Penpals

Do people still have ‘penpals’ or is it all done via email these days?
I can remember the rush of excitement if a letter landed on my doorstep.  Working out who writing it was, seeing where the postmark was from. Opening the envelope and then seeing the amount of pages that someone had actually taken the [...]

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Wot no Paper?

Call me old fashioned but what has happened the standard pen and piece of paper and writing.  I’m scared that over time, kids of today are going to loose the ability of writing and stringing a sentence together normally.  All eveyone seems to use these days, is text – as already talked about in my [...]

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Predictive or not?

Sending text messages,  no matter whether it’s dating or not is a true form of art.  If you’re down with the kids then there are abbreviations are absolutelt baffle me.
Where the art of English going?  I’ve even received a few emails from friends which have text talk in them and these are friends which really [...]

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Dating by text continued…

OK, so you’ve met someone on a night out, after a few glasses of wine.  You arrange a date, place and time by text.  You chat all week and flirt like mad, by text.  You buy an outfit and turn up for your date, texting first to make sure he’s there before you walk into the [...]

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Dating by text…

This is really showing my age now (although I am only 35) but when I was first dating in my late teens and early 20’s – dating was so different.  You actually wrote someones number down and called them to have a chat and arrange a date.
It’s all done by text these days.  I’m not [...]

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