I am fairly new to this blogging thing and the Internet as a whole.  I believed, like many, that it would fizzle out and be something that not many would be associated with and use.  How wrong I was!

I’ve been writing on this blog for a few weeks now and I am completely amazed the people who read it.  I was talking to a few friends of the family after they had received an email from me and they took a trip over to this blogpage.  They were very impressed and so was I for their kind words, so that you if you did email me and speak to me about this website, it keeps me visiting it every so often to update you of what is happening and my views.

I love googleing things on the internet too (think that’s right), apparently little Marty says its searching for things on google and you get relevant pages popping up, to be honest I have learned a lot since he told me this and have been using this search page for lots of things.

I’ve been able to do some research on my family history too, which is good as I was struggling to find some answers to a couple of questions, but people are friendly to you and I can’t thank them enough.  I have also been able to start checking my money online and looking at the financial analyzes of things; although I’m far from an expert I did dabble a few years ago in the market, so I may just want to invest some more money in the future.

The main thing I like about the Internet is that it seems as though information is loaded up very quickly and will be viewable by many in an instant.

I was talking yesterday with Bob at the local grocers how many older people come into his shop and buy the same things each week and don’t like to vary it much.  Needless to say that the number of people that are coming into his shop are indeed a lot older than me, but it does make you wonder.

Having a coffee and a short chat with him, Bob was talking to me about Mary who comes into the shop every Friday because it’s the day she has gone shopping since she has been a small girl, she’s 82 by the way.  I know, a little older (or lot) than  the most of us, but a dear sweet old lady who still likes to keep her independence and walk to the shop with her bags and trolley.

She comes into the shop and likes to use the older systems of weight and calculation, and Bob’s shop is a little traditional over many of the other larger ones, so I guess this is why older people enjoy buying from him and talking through things with him.  Bob has time for anyone and he always remembers your name and what you bought last time, he has a really great memory.

Anyway, Mary always calculates things in lbs and ounces instead of kgs and was talking with Bob about the different things that have changed and why companies have chnaged so many different things.  She also wasn’t too happy when Bob bought in some package vegetables for some of the other loclas who asked him for it, she believed everything should be loose and measured, so you were assured of getting exactly what you have asked for.  Guess old habits die hard.