Aint Technology great?

I have a gadget called Life Alert around my neck, in case I fall and I can’t get up when I am home alone. However, due to the ravages of technology, it has become joined at the hip with my fax machine, so every time I try to send a fax, the Life Alert people call me to see if I need the Paramedics or Fire Brigade! I reassure them I am fine, but just trying to send a fax. Once they have my password and are sure I am OK, they go off the clock. I have had 2 technicians in to check the set up, but still it persists.  I only hope they don’t send the fire brigade to the people I am trying to fax. Mind you, that might be nice for them – if they love a man in uniform, like I do!

Vewwy Bwitish things you may find interesting

Some online sites that I find very interesting are:

http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page41.asp

Virtual tour of 10 Downing Street

http:www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel

The Queen’s YouTube channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvglWKl6b1A

The Queen Mother’s Wedding 1923 (before I was born!)

http://www.youtube.comwatch?v=tnL6JkO1na

The Princes Trust

Also, for some hilarious ones which made me smile: Google Spike Milligan and look up some of his youtube entries. I particularly liked the one where is a German lady opera singer! He was my favourite Goon and sent me an autographed picture when I was 14 years old, responding to my first fan letter. The message read: Don’t forget to get undressed with the light on, I have my telescope trained on Liverpool!

My dearest kitties

We have for several years been a happy family of cat people, with Yahoo, Google, (two brothers) and their younger sisters, Thelma and Louise. Sadly, Yahoo is now in kitty paradise, having suffered a weird debilitating illness for the last few weeks of his life, when he was ably attended and treated by Dr. Rachel Jones of Marina Veterinary Clinic, our local treatment centre. She and her able staff tried everything possible to locate the problem, with extensive tests, medications, injections, supplements, and lots of tender loving care. Towards the end of his suffering, Google ran away, or so we think, and Ruth, Martin and I had to make the heart wrenching decision to let Yahoo go. Dr. Jones took him from us tenderly, and let him go to sleep. Today, we received the most beautiful poem as a tribute to Yahoo, which Dr. Rachel and all her staff had signed with affectionate messages. It is some comfort to know that he was so loved. He will live on in print, as his face (and rear end) are incorporated into my English style red telephone boxes which will house the teabags of my new organic teas. Rest in Peace dear little Yahoo. We will always remember you.

The world as we know it

My connection with the Internet never ceases to amaze me. Every morning I get emails from around the world, friends, family, newsletters, etc. and every Tuesday at about 4 p.m. Pacific time, I get to talk do my dear friend, Pete Price at www.citytalk.com. That in turn puts me in touch with a wonderful variety of people, remember, it is midnight in Liverpool. I have recently had a beautiful silver Liver Bird from a lady in Liverpool who heard me on the Pete Price show. It is truly a wondrous thing, for little old me, born in 1929. We never had a telephone in our house. We used to go to the phone box across the street, or to the Presbytery at St. Theresa’s Church on Utting Avenue East. Ah… those were the days – NOT!! But I am rambling, as one tends to do as one gets a little older. But watch out, I’ll be back.