Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Scrapbook for Scatterbrains

As you may have realised, my brain is a ‘Mish-mash of pearls in a Sea of Mud’ at the moment. Yesterday started badly when the severe weather warnings meant that my proposed visit to see Sam in Bristol was cancelled.

The snow itself kept me indoors and also made me remember that I’d read somewhere that a few heavy curtains would be eco-friendly. This would be because the central heating could be set at a lower temperature.

‘A Grand Plan’ was thus set in motion. We have curtains & curtain-linings, from at least the previous three houses, in our attic here.

Surely we could have a New Year change round, and increase the window insulation at the same time? Even better, we would be ‘using what we already had’. I love my shopping, but not when it is only a matter of replacing items.

Could we buy one new set of curtains by moving old ones around?

That was at 9am yesterday. At 11 pm I went to bed exhausted – but with no changes of curtains yet. Mike had brought all the curtains down from the attic and had measured up those, as well as all the ones already at the various windows. He’d been down to the shed, through the snow, to see if we had a spare curtain rod there. We hadn’t.

So far, so good. Time for a coffee stop! That was where the exhaustion began. While I thought about the curtains, I was also trying to answer yet another quiz question. We had a picture of a cat-like creature which had a name of seven letters and was female. The picture looked as though it was from a cartoon of some kind.

We moved here exactly 4 years ago but my many, many books are still scattered around the house.

By 11 pm:

I’d found: ‘One I’d written earlier’ and had wanted to include it in a Musing for Pancake Day, to help with a fund raiser for Abi.

My daughter, Clare, had drawn the picture of our Pancake day when she was about the age that Abi is now; Abi is paralysed after a brain haemorrhage while she was helping others in her life as a young teenager.

I’d thought: “Oh, there are my Royal Family scrapbooks”. An article about today’s ‘Celebrities famous for being famous for a few minutes, instead of being the Cinema Stars of previous years’, had reminded me that I’d cut out , and made those scrapbooks, of my kind of celebrity photos.

That was when I was very young, but last year Clare needed information about her injections as a child. Again I’d made notes. Sometimes I can be organised, so I’d found those immediately.

My actions: I asked Mike to make some copies of the Pancake day picture, so I could use those. He did so, while I intended to put the original back where it should have been.

It should have been in the collection of writing & picture pages that Clare and I had made in 1992, as ‘A Childhood In Two Generations’

Even in 1992, I had used something I already had, as a ‘temporary’ file. The pages are still in a binder for a long defunct magazine. The first collection is of our photos of one of the first Sandbach Festivals of Transport. I included some poor photo-copies of my Mum’s photos about the Parade for the Centenary of Fodens. The original photos are here – somewhere.

Meanwhile: Andy works at home, as he is snowed in, & can’t get his car out of the garage.

Dayve travels from Crewe to Bristol & back, by train, for a few hours work.

Clare & Sam enjoy a walk to the park, where Sam smiles at us, via a modern e mail from a mobile phone. Sam loves the snow.

Results: No change yet for the curtains.
No answer to quiz question about the cartoon cat.
Lots of exercise searching & sorting hundreds of books.

An idea for ‘Nana’s Notions’, as a scrapbook for Sam, from his scatterbrain of a Nana
a.k.a. Mary Garratt (Mrs)
3rd. February 2009

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