Who needs the internet? Look what we have here beside Loch Torridon:
A noticeboard to find out all the local news, a post box so we can send letters to our friends, and a telephone if there's something urgent or we just want to chat.
It even looks like the phone is still working.
Gail tells me that once upon a time, in her life time in fact, this is how people everywhere really did communicate. It's hard for me, a digital native pup, to comprehend! But it got me thinking, and (with apologies to the late great John Lennon) I came up with this wee lyric for a song...
Imagine (re-imagined)
Imagine there's no Google
It's easy if you try
No Apple iPhones
Nor Netflix, Fox or Sky.
Imagine all the people
Livin' for today
Ah
Imagine there's no FaceBook
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to scroll or WhatsApp
And no scam emails, too
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
In real life not online.
Imagine no computers
I wonder if you can
No checking social media
Goodbye to Instagram.
Imagine all the people
Not staring at their screens
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
In tech-free Torridon!
the mama remembers that time... and the smell lots of that telephone boxes had LOL
ReplyDeleteF is going to frame Gails imagining and put it on a wall near her desk, and then go looking for our own Torridon. Paw smacks Mr T
ReplyDeleteNobby, tell Gail that's a brilliant re-write! Carol remembers those times too and says life was so much simpler then. She misses the time when you could be out and about or in a café or restaurant, and no-one was shouting into their mobile phones.
ReplyDeleteThe internet is useful though - how else would we have found Bouncing Bertie's blog - and now you?
Love,
Indy xx
Excellent re-write. Life was simpler and slower and people walking along talking to themselves were a rare sight.
ReplyDeleteMom remembers those wonderful times when life was a whole lot more simple and enjoyable.
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ReplyDeleteWell, Nobby... I am going against the flow of comments and suggest that life was no more simple in pre-social media days. Just different. And there is a reason I have thus far managed to get by in life without a 'smart' phone and will forever remain absent from the Book of Faces... Sadly, as technology 'advances' my resistance against the mini-tablets of communication will have to be broken down... I love Gail's re-Imagin-ing, and having had the pleasure of your "in the furs" company, definitely echo the chorus - but with the caveat that it is due to email and texting and the occasional digital call and thanks to the early social media form of blogging that we met at all!!! Hugs and wags, YAM-aunty xxx
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Nobby and Gail...I am 87% sure John is smiling down on your 're-imagine' lyrics with approval. WOW
ReplyDeleteNow that being said keep a light on and a fire in the fireplace we're taking the red eye to Torridon.
GOSH I think this version needs to be copyrighted...lickety split
Hugs cecilia
Love the re-write! fits our lives perfectly. I sometimes try to imagine no internet and it would be too hard. I sometimes think it is the best and the worst thing that has ever happened to us oh so wannabee civilized humans. the photos make me smile and remember. at one time we had a phone on the wall, that had no dial, and we just picked up the receiver and a human answered. a working pay phone is a rare thing these days. my husband refuses to use a cell phone and I fear if he breaks down he will be stuck somewhere, he says I will use a pay phone and I said good luck with that, there are none. I have lived long enough to have had NO phone all the way through to smartphones. I have a love/hate with the smart phone but will not give it up unless the internet goes away. love this post.
ReplyDeleteExcellent lyrics, Nobby! I do miss telephone booths and have always admired your stylish red ones. Your flashy collar is a perfect match.
ReplyDeleteWe like your new lyrics for that song but also echo Yam's sentiment that if not for the internet we never would have met all our Blogville friends. It's good to unplug once in a while and we would love to come visit you in Torridon.
ReplyDeleteWow! I hope Dr. Who doesn't decide to use that phone booth as the next Tardis! We see so few of these type of phone booths these days. And your version of "Imagine" is so true!
ReplyDeleteI love your version of Imagine. Perhaps the Doctor is in your neighborhood and left his red painted TARDIS behind.
ReplyDeleteHubby and I and not a few others we know, sure miss those days of life being simple and wonderful! Love your new (old) song!
ReplyDeleteAnd since we are trying to catch up...we loved seeing all your spring life, esp the primroses. We used to have a few...but...somehow they did not like the garden area...sigh...
Just make sure that you do not chew up bedding or spectacles...our cousin in Canada did that...though I Benji love to chew bedding,and eat the contents if I can...yikes...so far so good, but we cannot have loose blankets here, nor new beds as I would likely ruin them in 30 seconds. I dig huge holes, too...and all 30 pounds of me fit into them...
Dalton while he has his own craziness is a goody two shoes by comparison!
Mom often wonders if any of the stores around here have a "payphone" or phone booth any more. She never sees them anywhere. But she does have one of those red booths in her Dicken's Christmas Village collection - it looks just like that one, at least from the outside:)
ReplyDeleteWe wanted to thank you for your kind concern for Misty.
Woos - Lightning, Misty, and Timber
Wow, a working payphone! And your Gail is so creative with that very good take on a song we all know!
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