The Reasons for being me - why I write
TWISTED !
To wind together (two or more threads,
for example) so as to produce a single strand,(just like a marriage).
To form in this manner: (Twist a length of rope from strands of hemp).
To wind or coil (Ivy for example)
about
something and around something, (around a family).
To interlock or interlace: Twist flowers into one's hair to get noticed
To make (one's
way) in a tortuous manner: (twisted my way through the brambles or the Journey of
life).
To turn so as to face in another direction: Twisted
oneself around and noticed something that changed their life.
CHIMNEYS !
Why?
Romans
used tubes inside the walls to draw smoke out of bakeries.
Real chimneys appeared only in northern Europe in the 12th century.
Industrial chimneys became common in the
late 18th century.
Chimneys have traditionally been built of brick, both in small
and large buildings. Early chimneys were of a simple brick construction. Later chimneys were constructed by placing the bricks
around tile liners.
To
control downdrafts venting caps (often called chimney pots) with a variety of designs are sometimes placed on the top of chimneys.
Chimneys and their Pots have existed in the
streets all of our lives, they sit up high above us, witnessing the change in our streets, hardly ever noticed by the busy
families hurrying about their daily lives.
The Motivation of Twisted Chimneys, the place!
Enjoy my time whilst I am awake, listen and look and wisdom take, for when
I was young I had no time at all, and I knew it all.
So how come now I twist my ways to remember the wonderful carefree days, with a smile of execution, for that was
definitely yester-me.
I could
not continue my journey without a plan, although it would have been much more fun, without such condition at my stroll.
And now I know that I have reached
my peak, I twist my gaze ahead and speak. For the first time the enemy called old age, I see waiting at the brow of the hill,
waving me up, as I stand still.
Upset with the situation! I Twist and look behind and I see, my youth waving goodbye!.
Feck me, strooth! I crouch on bended knee, and
think, what to do?
I blink, think, smile and I wink.
I raise my blame, I stare at the brow and I take my aim, I scream out not yet my friend in me there’s more,
I look to my side at an open door, its sign is gone but I hear a roar, over here come have more fun, let them wait your days
not done, pick up your stroll and start your run. Inside this door your life begins, for many years you shed laughter and tears and from now on you can show
your smiles and fears and help the others along their years.
For all will reach that twist in life and stand and stare in trouble and strife, looking
back and looking on, an unhappy throng. To the side you will sing your song, wave and shout and jump and bang, to get there
attention and make their plan.Show
them middle-age is a time of creativity, not a longing for yester-me, lost is all they have in mind, but you-Pat will show
with kind, so much more is yet to find!
Some wont know! its up to you, begin your plan with something unique and new,
slowly build your place of fun, and offer a solution let them come. let destiny help those stuck on bended knee, waving goodbye
to yester-me, looking ahead at old age beckoning, paint your door with something reckoning, so others see along their way,
a place to stop, and rest and play, make sure its something they wouldn’t normally see!!And let’s call it Twisted Chimneys
Pat
G – 7th March 2009 © This a website
written about me and about you, I dont have to know you; I just want to show you, start noticing those
you care about notice yourself and get others to notice you in a way you never imagined before.
BELOW ARE SOME PHOTOS OF THE JOURNAL ALTHOUGH A LITTLE DISTORTED ON THE SITE ONLY!
OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS I HAVE BEEN OVERWHELMED
BY THE FEEDBACK I HAVE RECIEVED THROUGH THE GUESTBOOK ENTRIES AND MESSAGES TELLING ME THAT MOST PEOPLE WOULD LOVE TO WRITE
SOMETHING DOWN ABOUT THEIR LIVES.
AND SO!
I HAVE CREATED AN INTERACTIVE BOOK YOU CAN
FILL IN AT YOUR LEISURE IN YOUR OWN TIME WITH A PEN OR PENCIL PLACE SOME PHOTOS. IT WILL BRING YOU NO END OF ENJOYMENT AS
THE PROMPTS AND REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION MAKE YOU WRITE THE DETAILED STUFF THE REST OF US WHO THINK WE KNOW YOU WOULD
LOVE TO KNOW!
THIS BOOK IS AN INTERACTIVE JOURNAL AND IS CALLED
"THE REASONS FOR BEING ME LIFE JOURNAL"
SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS ON HOW TO OBTAIN A COPY over the Internet.
However, if you wish to contact me direct for a copy of the Journal, just use one of
the email addresses on this site and I will get back to you.
Below are some Pages from the book.
Most people would love to share their wisdom and knowledge and their story with family but
nobody has time to listen and remember. It wasnt until my Mother died that the questions came, I have created this book so
people can tell their story and others wont forget. It is a fun and valuable (Once completed) item to treasure for years
and years. all the best Pat G
THE LIFE JOURNAL IS A WONDERFUL
BOOK TO OWN, SEE BELOW!
Sindey Aubrey: hi pat i bought your journal yesterday from jaci c, what a fantastic book! everyone should have one
and send as a gift at christmas, what a wonderful book to pass down generations after generations! well done pat brilliant.
Garry Mansfield
Pat, Journal arrived this morning,
not sure what I was expecting but its a brilliant idea in a polished presentation, well worth the price. If this is the only
book/journal of its type? as I have never seen anything like it, I hope it does really well. Gonna give this one to my son.
Tania Lynam
I think the book is wonderful and am so happy to
have one of my own. I will be buying one each for several family members over the next few months.
Thank you T
xx
Hi Pat & Hannah
Received
Journal 'The Reasons For Being Me'
Love & highly recommend it ... Really lovely Journal, thank you ... Can't
wait to start writing in it :o)
Brilliant & best £9.99 i've ever spent
Everyone should
have a copy, & would make a lovely Present for friends & family
Dawn
hi pat and hannah got the book thanks so much its brilliant love kelle, jonathan and family
| FRONT COVER OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY - coming soon |
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| Pat G (Author) in 2009 and as Punk following Bauhaus in 1982 |
Welcome to Twisted Chimneys, a place I have created to explain a the
book about my own journey through life.
"Twisted Chimneys"
THE REASONS FOR BEING ME
When I was a teenager, I thought that
growing older would take such a long time I need never have to worry about that situation, and I was right to think
just that as I was young.
When I was 24 years old, I still thought
I would live forever but realised that when you are dead and gone you could be easily forgotten these thoughts were
borne when my mother died in 1987 at the age of 56 leaving many questions in my mind about her and her past. I never
ever forgot this and by 2005, I wrote some information for my children to understand where they came from how and why.
It was not until 2007 that I worried when
I noticed that people I knew fairly well were dying sooner than I thought they should. I always have had
a belief that we all should pass on when we are in our nineties. Therefore, I began to question whom it would affect if I
were to pass on and should I be interested in whatever happens to my friends and family in my absence.
I have learned from my own personal experience
when my mum passed away in 1987 that the one thing children might regret is not having noticed their parents had a
life. Some children do wonder as to where they came from, why and how they had come to being right here right now in this
town in this country.
People often think about these things when
it is too late for asking the questions. Therefore, I decided to tell a true story for my five children and hopefully their
children's children. If only I could manage to write more than just some information about my past, I began to think big,
what if I could tell an interesting real life story they would be so lucky to have that information. I believe it would
be a wonderful reference for a younger member of my family to their past for a simple explanation on how they eventually arrived
into this beautiful world and to the places they have grown up, it would be so rewarding for all of us.
Once I set about what I thought was just
a simple series of notes about me and my parents and family I became more aware of my immediate family and I noticed
many things about them and myself I wouldn’t normally have realised. Writing something of so much personal detail has
placed me sometimes in a very emotional seat of judgement, joy and distress. A simple book like this is always under my own
personal scrutiny as I explore more and more of my personal history and my inner self. My conscience and character has changed
so much with my age and my wisdom, and because it took me 12 years to write my book my present feelings were always criticizing
my historical feelings. I sometimes wondered if I was reading about someone else when I reviewed my past.
As I read through the pages of days
gone by with the younger version of me, I am able to challenge the decisions I made on a one to one basis and see the transformation
in my life and the influences that dictated the reasons for being me. The book was fast becoming an exciting adventure and
with only the truth to tell, as my family would know if I was lying or if I did attempt to stretch the truth.
Its easy to question could all of these
situations of happened to just me, although nothing I have written is not real sometimes I wonder how it all happened and
it fascinates me. The situations I awoke to daily all full of influences of the time, I must admit that I
was not always a good boy and then a good man. However, what I aim to do now is pass on to my family an explanation of the
reasons for being me to show how at various stages in your life situations will dictate your focus and your progression toward
an older age. How you personally deal with this on the day are the details that could go unnoticed and these are
the memories with the detail you should pass on.
I decided I would call my book Twisted
Chimneys because I needed to find a connection between people living an ordinary life and not noticing the detail in
the every day world, thats wasnt going to be easy if I wanted to reach everyone so how could I send my message. Well,
as I am fascinated by the work and detail in chimneys on ordinary peoples houses, in ordinary everyday streets I became
aware that most others never even notice them, and so I had found a personal connection, I believed that I can reach
out to people by pointing out the obvious and using it as an example, although it may bring some frowns.
Out in our streets where ordinary people
live & Twist out their ordinary lives, scattered in the architecture of the buildings
we occupy and pass between, there is something so spectacular to view. No matter
where we live, there are Chimneys of some sort; maybe not in the recent buildings of the 21st century
but certainly in the older streets around the towns.
I noticed the connection with the chimneys
in some old pictures on display in our local newspaper showing days gone by, in and around the town. I noticed that the roads
had no cars and the people were dressed so different to today holding bycicles in pose, and probably long dead and gone, but
the same chimneys were up there just as they are right now I wondered if those people ever noticed them or ever made themselves
noticed.
I have been on a journey of self-discovery and conditioning.
I first wrote in the manner of explanation as if I was the accused in a court case trying to defend myself. The fact
that I wrote as I lived gave me the foresight to explore situations as I lived that had occurred and were occurring in my
life and revisit and review my story. This guidance, certainly in the first eight years of the new millennium changed my world
completely for the better. Now I have finished it and it is not an explanation in defence, but a story of the influences of
daily life in England. It is my life in design taken from the impact of people I met and of the
environment I lived in, it was influenced by the government and world issues. All the events of the past have had an effect
on everybody not just me, but this story is just about one of those families of modern England and in particular a story of how all of this has eventually led to the reasons for being me.
My life journal began in 1987 some twenty years ago it
then developed into my book and over the last twelve years it became more than something I would write for the family. I realised
my life was very colourful and on completion of my book I wanted to share and influence the world. I could not do it by being
famous I did not know how, I did not learn enough at school to be able to manage a super highflying career. I just lived what
I thought was a normal life, that is until I started to tell my life story to others. It was the interest and the disbelief
of others that made me aware that we all have a story in us. Therefore, the first 45 years of my maybe not so ordinary life
await the curious reader and I hope will interest and entertain. If one person in my family learns something from these pages,
I will have succeeded by sharing my life. What experiences could I have ever had that could influence another's journey, or
maybe protect and guide them? What changes and decisions did I make in my life
that could affect a change in theirs? Well the truth is... many. I have a document that tells me that the name Guilfoyle in the
county of Offaly in Ireland; was once the name of our ancestors who were Royalty.
My great grandfather Loughlin Guilfoyle from Offaly had made his home in Kilbeggan Westmeath in Ireland in the late nineteenth century. Lockie's first son was Jack Guilfoyle born
in 1903, always remembered as the tallest man in Kilbeggan. Jack's second youngest son was Thomas Guilfoyle born in 1928 in
Kilbeggan; he is and will always be my hero. He is also my father.
YOU TO CAN NOW WRITE (THE REASONS FOR
BEING ME) AS I HAVE DESIGNED A JOURNAL THAT WILL GUIDE YOU, your family and you and your friends will love it,
