Good Day.

Early start.
Too early for singing, but 'twasn't meself had the audition.
I was merely the taxi,
and the 'you'll be grand sure'
and the proud daddy.

Then home, quick coffee.
Are ye ready missus?
Drop the young wan to college,
and then 140 mile round trip
to bring the baby home from hospital.
The baby Bro that is.
He is well now
And we are all happy.

Then a funeral.
Then a malfunction with a friend's car. (Sorted!)
Dinner to make for my girls.
Pan-fried sea-bass, homemade tomato & roast pepper sauce.
Spuds 3ways, butternut squash.

A delicious 4 layers chocolate cake created by Helena for desert.

Movie (with a glimpse of 'Jimmy Bastard'!)

Bed.

Beautiful Spring Day

Today was a day for a walk in the forest. A beautiful fresh day, begging us to go outdoors and BREATHE! So off we went to Curraghchase forest park, only about a 20min drive away! (How lucky are we?)

(The pics aren't the best quality, we again forgot the camera so these were taken on Helena's iPod!)

She's off school for a week so if this weather continues we're going to do some hiking in the Clare Glens. (I'll remember the camera!)

Thinkin' 'bout Things.

1. Every Thursday night I go for pints with Paul (the plumber). He couldn't make it tonight, he had visitors. Plus, he had rang me last night to ask if I could go out then (Wednesday night) instead. No. I was going to the flicks (Movies) with Annette.

But I went for pints anyway tonight, 'cos by now most people in the 'Hi-Way' (my new local) know me anyway, and I have no problem going there on my own.

But it wasn't the same, 'cos Paul (the plumber) wasn't there. To the stool at my right. And it was like I had been divorced by my Man-Date!

And people asked "Where's yer pal?"
And I replied "We've split up, he left me for a guy with curly hair!"
And some of them believed me, and were shocked!
For even though I'm bald, I am surely handsome?

2. More people need to get married.
More people need to have big weddings, fuck the cost, and book my band to entertain the hundreds of people they invite to their wedding!

Get Married People!

3. People say "You used to have thick curly hair, do you miss it?"
I say "Fuck off"!

4. DON'T EVER SMOKE!

5. If you have 'stuff' on your mind, if yer head is hurting, talk to a friend. If I'm your friend you can talk to me anytime, about anything, ok? And it won't go any further. You can trust me, 'cos if you're MY friend then I must love you, and I will do all I can to make you feel better.

6. Sometimes, when I'm drunk, I write very honest blog posts.

7. I love you all. :¬)

xxx

Spamming Bollix At It Again!!!!!!!

Update: I found the offending spam and have removed it (It was set to send for the next TWO YEARS!!) Hope that's the end of it! :¬(


My stupid Yahoo email account has been sending out spam again, apologies to all. For the moment I'll be using my gmail (Addy in side bar) so ignore ALL emails from mapstew@yahoo.ie for now!

Does anybody know how I can suspend my offending account while saving the many emails I wish to keep? (Like all the nice emails from ya all!) All help greatly appreciated.

Map.

MOON SHADOW (or Cat/Map)

Today was wet, weary and woeful! So I stayed indoors and recorded this as I looked out at the rain & wind from the warmth of the Stewdio. Hope ye like.


MOON SHADOW (Martin Stewart sings Cat Stevens) <-- CLICK TO LISTEN.

Fire & Rain (Martin Stewart Sings James Taylor)

Fire & Rain (Martin Stewart Sings James Taylor) <- (Click to play) :¬)

Wind-Pain, Fire and Rain

I'm not a resolution maker (not even a resolution maker's son!), but I have started making some decisions.
There! I've decided to make some decisions!
I'm making New-Year decisions!

I've decided that not only do I need to take control of certain things, but that I actually can take control of certain things.

And I've started already. Tonight. It's been a while since I left someone speechless on the other end of a phone! Nothing big, just a big ol' 'NO' from me, (out loud instead of in my head, and then regretting it!) he just didn't expect it from an 'agreeable' fella like meself!
And it felt good.

Don't worry friends, it's not 'NO MORE MR. NICEGUY', I can't help being such a sweetheart, (chuckle) that's in my very nature/nurture. But it's time this man started being nice to hisself.


Many years ago, before I found the courage to stand in front of people and sing/perform, I used to sing 'in the privacy of my own bedroom' as they say.
One of the performers who influenced me was James Taylor. I would record myself singing along with his songs on my tiny little cassette recorder, have a listen and then immediately delete it just in case it got into the wrong hands! Though he will never know it, James Taylor was the person who made me want to sing. And just listening to him again recently made me realise why I wanted to sing, and what I wanted to sing, and this is part of the reason for my new decision making.


This is one of the songs I used to sing, time to start again.

(Isn't it ironic how such a gentle man might be the cause of me telling people to fuck-off!)

Oh, and the 'Wind-Pain'? had lunch in Subway today with Helena, man that place makes me fart!