Wednesday, February 24, 2010
13) LETTER TO MY CAR
She's scratched, dented and often mud-splattered on her silver paintworked outside. She's grey-cushioned and scattered with long journey crumbs on the inside.
But she's safe.
She's not the car of my dreams - that would be a green, two-seater, raved about on Top Gear something or other, but where would I drive that anyway? No, she definitely has the wide-hipped, home-baked, built-for-comfort proportions of a gutsy female.
In snow, pelting rain and in the baking hot rays of the Continent, she's kept me cool enough, warm enough and dry enough. That was back when the air conditioning worked. But I'm prepared to tolerate a few imperfections with this old friend.
She may be tired and shabby, like a well-loved cuddly toy, but I have a feeling I like her all the more because all this rather reminds me of myself - slightly world-weary; practical rather than dressy. And she works. She knows the road and I know her - exactly how much pressure to put on the steering wheel; how to coast in traffic jams; how long I can get away with the petrol guage telling me it's empty before it really is empty.
She's like a trusted friend. And I wouldn't replace her with anything shinier, speedier or classier until I absolutely have to - never mind what the neighbours think!
INSPIRED BY http://www.sleepisfortheweak.org.uk/2010/02/22/writing-workshop-14-childhood-passions-and-a-fantasy-shopping-spree/
AND http://itsasmallworldafterallfamily.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/a-letter-to-my-bed/
Saturday, February 20, 2010
12) TO DO LIST
There are a few things I'd like to do before I'm 40 - which isn't far away now!
1) Go to the opera. I would have shuddered at the thought as a child but now, I actually like the better known of the arias - not that I know anything about them.
2) Take the kids to a musical in the West End.
3) Take the family to Monze in Zambia, where I was born, and to walk past Vic Falls & take in a safari.
4) Have a really proper grown-up dinner party at our new house - we move in in three weeks!
5) Get a short story or novel written from beginning to end - even if no one wants to publish it.
6) Lose half a stone, of course.
7) Make time for a regular massage or facial or, preferably, both!
8) Have a capsule wardrobe of stylish clothes that fit in all the right places (see 6)!
How about you?
1) Go to the opera. I would have shuddered at the thought as a child but now, I actually like the better known of the arias - not that I know anything about them.
2) Take the kids to a musical in the West End.
3) Take the family to Monze in Zambia, where I was born, and to walk past Vic Falls & take in a safari.
4) Have a really proper grown-up dinner party at our new house - we move in in three weeks!
5) Get a short story or novel written from beginning to end - even if no one wants to publish it.
6) Lose half a stone, of course.
7) Make time for a regular massage or facial or, preferably, both!
8) Have a capsule wardrobe of stylish clothes that fit in all the right places (see 6)!
How about you?
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