Rambles from World's End

Today, 10 October 2023, the Mauritian and I celebrate 25 years of marriage. We have talked, argued, agreed and disagreed, we have cajoled, convinced, pleaded and ignored, and we have laughed, screamed, yelled and cried our way through those 25 years. Together! Looking back over that time we have managed to create so many memories. We don’t seem to remember the same memories the same way, but, we managed to create a lot of them! We have disagreed about so much more then we have agreed about. We have very different views on parenthood, but our girls are polite, respectful and well balanced. I hope! We like different music, movies and people. Okay, okay, I like a lot fewer people than the Mauritian does. The Mauritian likes being surrounded by people and socialising, I like my own company best. We have very different attitudes about, well, everything. The Mauritian loves to cook, the kitchen and I barely tolerate one another. The Mauritian resets himself in the gym,

Sitting at work, waiting on the Mauritian to call me back and my mind begins to wonder, thinking about all the stuff I could be doing, if I wasn’t at work. Like, sorting out the laundry cupboard! Why do I need to do that, we’ve only been living in this house for eleven months? The truth is the cupboard is huge, it seems that the more stuff we put in there the more we can fit. I first named it the “just put it there for now” cupboard. It’s been rechristened to “The Mary Poppins” cupboard. I wonder, how many of you get the reference? But I digress, I could be sorting it out instead of chasing repairers or arguing with Claim Handlers. Doubt I would do it anyway if I wasn’t at work.   We need to shampoo our carpets and wash the curtains, the weather has been warm and dry, we could take advantage of it, if I wasn’t at work. It beats emailing status updates to Insurers! Yeah, nah! Maybe not.   The garden needs a good spring clean and spruce up, it would be good for me to get out