Tag Archives: communication

TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGING

An imaginary e-mail from a 12 year old daughter to her Generation X mother. Hello Mum, I would talk to you directly but your head always seems to be buried in your smart phone and you never actually hear what I’m saying. Firstly, I’m getting a tad concerned about your driving. Pokemon are NOT real […]

LACK OF COMMUNICATION

One of the things I love about Portugal is the inability to converse with the natives. As we all know the majority of the spoken word is wasted on expressing opinions of little worth, silly banter and boring anecdotes. (Avid readers fall into a different category …. obviously). I’m very pleased to keep my communication […]

SIGN LANGUAGE

There are various subtle signs I have slowly learnt over the many years of bliss with Lo, she is a terrible Goddess, that mean my behaviour needs moderating, adapting or stopping. (I would go for ‘stopping’, but as Avid Readers will have realised by now, my innate good nature always reasserts itself at the wrong […]