Face

Book!
Oh dear. I am now on Face Book.

Family sent me a million pictures of a brand new baby together with an invitation to join FB. Great. Had to join to say congratulations (yes I know I could have done it by phone, email or even post but I'm such a tech-dependant creature these days)
So now, as well as blogs, flickr and good old fashioned email, I have Face Book to keep up with!
And last night, intending to have a quick flick round Flickr contacts, I inadvertantly discovered this site and spent the rest of the night looking at all the pictures on it over and over again. Just unbelievably beautiful stuff! I daren't look at them again now because I need to get stuff done and If I so much as glance at them I'll be off in wonderland for another hour or three!
Tomorrow, having sorted the dog and cats (heartfelt gratitude to Thursday) we are off to Leeds to do spring (?) gardening and pruning for Beautiful Barney. (Sister in Law - author of 'A Handful of Earth') She needs Barney Bear's large ladders, tools and strength as well as pick up truck for transport of prunings to dump!
Maybe I will see some snow! The weather forecast for Leeds has a little black cloud, one snowflake, two raindrops and half a sunshine on it's icon. Could mean anything really!

I tidied up my bookmarks. Now I can't find any of them.
I tidied up my photos. Now I can't find any of them!
I tidied up the kitchen hoping all that washing up would vanish. Regrettably I can still find all of it :(
I looked thoughtfully at the dirty clothes and realised that probably, they also won't vanish if I tidy anything.

Meanwhile, FB is going swimmingly. Not only have I posted replies to messages in the wrong place, I've suddenly become friends with dozens of people I already knew I was friends with* and I have received a butterfly and a hatching egg. This will hatch while we're away but I know it's not going to hatch into a donkey**. Further, if I wish, I can make my plain and boring profile more interesting if I install the 'zwinky' application. Wow!
It's now irritatingly, flashing a caution at me. Apparently I've won a prize. Hmm.
It's awfully busy, this FB thing. Doesn't want to be ignored. I've closed the tab. It's a young person's thing, constantly saying "look at me look at me I've done something else look look!"***


Well, Spring must be half sprung! Here are white violets.
And in honour of the weather being dry (though not at all warm or bright) me and Nutdog went a-walking and encountered Harlequin. Who watched me watching him without any sign of alarm before leaving with a multicoloured ruffling of huge fur. (I have no idea who he really is but if he's not called Harlequin, somebody surely missed a beat)
So later, naturally, the sun shone. Making it clear that while other people may be cleaning their windows, I am not.
Now I have to pack and sort and just generally prepare for travel into the Frozen North. If there's time I may look up one of my (new) old (FB) friends :)
Have a wonderful Easter won't you. I do hope the sun arrives finally in all the cold places (except Leeds - I'm still hoping for snow). Beautiful Barney does have internet so I may be able to post. Who knows :)
xxx

*each new friend arrives with at least one, sometimes two, emails.
**But one of the joys of the virtual 'verse is that it could have hatched into a donkey :)
***Still, it is a jolly useful way to shout and wave across the country to people who didn't get the email or don't read the blog or have moved away or are having babies :) And it does seem to be more communicative than competitive. In our family anyway :)
And I quite like the idea of sending people a 'poke'. Which reminds me, Eldest hasn't confirmed me as a friend yet. Should I 'poke' him I wonder?