As November draws to its darkening close (that’s enough imagery-ed) we would like to offer a big thank you to all our readers, researchers and contributors. There have been a few new followers lately, so welcome aboard our little blog. A few points:
We haven’t always been that good at posting and registering all of your comments. This is for technological reasons: we’re rubbish at it, and still can’t seem to make it work. There are Sasquatches in the backwoods of Canada who are better that IT than we are, so it makes it the more moving when you stick with us despite our ham-fisted incompetence.
We do try to visit as many of your blogs and websites as possible. Many are very good indeed. But you can imagine how, with a colossal mainstream media/new media reading list every day, there cannot always be time.
Why don’t we write in Spanish? Because we are not good enough, that’s why. Unless you are a native speaker it is almost impossible to write in a language without it sounding mangled and artificial. Maybe AI and chat GPT will change that; but by which time it won’t be worth doing anyway.
And finally- why don’t we go out and do more Good Works to help the Needy and Comfort the Afflicted? Well we would. Except recently we have been subjected to a plague of questionnaires about the service we received every time we go into a shop/doctor/dentist/garage/railway station/park…who’s going to do them next, your local Bordello? By the time we’ve answered them, most of the day has gone, and our soul shrivelled with it. The needy and afflicted have probably perished; but the companies concerned have a bit more data to justify cutting out assistants and introducing more of those ghastly serve your self check outs.
We wish all of you success in all your enterprises, and look forward to our next message in this personal tone closer to Christmas.
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