My Boud Bouquet

Good to see Debra back in the blogging world. With Kathy and Marie also on short blogging breaks, and a couple of sites being inaccessible, my blog visiting list is reducing. But if you want a laugh, and especially if you have ever experienced the difficulty of getting through to someone dear, then do visit Janie's blog.

A frustrating morning. I was supposed to be meeting Vivien for ice cream but last night I got an urgent message from Stu at Zac's asking if I'd be able to let the boiler repair man in this morning as he had a family/dog emergency and wouldn't be able to be there. I said yes and put Vivien off, and then sat at home all morning waiting for a phone call to tell me the boiler man was on his way.

By 11.15 I thought I should phone the company and check. Man at the other end was very helpful, said, "The boiler's fixed blah blah."
"But I was told someone was coming today to fix it."
"Yes, he did. At 9.15."
"But . . .?"

Okay, so the breakfast crew would have let him in but they wouldn't have stayed. Did that mean the building had been left unlocked? There's not much of value but Stu has left lots of his tools there so I thought I'd better go along and make sure the building was locked up.

I was about halfway there when Stu rang, very apologetic. Everything had changed at the last minute and it had happened so quickly he'd forgotten to let me know I wasn't needed. He hoped I hadn't been sitting by the phone all morning.

It's a good job I'm polite and nice!

* * * * *

My substack articles are coming on apace. I'm scheduling them so one a day. And I've made what I'm calling a Boud Bouquet.

I visited someone I hadn't seen for a long time. I was tentative, half thinking/hoping they would be out. They weren't but it was as if there'd been no gap, no distance between us. It was a lovely visit. There was an elephant in the room but it sat there quietly not interrupting. 

In a few years, if I come back and re-read this, I will wonder who on earth it was I visited!