It’s all very well having to write tasks down so you remember them. It’s all very well having to write tasks down on post-its and stick them on the inside of the front door so you remember them (because you always forget to look in your diary.) But when you come down in a morning and see one such post-it and you read it and you don’t know what the hell it means, it may be time to get a minder.
I found a post-it yesterday that said “Ring re bin.” What did it mean? What bin? Ring who? Did I write the post-it? I examined the writing carefully. It had to be mine, because Dave doesn’t use pink heart post-its. Every time I passed the note, I puzzled over what it meant. “Ring re bin”?????
An hour later I remembered. Ring Jonty in Wensleydale and ask him to put out Ma’s wheelie-bin on bin day. I was in Wensleydale the day before. I had seen Jonty the day before. That wasn’t so very hard, was it? Apparently so.
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how true is today’s blog! I have been thinking about the bin and then forgetting straight away. My memory is bad and so is my husband's. I think when we come to family decisions I will have to get them signed by all parties so I can refer back to them.
Sue, I hope you don't mind that I'm laughing...at me of course. ;) I do the same thing. My husband laughs at my shorthand (tom for tomato, spag for spaghetti,wht brd for wheat bread), which isn't really the problem. The problem is context. I have a roll of paper in my kitchen, next to the phone, conveniently. But I use this paper for everything! Phone messages, words to look up in the dictionary, grocery items I'm running out of, etc. After a while it stops to make sense, especially if it has been a STRESSFUL week! Bad handwriting doesn't help.
I hope that other message is to book a flight out to the Bay. We miss you and can't wait to spend another delightful fall with you.
I hope that other message is to book a flight out to the Bay. We miss you and can't wait to spend another delightful fall with you.
Yes, WW, it is to book a plane ticket to my favourite city by the Bay to see my favorite Californian family.
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