I am up very early. I awoke at 2.30 anD lay in beD for a while thinking all those awful thoughts one thinks when you cannot sleep. AnD I am a granD sleeper, just sometimes after a trip away my sleeping pattern interrupts. It is snowing steaDily outsiDe. Huge fluffy flakes. I knew it was going to snow, not just because I reaD it in a weather report but because my voice outsiDe yesterDay afternoon was hollow anD echoey.
Last night the D fell off my keyboard. I mean the top bit of the key that has the letter written on it. Fell Off. Leaving a strange lit up stalk.
First all the letters rub off from typing, (so I put alphabet stickers on top of the keys because I am not much of a touch typist) – now the actual plastic veneer (with its sticker on top of the key), has collapseD into a fit of pique! An actual piece of the key. Gone. Here was I reaDy to write an exceptional post – a ground breaking post.. a post that would win me a freshly pressed prize (that I have never had by the way – anD Do not minD at all ) anD the keyboarD is falling apart.. literally.. CoulD it be that keyboarDs are not what they useD to be? 
Well me being me – anD all. I will continue with my De-functioning keyboarD anD we will see how far we can get before someone has a D-class Nervous breakDown as opposeD to an A- class nervous breakDown – which surely Must be worse! 
I useD to play a piano that haD no top E..( the boarD was wonky or the arm, maybe the key kept sticking too long ago to remember), anyway the top E was a note I coulD reach singing but my piano coulD not reach with its clinking. Is this history repeating itself? KinD of. Too early in the morning to really work that out.
While I work on recovering my D – yesterDay was a lovely Day.. above freezing – the Elsie anD LaDy A came in anD out of the milking parlour with very little fuss. Though they are prone to turn left when they shoulD turn Right. The pigs went walkies all Day long and I just smileD. With a capital D. FilleD all the waters, trunDleD about. 
AnD just in case you forgot how truly LONG Sheila our big fat pig is. She is our Big Long Pig.
Oh, GooD morning. That D is really distracting isn’t it. I will Glue the D back on later to-Day. If I can finD a Drop of super D glue. Apparently we are being snoweD in anD the winD is coming up just for gooD measure.. so I will have lots of time for insiDe things.
I hope you all have a lovely Day!
Your frienD on the farmy,
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
73 responses to “The D –”
Celi, you did it again. You made me smile while reading your post, thanks. I know as a farmer’s daughter I should know this but I don’t ……….what is a long pig?
Human flesh 😉
I once had a Compaq laptop where all (ALL) the letters wore right off. Keys stuck fast. Then the spacebar stuck. I took it to a little shop, and they hammered on a new generic keyboard. That keyboard outlasted the darned laptop! I’ve had two Compaq laptops, and both did the same thing. But Viv is right, use an external keyboard and forget about the uselessness of the not-fit-for-purpose-piece-of-rubbish. Good morning, darling! xx
morning darling!! aren’t computers funny and not too long ago we did not even have them.. what were we doing?
Remington typewriter with keys that stuck together …. it’s all about the keys, I reckon. Then and now.
I had to laugh when I read about your keyboard. My keyboard currently has seven keys totally black and another couple letters partially worn off.
I have stickers on all but three keys, the letters totally gone.. this keyboard really is rubbish, but a good little laptop so far.. I will have to order a new one.. hope they do them for this model.. c
My typing teacher told me a useful trick – and I learned on a manual typewriter, where you really had to hammer the keys. She said that to avoid the letters wearing off, you should apply a coat of clear nail polish when the keys are new, to protect them, and reapply from time to time. How’s that for the cheapest fix of all?
fantastic.. I will do that in future.. I learnt on a typewriter too, with nuns.. I STILL hammer the keys!
I learned on a typewriter with nuns too and woe to the one who looked at her hands OR at sheet in the typewriter – the ruler hovered! Best keep your eyes on what you were transcribing if you valued your knuckles unbruised!
thats how I learnt to play the piano too.. those blasted rulers!
Same, except I had Mrs Grimsdyke. The name suited her….
Talk about a simple letter demanding so much attention! Did it ever speak to me about how silly I can be! Ha ha! Well, you know how when you read some deep and very thought-provoking prose you might read a line or a paragraph over and over because it really needs to sink in or you just can’t seem to grasp it with one pass? You read more slowly… and you consider and ponder. You go back and repeat the sentence – can’t seem to move on. Well, that’s what happened here. I was so glued to what you were saying about the “D” key, taking in all of those “D’s” wondering about that… the “D” problem, then checking as I went – yep, every D was in caps… strange – I read several sentences again and again because I’d stopped to look back at those previous “D’s”. And then it wasn’t until the very end that I realized I was so involved in the content and all of those “D’s” that I hadn’t looked at any photographs until LONG SHEILA. I scrolled back up… started over… and when I finished, I laughed heartily. I LOVE that you posted with the “D” issue. I love that it took me out of my tendency to just breeze along.Who knew a little old letter could demand so much attention!!??
It does throw one visually doesn’t it… maybe it is a right brain thing.. c
I hear you. My ‘F’ ell o once. it was a ucking iasco.
LOL Jean!
you must have been verbally crippled! poor thing.. c
It’s good for our brains to look at something differently. All your D’s gave my noggin’ a workout this morning when I was reading it in bed at 5:00 AM. Ha! Hope your sleep schedule rights itself quickly! 🙂
I am very sure i will sleep well tonight!.. c
We used to send our “J” key skittering across the floor. My current laptop has recessed keys that are resistant to removal, but the letters are missing on many of the keys. Good luck to you!
keyboards are just not what they used to be.. sigh.. c
Our storm was a nice wet storm…and it only lasted two days! Maybe yours will rush itself through and you will be back to sun soon!
Linda ❤⊱彡
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There is a wonderful poem by Wendall Berry called THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS. The first line begins, “When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound…”
you always have the Best quotes.. thank you.. c
I hate those 2.30 – 3 am awake thoughts… You did the best thing, wrote funny funny words to dispel their miasma. Losing a D would be terrible for me, a significant portion of my identity is tied up in D. But we manage to live without a functioning 7 on our microwave no problems at all 🙂
a dysfunctional 7 on your microwave – the plot thickens.. c
[laughing] ‘Doe a deer, a female deer’ – methinks we all can sing that one 🙂 ! Don’t remind me how many times I trieD to learn to touch-type manually: it simply was not to be. I Do play the piano on the computer keyboarD at a molto bene rate tho’ 🙂 ! Was there something going on in the atmosphere in the last 24 hours ’cause I coulD not get to sleep until about 3 am and I am a baby who neeDs her slumber!! [still laughing and enjoying!]
interesting.. more than one of us awake in the early hours.. hmm.. we will sleep well tonight though!.. c
Guaranteed Milady!!
So far the computer keyboards are okay, the microwave “7” doesn’t work, the “8” is sproadic as to if it will or won’t. It’s much easier to learn to touch type if you play piano or organ or harpsichord or clavichord, it just becomes a matter of muscle memory, like when you memorize a piece of music.
Stay warm and dry.
Oh Celi .. I cant stop laughing! Too funny .. Sorry!
The M and N have worn off my keyboard. And now that I look, the D is also showing much wear. Interesting….are these the most frequent letters in words?
Oh my goodness… The kids these days have an entirely different meaning for ‘the D’! As you can imagine it isn’t polite. I learned to touch type on an actual typewriter with no letters on the keys – probably the class before introduction to computers where I knew more than the poor hapless shop-teacher who got stuck with the job.