Limit to Solly's talents

To those who have asked, I am not connected in any way to Solly's restaurant in Golders Green.  I have done many things over the years but selling takeaway falafel isn't one of them.  I am sure it is a great restaurant and I will go there next week with Dov, Myra and the family.  We will be incognito though, Solly is a shy Zayde.

Old Jews telling jokes

I just had a great laugh watching the old jews telling jokes site on youtube.  This is Solly's #1 site of the whole year it is just splendid and one of the joke tellers looks just like Solly - I won't tell you which one though.

Really miss the little darling

It is getting very sad for me to be away from base for so long.  It is now a month since I have seen my little granddaughter and she is already more than 6 months old.  It doesnt seem possible.  She is never out of my mind though and last week I found the cutest pair of jeans for her that should be just the right size when i get bcak home in a couple of weeks time.  She can learn to 'toddle' in them.  My God though, they are so small to look at, but they are marked for one year old so I guess she should fit in them perfectly.  She is beginning to chubby up really well after what you might recall was a slow start.  Lets hope ot stops here though - i dont want her ending up on my friend Brian's site which is for fat people.

Solly eats more olives

Well, young Mikey is earning his Pesach geldt, the fleecedzayde has had lots of new visits from people seeking the 'zayde experience' and they have come from some wonderful places like 'blogagago' and 'Digg'.  This whole SEO thing is fascinating for me.  People obviously spend more than half their life floating around these sites and then checking out links.  Mikey says that 'link building' is 'where its at' and a required form of ritual worship to the 'Google God'.   Mr google who apparently says that "Online, thou shalt have no other God but me'...

Mikey has started to teach me the 10 commandments as set out by God Google: Here they are

1) Thalt shall fear no other search engine but me.
2) Thou shalt post regularly on thy blog
3) Thou shall seek to link with other sites that are in thy God's domain
4) Thou shalt not spam
5) Thou shalt shun the company of false directories and link factories
6) Thou shalt labor online for the sake of thy Google all the hours of thy day
7) Thou shalt consecrate a tithe of all your earnings to Google Adwords
8) Thou shalt perform all sacred rituals of social networking
9) Thous shalt perform holy ablutions amongst the priest of the facebook.
10) Thou shalt twitter for thy God likes the sound of twittering.

Solly is a 'golden oldie'

I'm writing this post on my trendy iPad listening to golden oldies station on 'tuned in radio' how great is that. Solly might be an oldie but us guys from the 60s really knew how to party. I actually remember a lot of what went on so I probably didn't experience it as intensely as I should have. I wonder what sort of world my little darling will grow up in. Us oldies are quite different fom previous generations - we won't give up easily. I remember my own zayde and he was ancient at 60 - not blogging like solly or keeping up with a changing world. Zaydehood is a powerful force - you kids shouldn't forget. Ooh, that's an elvis track, just what I wanted.

Solly Eats Olives!!

Its the only way I will remember this acronym SEO that Mikey keeps emailing to me.  I think he is just short of funds and sees his uncle Solly as an easy touch at Pesach.  Young Mikey got me to set up a Paypal account 6 months ago so I could buy baby bargains on ebay and when he does some work for my blog I send money from my paypal account to his paypal account  Oy, Paypal, Google and Skype are all doing very well out of Solly.  How they managed before I became a Zayde I shudder to think.   Mikey has hit me for 20 quid for some SEO (Solly Eats Olives) work.  It is all called Social bookmarking.  Mikey has added thefleecedzayde to his list of social bookmarking accounts.  He explained that it means that he recommends my blog to other people on the web.  I was a bit sceptical but I had a big influx of viewers yeserday from something called 'Stumble ' it sounds like Solly after a hard day;-)   How Mikey and his friends keep up with all this stuff beats me.

He also mentioned something about 'feeds' which soundd like salt beef on rye,  but no there is another clever goy out there called Mr Rss Feed or something who wants to harvest my posts.  I give up!  Anyway Mr google sent me some money this month - I told you he loves Zaydes - so Mikey gets his money and people stumble around everywhere with 'Feeds' whilst Solly eats olives. Cool?

Solly makes a shameless plug

Ever since I mentioned scandimatch in this blog I have been asked (and offered recompense) to mention swedishdatingonline and their other site scandinaviandating.  Apparently this all helps the SEO stuff I mentioned yesterday.  Why a Yiddishe site helps Scandinavian daters is a mystery to me but the offer of money seems real enough;-)

She sits upright in her high chair!

Bang on target our little 6 month old darling sits upright in her chair and I have  the photos to prove it!  Lots of great stuff on facebook for me to admire.  They grow so quickly, soon she will be chattering away.  Unfortunately I cant spend time with her right now, I am travelling but she knows I am thinking about her all the time.   I will be away for a while but I will also have time to work on things for this blog and the promotion of Zaydehood - young Mikey has given me a list of things I must do to promote the blog and make it it more successful - it's called SEO and it is something Mr Google invented so it must be good.  I'll let you know how I get on.

Let the paddy fields rejoice - she is on baby rice!

It only seems like yesterday when my little angel was all small, puny and underweight and the health visitor was giving stern warnings to my daughter.  Now, less than 6 months on the little sweetheart is on baby rice and she loves it!  What next?  I start fantasising about taking her for meals with all the things that kids love (and nutritionists hate) - if she is like her old zayde she will have a sweet tooth so ice cream will be high on her list of choices.  Her mother is not one to turn her nose up at a dessert menu either so I guess it is in the genes.

The little one has her first big social engagement coming up with the 6 month party - bring a milk bottle - and I hope she will be wearing the party dress I bought for her.  You never know on these things, zaydehood is competitive and other grandparents might have sneaked in with their own ideas as to what she should wear for her first photoshoot.   Grandparents can be tricky that way and it is a big deal to have provided the first party dress.  I know my daughter reads my ramblings so this is to remind her as well that Solly expects to see the correct dress on the facebook shoot!

Now the early baby phase has passed I can start looking at a more interesting range of pressies for my next visit.  I will be travelling for a while now but with skype and facebook I will still feel part of everything.