Yes, Friends, stop thinking about yourself for one second, if you can bear it!!!! Your bed is much worse off than you are, in the current heatwave!!!!
Onion News has more.....
And when you think about it, it's only a quite recent phenomenon, that scientists discovered that mattresses have feelings, just like you and me - so maybe it's high time to act accordingly, and to spare a little more thought for your old thing, if I may be so bold as to suggest, ever so humbly haha !!!
We're (almost!) laughing for a very specific reason - in the current heatwave, for the first time this year, we've actually switched our little portable mini-heater to the 'fan' position - and it's nostalgic to think that only a couple of weeks ago, we were using the 'heat 1' position for mildly cold conditions, would you believe. That's how "sudden" this "sudden heatwave" actually is, in real terms, which is quite an eye-opener, isn't it, when you look at the detail!
Certainly, reading about that couple's mattress' half-muffled 'cry for help' this morning, brings a partly-broad smile to the faces of me and my wife Lois, here in semi-pastoral Liphook, Hampshire, to put it mildly!
my wife Lois and me - a recent picture
(left) the shock news that another hottest May day ever record has been broken for the
second day running, and (right) Yours Truly, demonstrating the rarely-used
'fan' setting on our little mini-heater - a setting almost never used by us!!!!
[You've certainly painted a very vivid picture with that chilling account, Colin, and no pun intended! Kudos!!!! - Ed]
Lois and I don't really want to go out at all today - we've been hunkering down since Saturday, mainly just 'poncing about the house' in light clothing, but today, unfortunately we've got to drive into Liphook for some appointments, which is annoying!
Liphook's tiny town centre
The stakes are high this morning, particularly for me. Lois just has to pick up her new glasses and sunglasses at Liphook Eyecare, but, unfortunately, I've got to pop into our local GP surgery for my second blood test in 3 weeks. The previous test showed a pre-Type 2 diabetes reading, which was a right pain!
By submitting to a second blood test this morning, I'm hoping to prove that that previous blood test result was just a 'blip' - possibly caused by my having had my spring COVID jab the previous day. But we'll see! And, to be frank, it won't really be a huge tragedy even if the first result is confirmed. Lois had a similar blood test result about 18 months ago, and she has managed to come out of the 'danger zone' by changes to the diet which we are both keeping to already anyway, so fingers crossed!
(left) our local GP surgery, here being showcased by a former GP now retired,
and (right) me waiting in the waiting room for the nice nurse to 'take me in hand' (!)
And our garden shrubs aren't helping, to put it mildly! One of our many unidentified shrubs, (pyracantha or something similar ???), apparently decided overnight to half-collapse over the pavement going past our house, would you believe! So this morning I have to get the secateurs out, and fill our second brown East Hampshire wheelie-bin with the excess branches, just so that local 'old codgers' don't have to step out into our quiet road just to get past it (!).
Curse my sense of 'civic duty' haha!!!!
flashback to earlier this morning - one of the shrubs in our front-garden decides
overnight to half collapse onto the pavement going past our house, forcing
local promenading 'old codgers' to step out into the road - what madness!!!
And we've certainly earned our afternoon in bed today, while, after reading that Onion story, nevertheless promising to be gentle with our poor mattress, hopefully treating it with the respect it deserves (!) - we're all heart haha !!!!
We may have been wallowing in the cool of our bedroom this afternoon, the bedroom windows thrown open with gay abandon (!), but tonight we're wallowing in something different - sheer naked nostalgia, which is nice!
We may have been wallowing in the cool of our bedroom this afternoon, the bedroom windows thrown open with gay abandon (!), but tonight we're wallowing in something different - sheer naked nostalgia, which is nice!
And the reason? Well, celebrity TV travelogue-presenter and ex-Cabinet minister Michael Portillo, in a change to the advertised programme, is tonight starting a new series of his train journeys this time in Hungary, a country where Lois and I travelled extensively, trying out several mattresses (!), back in the 1990s and early 2000s, when we were comparatively young!
Yes, we were only middle-aged once, believe it or not!!!
Tonight Michael starts his visit at the Austrian-Hungarian border, when, in the heady days of the late 1980's, Hungary led the way for the eventual dismantling of the 'Iron Curtain', opening up their borders and paving the way for the demolition of the Berlin Wall, allowing people from Eastern European countries, especially from East Germany to travel to freedom in the West, if they so chose.
Michael visits the border town of Sopron, and is shown the field where a giant picnic was organised for all-comers, from East or West or wherever, a picnic attended by thousands of people. And his guide is the very Hungarian official who took a chance, and authorised all these 'illegal' border crossings back in the day.
When things are beginning to look too harmonious and peaceful, i.e. "happy", always beware of middle-aged, mega-rich politicians, annoyed that their country is no longer feared in the way they feel it was when they were kids!
And yes, step forward Vladimir Putin, and ruddy well do the walk of shame. You've got a lot to answer for.
flashback to 2002 when Lois and I visited the town of Sopron on the Hungary-Austria
border: (left) Lois standing by our rental car, outside the villa where we stayed,
and (right) Lois in the town square with our English friends Mike and Mary, and
also with (rightmost) our Hungarian friend Ibolya, outside the town theatre
Happy days!!!!
Will this do?
[Oh just go back to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzz!!!!!
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