My recent decorating efforts have provided an unexpected bonus........the yellow walls are so vibrant (at not at all like the paler shade shown on the tin) that when I am in there the reflection makes me look jaundiced! I am thinking of adding a few palm trees and sand then having a stack of photographs taken to imply I have been on an exotic trip as I will finally have a holiday glow.
This is of course preferable to the dump of snow that landed over the weekend. Whilst it looked pretty when fresh and wasn’t as deep as the offering twelve months ago, it is not a welcome addition to the landscape. Within hours the streets were awash with grey, slippery, slushy mess making it a tricky operation to get safely from A to B. Apparently the colder weather is due to last for another few weeks with the possibility of yet more white flakes. This is not what I ordered thank you so please send a returns label as soon as possible.
This week’s little gem on the email front came from a company offering a discounted trial in “a senior care home in your area, providing all the amenities you need for your twilight years”. Whoopee, I might just book in for a week or two – sounds like they cater for everything (although at the first sign of a library within the building I will be hot footing it to be industrially decontaminated..........filthy places libraries............all those books being handled by an incalculable amount of people..............breeding grounds for smallpox).
My brother had an unpleasant surprise on returning home from work last week............a burst pipe in the loft had created an indoor water park in various rooms of his house. Fortunately most of the water landed on stone floors with under floor heating so dried out fairly easily. One of his carpets is still a bit soggy but luckily the water had only been running for a couple of hours before he found it. In these situations it is normal to contact your insurance company for help, which of course he did................however, despite having paid extra on the premium to guarantee a plumber, the company could not provide him with either a man with a mop or a telephone number for one. Somehow I think they will have lost his custom at renewal time.
Social networking sites have their place in modern society as it is easy to keep in contact with friends and family, share photos, arrange reunions and so on. However, with this comes the problem of people using them as tools to hide behind when making spiteful comments about others. My local area has a dedicated page on such a site which allegedly is just for passing local information between people. Sadly, this is becoming more like an open forum for internet bullying and plain nastiness. The same handful of people are usually at the forefront of the unacceptable comments and get plenty of ‘likes’ from their friends for their holier than thou attitudes towards others. Quite frankly I refuse to subscribe to the page but take a look at weekly in case there is anything of relevance to me. Every time (and I do mean every time) I look there are comments slagging off other people and the perpetrators are always the same. The administrators of the site seem most of the time to let the comments stay, which in turn adds fuel to the fire as more and more people join in the tirades, very often getting totally out of hand and threatening. Strangely, on occasions where the comments have been directed at the administrators personally, the comments are deleted. Why can’t people grow up and treat people with respect? It is not big or clever, but what goes around comes around so I guess in time they will get what they have dished out.
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