My favourite pastime
After breakfast, which is much more of a brunch for us on Sundays, Julia went to the shop and I went to the computer. I have a number of projects in progress.
Then the internet went down. After panic and bad language and restarting and resetting and switching on and off, it occurred to me that nothing was going to help. Even though I’m a dinosaur I do rely on the internet for a lot of things. My intention as to sort out my collection of miniature medals, including going back through various auction archives. That way, when I come to sell them, or go into as home, or a coffin, Julia and the kids will have some idea of value.
Louis XVI 2 Sols 1793
I should have been doing this from the beginning, but I am notoriously bad at being organised.
But I needed the internet, so ended up, grumpily, reading about eels instead. I don’t know if |I told you, but a poetry editor I had been chatting to online sent me a copy of a book on eels last week. That’s why I prefer editors of haibun to editors of conventional poetry.
Then Julia came back. All the tills had been down at the shop. It looks like another of the computer crashes we seem to be having. I suspect the Russians or the Iranians, or both. One day every computer in the country will go down and we will be unable to shop. So many places dislike cash these days and everyone under 30 seems to rely on electronic payments – it will be a disaster. Riots, looting and the eternal whining of Gen Z telling us it just isn’t fair because they can’t buy food or discuss Moldovan handbags online , , ,
On Friday I think I may have forgotten to tell you that I gave 40 books away. It’s a start and is, I confess, a very thin end of the wedge. There’s a lot more to do.
Help, get me out of here!
Today I looked at more books and moved them round then parcelled up a few odds and ends to take to charity. I is about two bags of stuff, which sounds impressive until I admi ta6 one bag is taken up with a large soft hamster that I used as a hand warmer this winter. Julia bought it from a charity shop as a joke, so it can now go back and go round again. I’m hoping that next winter i will handle my pills better and will have better heating.
I’m cooking tea now and will then force myself to complete a couple of bags of books for banishment.
Blossom at Wilford
Photos are a miscellany from April 2019.
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I haven’t got my head around the naming of Gens. I don’t know what I am, or my children or my grandchildren. I knmow you are busy but any help would be welcome.
The Greatest Generation (GI Generation): Born 1901–1927.
The Silent Generation: Born 1928–1945.
Baby Boom Generation: Born 1946–1964.
Generation X: Born 1965–1980.
Millennial Generation or Generation Y: Born 1981–1996.
Generation Z or iGen: Born 1997–2010.
You will have to form your own opinion as I, being a fossilised bigot, cannot be relied on to give an impartial view of the various generations.
If they use a card instead of cash I have reservations about people. If they pay by waving a phone at the card machine there is no hope for them.
And I think their lives are so important and so busy that they haven’t got time to even pull out a card to pay for their lattes
Yes, what a life . . .
I had not known the names for all the various generations of the last century. Who names them?
Probably someone who wants to study them, write about them or otherwise make money from them. 🙂 I hadn’t heard of all these until I looked them up.
Of course you won’t be able to hear the Gen Z moaning because they will be drowned out by the sound baby boomers moaning about the Gen Z moaning. Baby boomers have had a lot more practice than Gen Z when it comes to moaning.
We’ve had more practice, that is true. But whether we make as much noise is a different matter.