Thoughts from a Faraway Place: A Lifetime of People and What They Have Done to Me!

By John Eaton

There are different ways of telling life stories; this book is about my stories in verse with truth and honesty and also with humour and pathos. So much is true to human behaviour, whether it is the cones on the road or thoughts about people’s inability to see their own shortcomings. There is a part of me that finds something humorous in a word or a sentence which leads to a story with a twist, such as in a sentence in the first verse which includes the words ‘blubbaldy-blobaldy-flibadyflob, flibbady-flobbady-boo’, sometimes following a word with another similar word and letting them follow each other until I find an end. Finding words and meaning has been therapeutic tool for me in a time when I needed to say something, even if that something was nothing.
 
PROETRY
It may not be what you expect, a word that is never used,
a neologism,
with the help of a little entrepreneurialism,
must gain respect, as I suppose,
what I write is not prose,
but it rhymes and chimes like Moet,
though I do not consider myself a poet,
so with pure probity,
I call this work,
‘Proetry’.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: May 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781788783255

John Eaton

John Eaton is a care home owner and manager who has worked in the public sector before leaving to create a service for people with mental health/learning disabilities. He has written many training programmes for the care sector workers and has had a book published on a step-by-step guide to investors in people. Much of the punishment, pathos and proclamations comes from his day job, with a sprinkling of other thoughts as he wanders through the panoply of his life.

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Thoughts from a

Faraway Place

A Lifetime of People and What They

Have Done to Me!

John Eaton

Austin Macauley Publishers

Thoughts from a Faraway Place

About the Author

Dedication

Copyright Information ©

Acknowledgement

Lullaby for Evaleigh

Canna-Kinna-Understand

Mr Birdie

Turn the Paige

DIMinish

I, Ron Mann

Handicap

Know-Body

Connextions

Bully for You

Mind Games

P-Latin-Um

Who? Dini

Basket Case

Perfectic

Pathological Demand Avoidance

Both Sides Now

Harry’s Game

Psycholo-Gee

Boxcar Willie

Suntanfastic

Platetudes

Fake News

No Talent at All

(De-)Scribes

The Legend of Don Sausage

Lovely?

Harm Prevention

Egyptology

Tales from Beatrix Potter

News Bullet-In

Refrain

Cones

Kidology

Screw the Top

Mr E Mann

Ante-Social Media

Plea(D)Se

Universal Dis-Credit

The Title

Crosstalk

Ode to Joy!

Brush Strokes

Mr Angry

Baconomics

My Flavourite

Quality Street

In(tro)Spection

Reputation

You F’Coffee

Familiar Ring?

Lessons Lessen

Interpretation

Where’s Wally

Judgement

Food, Glorious Food

Intermission

The Boss

Work

Mac, the Knife

Fantasia

I Understand?

Substance Abuse

Bob Scratchit

Discrimination

Communication

Food for Thought

Computing

Timepiece

Justice

You

History and Context

The Competition

Veg Plot

Learning Disabilities

She

Salutation

What?

Communicate

Happiness Month

Confidentiality

Amelia

September Mourn

Appraisal

Fire

October Fest

Communication

Rhyme or Reason

Bonfire Night

The Christmas Underdog

Tick-Tock

Money

The Fayre

Apexed Out

1972

Merry Christmas

Happy New Year

Uncle Joe

Summer Fayre 2016

Induction

Trumping

Senses

Record Keeping and Money

My Role

Food and Nutrition

A Leap (Year) of Faith

Safeguarding Children

The Hare of a Mad March

The Safe

Conundrum

Brexit

Movember

Personal Development

Working in a Person- Centred Way

Duty of Care

Ode (Owed?) to the Bard

What a May Day

Privacy and Dignity

Threats

What Is April

Communication

Risks

Medication

Capacity

Handling Information

Infection Prevention and Control

Accessing and Using Information

Equality and Diversity

Discrimination

Health and Safety

Counselling

First Aid

Lucidity

Professionalism

Contingency

Smart

World Corrupt Final

The Liquor and the Bun

Safeguarding Adults

Amelia at 18

Dawlish Ditty’s

A Fishy Tale

Meat-Free Madness

Small Fry

Paint-On

Fostering Relationships

Rebel Rebellion

Fo9

I Wonder

Guffawe

Take Care

Flickures

Mind Games

Rehab

Up and Down

Stress Test

(KFC) Kant Find the Chicken

Dave

Public Inconvenience

Morning Glory

Candles in the Air

Vino Plonko Light

A Cider Drinker’s Tale

Captain Zero

About the Author

John Eaton is a care home owner and manager who has worked in the public sector before leaving to create a service for people with mental health/learning disabilities. He has written many training programmes for the care sector workers and has had a book published on a step-by-step guide to investors in people. Much of the punishment, pathos and proclamations comes from his day job, with a sprinkling of other thoughts as he wanders through the panoply of his life.

Dedication

To my wife, Sue, and our children,

Ross, James, Kiri, Sandy and Charlotte

and

To those who try to undermine,

and for those who try to make the world, just fine.

You know who you are!

Copyright Information ©

John Eaton (2021)

The right of John Eaton to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.

Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.

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Acknowledgement

All the people who have made my life playful, painful, problematic, philosophical and purposeful!

Lullaby for Evaleigh

Wibble-wobble, wibble-wobble, wibbly-wobbly-woo,

this is Evaleigh’s poem,

written just for you.

Stick your tongue out

and move it about

until you can say

blubbaldy-blobaldy-flibadyflob, flibbady-flobbady-boo.

For whom ‘Spid the Spider’ would have never been written

Canna-Kinna-Understand

He’s got a canopy above his head,

a canna-pee below his bed

and a canna-peas to dunk his bread.

He canna-pee in the night,

then eats a canape when he fancies a bite,

but then he canna-pay when the money gets tight.

He canna-play when he knows he should.

It’s a kinna-ploy he understood,

then he canna-pray to make him good.

Has a canna-biscuits with his tea

and smokes some canna-bis to set him free.

It’s a kinna-abyss from which he seeks to flee.

He wants to emigrate to Cana-da only,

when he eats his Canna-loni,

I guess he is gonna be kinna-lonely.

Mr Birdie

Mr Birdie in the sky,

what did you see with your tiny birdie eye?

Did you see the little boy,

looking to the stars –

eyes steeped in tears,

like drops of sorrow,

on an arrow,

and as I recall,

nothing could pacify him at all?

When you flew by,

you