Mogens has Dinner With The SilverSurfers

I have fans everywhere, of all ages, but some of my most loyal fans are the 'SilverSurfers'; these are 3 old ladies who live in sheltered accomodation in Northern Ireland who Debra 'teaches' IT to. They love me. Anyway, they got me an entry in Debra's private (not even Oracle) blog.

In this photo you can see Rita, Katie and Jean admiring me during one of the classes. If you look carefully at the laptop they are watching the Stanley documentary that my keepers Debra & Mogens made about me. They are actually watching on a laptop becuase the centre PC is blocked from watching videos as pornography is apparently a problem in the older population.

Anyway, there was then a conversation about how such a small laptop could allow them to do more than their normal PC and Debra, ever the technical genius, showed them that she could do all this on her iPhone. We even sent Mogens an email and he replied immediatley. Like all women they are under his charm and yet they had never met him. I suggested we did a Skype session, as they had recently learnt how to do that (very funny to see them skyping each other from different corners of the room). Mogens replied WeDoNotUseSkypeWhenWeCanVisitInPerson. First thing this tells us is that Mogens doesnt have Skype loaded on his PC (he is not as technical as Debra apparently).

So the following weeks lesson was TripIT so they could see that Mogens true to his word had planned a trip to come and visit them. Three very excited ladies, although a few weeks later Katie had to make the difficult decision to take a holiday instead of meeting the Great Dane.


Each week when I visited them they would check he was still coming. Anticipation was high and they were very excited. Mogens suggested he would take them and ME to dinner (and Debra could come as well if she wanted). At first they said no, it was OK for him to pop in for tea but going to dinner was a bit much. They obviously don't know Mogens, he promptly recorded a video for them saying if they didn't meet him at the airport and then have dinner with him, he would recreate his naked video in their home. Not surprisingly they gave in.

Eventually the day came and Debra arrived about 20 minutes early but they were ready and off we all went to the airport. Debra had made them a sign with his name on it which they held up proudly as people started to come through from arrivals. Mogens, ever the master of suspense, was last. But so pleased to see them he didn't even ask about me.

Then after the introductions it was off for dinner. Debra hadn't told Mogens where we we were going but the girls knew what she was up to and had to try hard not to give the game away.

 Did you know Mogens writes for the UKOUG Oracle Scene Magazine. It also won't be a surprise that when the article is published he makes a video to go with it. In the latest article he starts by explaining how he feels about KFC.

So Debra drove into a KFC car park, and as you can see he was not too impressed, and although she managed to get me in the photo, this is as close as he would get to the actual restaurant.

Actually she took us to a lovely restaurant in Carrickfergus by the coast and we had a lovely meal, well Mogens and the Silversurfers did, I don't eat a lot. After the meal we had a Maud's ice cream on the way home.

Mogens went into the home to see where they live and learn IT. You can't see it in this photo but can in the first one , there are a few wooden posts in the room to support the ceiling, and ever Mogens, he asked if they danced around it.

I love having my keepers around, and I keep on saying it is mostly just 3 out 4, I wish Dan could have been there as well. Mogens stayed a few days and toured around a lot of this country I call home. He wanted to do a tour of Belfast to see what 'The Troubles' were all about and was quite intrigued by all the preparations for the Twelfth.

We went to many different places but my favourite (and definatley Mogens') was the Bushmills Distilery.

I am so glad Mogens made friends with the Silversurfers, I am not sure he would have come just to visit me.