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Cleaning, yawn.
Dec. 7th, 2008 01:55 pmThe house is a tip, due to five weekends in a trot away from home.
Just vacuumed the lounge, wiped down the kitchen units and surfaces. Hall, stairs and bathroom next. Yawn. Housework is dull. Playing soundtrack to Life On Mars to motivate me.
Went to my ex-co-worker-cum-good-friend Sue W's for dinner last night. Her two bed detached is immaculate (and she has a truly lovely new bathroom) but then they don't have fannish stuff. Or much stuff in general. They do have three TV's, including one in the bedroom. And they do watch them. All the time.
Which I just don't get.
Sue was watching when I arrived, when her husband came home he had the end of a football game on. Over dinner they switched to a music station playing xmas hits while we were in the dining room, then afterwards, back in the lounge, the TV stayed on.
And when I got up this morning, the TV was on again. One of our old subbies popped in with some booze for Sue and I ( will miss some of our lads and if you ever need your drains doing in the Northwest, I know just the man) but the TV stayed firmly on, all through his visit.
It not just me, is it? It really is weird?
Watching the end of the football, which John had been listening to during his drive home and which was his team playing, I can understand that.
But when there is nothing you want to watch? And when you have guests? Just wouldn't occur to me. But to them, it's clearly normal.
I went to a candle party at my next door neighbours, about six of us plus a demonstrator. All through the demonstrator's talk and showing us her goods, the TV burbles to itself in the background, and no one, not even the poor girl trying to talk over it, bats an eye.
When I was growing up, my Mum wouldn't even admit we had a TV. And if anyone came to the door, even the gas man, it was immediately turned off. When did it all change?
May have solved why Max is a stone and a half in weight.
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Just vacuumed the lounge, wiped down the kitchen units and surfaces. Hall, stairs and bathroom next. Yawn. Housework is dull. Playing soundtrack to Life On Mars to motivate me.
Went to my ex-co-worker-cum-good-friend Sue W's for dinner last night. Her two bed detached is immaculate (and she has a truly lovely new bathroom) but then they don't have fannish stuff. Or much stuff in general. They do have three TV's, including one in the bedroom. And they do watch them. All the time.
Which I just don't get.
Sue was watching when I arrived, when her husband came home he had the end of a football game on. Over dinner they switched to a music station playing xmas hits while we were in the dining room, then afterwards, back in the lounge, the TV stayed on.
And when I got up this morning, the TV was on again. One of our old subbies popped in with some booze for Sue and I ( will miss some of our lads and if you ever need your drains doing in the Northwest, I know just the man) but the TV stayed firmly on, all through his visit.
It not just me, is it? It really is weird?
Watching the end of the football, which John had been listening to during his drive home and which was his team playing, I can understand that.
But when there is nothing you want to watch? And when you have guests? Just wouldn't occur to me. But to them, it's clearly normal.
I went to a candle party at my next door neighbours, about six of us plus a demonstrator. All through the demonstrator's talk and showing us her goods, the TV burbles to itself in the background, and no one, not even the poor girl trying to talk over it, bats an eye.
When I was growing up, my Mum wouldn't even admit we had a TV. And if anyone came to the door, even the gas man, it was immediately turned off. When did it all change?
May have solved why Max is a stone and a half in weight.
( Read more... )
