Wednesday, April 27, 2022

It's been a funny old day


There's an old BBC sitcom called Open All Hours featuring Ronnie Barker as the shopkeeper of a little corner shop in Yorkshire. At the end of each episode you see Arkwright getting in all the things on display outside his shop while saying, "It's been a funny old day." (Perhaps he doesn't say that every week?)

I'd just sat down with my Weetabix this morning when I decided to look at my phone and read a text. It said I'd been in close contact with someone who had the Omnicron variant and I needed to follow a link to order a test kit. As it happened I already had some tests so, as I was due to go to exercise class, I tested. Negative of course.

Apart from meeting family the only place I've been is Monday's fitness class so I assumed it must be someone there. I mentioned it to a friend who told me there's a scam going around that sounded very similar. 'One reason to be suspicious is if you're not signed up for Track and Trace,' she said.

I'm not but that hadn't occurred to me. I just assumed that Big Brother knows everything and it's all done by magic.

On reflection when Husband had a similar message his gave details of when the contact happened. But it was very convincing. I'm just glad I didn't follow the link.

Anyway, after exercise class it was off to Zac's to cook chilli again. On the way there I passed hordes of chaps in orange and dark brown stripey blazers looking like something out of Brideshead Revisited. That was odd enough but next minute I see, coming towards me, a mock-Tudor barn with an animal's head sticking out of the front. Fake head. A cow I think but it might have been a horse.

Then in Zac's I was told that work on the alterations to the building -planned for the last too-many-to-recall years - might actually be a step closer i.e. it could begin this year.

At that point I was sure of what I'd only suspected up till then. Somehow, without noticing, I had slipped into an alternate universe.

4 comments:

PipeTobacco said...

What is Weetabix? I looked it up and it seems it is a cereal? It looks really good, and is large sized it seems, like the US Shredded Wheat….. but it appears to be made a bit differently in ways that I suspect make it even more tasty.

PipeTobacco

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Wow, keep us posted on more goings-on in the alternate universe! I used to eat Weetabix as a kid and a couple of years ago, I bought a box out of nostalgia to eat again for breakfast. YUCK! I just couldn't stomach them! Guess my adult taste buds aren't suitably equipped.

Boud said...

Those sightings make me wonder what was in the Weetabix. And if I can get some.

Liz Hinds said...

Weetabix is much more palatable than Shredded wheat, and is probably a little smaller, PipeTobacco. I need a lot of sugar to eat Shredded Wheat!

I do enjoy my weetabix, Debra. I'd prefer thick toast with lots of butter and marmalade but I tell myself this is better for me.

I'll post you some if you like, Boud!