Yes, Friends, have YOU visited your local zoo recently? Give it a go - you might be surprised at the new-style exhibits, like the one at New York's Bronx Zoo, according to today's exclusive in the Onion News!
Check it out - and do it now haha!!!!!
And certainly those 'loitering teens' seem to be coping well with their adjustment to zoo life, and, reading the story today brings a welcome half-smile to the faces of me and my wife Lois this morning, here in semi-attractive Liphook, Hampshire - no doubt about that!
me and my wife Lois - a recent picture
Poor us !!!!!
Yes, today Lois and I are trying to readjust to what we laughingly call 'normal life' again (!), making our first appearance for a month today at Lois's church's Sunday Morning Meeting at a village hall just outside nearby Petersfield, where church-members seem genuinely pleased to see us, which is nice. We get an especially warm welcome from fellow church-member and archaeologist Grahame, who always makes a bee-line for Lois and me, I think because of our shared interest in history and archaeology, which is nice.
flashback to Friday: Lois and I bid a tearful farewell to our daughter Sarah,
her husband Francis, and their 12-year-old twins Lily and Jessica
At least this morning, however, we get a five-minute whatsapp audio call with the family, on their way out to the shops to do some much-needed re-stocking of groceries etc, and hear about their long, 17 hour non-stop flight home.
Apparently, after their gruelling flight they were dismayed to find that their car, parked way out in the airport "boonies", proved to have a flat battery, which was a pity! Luckily this was the car the family had paid for roadside assistance for, so it was just a question of another 1-2 hour wait for somebody to drop by and 'jump-start' it for them, before they could get home and finally go to bed - poor them !!!!
(left) the family's long, 17-hour non-stop flight home, only to find their car,
out in the "boonies" of the Perth airport car park, with a flat battery - what madness!!!!
On our call to them this morning, we catch them dealing with their own "period of adjustment, at the start of their first week back home, with Sarah due to re-start work at her accountancy job in Perth tomorrow, and 12-year-old twins Lily and Jessica all set to start what they call, locally, "Term 3" - also tomorrow, sorting out their uniforms etc etc.
Their twin's school has been active on social media this weekend, reminding students of the school's uniform requirements, and tempting them with the school canteen's latest delicacies - yum yum!
Poor twins!!!
At least for our daughter Sarah herself, however, it won't be so much of a shock getting back into the normal routine, because, during her stay with us, she was continuing to do bits of work online for her firm, trouble-shooting problems etc - what madness, isn't it !!!
flashback to a couple of weeks ago: although officially on holiday
from her accountancy job in Perth, our daughter Sarah continues
to do bits of trouble-shooting for her firm online, while Lois
works on the official 'holiday jigsaw'. What madness, isn't it !!!!
(left) the village hall near Petersfield where church services are held,
and (right) us waiting for the meeting to begin, with, seen in the background,
fellow church-member and noted archaeologist Grahame
Grahame, who's buddies with TV archaeologists Alice Roberts and Raksha Dave, is excited today, because tomorrow he's opening the British Archaeology's week-long, 2026 Conference with a talk about Roman Winchester.
(above) details of this year's conference of the British Archaeological Association,
which Grahame will open, with a talk on Roman Winchester, and (below)
flashback to last August, when Grahame (in the blue shirt) took church-members
on a tour of Roman Silchester, giving us all some unwieldy maps to manipulate (!)
And this morning Grahame also regales us with amusing anecdotes from his experiences this week at a local amateur theatre-group's performance of The Sound of Music, where, he says, audience members dressed as nuns were awarded prizes: (1) for most convincing costumes, and (2) for the best "nun-faces", whatever that means (!).
Grahame himself assures us that he personally didn't take part in the competition, which was probably for the best!
What an extraordinary mixture Grahame is - no doubt about that! But he's also lots of fun, which is nice!
Yes, "the hills are alive with the sound of Grahame" - that's for sure haha!!!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzz!!!!!!!
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