I really felt as though I
couldn't be bothered to get out of my pit this morning, but
eventually I hauled my carcass into action. With "er indoors
TM" off to Folkestone to get her car doors
fixed, I went up to town with Martin. First of all to the cheapo shop
(what in better days was once Woolworths). I like the cheapo
shop - everything costs ninety-nine pence, so I stocked up with
several requisites. And then on to the market stall for some fruit
and veg. Only to find that the stall wasn't there today. That was a
nuisance: five apples and five carrots from the market stall are half
the price that I pay in a supermarket.
And then another disaster
- Martin gave me a jelly sweetie, and it took out half of a tooth. I
shall have to get that fixed in the week.
And then we went round to
Chris's for the afternoon. We'd volunteered to help out. Having sold
a pinball table (Chris has four pinball tables in his house)
he needed a bit of help to move the thing. The table which had been
sold was upstairs, and so we needed to disassemble it, lug the bits
downstairs, reassemble it (to prove to the buyer that it worked),
lug the sold table to the buyer's car, disassemble one of the
downstairs pinball tables, lug the bits upstairs and reassemble it.
And then generally tidy up.
It all sounds fairly easy
in theory - in principle it was (mostly). We soon found that a
grandfather clock was seriously in the way, so we had a minor delay
whilst we disassembled the clock and moved the bits. Moving the
pinball tables was easy enough - albeit a bit heavy. Reassembling the
table to be sold was easy enough - the wiring was labelled as to what
wire went into what plug, and buyer arrived on time and was happy
with what he saw. Four of us wrestled the table into his car, and
sent him on his way (back to Brighton). I did wonder how he
was going to unload the table when he got it home, but (to be
blunt) that wasn't my problem.
Reassembling the table
we'd taken upstairs wasn't so easy: the wiring wasn't labelled at
all, and the instruction book only mentioned about half the cables.
After an hour or so we gave up and spent an hour of so rebuilding the
grandfather clock. Or that is we spent five minutes rebuilding the
clock, and an hour getting the thing level. And then Chris ordered
pizza. Good move.
With the house tidied,
the clans gathered and we had the now standard Saturday night film
night. First of all we watched "Limitless" - a very
watch-able film following what happens when one takes a drug which
gives super-intelligence. I liked that one. The second film,
"Inception" featured Leonardo DiCaprio as a
character who had the ability to interact with people's dreams. An
interesting concept, but the film had far too much which was
unexplained; not least of which was who were all the people going
round with Leonardo DiCaprio's character. But it's always good to
watch a film with friends....
We came home leaving
Chris to finish off wiring up the pinball table. I wonder how he's
getting on...
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