Gloom & Giggles
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 3 May 2015 22:57
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Gloom and Giggles Mark Another Week in Bay
Beez   This week began with more chores, cleaning
and stowing.Bear went to Paihia and collected our Fiji
money – rather pretty. Ten Fiji dollars are worth three pounds and
fifteen pence. In the evenings I have been happily adding new stuff to my ITunes
library. Awoken harshly at four in the morning by a certain persons snoring,
unable to get back to sleep I thought I would add a few more songs. I always
follow the same procedure, switch on, plug in external hard drive, as soon as it
shows I launch ITunes – SHOCK HORROR, this time my hard drive showed itself to
be Untitled and ITunes failed to find anything. Bear was arrested from his sleep
and woe is me. After the morning net Bear popped over to the local oracle Bill
who gave him a techies number, also called Bill.
   Bill picked us up the following day at half past ten, drove us to his
house where we saw an impressive collection of computer
gadgetry and storage ‘stuff’. He took the double click off my laptop and
generally interfered with systems I have used ever since laptops were
created..........
   Bill showed us his collection of drones,
starting with the ‘workshop’ at the end of the
bedroom. There was a drone on the coffee table in the hall, one on the dining room table and its complex controller beside it.
  There was a monster
drone on another coffee table in front of the television in the lounge.
Bear admired the gadgetry. I looked at him and firmly
shook my head...... We looked at the landing pad attached to the balcony and
watched a video of a take off, three hundred foot panoramic view of the valley
and a safe landing. Once again I looked at Bear and shook my
head......
  We were fascinated by the visitor that preened himself on Bill’s keyboard,
clearly a talcum powder user – just like me.....
We were dropped at the
dinghy dock at half past four with Bill telling us my external hard drive would
receive care and attention overnight.......... We had time before our evening
guests to pop by Scott-Free [as they are
en route to Beez]. Maj was enjoying an ice-cream and looked very
relaxed. I settled to a lemonade, the boys a beer and then for the best laugh of
the week. At five to five the following was heard:-
Me -
Must go our guests are due in five
minutes.
Maj - Well you better get
going then.
Me - But you two are our
guests.
Maj -
WHAT.......
With that we both looked
at the men who had the grace to look a little sheepish, grinned at each other
and promptly opened another beer. Clearly, the boys have been sacked when it
comes to organising evening invitations. Rescheduled for the following day – a
first to have visitors twenty four and a half hours late.
 A definite sign that we
are getting ready to leave. Snoopy is out. Miffy
bought this little strap purse for me many years ago. He wanted to come with us
and has an official chore – that of being swung around my neck as IPod holder.
ALL IN ALL YOU HAVE TO
LAUGH
INDEED YOU
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