Yes, friends, have you ever lost something quite important, and then not been able to find it? It's weird, isn't it, but it's happened to a lot of us, and particularly to my light-to-moderate wife Lois, to put it mildly!
And yet, if the circumstances are right, finding "lost" objects can be quite easy, according to this ground-breaking study from MIT - did you see the story in today's Onion News? Admittedly it was a bit hidden away on page 94, so get that thumb working on those pages - you'll be glad you did!
Poor man-in-car !!!!!
And here in semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire, this morning, the story put a wry smile on the faces of me and Lois, because Lois has been missing her "good" glasses for a week or so, and, sadly they're not down any of the seats in our car, which is annoying!
my light-to-moderate wife Lois and me - recent pictures
What madness!!!! And after getting this bad news from the optician, we have to take a walk over the rec just to "calm down" - what madness (again)!!!!
[That's enough madness !!! - Ed]
(top) we visit local opticians Liphook Eyecare, only to get the news that
replacing Lois's "good" glasses, which she's lost, will cost nearly £300,
and (centre, bottom) we take a walk over the "rec" just to calm down (!)
Losing glasses is one thing, but we're also going to be losing Windows 10 soon, or so my spies tell me (!), and I have to waste a lot of time today setting up the shiny new laptop that was delivered here last week - but today is the first chance I've had, would you believe!
Yes, busy busy busy, as always, even though Lois and I have been retired for nearly 20 years,
(left) flashback to last week, when I take delivery of our shiny new laptop,
and (right) me today, setting it up: notice the pile of "dead" laptops (!) on the adjoining desk!
What a crazy world we live in !!!!
So in other words, altogether quite a traumatic morning, but, as always, an afternoon in bed "sorts us out", so all's well as the sun sets, and we gather on the sofa this evening to watch a bit of "telly", which is nice!
And this evening we're reminded that you can replace a missing pair of glasses for £300, but you can never replace your loved ones - the ones that you've lost over the years - no matter how much you've got in the bank, which is very sad.
In this moving BBC2 documentary about the moorlands of the Sperrin mountains of Northern Ireland, we see many of the ruined and abandoned cottages, that must once have been bustling with life - somewhere warm, a kitchen and a fireside, for a family to come home to in the evenings.
We also meet an American couple from Philadelphia, the McAneneys, who've arrived in the area to find their roots. They're looking for the house that husband John's old grandfather lived in, before, as a 17-year-old, he left to start a new life in the States.
John's grandfather died when John was 12, and John now says, "I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about old 'Pop-Pop' or getting his story", something which he now regrets.
John's grandfather died when John was 12, and John now says, "I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about old 'Pop-Pop' or getting his story", something which he now regrets.
And both John is soon breaking down and weeping, when he thinks about what he wished he could have asked the old man about before he died.
Lois and I have lost our parents, of course, but collectively we've lost 3 of our 4 siblings. And we say the same thing as John - we wish we'd said this, we wish we'd asked that. But it's too late now.
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!
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