Isn't technology amazing....

I know we take it for granted, and it irritates the hell out of us when it won't work, or is slow..like takes 3 seconds to connect... but think about it. I remember seeing TV programes about computers years ago, and e xperts saying soon coputers will be small, not room sized, and every hoe will have one....why? I thought. Why would every hoe want a computer? What wojuld we do with one?

Now here I am, just a few years later, sitting up warm and comfy in bed, with my lap top on my knees, happily e-mailing the world (or friends in far away places) and reading and writing blogs, connecting with the big wide world without leaving my bed. Next to me is my little mobile phone, sending and receiving texts to all and sundry ( or it would if sundry ever texted me) and I can chat to people while they are on trains, at work, at home, or in strange hotels miles away late at night.

I know there are downsides to this constant communication and I am sad and think I have no friends if an hour goes by without receiving a text, but really, I love it...the only problem is with e-mailing and texting and blogging..I've just realized I haven't actually spoken to anyone in days. Oh, sob.....

My secretary has had a couple of days off as her mum was taken to hospital and her dad was at home alone insisting he could manage, but not really..sounds familiar? She has taken her mum home from hospital now and back worrying and wondering how they will manage.... and my good friend R whose parents live on Ibiza, worries about her dad who has been in a care home for a year now, since he was too unwell for her mum to care for him, she has been preparing herself all year for the call to say he has died....well yesterday at work she got a call to say her mum has died, which was not expected and such a shock. I hope I can be the strength, comfort and rock for others as they have been to me.