Dr Tanya has given her Blogging Insights series a facelift and is now giving us a quote to work on every week.
“Twitter is like a calling card. Facebook is like a phone call. Blogging is like a full-fledged conversation!”
Ah, I really can’t comment on this as I don’t have a twitter or facebook account, nor do I want one.
My social media is my blog (and meeting dogs), and with the to-ing and fro-ing of comments therein, it is indeed a conversation.
My family are on facebook, and I believe keep in touch that way. Good for them.
I was put off years ago when someone put an invite to a party out on FB and over 250 people turned up, most of which they didn’t know. I do understand that you can restrict your friends and family, but for all I know, the latter would not keep in touch with me anyway for one reason or another and any other means of communication is rarely forthcoming.
I’m old school, pen, paper, stamp and snail mail. I’ve progressed to email though and keep in touch with a few close friends that way.
There is texting, phone calls, skype and zoom, so other means of contact is available.
The art of true conversation seems to be dead though. TV and computers killed that IMO.
My late FIL loved to have debates, sometimes deliberately taking the opposite corner to me and hear my point of view. We often agreed to differ, each respecting the other’s opinion, but when we agreed on something, we were practically joined at the hip!
pensitivity101 
Lucky you , to have such a good relationship with your FIL.
I was very lucky and we had some great debates. We both miss him. Hard to believe it’s 17 years since he passed away.
How about sharing some things about him on your blog. He sounds like a great person.
He was. I’ve done several posts about my Inlaws. You might enjoy these.
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/meet-the-in-laws/
there are a couple of linked post in this one, and
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/a-maypole-candy-floss-and-mother-in-law/
I tried clicking on these links but it said “unable to retrieve this post “
I’ll check them out.
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/meet-the-in-laws
this one worked for me and dates back to 24th Feb 2014
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/a-maypole-candy-floss-and-mother-in-law/
this one worked too and was march 2 2014
How odd
The links are working when you posted them the second time.
I really enjoyed the story about your mum in law and the roast potatoes.
Entertaining the in laws is stressful and you passed the test with flying colours.
I honestly thought I’d gone too far, but FIL saved the day. Yes, she was one for the roast spuds, and mine were always lovely and crispy. She couldn’t cook anything other than stew, so FIL did all the cooking for them. She once stocked up with ready made sandwiches fro the supermarket rather than buy bread, butter and filling and make her own. She was not an easy woman to get on with.
I guess your FIL made up for his wife in more ways than one.
Oh he did, and had his own sense of humour. We bought him a novelty pair of boxer shorts and matching ‘singing tie’ one year for Christmas and he was forever playing his tie over dinner. She told him to turn it off, so he increased the volume. He was a lovely man.
Ha ha ha 😍