My First Blog

Having been 'retired' for some years now I suppose it is time for me to start my own blog. After all when my five year old grandaughter contradicts me because she thinks she already knows everything (Don't they ALL? Didn't WE at that age??) I ask her 'Freya (for that is her name) do you think you will know MORE when you are my age than you know now? Because, quite honestly, if you don't; you will have totally wasted your life'. I think she got the point.

The point of this is that I am hoping that after all the varied experiences I have had in my wonderful life there will be things that I can contribute that may be of interest to others. Of course the problem is that when we hear the pontifications of older people, we never seem to recognise the value of what they are saying until we get to their age ourselves.

We then realise that what they were trying to tell us was right all along and if only we had heeded their advice at the time we might have avoided some of the mistakes we have made. But 'twas ever thus and it wasn't until after my own Mother's death that I realised that when she said that I shouldn't marry a certain lady she was absolutely right! Fortunately, and expensively, that was corrected almost a quarter of a century ago and I have been idyllically married to My Darling Bente - a Full Blooded Viking - ever since. (I suppose it needed the fire of Viking Blood to cope with me!).

I believe that laughter is the Best Medicine and those of you who stumble on these meanderings, will I hope find the odd chuckle here and there.

For Instance when were having dinner with Freya and our daughter, Lisa and our Son-in-Law, Martin, recently, Martin said:

'Freya, please can get two more beers from the kitchen, one for me and one for Grandpa?'

So off she trotted but came back empty handed saying:

'But Daddy, there are only two bottles left'.

'That's right.' Said Martin, 'One for me and one for Grandpa'

'But Daddy there are only TWO bottles left!'

'Yes! One for me and one for Grandpa'

'But Daddy, are you SURE you want to waste one on Grandpa?'
Out of the mouths etc!

Well that is enough for now so I'd better get back to making some more money online.