The Carry Case
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smokingbootI've had some wonderful birthday treats in my time. This year will be slightly different.
One of my cousins in Spain has chosen to marry this coming Saturday andlarians and I will be attending the wedding. My birthday is the day before. So if I am lucky, I get to wander round this place: 
And if I am unlucky, I spend the night with the family. Would you like a cousin, nephew or niece? Cos I have dozens and can't remember them all, so feel free to ask for a donation. It may be small but just remember everything's relative. Ba-doom-poom-chh!
It could be worse; my father's side of the family will be absent so there is some hope of rationality - not much, but I'll settle for any - and my lovely aunt has arranged a hotel for me andlarians in the middle of Granada with, and I quote, 'all the young people' by whom she means everyone in the family under 60.
And of course, I will be catching up with Mum for the first time in years. Aunt and Mum are having a slight contratemps; Mum takes a carry case with her everywhere and Aunt thinks it looks weird. Aunt says the thing that stops people suspecting Mum of being a baglady is that she is always turned out impeccably, but she says they still roll their eyes and laugh when she's gone. I hear that and it makes me want to smash heads.
There's certainly lots wrong with Britain, but at least there's some tradition of tolerating personal eccentricity, as opposed to what seems to me like a strange pre-war Iberian orthodoxy; but maybe it's not the peninsula, maybe it's my aunt. Hard to judge, cos I love my aunt, she's groovy, but when she thinks she's right she's unstoppable...a bit like my mother. Aunt says the case must not make an appearance at the wedding, Mum says where she goes the carry case goes, and if the carry case can't come to the wedding, neither can she. Bear in mind, this aunt is not the mother of the bride, but she is the eldest, most influential and respected member of the family. No-one has asked the bride if she gives a damn about the carry case.
You may well wonder what's in the carry case that's so important. Aunt says it's full of plastic and papers, but the family legends tell otherwise. They say Mum carries that case everywhere and never lets it go because it's got my father's head in it.
One of my cousins in Spain has chosen to marry this coming Saturday and
larians and I will be attending the wedding. My birthday is the day before. So if I am lucky, I get to wander round this place: And if I am unlucky, I spend the night with the family. Would you like a cousin, nephew or niece? Cos I have dozens and can't remember them all, so feel free to ask for a donation. It may be small but just remember everything's relative. Ba-doom-poom-chh!
It could be worse; my father's side of the family will be absent so there is some hope of rationality - not much, but I'll settle for any - and my lovely aunt has arranged a hotel for me and
larians in the middle of Granada with, and I quote, 'all the young people' by whom she means everyone in the family under 60. And of course, I will be catching up with Mum for the first time in years. Aunt and Mum are having a slight contratemps; Mum takes a carry case with her everywhere and Aunt thinks it looks weird. Aunt says the thing that stops people suspecting Mum of being a baglady is that she is always turned out impeccably, but she says they still roll their eyes and laugh when she's gone. I hear that and it makes me want to smash heads.
There's certainly lots wrong with Britain, but at least there's some tradition of tolerating personal eccentricity, as opposed to what seems to me like a strange pre-war Iberian orthodoxy; but maybe it's not the peninsula, maybe it's my aunt. Hard to judge, cos I love my aunt, she's groovy, but when she thinks she's right she's unstoppable...a bit like my mother. Aunt says the case must not make an appearance at the wedding, Mum says where she goes the carry case goes, and if the carry case can't come to the wedding, neither can she. Bear in mind, this aunt is not the mother of the bride, but she is the eldest, most influential and respected member of the family. No-one has asked the bride if she gives a damn about the carry case.
You may well wonder what's in the carry case that's so important. Aunt says it's full of plastic and papers, but the family legends tell otherwise. They say Mum carries that case everywhere and never lets it go because it's got my father's head in it.
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Re: Can't be, someone else has got it
Date: 2008-07-09 03:54 pm (UTC)Re: Can't be, someone else has got it
Date: 2008-07-09 04:08 pm (UTC)No - I'm still worried.
Re: Can't be, someone else has got it
Date: 2008-07-10 11:24 pm (UTC)Re: Can't be, someone else has got it
Date: 2008-07-17 09:22 am (UTC)