And You Think You Have It Bad

Today my thoughts are with Sir Bob Geldof . I doubt there can be a more tortured man on the whole planet . His late wife Paula Yates had an affair with the singer Martin Hutchins of Inxs . He committed suicide a number of years ago , followed eventually by Paula Yates ,who apparently never got over the death of this man . Recently you will have seen in the news that Peachs Geldof , Paula's daughter has also committed suicide like her mother . Can you imagine how this terrible chain of events must weigh on Bob Geldof's mind ? One cannot imagine . To have your wife cheat on you , and then commit suicide because of it , followed by the loss of your 25 year old daughter , which no doubt can also be attributed to this sequence of events must be devastating . What an awful chain of events has started . I wonder if its finished ? I unfortunately doubt it ... 

Somebody Answer The Phone !!!

Call me old fashioned but I remember a time when if the telephone rang you ran to answer it ! This was quite an event . You knew where your phone was because it was plugged into a socket on the wall . No one could wander off with it , or leave it upstairs ringing its self silly while you were frantically searching for it . No , those were the days .
   Further more on answering there was actually someone on the line , not an eerie silence followed by an engaged tone . There were no foreign accents gabbling at you to try their " cheaper companies " There were no scammers playing on strange " coincidences " trying to catch you off guard . Most of the time it was family or people you knew who rang up, and as I said you rushed eagerly  to answer . Today ? Well I bet its not uncommon for anyone reading this blog to admit they sometimes just let the phone ring . This was once the height of rudeness .  I only realised how I had become such a person recently, and it shocked me how acceptable this has become today . We are more tired , jaded and suspicious nowadays  I guess, which leaves us with little enthusiasm to run to that phone. Its quite sad really . Quite sad .