Oh Violet, you have just described my life! How do some people manage so well? I think they just pretend they always meant it to be that way. Perhaps we should try it...
Not to do with gardening but I went to the doctors because I thought the pain relieve patches which I had been prescribed where too strong and asked for a smaller dose, I felt really, really silly when the doctor just said " cut the patch in half " I still feel silly when I think why didn't I think of that.
I think I've only ever sent about 5 text messages in my life, and received about the same.
I'm with Dove's OH. I only ever take my phone when I'm driving at work in case the van phone doesn't have signal and mine does. I couldn't even tell you my number if my life depended upon it.
Shrinking Violet, You are not the only one my love nor will you be the last. I bought a large Robinson greenhouse when we moved here all those years ago and filled it the first Spring cursing myself for not getting a bigger one. The seed trays got shuffled around and most survived then as I emptied it for the Tomato's it hit me. It was glassed to the last six inches from the ground and quite high, just use the under the bench area and removable shelves up, all the room I needed and all the benches on the South side plus shelving came out for the tomato's peppers etc; when it was time to plant them. I have a Geum and not knowing put it in the worst place it could have gone in the Garden, nothing, it moved five times before I found its place and it now flowers year on year. That taught me to read the instructions in my RHS books.
AS to technology, laptops iPads phone printer in my office around me, buzz sing and I am sure dance, I grab something, no not that then the next and it is always the last thing I pick up, irate Daughter, where have you been I have rung three times, well sweetheart at my age I hear a noise, have to work it out then answer. I often wonder who has turned the Radio on when it is my phone singing its heart out. I watch my family as they sit clutching their latest many gee gee's phones if they lost them it would be as if they had lost an arm, thumbs worn out by tippy tapping on them I remember when our phone was in a big red box next to the village pond. I have a phone under duress, Dad if anything happened when you are out!!! then forget to take it with me. How did we manage to get through a war and the arid years after without all these modern wonders or as i call them electronic handcuffs, if we are honest they are far more tying than being incarcerated.
Everyone probably has moments when they're functioning on about 30% brainpower
(the other 70% is busy daydreaming about nonsense ??)
I've put something in the oven to cook, only to return an hour later to discover that I've only turned the dial as far as switching the light on . Stone cold, but perfectly illuminated meal ? ?
Dare I mention the fact that I don't have a mobile phone... Yes I'm quite an oddity in this day and age of constant communication, but perfectly happy to live without one ?
Oh, the relief to know that it's not just me, then! And Kitty, I can sympathise with the oven problem. I set the oven to pre-heat ready to pop the roasting joint in. Trouble was, I had turned on the small oven rather than the large one, and the Chicken wouldn't fit! So, having wasted the electricity, I had to put on the large oven, and timings for dinner were about 20 minutes later than planned. (You'd think I would have learned from the mistake, but I regret to admit that I've done that a couple of times.
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Oh Violet, you have just described my life! How do some people manage so well? I think they just pretend they always meant it to be that way. Perhaps we should try it...
Not to do with gardening but I went to the doctors because I thought the pain relieve patches which I had been prescribed where too strong and asked for a smaller dose, I felt really, really silly when the doctor just said " cut the patch in half " I still feel silly when I think why didn't I think of that.
If only everything was so simple !!
I think I've only ever sent about 5 text messages in my life, and received about the same.
I'm with Dove's OH. I only ever take my phone when I'm driving at work in case the van phone doesn't have signal and mine does. I couldn't even tell you my number if my life depended upon it.
It takes me so long to type a text message, that meeting that evening is already long gone, before I have sent the message.
I hate mobile phones.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
They're a tool, but some folk seem to have jumped onto the bandwagon that everything they do has to be governed by, and recorded on, their phones.
Don't even start me on "selfies".
Shrinking Violet, You are not the only one my love nor will you be the last. I bought a large Robinson greenhouse when we moved here all those years ago and filled it the first Spring cursing myself for not getting a bigger one. The seed trays got shuffled around and most survived then as I emptied it for the Tomato's it hit me. It was glassed to the last six inches from the ground and quite high, just use the under the bench area and removable shelves up, all the room I needed and all the benches on the South side plus shelving came out for the tomato's peppers etc; when it was time to plant them. I have a Geum and not knowing put it in the worst place it could have gone in the Garden, nothing, it moved five times before I found its place and it now flowers year on year. That taught me to read the instructions in my RHS books.
AS to technology, laptops iPads phone printer in my office around me, buzz sing and I am sure dance, I grab something, no not that then the next and it is always the last thing I pick up, irate Daughter, where have you been I have rung three times, well sweetheart at my age I hear a noise, have to work it out then answer. I often wonder who has turned the Radio on when it is my phone singing its heart out. I watch my family as they sit clutching their latest many gee gee's phones if they lost them it would be as if they had lost an arm, thumbs worn out by tippy tapping on them I remember when our phone was in a big red box next to the village pond. I have a phone under duress, Dad if anything happened when you are out!!! then forget to take it with me. How did we manage to get through a war and the arid years after without all these modern wonders or as i call them electronic handcuffs, if we are honest they are far more tying than being incarcerated.
Frank.
Everyone probably has moments when they're functioning on about 30% brainpower
(the other 70% is busy daydreaming about nonsense ??)
I've put something in the oven to cook, only to return an hour later to discover that I've only turned the dial as far as switching the light on
. Stone cold, but perfectly illuminated meal ? ?
Dare I mention the fact that I don't have a mobile phone... Yes I'm quite an oddity in this day and age of constant communication, but perfectly happy to live without one ?
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Oh, the relief to know that it's not just me, then! And Kitty, I can sympathise with the oven problem. I set the oven to pre-heat ready to pop the roasting joint in. Trouble was, I had turned on the small oven rather than the large one, and the Chicken wouldn't fit! So, having wasted the electricity, I had to put on the large oven, and timings for dinner were about 20 minutes later than planned. (You'd think I would have learned from the mistake, but I regret to admit that I've done that a couple of times.
My grandchildren cannot even imagine not being in constant communication. They think land lines were the dark ages and nothing existed before that.
Yep, I've done the double oven one too, and switching on the wrong gas ring on the hob
I'm not safe to be let out without adult supervision
