Dear friend, do you ever get one of those days when "reality sinks in", and all the fantasies start to crumble. There's a lot of it about today, the day after Boxing Day, and plenty in the pages of the Onion News West Worcestershire print edition, that "plopped" through our letterbox this morning, let me tell you!
[That's enough Onion News stories! - Ed]
And that sensation happens today to me and my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois, quite suddenly, mid-morning today Friday. Yes, ouch (again) !!!!
me and my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois: suddenly
this morning - reality sinks in and "hits home", even!
Although we've had "January 2nd" ringed on our calendar as "moving day", it didn't seem real to us - after us, it's "not till next year" now, is it!
Wrong!!!! It's actually next week as well, which suddenly sounds a lot closer, doesn't it! Yikes !!!!
Not only that, but mid-morning, our estate-agents ring us. The advert for our house on "went live" on the worldwide web on Boxing Day, the day which, surprisingly, estate-agency insiders say is actually the biggest day of the year in terms of house-hunting enquiries. Who knew? Not only that but they've got 2 customers wanting a viewing tomorrow (Saturday).
local estate-agent Richard (right), who's going to try selling our house in Malvern,
seen here with his two willing helpers Kelly and young Tom
And, after lunch, this bombshell news finally "sinks in", and catapults Lois and me (not literally!) into an unplanned shower before our afternoon nap. Even our daughter Alison and husband Ed have seen the ad, and they're on a skiing holiday in Austria with their 3 teenage offspring. And it's all thanks to the wonders of the Worldwide Web.
What a crazy world we live in !!!!!
even our daughter Alison, husband Ed, and three teenage offspring Josie (18),
Rosalind (16) and Isaac (14), on a skiing holiday in Austria, have seen our house-ad
on "Rightmove" or some such nonsense (!) - all thanks to the magic of the internet.
What madness !!!!!!
Lois and I won't have time, now, to shower tomorrow morning, plus, we don't want the bathroom looking like a couple has just had a shower in it, if you know what I mean.
And when we're getting into bed this afternoon after our shower, I look out of the window casually, and I see what looks like a "drive-by viewing" - a big car cruising up and down on the street outside, faces turned our way, which I suspect is some prospective buyers "checking us out".
Yikes (again) !!!!! It's house-move madness, I tell you !!!!!
Even our movers, GB Liners, send us some "Do not remove" stickers in the post today, so it's all true - their big van must be coming to get our stuff next Thursday!!!!
We're planning to stick a "do not remove" label on our washing-machine, which we're leaving for the next owners. It's not much good, and it will cost us to have it "plumbed out", so why not? We're all heart haha!
But yes, the move - yes, it's really going to happen!!! What utter utter utter utter madness !!!!
[That's enough madness for one day! - Ed]
21:00 And "reality" strikes home and "sinks in" again this evening, would you believe! Not for Lois and me, though - we're excited, now, about tomorrow's house-viewings, and also excited about the pub lunch we've booked so that we can be safely "out of the way" when it all the viewing-madness happens (!).
No, tonight, it's reality striking home for one of our favourite sitcom characters, "Compo" Simmonite.
Reality strikes home tonight for sitcom character "Compo" Simmonite,
seen here with his long-term 'love interest', next door neighbour Nora Batty
You see, Lois and I are winding down for bed tonight with another episode of the world's longest-running sitcom "Last of the Summer Wine". It's that series all about the adventures of three old codgers, "Compo", "Foggy" and "Cleggie" in a Yorkshire village, old codgers with nothing better to do than wander the village streets and cafés, and the surrounding dales.
Sound familiar (?) haha!
Reality strikes for Compo tonight, because he's at last beginning to realise that his long-term love-interest, neighbour Nora Batty, seems immune to his once-legendary seductive powers, as we see him complaining to "Cleggie" and "Foggy" in this scene, deep in the Yorkshire dales:
Poor Compo !!!!!
At this moment, Compo's friend "Cleggie" attempts to cheer Compo up with some consoling thoughts.
Poor Cleggie !!!!!!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!
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