Playing around with the iPad during the day is fun but limits me to exploring the internet because there's no word processing possibility, as far as I can tell. I chase up information then when I get bored with that I look up people I've lost contact with over the decades. Often I don't find them but yesterday I had two successes. Firstly I located the address of a cousin I haven't seen for 50 years. Shall I write? Probably not as I'm bad enough at writing to people already in my life, but the temptation is there because he may give me some clues about my father's family. I have huge gaps in my knowledge of my Welsh ancestry that I would like to fill.
Then I found someone who has left me with a rather bigger dilemma. A friend lost contact - broke contact - with his son some years ago. They had a row I think. I liked the young man, (my teenage daughters were rather taken with him as he is very handsome, like my friend) and I felt sad about the situation, which of course is nothing whatsoever to do with me but I always feel it's a tragedy when parents and children lose each other in that way. There must - in my head anyway - be pain and regret alongside the stubborness and bitterness. Maybe it's being an only child myself. Anyway, now I have the opportunity to change things, if it needs changing, because the son is on Facebook, large as life, in teeny tiny speedos that look like a posing pouch , standing in some blue water under a blue sky. I've have made no contact as yet but the dilemma is: do I assume my friend has also seen that his son is contactable or do I shut up?
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I can rarely resist a dabble or a dibble. Looking up alternative relatives seems like potentially interesting. Maybe discretion is best on the latter, is there a lateral way of getting the info across. I find women are often keener on linking up menfolk than the men.
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