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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
We’d no sooner sent the message
Than we got a WhatsApp call
And our wonderful next door neighbour
Adjusted the boiler as well.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Postscript: Having drafted this I struggled to send it. An SSL error of some sort! Ironic?
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