I’m feeling the need to apologise today because my postings have been so erratic of late. I suspect that those who realise my situation will know I’ve got limited access to the internet these days because I’m spending several nights away from home each week in dumps of hotels that don’t have broadband access. The reason for them being ‘dumps’ isn’t really quite fair – they’re clean and safe but they are cheap and so don’t have any frills whatsoever – no morning calls, no papers, no email, no satellite TV….just a bed and a bathroom.
Add to that my long evenings travelling and I’ve not been around on pbase at all really, so sorry to everyone who might be feeling hurt/upset/miffed that I’m not responding to comments, visiting galleries or otherwise communicating with my friends. I hope you can bear with me because I have another three months of this to get through before my world starts to right itself so please, please don’t think me uncaring or insensitive to your needs.
Tonight one of my pbase friends has had a really nasty experience that David alerted me to. He read out a message from the wonderful Jude that she’d posted on the forum where another pbase person had tried to get her fired from her job. I was so appalled that despite my inability to spend any time online I looked at her posting.
To me the response is clear – no, it’s not just a few pbasers who love Jude and her wonderful photography, though most, like me, have never actually MET her, I certainly do think of her as a friend and have, over the years I’ve been doing this, been inspired many, many times by her photos. Whether her ‘suggestive’ (for that read erotic) photos or her other shots, they are often thought provoking, and are always beautiful works of art.
For someone to be so callous as to do this is both baffling and anger inspiring. I say shun those who behave in so appalling a manner and let them stew in their own juices as my mum would say. Sooner or later the perpetrators of such despicable acts will end up lonely and without the comfort of friends.
Long live pbase, the friendship I have found here has been fantastic even though I am acutely aware that I have been letting those friends down left, right and centre in recent times and know I will continue to do so while my life is in such a complete mess. Long live Jude as a pbase contributor and as a cyber friend. She really is ‘hot stuff’.
Two years ago, I was trying to regenerate my life, nothing changes there then! Last year, I posted my last and finest posting for my other initially 'cyber' friend who migrated very firmly into a wonderful flesh and blood friend for me in March last year when we went to NYC, Jeanne.
