Yes, friends, are YOU ashamed of your humble origins? Were you born in a magical fantasy land, and frankly, wish you weren't? A lot of us would put our hands up to that "doozy" of a question, that's for sure!
But if you "popped out of" a fantasy land in some Victorian wardrobe - and many of us did - my message this morning to you is "Don't despair!".
Just take heart, and remember that we've all got to start somewhere, plus wardrobes are an essential item of furniture, and something many people can't do without, that's for sure, even in this so-called "digital age! (!).
[Good opener today, Colin! - Ed]
Nobody knows this more than me and my light-to-moderate wife Lois, that's for sure too! We only moved to our current home in semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire, just one short month (and 6 long ones!) ago, and we're still kitting the house out for potential visitors and guests, would you believe!
me and my light-to-moderate wife Lois - a recent picture
We look as if we're retired, don't we! And we are, in spades (!), having quit our jobs at the grand old age of 60, back in 2006. Despite that fact, however, it's still a rare thing for us, and a "red-letter day" if we get the luxury of being able to stay in our bed later than 7:30am. Yesterday it was our dear daughter Alison and husband Edward, calling to pick up some of the furniture they had loaned us, and today, it'so one of IKEA's local "task-rabbit2" William, calling to put together a couple of guest wardrobes delivered last week in flatpack form.
calls to see us at the unearthly hour of 9:30 am, and (right) today
it's "Flatpack" William who's calling at 9 am (yikes!) to put together a shiny-new
IKEA wardrobe (ringed), which I later showcase for the cameras (bottom right)
What a crazy world we live in !!!!!
The last time that I tried to assemble a flatpack furniture item - a small bedside cabinet - despite active help from Lois, I managed to sustain several injuries, so this time Lois persuaded me to get a professional - "Flatpack" William, a local man from Hindhead just over the county line in Surrey, which was probably a good call, to put it mildly! And it only takes William about 5 minutes to do the job, anyway, which at his normal hourly rate of £51.51 is probably a good thing haha !!!
flashback to July: with Lois's help I assemble a small bedside cabinet
but sustain a number of injuries along the way! [You pair of "noggins", Colin! - Ed]
So, to sum up, it's a "busy busy busy!!" type of a morning for us, and we're glad to be able to spend our usual couple of hours in bed this afternoon, getting what we call our "reset" (!).
Well phones and computers need a "reset" sometimes, so why not us! Lois and I are definitely "old stock" and I heard that Microsoft has announced that we're "no longer supported", and calling for us to be traded in for upgrades, if you please - what madness (!).
Even our morning walk through nearby Radford Park proves to be a bit traumatic, with one of Lois's shoes "going on the blink" - what madness (again) !!!! Whatever next! "The shocks we have!", as my dear late mother always used to say !!!!
But at least it gives Lois a chance to showcase her lower-body flexibility (and flash a bit of "ankle" at the same time (!)), courtesy of one of the park's strategically-placed "wooden thingummyjigs" (!).
flashback to earlier today: on our morning walk through nearby Radford Park, Liphook,
my light-to-moderate wife Lois shows her lower body flexibility (and at the same time)
a flash of ankle (!), when one of her shoes goes "on the blink" as we emerge from the bracken (!)
What a crazy world we live in !!!!!
[That's enough madness for today! - Ed]
20:00 We go to bed on last night's edition of Only Connect, our favourite TV quiz, which tests lateral thinking - before going "lateral" ourselves, not to say completely "horizontal" (!!!!), with another richly-deserved early night haha!
Lois and I knew (or at least suspected, I should say) that Wilde was gay or "bi", but we didn't know that, on his trip to the States, he had taken time out to "blast" one of North America's most prestigious landmarks.
Who knew!!!
Oops! Lois and I think that was a bit of a "back-handed compliment" from Victoria to the show's medium-to-long-suffering camera crew there, to put it mildly!
The connection between the last three things will be obvious to you if you know anything about computers or social media - it's the symbol "@", of course.
And later, on "Only Connect", presenter Victoria Coren-Mitchell makes another reference to Wilde's famous trip Stateside:
Perhaps you yourself are a bit of a genius however! And if so, can you see the connection between these four seemingly unrelated things?
But what about the first element - all about "referencing Spanish non-binary people" ? Victoria explains:
The symbol "@" is a bit like an A inside an O, so if you're labelling your sibling as an "herman@", it means you're not 100% sure whether he/she/whatever is a brother or a sister or whatever (and/or maybe he/she/whatever) isn't sure either (!). What a great idea!
So Wilde, for example, at least in his early days, might have been labelled an "escritor@" (writer) by Spanish speakers.
I wonder....!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
21:00 We go to bed - zzzzz!!!!!!
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