Yes, Friends, do YOU like tracking YOUR delivery guy when he's on his way to you with a much-anticipated package, especially if he goes wrong at the Bordon Interchange for example !!!! It's been listed as the touted "new most popular hobby for 2026", hasn't it, and the latest technological breakthroughs can only further cement its popularity, that's for sure!
Onion News for East Hampshire has more:
And for me and my wife Lois here, in rural, semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire, the new DPD breakthrough brings a strange gleam to our eyes as we go on our daily walk, which today takes us over nearby Old Man Lowsley's Farm, viewing the nature reserve's pleasingly full mini-reservoirs, I can tell you!
Let me put my cards on the table at this point!
flashback to earlier today: my wife Lois and me on our daily walk, which today
takes us over local beauty spot Old Man Lowsley's Farm, where we take time
to check out the depth of water in the nature reserve's picturesque mini-reservoirs
[I wish you wouldn't keep doing that, Colin! - Ed]
Lois and I are very much "the new kids on our block", having just moved to this lovely part of Hampshire almost exactly a year ago. We don't yet know many people "in these here parts", as folk say "in these here parts" (!), and the prospect of making new friends quickly by "connecting" with our delivery guys (and gals!), and watching them grow in confidence and maturity over the coming years, seems like a quick route to "acceptance" locally.
And if it costs us a few extra pennies in Christmas cards, Get Well Soon cards etc, over the coming years, and decades, it seems a small price to pay, to put it mildly!
[Is that all you two 'noggins' have done today, Colin - another walk over Old Man Lowsley's Farm? - Ed]
Absolutely not, if you must know! Work on our "holiday jigsaw", a collage of local Jane Austen-related cottages, is preceding apace!
(left) flashback to yesterday: Lois showcases our this year's Christmas jigsaw,
a collage of local Jane Austen-related cottages, and (right) work begins on
assembling the corner pieces and edge pieces
And this tea-time, I can exclusively reveal that we've found all four corner-pieces and all the edge-pieces except for one, and we've assembled them with just one single, agonising, piece-size gap.
latest pictures: a detail of the jigsaw in its current state
highlighting the space where the missing piece should be (ringed)
We recharge our batteries with an afternoon in bed, and continue the search for the rogue "missing piece" in the evening, until the jigsaw umpires - or "jumpires" as we call them (!)) - force us to call off the search due to failing light.
Latest word, on that story, is our statement to journalists about "continuing the search at first light tomorrow morning", so watch this space (literally haha !!!!!).
typical jigsaw-umpires (so-called "jumpires") using a light-meter to assess
light conditions, and give the "yea or nay" to continued work on a typical jigsaw
[That's enough whimsy! - Ed]
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzz!!!!!
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