent 5 years playing postie for those who didn't put the right e-mail address down for me.

Now I use statcounter - a little piece of fun that tells you where the ISP is of whoever has read your blog and if they've got their via an engine, what they searched for. that's all I can glean, so don't blame me for the mountain of junk mail - both cyber and snail. I get it too. It's called modern life. Modern life is junk mail - Christ, that's a depressing thought...

Anyway, for those people who stopped by looking for someone else. thanks for coming, you're welcome to pop in. Hope all is well. In brief, this is who I'm not:

1. I don't make sidecars with someone called Dagmar
2. I don't play bass in a rock band in Germany.
3. I'm not from Ystradgynlais and I've not written about Welsh Castles. Seen a few in my time mind.
4. I've never held the baton for Trelawnyd Male Voice choir. I did used to sing in London Welsh though. They had 2 groups - drunks and deacons. I would never have sat at the front in chapel, shall we say...
5. I've never been mauled by a 47 stone pig
6. Never published anything scientific.
7. Never played football for Dyffryn Banw
8. Or rugby for Wrexham, Llandudno
9. The only TT I've been in was an Audi
10. I'm not a builder, director or in denbighshire Voluntary Services
11. I'm not an Obs and gynae specialist. Honest, madam...
12. I don't chair anything, not surveyed anything, planned anything
13. I've never asked Newport Council to crush my car
14. I've never met Tony Blair
15. I'm not in Uni in Aberystywth. I may move back there, so sorry if that causes a problem...
16. I'm not 20, like going out on the piss and have a girlfriend called Donna.
17. I sadly don't own my own micro brewery. I do like a drop of Purple Moose now and then though!
18. I wasn't in Hedd Wyn
19. I don't rent hovercrafts
20. I wish I knew about weight loss
21. I'm not a rugby referee
22. I've never worked in any school as a teacher.
23. i know nothing about the red jaguar in the movie 'Get Carter'
24. I hadn't realised there was a petition to rename the Prince William trophy, the Ray Gravell cup. But I am 1000% with you boys...
25. And finally... when I published on this blog a poem called 'Dawn Desire', it was an outpouring after taking my young family to the airport so they could holiday whilst I worked. It was not a tribute to whom I am told is a charming young lady who excites the libido of certain chaps with her photographic tribute to clothing made with the fabric known as lycra or spandex.

Well, if you're still here. Sorry to disappoint, but I'm sure you'll find the right GR in the web. We're a pretty diverse bunch all told...

posted by Geraint @ 11:47 pm