Delivery guys - they're the heroes of our time, aren't they. Are you one of the privileged ones, that actually knows a delivery guy in person, and even got to know a bit about their families, their lives, their heartaches, their moments of joy, their ups and their downs?
Most of us haven't bothered to ask them, have we - let's be honest! And so many don't really care either, which is a pity, I think.
At least, however, we can all show delivery guys the respect they're due when we see them on the road, and on their way to a job, and I'm proud to report that this hallowed old tradition is still alive and well in the neighbourhood where my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois and I moved to a couple of months ago, i.e. Liphook, East Hampshire.
And we got confirmation of that fine old tradition just this morning in a front-page story from nearby beauty spot Gobley Hole, when the print edition of Onion News Local "plopped" through our letterbox. I can tell you, it started our day off with a real "feel good" moment, which was nice!
[Get on with it! - Ed]
And Lois and I had another giggle later today about delivery guys, when Steve, our American brother-in-law, sent us his pick of this week's most amusing Venn diagrams that he's seen so far - and I realise it's only Monday!
Lois and I have done our share of "waiting at home all day to receive our package", to put it mildly.
Luckily, however, we've both been retired since 2006 would you believe (!), so waiting at home all day to receive our package" is only a slight difference from the majority of our days here in Liphook, during which we're just "waiting at home all day even though we're not expecting a package", so that's all right! And that's the way we like it, may I add, because, whenever there are no deliveries in prospect, we can sit on the couch, reading and chatting, and spend the whole afternoon in bed with our shiny new electric doorbell on "mute" (!).
Plus, we've got a saucy TV programme to look forward to tonight, i.e. a catch-up viewing of last night's "Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club", the 1970's series that recreated the sometimes rowdy atmosphere of a typical working-men's club in the north of England.
And it's a gala occasion this week - "none of the turns have turned up", reports the usually grim-faced club-chairman and turn-manager Colin Crompton, and we actually see Colin smile, for once, and what a treat: he's actually got a lovely smile, we discover.
The perhaps overly bureaucratic and po-faced Colin has often been criticised for his excessively strict attitude toward both the turns and the audience. Here's a typical "Colin outburst", seen recently:
Today, however, we see Colin's lighter side for once, which is nice.
Colin in relaxed mood tonight enjoying a pint of Worthington's
and just enjoying himself for once, which is nice!
Lois speculates that Colin is just enjoying the suggestive gestures of the four "leggy" dancers making up tonight's stand-in turn, Gardenia, and maybe she's right.
I hadn't noticed these gestures, but Lois is very good at detecting this kind of thing, and on reflection I can see that she's right - they do seem to be inviting both the vocalist and male members of the audience to "come up and see them" after the show, with some only thinly-coded ideas about some possible 'things to do', and 'ways to do them' - oh dear!
But maybe we're reading too much into it (?). Tell us what you think - on postcards only of course!
I think Lois and I are both probably feeling a bit tired and emotional this evening, which could explain our suspicions about the subtext of Gardenia's 'turn'(!).
We're quite tired tonight, because we did have to actually go out of the house this morning, to the doctor's surgery for Lois's routine blood test, and to pick up a few things at the Coop, and then we had to go back to the Coop later because we'd forgotten the main things we went there for in the first place, would you believe (!) - what madness! Oh dearie me - what idiots haha!!! Then we went for a 3,500 step walk on Ludshott Common, only to find we were dodging all the puddles left after the weekend storms. Oh dear!
flashback to this morning: Lois and I visit our doctor's surgery
for Lois's blood test with the nurse, before spending 40 minutes "squelching"
through the long grass and dodging the puddles on Ludshott Common
What clowns we are, aren't we haha!
21:00 Luckily our brains are still intact (!), and we decide to go to bed on tonight's edition of our favourite TV quiz, Only Connect, which tests lateral thinking.
Can you see the connection between these 4 things?
I think you've "got it in one", haven't you!
Yes, of course, they're all "false friends" for students of Italian, or "falsi amici" as the Italians say (!).
"To say" in Italian is "dire", which means 'terrible' in English; "fare" is "to make" in Italian and means 'money paid for a journey' in English: likewise with "mare" and "pane".
See? Simples!
22:00 That's enough 'lateral thinking' for one day, and now we're doing some 'horizontal thinking' (!).
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
We go to bed - zzzzzz!!!!!
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