Loved this! I chose not to get bogged down in what you confessed to be a 'depressing subject' (cheer UP, Terry!), but was very taken with your fascination '....by the fact that I existed before some people'. It's terrifying, isn't it?! Real-life ACTUAL GROWN-UPS who were born AFTER the turn of the century actually exist in adult society... and with families, mortgages and jobs, to boot! How does that happen? I mean, to me 1983 still seems like yesterday. It's just RUDE!
I always found it amusing when I used to hear older-than-me peeps saying things like 'oooooh, policemen/doctors/newsreaders seems to be getting younger'. At the time I had no idea what on earth they meant.... and now, aged 50, I feel exactly the same! 🤯
You've given me plenty else to respond to in this fabulous letter, Terry, but I shall save it for my response on Wednesday!
I'm glad you're getting better - how horrid that that awful 'I think it's flu' you'd had was Covid. I've escaped the bug so far... fingers crossed that I continue to avoid it!
I am not NOT cheered up, Rebecca. I think about such things every so often because I have a huge and growing and teetering pile of books comprising my to-be-read list, and I don't think it would be convenient to kick the bucket before I've read them all.
How about you put them all INTO a bucket… and when you kick it (physically, not metaphorically) you read the first book which falls out of it. Keep doing that every few days - alternating legs, of course - and you’ll be a) very fit and b) very well read before you ACTUALLY kick the ‘other’ bucket.
I enjoyed this letter, Terry. Particularly, this made me chortle (cit.): "I have therefore arranged for you to undergo some urgent and intensive re-education." And, of course, this: “Why”, I used to think to myself, “Are they telling me I’m here, when I already know that?” -- five-year-old me nods in approval.
Are you serious? Yes and no and aye and nickelbocker.
I do enjoy little pieces that have humor buried up to the neck in them: people on the planet before we were born and people on this planet after several years of our lives...thankee, monsieur.
Loved this! I chose not to get bogged down in what you confessed to be a 'depressing subject' (cheer UP, Terry!), but was very taken with your fascination '....by the fact that I existed before some people'. It's terrifying, isn't it?! Real-life ACTUAL GROWN-UPS who were born AFTER the turn of the century actually exist in adult society... and with families, mortgages and jobs, to boot! How does that happen? I mean, to me 1983 still seems like yesterday. It's just RUDE!
I always found it amusing when I used to hear older-than-me peeps saying things like 'oooooh, policemen/doctors/newsreaders seems to be getting younger'. At the time I had no idea what on earth they meant.... and now, aged 50, I feel exactly the same! 🤯
You've given me plenty else to respond to in this fabulous letter, Terry, but I shall save it for my response on Wednesday!
I'm glad you're getting better - how horrid that that awful 'I think it's flu' you'd had was Covid. I've escaped the bug so far... fingers crossed that I continue to avoid it!
I am not NOT cheered up, Rebecca. I think about such things every so often because I have a huge and growing and teetering pile of books comprising my to-be-read list, and I don't think it would be convenient to kick the bucket before I've read them all.
How about you put them all INTO a bucket… and when you kick it (physically, not metaphorically) you read the first book which falls out of it. Keep doing that every few days - alternating legs, of course - and you’ll be a) very fit and b) very well read before you ACTUALLY kick the ‘other’ bucket.
Good plan, no?
erm, yes!
They ARE getting younger. The last one I chatted to looked like he should have been in school.
Recovering. Of course! I'm glad you are both making space for that (as if there were really an option not to).
Oh, and hey! Thanks for letting me know where I am. Very helpful, and I'm sure Rebecca will be thrilled!
Indeed, Elizabeth, thank you. Well, I did once not make space to, and it wasn’t a great idea as it turned out.
Glad you found the notice useful! 🤣
I enjoyed this letter, Terry. Particularly, this made me chortle (cit.): "I have therefore arranged for you to undergo some urgent and intensive re-education." And, of course, this: “Why”, I used to think to myself, “Are they telling me I’m here, when I already know that?” -- five-year-old me nods in approval.
Some parts of me are serious. Some aren't.
Are you serious? Yes and no and aye and nickelbocker.
I do enjoy little pieces that have humor buried up to the neck in them: people on the planet before we were born and people on this planet after several years of our lives...thankee, monsieur.
LOL. Thanks, Jill, though I must confess to not knowing what nickelbocker means!
Do I know? You seem not to no.
hmmmmm.
ok by me, hope ok by you.
"Urgent and intensive re-education". Yikes! I don't like the sound of that at all! Sounds like Newspeak if you ask me.
One thing I will say is that I am definitely glad YOU ARE HERE. ( on this planet, at the same time I am)
Thanks, Sharron!