I am going with Witch‘s recommendation and will invite all the Dede puppets for a social get together on Sunday. It comes in handy that it is a long weekend, so I should have no problems recovering before I have to go back to work on Tuesday.
But it is short notice indeed and I am not one to get organised in a hurry. I need my time, so I enlisted Mouse to help me. Honestly, if you ever have an event to publicise, Mouse is your puppet! She knows everybody and always finds something to talk about. She still believes strongly in face-to-face contact to keep friendships going. I think she should turn her skills into a business, but she lacks the necessary self-esteem to go out there and market herself.
I am very happy and grateful that she took over the job of inviting everybody. When I got up this morning, she was already sitting in the kitchen, pounding away on the computer. This is her only weakness: Writing emails takes a long time as she is a one-thumb-typist, but you should see her speed when she is texting….
Of course it would be even faster if the Dede puppets were on Facebook. They are resisting. They are very happy in their own little secret society.
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I’m a slow typist as well and as for texts – forget it, it’s easier to ring people :)
I’m surprised the puppets aren’t on FB – let me know if they ever decide to take the plunge and I’ll follow :D
Thanks Dianne.
I don’t know what it is with FB, they are very sceptical. They love the Internet as such, but have difficulties accepting the members only sub-net, that FB represents. They love that the internet isn’t owned by anybody and nobody can change the rules nilly-willy. I can tell you, we had so many discussions on the committee of the dede society about it :).