The peculiar virtual world of FaceBook and Linked In and other sites too numerous to mention is very strange. You may want to be 'friends' with lots of people whom you have never met, let alone ever spoken or talked to but we don't. We have a few, very charming friends, sadly they are scattered around the world and some we haven't seen for many a year.
But we keep in contact via E:Mail and Snail:Mail and a good old natter on the telephone goes a long way. But why would you want to exchange your private life with strangers? We don't 'get' it!
So it always makes us curious when we get an invitation form someone to accept them as a contact on Linked-In. There's a very persistant woman who tries at least once a week to get us to put her on our list of people, why? We haven't got the faintest clue!
She's 'frightfully' well-connected, very wealthy but my mama has never met her, the stranger doesn't do anything that my mama does or has ever done, so why does she insist on badgering us? Sadly, there's no button to tap that says "Leave me alone", all there is a thing that says "Accept" And guess what, we don't want to 'accept'.
Anyway.. there we are, there are people who think everyone should 'know' everyone.. joke!
She's going into hospital for an operation! Gulp!! The landline rang very early this morning as she was getting up, there is no ansaphone on this device and whoever it was obviously wanted to speak to her.. they kept on ringing dat bell, now you know how I learnt it.
And when she, finally, answered it, she discovered it to be the smiley secretary of one of her team of specialists saying "One of our other patients has had to cancel their operation date, we've got the team and the time, would it suit you?"
You don't mess about with your health, she has to have this done and it is being done by the surgeon who has operated on her before, albeit eight years ago. So "yes please" was her prompt response.
Having had many operations and been in hospitals for very scary things, going into hospital for a small operation doesn't scare her in the slightest.. what she doesn't like.. and you should know what I'm going to say before you read it.. is the 'NIL BY MOUTH' bit!
Dreadful.. it's bad enough having to get out of bed in the pitch dark, wash and dress, feed me and then stumble off down into the Underground to get to the hospital but to do that without a mug of LapySang or a cup of Strong Black and on an empty tumtum.. huh, rather her than me, is what I say.
But it isn't dark now, in fact, it is quite cheerful for a change. Thank goodness the sky is no longer that black'ish colour that it was when she came home yesterday, it had been a dull day with a sky the colour of pale to mid grey and drizzling but at about three o'clock, the colour changed to black and torrents of cold rain bucketed down.
She was coming home from the bus stop with WW, silly WW loves the rain, well, he is made out of Willow so he would, wouldn't he but as she told Michele, who had called and left a message on her mobile whilst she was walking home, it was truly gruesome, far too windy for an umbrella, thank goodness she had a long scarf wrapped over her head and around her neck and was wearing a long raincoat but who really saved the day.. was Beanie!
Dear Pat, maker and giver of Beanie, is going to get such a hug on Monday, for Beanie, pulled down low on her head over the scarf, kept her head dry and warm. Beanie lives on the top of WW's handle so is air dried every night and ready to go at all times. She has never had one before and cannot think how she ever survived without one!
But now she's got to go out to the city, I'm off for a doze in my new favourite spot, a pole between two lots of lampshade frames up high on a cupboard in our bedroom and we'll be back again later.
We do hope you have entered into your favourite Search Engine 'The benefits of eating Asparagus', for there is a huge amount of information on the web about this vegetable and NONE of the info is of a negative nature.
PipPip..
GeeGee Parrot.
January 28th, 2016.
But we keep in contact via E:Mail and Snail:Mail and a good old natter on the telephone goes a long way. But why would you want to exchange your private life with strangers? We don't 'get' it!
So it always makes us curious when we get an invitation form someone to accept them as a contact on Linked-In. There's a very persistant woman who tries at least once a week to get us to put her on our list of people, why? We haven't got the faintest clue!
She's 'frightfully' well-connected, very wealthy but my mama has never met her, the stranger doesn't do anything that my mama does or has ever done, so why does she insist on badgering us? Sadly, there's no button to tap that says "Leave me alone", all there is a thing that says "Accept" And guess what, we don't want to 'accept'.
Anyway.. there we are, there are people who think everyone should 'know' everyone.. joke!
She's going into hospital for an operation! Gulp!! The landline rang very early this morning as she was getting up, there is no ansaphone on this device and whoever it was obviously wanted to speak to her.. they kept on ringing dat bell, now you know how I learnt it.
And when she, finally, answered it, she discovered it to be the smiley secretary of one of her team of specialists saying "One of our other patients has had to cancel their operation date, we've got the team and the time, would it suit you?"
You don't mess about with your health, she has to have this done and it is being done by the surgeon who has operated on her before, albeit eight years ago. So "yes please" was her prompt response.
Having had many operations and been in hospitals for very scary things, going into hospital for a small operation doesn't scare her in the slightest.. what she doesn't like.. and you should know what I'm going to say before you read it.. is the 'NIL BY MOUTH' bit!
Dreadful.. it's bad enough having to get out of bed in the pitch dark, wash and dress, feed me and then stumble off down into the Underground to get to the hospital but to do that without a mug of LapySang or a cup of Strong Black and on an empty tumtum.. huh, rather her than me, is what I say.
But it isn't dark now, in fact, it is quite cheerful for a change. Thank goodness the sky is no longer that black'ish colour that it was when she came home yesterday, it had been a dull day with a sky the colour of pale to mid grey and drizzling but at about three o'clock, the colour changed to black and torrents of cold rain bucketed down.
She was coming home from the bus stop with WW, silly WW loves the rain, well, he is made out of Willow so he would, wouldn't he but as she told Michele, who had called and left a message on her mobile whilst she was walking home, it was truly gruesome, far too windy for an umbrella, thank goodness she had a long scarf wrapped over her head and around her neck and was wearing a long raincoat but who really saved the day.. was Beanie!
Dear Pat, maker and giver of Beanie, is going to get such a hug on Monday, for Beanie, pulled down low on her head over the scarf, kept her head dry and warm. Beanie lives on the top of WW's handle so is air dried every night and ready to go at all times. She has never had one before and cannot think how she ever survived without one!
But now she's got to go out to the city, I'm off for a doze in my new favourite spot, a pole between two lots of lampshade frames up high on a cupboard in our bedroom and we'll be back again later.
We do hope you have entered into your favourite Search Engine 'The benefits of eating Asparagus', for there is a huge amount of information on the web about this vegetable and NONE of the info is of a negative nature.
PipPip..
GeeGee Parrot.
January 28th, 2016.
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