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Every cloud has a sliver lining

Grandad March 30th, 2007

I had to go into town this morning.

As you may have gathered by now, I hate going into town.

But I had to meet some people and, what was nice, they let me use their parking spot. So that was one problem out of the way.

However, I also had to leave a yoke in for repair way up the other end of town, and I wasn’t going to try finding parking there, so I decided to walk. Big deal, I hear you say.

Now I like walking. I used to do a lot of hill walking, and a 25 mile ramble was nothing. But now I have a ‘condition’ [which I am not going to go into] which means that any sort of exercise leaves me knackered. So I walked up to the other end of town and got rammed by the usual clutch of Skobies. I left in the yoke but they told me I’d have to call back later. B*ll*x!!

So back I trundled to the first place and had my meeting. Very nice. I could sit down, and I had a nice cup of coffee.

But then I had to walk up to the other end of town again. I collected the yoke, which was nicely repaired, but at this stage, all strength had gone out of me. I had to rest.

So I found a nice quiet doorway and sat down for a smoke. I was out of the way of the Skobies, and the muscles were beginning to ease, and that cheered me. So I began to sing softly to myself.

Herself is very fastidious about the way I dress when I’m going out, but this morning I’d managed to sneak out in my usual clobber - runners with a sole coming loose, tatty jeans and an old cardigan. I had the cap with me too in case it rained, but I just left that on the ground.

I suppose it was an easy mistake to make. And quite a few people made it.

And I made €83.50.

Grandad is getting a new meaning.

Grandad March 30th, 2007

Head Rambles seems to do quite well in the search engines.

People find my humble site using all sorts of strange search terms.

I’m used to the usual searches for old folk doing unnatural things au naturel [and I have to be careful of the words I use here, otherwise they'll start finding this page!]

One that amazed me recently was a search for “عباس بن �?رناس”. Yes. I copied and pasted that off Google. And Head Rambles came up at number 5 on the list.

Also I am making Damien Mulley uncomfortable because he thinks I am redefining, or hijacking the word Grandad. He might be right. I did a search on “Grandad” on Google, and I come up number 4 there too!

So I am writing to all the various dictionaries to let them know. The on-line ones can take care of themselves. I suppose I’d better write to “Who’s Who” also.

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