It’s my day to blog and I have absolutely nothing exciting to say. I still have my mother staying and since the Big Freeze looks to be continuing I can see no light at the end of the tunnel. We seem to have reached a workable relationship, she likes the Times and I the Telegraph but since I have no time to read any newspaper with demands from her for 4 square meals a day and snacks in between then she wins and the Times it is. Her dog is slightly irritating as she whinges and whines if she is not at most 6 inches from my Mother however after a few gruff words from Husband and I (and possibly other dogs giving her some whispered tips) she realises that it is me who she needs to keep the peace with as I feed her and take her on long walks which she never gets with Mother! So her loyalties are now at best divided and if the weather continues much longer I think she may completely move over into my camp!
The only interesting event in my life recently was a dinner party for women only, given by a friend whilst her husband was off skiing. It was a really fun night with 8 women talking and nobody really listening to the other one. However the big discovery was that of the 8 women, 5 were single/divorced/separated and so we got onto talking about dating websites. This is an area that I have no knowledge of since the last time I was dating is so long ago that the only way you could make a date was via that machine, the telephone, attached to the wall in the main living room so in front of your parents or your flatmates. So to be able to spy on a potential lover via computer and see what they look like, what they like to do, who their friends are brings a whole new meaning to Love. It is internet shopping at its best or maybe worst. The only experience I do have is that many years ago my children signed me up to Badoo as Facebook was then only for the young however I have never been on it as I have no idea what my password is and anyway Badoo seems to have morphed into a dating website and once a month I get sent an email with a few pictures of men “in my area who might like to meet up”. I have no idea how they knew we are in the same area or that these men like the look of me, I hope it is just that the computer has made some connection. However the one thing I have noticed is that these men’s photos tend not to do them much justice, one was wearing a Christmas cracker hat which I defy even George Clooney to look good in, another was photographed underwater obviously holding his breath and looking more like a blowfish than a potential lover! Clearly not much thought went into the selection of photos nor much made of the ‘enhancing’ button on every person’s computer nowadays – women would have been much more inventive, probably using a photo from some years past! Anyway we had a great time at the party and I can recommend having a girls only dinner every now and then though I was very happy to return to my bed, sharing with my own personal ‘George Clooney’. You know what they say you cannot always have/afford a Prada handbag and sometimes you have to make do with the cheaper Primark version which will give you just as much pleasure and certainly my Primark version of George Clooney suits me perfectly!