A busy day is in prospect - Kieran, Persimmon's new customer-care supremo, is coming at 10 am, to go through our 30-day "snagging list", which lists the defects with our new-build house that haven't been fixed yet. And who knows whether he'll immediately send in painters and repair-guys.
We are also conscious that it's Valentine's Day today. Usually we have a nice lunch, a Thai one if possible, followed by a nice fattening pudding like a sinful chocolate and salted caramel mousse, and then we go up to bed for an afternoon nap. For that reason we decide to postpone Valentine's day till tomorrow. We don't want painters or handymen ringing the doorbell and disturbing our nap.
Another reason for postponing is that Lois hasn't got me my present yet, and it's really foggy outside with a local Met Office warning in place, so we don't want to drive anywhere.
See? A postponement makes sense to us anyway. We texted the Government, so I hope you got the message about the change of date this year? Tough luck if you didn't, and you celebrated a day early haha!!!! Who's looking silly now haha!
[Nobody cares about your postponed plans, you realise that, don't you! - Ed]
Happy days !!!!!
It's nice to have a chat with Kieran this morning anyway, and he's going to get back to us on fixing our house's remaining defects.
15:00 I read some more of the Danish short story that our U3A Danish group has started reading..It's my job to draw up the vocab lists to save members having to look up the more difficult words in their dictionaries. I'm all heart haha!! Lois and I are currently a bit worried, however, that some of our members will be embarrassed by some of the images in the story.
It's a story all about a woman with a serially unfaithful partner, who's currently away on a business trip abroad. She knows he's sleeping with somebody at his hotel, because he sent her a picture of his hotel room, and she noticed there were 2 wine-glasses on the table, even though it was only 11 o'clock in the morning.
The following evening, she's outside in the nearby field and she starts taking her feelings out on an "army of garden slugs - she says they each remind her of her partner's penis "in its flaccid state", so she starts chopping them in two, trying to "get as many of the little buggers" as she can, she says.
Oh dear! We think that some of the images in the story will be embarrassing to our members. However, we've started the story now, so I guess we'll have to finish it, warts and all.
Damn!!!! But Lois and I are becoming more and more convinced that the woman is just having a dream in which she's chopping up all these slugs, and that it's not really happening. Especially when the narrative starts talking about the woman's daughter apparently turning into a giant slug herself.
Things like that don't happen in real life do they? It must be a dream, surely!!!! Let me know what you think - answers on a postcard please: have some pity for our poor local postman haha!!!!
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