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 Excuse my Bad manners.

I feel I must ask you all to excuse my bad manners. I write and write reams of nonsense in the hopes that I am getting to you, complete strangers. Who am I to write all that which I have written in the past? Is it to satisfy some whim that has come upon me?

I think not and I will try not to write such nonsense as of late.

Many have patiently refrained from telling me in so many words that my writing is awful. I have just the one excuse my age. My school days where all that I wrote was judged by a qualified teacher are long over at least seventy odd years ago where a guiding hand controlled my scribble. Sometimes I wish that I had paid more attention to all that teachers were trying to ram into my brain.

Mind you what I have just written is in no way a plea for leniency or even forgiveness. I am as I am and I write what comes into my head. No excuses from my side just a hope that you yes you when you read what I write take into consideration that although I read two newspapers a day and watch newscasts on television. With the odd book that has caught my eye, I am not a well-educated person nor claim to be more than the average.

At some period in my long life I must have swallowed a book of vocabulary. Words pop into my writing that I very rarely use or even sometimes know what they really mean. I ask myself by using such words have I tempted you, or you to look up the word in a Dictionary, if I have then my smile will grow even bigger than it is now. One thing does interest me though, my writing most of you know it is sheer nonsense but still you read this scribble.

Do I give you a feeling of superiority, were you better educated than me, or should that be I. I am never certain of such things that is perhaps where you the reader has the advantage over me. I am a more or less self-educated. Autodidact is the word to use. Yes go and get your dictionary, I will wait until you find the word, I am in no hurry I have had my lunch and will soon pop into my bed to regenerate my batteries as my Doctors tell me.

Have you learned anything new from the words that I sometimes use? I have many more you know and if you still read my rubbishy nonsense many more will be coming your way. That is not to be taken as a threat by the way just a fair warning that I feel I must give you especially if this is the first of my nonsense that you are privileged to read. More tomorrow if all goes well have a good rest now after reading this scribble your illiterate friend Bern.