Took a wee trip down memory lane yesterday and watched a clip of an old cartoon me and my brother would watch - there were not many of them, and they were a rare treat - Mr Rossi. They were foreign, but I am not entirely sure where in the world they were created. But we loved them, especially the trippy theme tune, and the crazy pet dog.
Today it is Sunday, a traditional blogging day for me it would seem, but rarely in a morning. I am sitting with my eight week old son (yes - where the heck did those eight weeks go??) giving him a bottle with one hand while typing one handed with the other - and at this point I have to say that typing one handed is one of the most frustrating things in the world!! I have chosen to blog as my daughter's obsession with Despicable Me has me quoting regularly from the film, and to sit and watch it while trapped feeding the baby is just too much to deal with on a Sunday morning!!
The sun is shinning, we are getting ready for our weekly swim, and while I was putting washing away in the airing cupboard I discovered a wet patch on the ceiling....my other half is now banging around in the attic to try and find the cause......this house has been one wet patch after another, five and a half years we have lived here, and this is the fifth leak we have dealt with!! Not to mention the ancient heating system, substandard boiler, and double glazed windows with the seal gone....but its home and its not all bad.....
My husband has a love affair with this house...to me its basically bricks and a roof, I like that its detatched, and when it snows we are cut off from the rest of the town, but other than that its just somewhere to live. I don't really 'get' loving a house and not wanting to leave - and thinking about it this morning, I never really wanted home ownership - I thought I would always rent - the hippy in me rather likes the free spirit thing, not being tied to one place, or one job - but somewhere along the line I fell into conformity, home ownership, marriage, children and a job in admin. Not sure how it all happened really, but here I am conforming.
I am getting the floating urge again, I've been looking at houses further afield, jobs far away, and things I can do from anywhere to earn money, but I conform so much now I can't really remember how to be a free spirit and I am not really sure I ever really was one!
My first thought at seeing sunshine this morning, was not of a fun walk with a picnic lunch, not of a drive to somewhere pretty...oh no, my first thought on seeing the sunshine, was to get the washing machine loaded up....there really is no hope!
2 comments:
I was very attached to my last home and didn't want to leave it, but I don't feel the same about this one even after about 27 years which is sad for the house really as it's seen a lot of happy times.
But the sun is still shining and there's still time to drive somewhere pretty!
I do like this house, but its the people in it more than the walls that surround that make a homely feeling, if they are with you anywhere can be home. Ideally I would like to move before I have to do the housework...so once a week would be good!!!
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