All by myself

Mr French Fancy is in England for 10 days or so and it is a long time since we have been separated. One gets so used to having someone sharing a space that it comes as a bit of a shock to suddenly find yourself with so much more of an area to roam around in. There are a few advantages - I suppose so anyway (trying to think of them takes a bit of doing though).

We met 11 years ago this month- well,actually, we didn't exactly meet. Ours was an internet friendship that then turned into a cyber romance (I know, you've immediately started thinking about that Second Life couple, haven't you) and, when we finally met in real life about two months after chatting all the time online, we realised that life would be better for both of us if we became An Item.

He is as perfect for me as anybody could be and I have to say that we have a lovely life together. I sometimes feel a bit guilty that I don't really have any worries, but I have had my share in the past so I've done my time.

That cliché about having to kiss a lot of frogs - I don't know about that. I'd been engaged four times (and in fact got engaged a few weeks after we met, had a ceremony booked at Kensington Roof Gardens but we decided to cancel it in the end) but somehow it never felt like the right person and I suppose I was so young and silly that it was always the idea of the marriage that was appealing. The second time, the wedding was called off with just nine days to go so that was a Bit Of A Situation really. I always gave engagement rings and presents back though - I was fair.

Is veri unnecessary ?

I have it on good authority, well marc anyway, that word veri on the blog comment form is not really necessary these days, mainly because Blogger have been doing so much to detect spammers.

I must say that in the two weeks that I have dispensed with verification I've not had anything untoward left in my box as it were. My, isn't the English language strange?

Low-tech me

For a mad moment this morning I thought about updating my blog layout to one of the bells and whistle ones. I even tried it and then got in a panic when my blog counter disappeared. I hunted through various Blog Help advice to try and see where the original template was stored. I wasn't thrilled with the replacement layout; I'm a creature of habit really and I like a lot of things to remain constant.

Anyway, panic over, I reverted to my original layout and I even c&p'd some html(she said proudly) into my page to reinstall the counter, which is now a scrolling version of what I had before. I could easily try and become more of a Modern Person with all this html lark, but I'll just bury myself in studies of 18th Century Europe and leave all the techy stuff to you lot.

Eee

I've just been given a little micro-laptop as a present - an ASUS Eee and it seems so strange to be typing on such a small keypad. I usually type quite fast but I'm watching my fingers move around these keys as slowly as someone who never learnt touch-typing.

Too many changes

Gah! I was stupid enough to install IE7 and now everything has changed (as you would indeed expect). I'm so untechy, yet live with the best techy in the world. If only some of his knowledge could be piped into my head whilst I sleep.