Yes, friends, do YOU remember "Lockdown" and all the fun all that was, especially for college students!
Today it seems so long ago, but for me and my light-to-moderate wife Lois, reading the "From the Archives" page in this morning's local Onion News for East Hampshire brought all those memories flooding back, that's for sure!
And let's hope that, in the end, she found some disgusting hell-hole somewhere in her parents' mansion so as not to lose face with her more financially-challenged fellow-students!!!
However, this from-the-archives "doozy" certainly brings a nostalgic chuckle to the lower faces of Lois and me this morning, to put it mildly!
my light-to-moderate wife Lois and me - a recent picture
And we're so glad, overall, that our eldest grandchild, Josie (19) won't have to go through any of that Lockdown "zooming" malarkey now she's starting college this month 300 miles away from home, in the so-called "Frozen North", a.k.a. Durham University no less, would you believe (!).
It's Freshers Week this week for Josie and we can tell from her social media that they're all having the time of their lives, that's for sure.
Awww! Our little Josie starting college - how time flies !!!!
Memories, memories!!! It was the very day Lois and I both retired, back in March 2006, that our daughter Alison, then 31, rang us to break the news to us that she was "expecting", and sure enough 6 months later, little Josie "popped out" - awwwww!!!!!
Awwwww (again) !!!!!
And then after a hurried lunch, Lois and I have to get on our laptop for the fortnightly meeting of our local "Intermediate Danish for Old Codgers" group, which we jointly-lead "for our sins" (!!!!).
Freshers Week at Durham, and that's our eldest grandchild Josie (19)
front-row-left in picture 1, and second from left in picture 2 - awwww!!!!
flashback to 2006: (left) Lois and me on the day we retired, also the day when our eldest
daughter Alison rang us to tell us she was "expecting", and (right) our first grandchild Josie
the day after she was born, in Guildford Hospital, Surrey - what a year that was!!!
And Lois and I need a bit of nostalgic joy today, because it's going to be non-stop "busy, busy, busy" again and not even an afternoon in bed to look forward to, which is annoying (!).
What a crazy world we live in !!!!!
Yes, we've only been living a few months in our current home in rural, semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire and the garden is still "in a bit of a state". Today, Matthew, our new gardener is coming at 9 am to do three hours work on our little "jungle" (!), and we know that our new window-cleaner, Jason, is also going to be popping round at some time.
flashback to moving-in day at our new home in Liphook,
with packing cases littering our sitting-room area
Gardeners and window-cleaners lead a rather solitary life - and the professions attract some of nature's biggest "loners", we've found, so it's nice today when Matthew and Jason cross paths and can talk about issues from the huge area of intersection in the gardening/window-cleaning "Venn diagram of life", that's for sure!
(left) no sooner has Lois started showing our new gardener Matthew some of
the jobs she wants him to do in the back garden, than our new window-cleaner,
Jason parks his van and gets out his ladder, long poles and buckets etc
- what madness isn't it !!!!
Lois and I getting on our laptop for the fortnightly meeting
of our U3A "Intermediate Danish for Old Codgers" group
- what madness !!!!
(left) us relaxing on the sofa, (centre) Danish writer Anna Grue,
and (right) her book "Judaskysset" (the Judas Kiss) that our little group is reading
In the book, Jay, a young Danish serial scammer, is tricking a lot of menopausal Danish women lottery-winners into granting him "access all areas" (!), i.e. by first letting him go to bed with them, and then giving him access to other bits of their lives, mainly their bank accounts, which is naughty.
However the story plays to the fantasies of our group's main demographic: menopausal women living in places like Guildford, Surrey, so that's all good!
some typical local menopausal women, seen here
demonstrating outside the offices of Surrey County Council
Today we find out the "Jay test" for zeroing in on the single Danish women lottery-winners, and separating them out from the married-or-"in-a-relationship" Danish women lottery winners.
Apparently, Jay says, if Danish women lottery-winners have a boyfriend, they "don't go shambling around with greasy hair and jogging pants [Danish: joggingbukser]", and eating "flødeboller".
And now with extra mouth appeal, because eating them could keep the Danish scammers away, as an added bonus! What's not to like haha !!!!
20:00 Exhausted as always on a Thursday evening, after trying to control another rowdy fortnightly meeting of our group, Lois and I collapse on the couch in front of this week's edition of our favourite TV quiz "Only Connect", which tests lateral thinking.
Although for us, I think "horizontal thinking" is beginning to seem more attractive haha!
Do you know what might come fourth and last in this picture sequence?
And can YOU tell the link between these four "things"?
Number one is the traditional Polish way of beginning a story, and the others are the equivalents in Arabic, Korean and Maori.
Simples! But what a crazy world we live in !!!!
Programme presenter Victoria Coren-Mitchell has a childhood anecdote to throw in at this point.
What madness!!!! [That's enough madness! - Ed]
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!
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