Not the end of the world… or is it?

In what ways do you communicate online?

It all went wrong with our heating

and we the wrong side of the world.

It’s all controlled by an online app

Or else we wouldn’t know.

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It’s cold at home and frozen pipes

Could burst and cause a leak.

But Patagonia from the U.K.

Is far, far, far-away.

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So we’re headed for Ushuaia

A town at the end of the world

There’s a problem at home

And we’re far away.

What are we to do?

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The modern world‘s amazing

So different from when we grew up!

We Whatsapp‘d our next door neighbour

From the other end it of the world.

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We asked them ‘check it out please‘

Our neighbours have a spare key.

First we turned our alarm off

From the other end of the world.

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We’d no sooner sent the message

Than we got a WhatsApp call

And our wonderful next door neighbour

Adjusted the boiler as well.

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They needed some more instruction

That we did via video call.

We guided them round

From the end of the world

With distance no problem at all.

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It looked like a leak in the bathroom

Had caused the pressure to fall.

So we arranged a call by a plumber

From the other side of the world.

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Now I am blogging about it

From a ship at the end of the world

And you are reading about it

From wherever on earth you are!

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It’s not the world we grew up in

It’s a wonderful place to be.

We were far away with a problem

But it wasn’t the end of the world.

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Postscript: Having drafted this I struggled to send it. An SSL error of some sort! Ironic?