Jeez, they weren’t joking about it raining hard this affie. It is - it’s raining hard. A good day for turning out some cupboards but the dust has got up my nose now so the impetus has gone.
I should really get a plastic rake for the leaves – I think the same thing every year at this time. Can’t keep putting these things off. Oh but I can…..and do. I would like to think I concentrate on the priorities in life but I don’t, I just fret about the frivolous stuff. I’m not saying that leaves are a frivolous concern, no, quite the contrary, this is one of the priorities of life that keeps getting brushed under the carpet in life.
Not that I have been putting leaves under the carpet – that would be silly.
I was having a conversation with my cousin the other day. She has turned the big four O this year and it is a major life-reviewing point in life. She decided she would study Theology in order to ultimately pursue a career in teaching. Teaching RE presumably. One thing she said though was that she wants to go to Narnia. She keeps looking in the back of her wardrobe but can’t find a way through. I know the feeling of course as I just turned out my wardrobe and apart form a huge load of shoes and a stack of books (I told you we have enough for a small library) there was absolutely no doorway into an alternative reality. She said ‘You ‘get’ me, if I say that to anyone else they look at me as if I’m odd’. Oooh, not me, I understand the apparently odd, join with the bizarre and belong to the surreal.
On a different tack altogether now - I could understand someone disliking me if I had done something to warrant it. I have always accepted that you can’t win ‘em all and I have never tried. I’ve certainly never expected everyone to like me, to be honest if anyone does I’m pleased - and surprised. It’s not that I’m nasty or anything, I am just an incredibly bland and ordinary jo…jo – and because of that I don’t expect to inspire deep regard (even love) but I certainly don’t expect to inspire such animosity that I am maligned and bad-mouthed behind my back. Hey ho – I think I prefer the people who look for Narnia in the wardrobe.
Aw – how appropriate – ‘I Just Called to Say I Love You’ has just come up on iTunes. At least Stevie Wonder cares!