Received a silly response from a sixty-something year old adolescent male in Arizona but avoided making disparaging remarks because I joined this group to engage others in intelligent, reasoned conversations and, hopefully, make some friends; not enemies. I suppose it was inevitable that I'd eventually experience some immaturity - I just didn't think it would happen so soon. I never could suffer fools gladly so, if anyone serves up something idiotic I will not accept it, mark them down for an imbecile and not respond to anything they post. And that's the last I'm going to write on the matter.....until the next time LOL!

Here, in South Cumbria, UK, we are fortunate in that we rarely get a heavy fall of snow; if it happens, then this means the rest of the country is usually snow bound and everything grinds to a halt. It had been bitterly cold but there was a welcome rise in temperature earlier this week but, alas, it did not last and we are now freezing our rocks off once more - with the threat of snow...in Britain...in MID MARCH!

My youngest son, who lives with his wife in Amsterdam, has just been rushed into hospital with a 'twisted intestine'. How the hell did he accomplish that? I'll be contacting them by email later just to find out what is happening. At one time we conversed regularly on a Sunday each week by Skype but that was before they moved to Holland. I have two sons and Graeme, the eldest, is a scientist involved in 'specialist coatings' (paint, to you and me!) He lives and works in Angelsey, North Wales but, since he got hit by religion, he won't communicate with his atheist Dad any more. Well, that's his choice. He has also excluded the rest of the family. The last time we had a face to face conversation he adopted a patronising, condescending tone of voice and I asked him why he was talking like a vicar (I had no idea at that time that he was preparing to send his common sense into the religious wormhole) There were a couple of 'normal' emails after that then - ZILCH! (That was three years ago) Yes, it's sad but as we say in Northern England: "There's none so funny as folk."