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My sister just emailed, lamenting the fact that her son and the wife of her other son are going to Siri Lanka on holiday together next week and they've only just thought to mention it to her. I replied as follows: We have to remember that we are no longer the sun surrounded by its attendant planets. We are a rather uninteresting outer planet, only dimly illuminated by the sun (or daughter) and on an orbit that takes so long to make one revolution it is easy for our existence to be forgotten. The other problem is that we are so far from the inner planets that messages take a long time to reach us, so we are always the last to know of developments. If we try to respond our feeble transmissions are lost in the noise. My sister is very artistic and very non-scientific. I await her reply.

Bill

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Bill Wright
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My sister's response:

Brian's just opened the curtains. I see the hole is still there, but there's no men in it yet. Two Murphy vans, one pulling a mini digger on a trailer, appeared yesterday at 7am. Four men climbed out and it took them all day (van parked with engine running all day) to dig a big hole across the drive, pavement and road outside number 49. We await further developments. We did have a power cut yesterday, but whether it was connected to the hole or not is not known. The smartmeter display thingy has, however, "lost its marbles", according to Brian.

She generally ignores my weird rambles; she's done it ever since 1960.

Bill

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Bill Wright

You will probably get a solar storm. Brian

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Brian Gaff

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Tim Lamb

They probably assumed she would read about it on Facebook.

Owain

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spuorgelgoog

So, her son is having an affair with his brother's wife. That seems more significant than where they are going or who was told. How does the brother feel about it?

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GB

That's the thing isn't it ... I have quite a few younger mates who basically seemed to drop off *my* radar because they were all communicating using Facebook and I wasn't willing to join in (over that medium). They still know how to find me if they need something though. ;-)

My Mum (87) has just started to learn Whatsapp on the old iPhone I've just given her because that seems to be the new 'Skype'. She still uses Skype (mainly IM) on her iPad because the phone is too old for Skype and the iPad not so good with Whatsapp.

Previously she used ICQ and MSN Messenger. ;-)

She took these things on as she knew that was the easiest way to keep in touch with the younger family members. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

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T i m

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Peter Duncanson

Probably a Solar Storm will result with a coronal mass ejection in your direction. Brian

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Brian Gaff

But how many of her holes are needed to fill the Albert hall, I wonder? Brian

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Brian Gaff

Well Richard Carpenter married his cousin so what the heck. Brian

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Brian Gaff

Ah well, there's no suggestion that it's an affair. It's odd, but innocent I think.

Bill

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Bill Wright

Which ramble is the best though ?.

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Andrew

Something for genealogists to mull over in about 200 years time.

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Andrew

You missed the important part

"Her son and the wife of her other son are going to Siri Lanka on holiday together next week"

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Martin

We had moved on from that mate. ;-)

Do we know if Bill uses Facebook and they hadn't mentioned it there?

It's funny, I would consider we have a fairly 'close' family except the only member we see regularly (once a week?) is my Mum.

She often stays for a few days / week with my Sister and from there spends some time with my niece. I rarely contact any of them (and them me, unless they need help) and so we generally only get any inter-family gossip / news via Mum (not that we ask for it or care particularly).

I wouldn't expect my Sister to tell me she was going on holiday (nor would my Dad (particularly) when he was alive) but we would get to hear of it via Mum.

Coincidentally my elderly mate also complained that his kids had gone way (only to Wales for a week) and not mentioned / invited them?

At the end of the day, people can and will stay in touch if they want to and whilst our kids are always our kids, they aren't beholden to us.

I generally use the 'no news is good news' principle. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

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T i m

They are all valueless.

Bill

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Bill Wright

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