Behind the Sofa

The Tenth of August Two Thousand and Eleven. Wednesday.

The boys are over again so until I finally get myself a new bed I'm relegated to the pull out sofa thing in the living  room. I'll hold my hand up: it doesn't get cleaned out as much as it should do. So at times like this it's surprising what you find down the back of it when you unfold the hinges and uncoil the springs.

Yes, it's way past bedtime so I'm keeping it short and sweet again today with one of those list things. I love a good list, me.

Anyway this is what I found hidden in the depths of my sofa.

Two pounds and twelve pee in sterling.

Twenty cents (euro) and Thirty-Seven cents (US).

The remote control for the TV/VHS combi that used to be my main source of telly and is now hidden somewhere in my bedroom.

My membership card for the Spooky Spooky Club ('Spook On!')

Various stickers from Cars (the Pixar movie).

A divining rod (tried to find this not so long ago but couldn't - would have been easy if I'd had a divining rod that I could use to look for it!)

Bob the Builder's head

Set of car keys for an unidentified Mercedes Benz. Been looking for them, too. Every now and then I trawl the streets pressing the central locking in the hope I'll find a car I can keep.

Haunted comb and paper.

Lucky bit of shrapnel from flying saucer crash (must have fallen from my pocket sometime) (come to think of it I don't know why I ever thought this was lucky. It wasn't for the UFOnauts).

Small gateway to hell, suitable only for sweet wrappers and pencil shavings. Hmm, need to find somewhere sensible to keep that.

An Earl Grey Redbush teabag (no wonder the sofa smelt so nice).

Lots of crumbs.

Ok, time to get them away, get this bed unfolded and get my head down. I'm nodding off here.

More soonliest.

Like That Ben Stiller Film... Only Earlier

The Thirty-First of May Two Thousand and Eleven

Earl Grey and cheesecake at Caffé Nero a nice pause in the day before a spot of musical theatre - with puppets (can you guess what I'm going to see?) (Tea at a coffee place always seems like a treat. Mind you in Shanghai it felt a bit cheeky doing the 'Earl Grey - hot!' thang in a city filled with so many gorgeous local teas (end of globe trotting name drop))

And what a lovely day it's been, finishing off my extended Bank Holiday nicely. Went to the East Lancs Railway in Bury with 2 sons and 2 parents and saw a bit of steam (enthusiastic thumbs up from no 2 son as engine whooshed noisily). The plan was to pop to the Transport Museum over the road afterward. But horror! - we notice a poster saying the museum's only open Weds to Sun. Hoping that this might be overruled with it being half term we visit any way and are heartened as we see someone coming out. We enter and the very nice lady on tickets says they should be closed at she opened for one person - and then someone else came - and then we came. She had to switch the lights back on. But we had a great time, dressing up and enjoying the exhibits with no-one else there - our own private viewing. Felt like a celeb.

We'd been locked in so the nice museum lady had to let us out. My thanks to her for helping to make a good day.

Right, back tomorrow so the recommendations and more stream of consciousness stuff will return then.

More soonliest.