This is funny but just a little scary.Everyone thinks it starts with John Connor ...people can be so silly
THIS is the opening salvo of baby skynet, and it happens WAAY before we get anywhere close to Arnie arriving ...
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Wonderful news which must be a weight off all your minds.
That is brilliant @Krystyna23040
Brilliant, brilliant news.
True....
Congratulations to Dylan and whatever ‘interesting’ subjects he chooses, I hope that he excels.
I do remember a time @Annb when I was able to leave the doors unlocked, and the car was never locked either. And there were no problems with either...I have seen swings padlocked as a child, but I never realised I was supposed to be indoors being taught the bible. Obviously I was a heathen child...I just acknowledged nature as a child...FBG at 3.20 am was 9.6. A bit of a wobble down then up to 10.9 but now, after breakfast, it's 7.8.
Fairly bright day here at the moment, although it was very wet and windy when Em came at 7.30 this morning, and even when she went to school at 8.30. At least the wind was behind her as she went up the road so it must have been from the south west. The constant wind is affecting the temperature in the house. The kitchen is warm enough, but the rest of the house is pretty cold.
There are advantages and disavantages living here on the Islands - one disadvantage is the transport problem when the weather is bad, or when the ferry breaks down; one advantage @gennepher, is that other than in the town, we don't really need to lock our doors, or wonder who is there late at night. I do have a set of keys but they have never been used other than when we went away to the mainland for something. Even then, we left the back door open for Alistair to get in with the post. When we first came here, even in town, nobody locked their doors, although the children's swings were padlocked on Sundays - children were supposed to be indoors being taught about the Bible on Sundays, not playing outside.
You might be glad to take those hearing aids off in the house @lindisfel
Brilliant Alf....
Dylan sounds an interesting lad taking 'interesting' subjects.
The Island is changing - the swings are no longer padlocked (the park committee decided to apply for an EU grant to make improvements and it was a condition that the park should be available every day). Since we came here in 1974, we have Sunday planes and Sunday ferries and some small shops even open on Sundays (alcohol is not allowed to be sold on Sundays). We even have Sunday newspapers, as long as you go to the airport to buy them. People are less dominated or restricted by the very puritanical churches - which sadly means a deterioration in standards so perhaps we will have to think about keys some time soon. No point putting temptation in the way of people who don't respect others' property. These changes have all been strongly contested by the Lord's Day Observance Society but it was pointless to try to halt the movement to a way of life that people see on their TV and online every day. Sad, in many ways, but the Free Church and the Free Presbyterian Church were just too heavy handed for the young people to take them seriously once they could see what was out in the big, wide world.
To hold his interest it is probably important for the subjects to be interesting to him. When I went to parents' evenings at Neil's secondary school, I was often told that he was "a character" but nobody would explain what that meant. I now know that it meant "difficult". If Neil could have been excited by any of the subjects he took, he might have been less difficult. Too clever by half! It all depends on the quality of the teachers and their level of understanding and commitment.
Art bit shaping up well. Looking forward to developments. Enjoy your day and the fancied restaurant.
Brilliant way of dealing with that consultant. Many, particularly older ones, are so arrogant and will brook no challenge to their authority (power). Wish I could have dealt so brilliantly with some of the ones I have come across.
