Not quite, not quite, it may be gasping for breath but there's still a bit of life remaining.

As to the final end, in the words of Juba to Maximus (Gladiator), "Not yet, not yet".

Try posting "something of value" then?

Wow!.......that's really valuable.

Could it not be considered a valid point and a cleverly made one, concerning the ultimate futility of all public discussion boards.

Perhaps denoting the posters view that the value of discussion itself decreases in inverse proportion to the number of words written?

Is it not possible, in the philosophic context of the mobile world, that the symbolic representation of words by jumbled letters and pictures has made discussion redundant.  Possibly we are the ones out of step, the pokey-box generation understanding perfectly what a blank space denotes and its deeper significance?

Sorry to disappoint, no nothing clever quibono 😊 I just thought this is as good a place as any to try and figure out how to get a signature at the bottom of my posts.  😀 

I know we’re lucky and I shouldn’t really moan but I’m going to anyway.

Far from being lonely my better half and I would love a day or two without having visitors - we’ve lived in the same house for more than forty years and know all our neighbours for at least half a mile in each direction.  There hasn’t been a single day in the last six months when we haven’t had at least one person come round.

To top it all the restaurant just four doors away was knocked down a few years back and they built a Jehovah’s Witness’ Kingdom Hall in its place - I’m sure they use all the local residents for practice calls!

Add to all that horsey people just ‘popping’ round, Girl Guiders coming for advice or to camp by the river, farriers, vets and even the local vicar - the local farmer who brings hay but likes to stay for a drink and a chat, relatives who have a sixth sense and know when I’ve lit the pizza oven.  

This retirement thing is vastly over rated!

Profound? or utter b-s?.  

But I agree with you about the phones

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@cee-dee wrote:

Try posting "something of value" then?

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