This weekend the fates have conspired to ensure that Colonialist did no blogging. Starting with the electricity going off at 6 p.m on Friday, there have been regular cuts throughout the weekend. Then there have been urgent calls on my time for some business-related stuff. To add insult to injury, though, on Saturday:
Load-shedding came at six o’clock
So blogging I then had to dock,
When at eight lights came back on
There was something else had gone –
The internet now had a block!
In fact, phones and internet were out until late this evening – and then there was another power-out. Ironical, really, because the weather has been cold and (mercifully) wet – ideal for catching up on reading posts and things.
At least these guys pictured at Illovo must be happy:
(While doing limericks: My response to the Mad Kane Limerick-off Monday – jejune)
A girl once remarked, ‘That’s jejune!’
On hearing a popular tune;
When asked angrily why,
Reply: ‘F-for such sky,
M-must have been; May is too soon!’
The fates be damned!!! 😀
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and my only complaint was I couldn’t see the first half of the rugby! you indeed were entitled to feel miserable
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The strain on my sense of humour was intolerable – it promptly sued for divorce!
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I really feel your pain….,,.from afar. 😳
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And there, but for a bit of judicious scramming, would go you!
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I feel your pain after staying with my sister who has miserably inadequate broadband.
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Battling with these things does certainly affect peace of mind and blood pressure!
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It make me wonder how we ever managed in the days before television and when having a landline phone was a luxury!
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Of course, we had to endure many years without TV while reading all about it on overseas publications. The first time I saw an active TV screen was in ‘backward’ Zimbabwe!
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We must have been the last family in Ireland to have a television. We would sit round the dinner table discussing the popular programmes and my father wondered how we knew so much about them. Eventually he gave in and guess who became a TV addict? My father!
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🙂 Previous deprivation does that to you!
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Is this due to weather?
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The weather exacerbates the problems caused by ineptitude.
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Ah . . .
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