I thought I would start a page with just the barest minimum of personal details to see what would happen and in just over a year I have heard from about half a dozen of my old school mates back in Australia. Having looked at some of the profiles on the site I was quite surprised to see how much detail others have added regarding themselves; not sure if that is such a good thing.

If you add data for all of the questions you could easily attract unwanted attention – especially since there are facilities for everything from every address you have ever lived at to where you have worked, played, gone to school – surely going into so much detail about yourself can lead to trouble ?

Even though it is just over twenty years since I left school it seems a lifetime away and happily most of my old mates are leading happy lives; sadly three have since died. Just as sad are the number whose parents have since died – I remember many of the parents of my old friends from our school days – the Dads who lent a hand during sports days and the Mums who worked the school canteen and assisted with the annual school concerts…when you hear about them passing away it really drives home the passage of time.

Gripe of the week…

I am going to vent my spleen now about something which really annoys me; those emails you get which say ” Please do not reply to this email as it will not be read by a human…”

So who the hell sent it ???

If I cannot reply to it I won’t read it. Hit the delete button ! or as Malin at Infektia would do…‘flush, flush, flush’.