Being a little green creature from cyberspace
I'm pleased to report to the internet that I'm not cranky today. The wonders of Earl Grey and a decent amount of sleep, is the best medicine. Seriously I hate it as much as the next person when I'm irritable, and cannot wish the mood or the crankiness out of my veins fast enough.
Firstly I've got an update on Mary Willett. Apparently her name came up when my grandparents had an argument, and they apparently they had the biggest rows ever, my grandmother used to fire: 'GO AND FIND MARY WILLETT!' The intrigue is killing me. Interestingly, everyone comments how much she looks like my grandmother, and perhaps my grandfather got confused!
This afternoon we took a drive into the wilds, as my uncle wanted to see one of the farms that my family descended from. We ended up going to a couple of houses, and as most of the conversation was in Welsh I only got some of it. The people were really friendly and totally backed up what my grandmother always used to say. 'People from the Waen* are fed on birdseed', implying they never stop talking.
What was rather surreal, we went into the kitchen of one of the houses and started talking family history. He then preceded to pull out some paper from his bureau, and immediately I smiled. The header, the font was instantly recognisable, the net is rather well imprinted in my brain cells ... it was a printed entry of my blog! I recognised exactly what it was from the other side of the room, and said, 'oh that's my website' (knowing the word 'blog' gets lost on my parents). He was like 'Oh you've seen this?', quite gutted, not quite getting that I'd actually typed it. The internet was a seperate entity as far as he was concerned, and I don't think he quite grasped that there could be a connection with people driving its content. He didn't still get came from me, and it simply came from 'THE INTERNET, that's what you call it isn't it?'
Let it be known, little green men live in the internet, and exists on a planet in another galaxy.
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* Waen is Welsh for moorland, and it is a mountainous area where my grandfather was born.