It’s too hot to write a story
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By Michael Casey
Well we’ve had a lazy 1st
day of the school holidays, we’ve all been dressed in our slobs just busy doing
nothing. That’s apart from being nagged as mum attacks us and the carpets with
the vacuum. I’m listening to Celine Dion again, her French album, my small
daughter has decided that her school bag is too scruffy for her next year, so a
new Totoro theme bag has been taken from the back of the wardrobe.
My own 1st school
bag was a gift from Embassy cigarettes, our lodger had saved the coupons and
had a bag delivered. It was a secret but we worked out it was him because of
the with compliments slip inside. He’s
gone 36 years now, but I still pray for his soul, he did get me a school bag
after all.
As for my daughter’s bag I
left it in the street, some child will love her panda themed old school bag,
all they really need to do is put it in the washing machine. Girls do like new
things after all, bags, clothes etc, so my small daughter has now moved on to a
Totoro school bag. My Embassy school bag lasted a few years of grammar school,
though as for cigarettes I detest them, any slight whiff makes me feel sick.
Though I believe Dunhill
still to do some very high quality leather products. Which is interesting how
brands change and morph into something else, I hope my writing morphs into a
training scheme for English, anything really so long as it puts money in my
pocket.
It’s still too hot to write,
maybe 25degrees in the house itself, we have the doors and windows open, Totoro
our cat has decided to hide under my sheets on my bed, she is not stupid after
all. I always have to make sure she is not hiding otherwise she’d be a very
squashed pussy.
What else can’t I write
about, oh my plant corner to my right next to our piano. I threw one plant
away, or rather banished it to the front garden because it had died, Totoro
thinks eating plant leaves is like chewing gum for cats, so the plant dies. A
potted plant is the same price as a lottery ticket, so instead of a losing lottery
ticket I buy a plant which will last longer, or until Totoro chews too much
from it.
So because of the minor heat
wave we are having in Birmingham the plant on the naughty step so to speak
seems to have come back to life. This
means it returns to the shelf by the piano and the other plant in the posh vase
gets put outside, Totoro may have fresh breath, but the plant is on its last
legs despite its posh vase.
I should take a photo really,
but it’s just too hot to do anything, except talk about all the things it’s too
hot to do. I’ve just remembered we have ice lollies in the freezer so I’m going
to have one, before I’m told they are bad for me. Well the ice lolly was great
and while I was sucking it I had a quick look at the Dunhill site, Duke Large
Zip Tote looked great, if only I could
afford it, when I’m rich, though I’m still alive so that must count as being
rich.
I’ve put the other Celine
Dion album on, the one in English, it’s very good too, it’s still too hot to
write a story and the clock is clicking, in 30 mins its 9pm when all the films
start on tv, so I have to finish for
that. I do want to thank the merry band of readers I have. Sometimes 70 or so a
day from all over the world, Switzerland and China have recently joined my
readership. If your name is Jack and Weibo is your company, please get in touch
about my teaching English with humour idea.
Though it’s more than likely it’s
a guy in a takeaway in Hong Kong who has stumbled over me, or the gay fashion
designer Gok Wan wondered what was so special about me and did a few clicks. He’d need a double size tape measure if he
designed anything for me. Whoever and whatever country you are from all I can
say is thank you, it’s nice having any readers, and don’t forget to buy a few
books on Amazon.
The final ice lolly is in the
freezer so I may force myself to have it, before we settle down for a film, we
are a film critic family such is the level of our film knowledge. Did I tell
you the end of my book The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker could have been
turned into a film, it was another case of close but no cigar, but as you know
I don’t like smoke. So stay happy and cuddle up with you own family and watch a
good film or Sky 785 has some good Chinese series on, even with no Chinese you
can laugh your head off. My favourite one was about a guy who worked in the
marriage office!
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