Astonishment
I meant to post this afternoon because it was Friday afternoon and therefore I was supposed to be relaxed and winding down and doing useless small jobs in preparation for the weekend. But it didn't work like that - instead, I was scrambling around going to the post office to find out why the mail from our post box didn't arrive this week, and fixing tech problems and whatever. Also this afternoon we found out someone wants to view our house tomorrow. OMG.
Someone wants to view our house tomorrow! A first time buyer! Help! Cue sad feelings about whether we really want to leave Preston or not after all (yes, essentially) and about how someone else might live in our house (yes, eventually) and panicky feelings about having to clean the house (tomorrow morning, because we can't be arsed now) etc.
On a completely different note, I have to mention how last night I went to the theatre, terped by my fave terp, and was gobsmacked to see a sideboard on the stage with loads of 1960s ornaments on it that were owned by my entire family.
Er, well, obviously, the ornaments were props, and they hadn't been stolen from my family - I was just taken aback by how they were exactly the same as the stuff my Nana/Grandma/whoever used to have. Red glass shell shaped horn thing? Got. Giant green wine glass-type thing? Had. Wooden deer ensemble? Check. Wooden elephant family? Yes. Red glass 'abstract' art thing? That too. Several vases? Just the same.
You get the picture? I was transfixed, and was furthermore astonished halfway through the play when I saw a china rose bunch ornament thingy on another shelf, exactly like the one my Nana has. After seeing that, I feel convinced that in the 1960s, people just went to shops and bought a big box of 'miscalleneous ornaments' which were all exactly the same, and distributed them at different places around their houses, mixing and matching and whatever. Well, how else do you explain the fact that ALL of the things on the sideboard on the stage also belonged to my family at one time or another?! My family are not particularly big on hoarding, so it's not like they have millions of wooden deer. Far from it; they had just the same as what was on the stage.
The mind boggles.
In other news, albeit rather late, this is my favourite recent news item! Bless! (We used to have free-flying cockatiels, but that is another story.)
And finally, in a brief-but-calculated act of cruelty, I bring you... Bloons 2! * Enjoy.
* Apologies for the 'obscene nature' of the Bloons 2 link that I posted. I've now changed it to a family-friendly one, after Ce pointed it out and gave me a new URL! (Didn't notice the first time round)