Not a very inspiring title: maybe we'll change it later on.
In fact, you may well find the links (in green) will take you to more interesting places than the actual blog, though I say so myself.We had a big post-Christmas clear-up day, after the decorations were taken down and Alice (eventually) managed to put them away, up the ladder on her own - more logistics than balance.
Everything got moved off the sitting room floor, which was a huge task, as some of it had been lying there for many, many months.
Then the elderly Hoover - the machine not the man - was brought out of a rather long retirement. Ba was intrigued when I explained that the vacuum cleaner actually sucked in the dust and debris and whooshed it up the tube to a waiting bag. She's not usually interested in mechanical things . . . By the way, that's a great title for a website, isn't it? We'll use it again, I'm sure.
After the job was over, Ba took another look at the underside. She could see that most of what was whoosed away was lots of long grey human hairs (guess whose those were) and fallen green plastic "needles" from the Christmas trees.Yuk! Ba was shocked by the contents of the receiving bag, mostly very ancient dust - but also dead moths from much ealier so called "Spring Cleans". No, nothing to do with that book, though it's on our Wish List since reading His Dark Materials.
We've only posted a small version of the double image, in case you're squeamish about this sort of thing. But if you click on it, you can view the full ghastliness of it all. Oh, "The Horror, The Horror."
Poor Alice is only just recovering from the flu, and says she isn't quite out of the woods yet. Now that is another of those human figures of speech which puzzle my more literal brain. She hasn't been lying lost in a wood of late, more a matter of lying in bed snuffling and coughing.
But my confusion does link neatly to our next topic. Alice says segue is an excellent term for this transition. But I thought that was a bizarre powered scooter affair? Well, it does sound the same when you pronounce it properly!They look more like fun in this video than in the photo here. But give it a click, for the expressions, if nothing else.
Anyway, we were delighted when we saw this wonderful print by Jeremy Deller, as we wish we had such a guide to understanding the odd things we notice about human behaviour. It's one of a series of prints for schools, published by the Hepworth Wakefield Museum and publicised on the BBC News. There's a video about the scheme on YouTube.
The artist has also been known for some controversial work, that's rather entertaining if you lean to the left. Yes, there we go again . . .
The reference to the Hepworth Wakefield above reminded us of when Monkey first met Ba in the wonderful National Media Museum in Bradford in 2015.
She was in box marked "Reduced" and just had to be rescued. This is a later reconstruction of the scene.
That memory took us to another, shortly after, when we all went to Lumb Bank and enjoyed some wonderful walks in the surrounding Yorkshire countryside. Aaah, happy days.
