Now for something much more pleasant; friends!
Apart from the strangers which I hope turn into customers, that meander long the veranda daily, I often have friends popping in to say hello and often to buy gifts, the vitamin booster and African Potato Cream which I sell for an organic chemist.
Ant and Jenny, whom I see weekly at the Parkrun and whom I used to hike the mountains with when I was a lady of leisure pop in regularly after their weekly hike; Cindy (Ant's wife of 50 years) pops in to buy the energy booster after her session at the knitting club; Lynn, whom I manage The Bunker for, popped in to introduce me to her niece and at the same time she bought two gifts for her daughter; Stella, a friend from Probus and also the hiking club, popped in last week to place her cosmetic order with me (one of my extra projects is selling for a large skincare company); Hedy, whose little Daschound, Florrie apparently still bristles when they pass the house where we lived in Bergview popped in last week, ordered a coffee for me and a hot chocolate for herself and had it delivered from the Chocolate Shop down the veranda so that we could "have a coffee" together; Betty, also from Bergview, whose two Labradors and my Skabenga, are our main topic of conversation, popped in a with two lolly ice creams and we enjoyed these together while we chatted - about our dogs!
And then there's my young friend, DJ. He was our neighbor when we lived on John's farm. Grant and I got to know DJ "through the fence" as it were. He'd stop and bring a pack of freshly picked green maize on the cob while I would have a packet of health rusks for him. These were handed through the electric fence at your peril so DJ would lob the mielies over the top of the fence and I would send the rusks over the same way.
Nowadays DJ, a busy farmer doesn't always get to stop off at the shop and say hi. His young wife, Tracy, and cute toddler, Jessica take part in Parkrun every week, so I see them there. However, when DJ pops into the supermarket, he always buys a can of cold-drink and brings it to me in passing and gets off to work again.
Sweet, huh? Him and all my friends.
Yesterday DJ came past my shop where I was standing out on the veranda chatting to Jenny and passed me this can of soda!
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I'm on Wordpress, which has a very good spam filter that filters out all the spam I get. I have to empty the spam trash, but I don't read any of the comments.
ReplyDeleteThanks Fiona. I used to get only spam on Blogger but now the anonymous comments appear regularly on my comments. Thanks for popping in.
ReplyDeleteYou have a love of thoughtful friends. What a gift. I now moderate comments (I think you do too) and the spammers have increased because I also set my settings to allow for Anonymous comments. That was suggested as the way to get comments coming through to my email after blogger made changes - yet again. I've noticed in the last little while that once again I am no longer getting email notification of comments. The anonymous spam comments still coming in. If I take off the ability of "anonymous" to leave comments it would exclude people like Lady Fi above from leaving a comment at my blog.
ReplyDeleteJo, remove the anonymous so that only people who want you to know who they are can comment. sent you an email. I very much enjoyed 'meeting' all your friends, you are blessed to have them and God bless them for loving and caring for you.....
ReplyDeleteTo block 'anonymous', go to Settings (on your dashboard), enter Posts,comments&sharing: choose and mark 'only user with Google accounts', and comments moderation 'always'.
ReplyDeleteHi Jo, I go back and forth on the settings, to stop anonymous comments. Ohterwise I just delete them when I see them come in. You have many great friends there, it is good to keep them close. Enjoy your day and week ahead!
ReplyDeleteI suggest setting your comments to require author approval on comments made to certain posts after a given length of time, say two weeks. Anonymous spammers seem to like to go after older posts with nonsensical remarks, and the filters will take them right to a moderation comments folder as opposed to published comments. You can click each of them off and banish them to spam from there.
ReplyDeleteI stopped allowing anonymous comments. I still get spam but it's cut down on it quite a bit.
ReplyDeleteYou have lots of friends stopping by to keep you compan
I'm glad that you have lots of friends to keep you in the loop. Its very healthy for your brain to socialise with friends. (I just read a book about keeping your brain active.)I see you have lots of suggestions for your irritating commenters. Go into settings and click off anonymous comments. I still get some spam but I delete them and go into google mail and report spam.
ReplyDeleteYou seem more social now that you're not a lady of leisure. Nice to have friends pop in and especially when they bring treats.
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