Metro Monday

Good evening  dear readers of Wear and Dao, today has been fascinating indeed at the MetroCentre in Gateshead near where your blogger and the kind, caring, nurse carer and part - time chauffeur live, i.e. Stanhope in Weardale. Stanhope by the way is somewhat like Stanley, except Stanhope has hope in the name and Stanley near Consett has no hope, having been a pit village in it's heyday leaving the coal miners once prosperous now without hope! That's the post-industrial age for you folks ...
Still, that's the past nowadays, these days i.e. Monday 25th March 2022, we are in the eternal present moment, as Eckart Tolle taught in "The Power of Now".

Anyway, moving on to Metro Madness, the Metrocentre was madness for sure, full of shoppers sheltering from the rain showers, window shopping for things they didn't necessarily need, but could wander about in the dry, warm Metrocentre.  The only reason your technophobic old blogger and his wheelchair pushing friend from Stanhope turned up was to find the Apple store to move away from Android and upgrade the system, which was achieved thanks to Darryl the young salesman flogging good iPads for a reasonable price, maybe £1.6 k for the system of choice , definitely a bargain. All this took very little time, so we headed off to Marks and Sparks, more properly M&S, for lunch of spicy falafel in a tortilla wrap, which was delicious and nutritious with dessert of cake dunked in cappuccino mmm!

Heading home for tea we pondered how to make the Apple system operate compared to Android and asked Siri for her advice since voice recognition's a thing in the post-technophobic age. How times have changed dear readers since your old technophobic blogger was a boy, before televisions let alone mobile  phones were widespread, imagine that if you can; it's like miracle to us, bringing us slap bang up to date, face to face with the existential possibilities of Miracles, whether or not they help us to comprehend the Nature of Reality and the Meaning of Life and the numinous ...meanwhile, back home the
Methodist Minister arrives and we discuss the big questions  of Heaven and Hell and where on Earth we might end up when we pass on, up or down, God or Satan ... some choice eh? dear blog readers!

Tomorrow's a whole new day and who can foretell the future?  Answers on a postcard please , dear readers of Wear and Dao, meanwhile, good night and allow the future to take care of itself ...