For although we actually did not run about that much and we both slept well.. we are tired today. Lots of travelling. Birthday parties are tiring, all that excitement, eating all those delicious things.. the whole tea was very slurpicious.
Running through the rain into the dress shop, taking off all those layers to try on two pretty linen dresses.. to find that she needed a smaller size.. always pleasing!
Going to see Kasha at Bartek and introducing me to her.. she squealed with delight at the sight of me and so I thought I would make her day and did a reallyreally good "Miaow".. very loudly! I don't know who laughed the most.. Then off we hurry-scurried to catch our bus, so I suppose we did do quite a bit of tooing and froing.
Her sleep was full of dreams. She was expecting one particular person to appear sooner or later for she had an extraordinary experience last Tuesday when she was coming home from Lidl and she's only just able to process the shock that it gave her.
She was walking down our street and a car passed her, it pulled in to the pavement and out got Bill.. She stood still.. if the truth was told, which it always should be, she was unable to move an inch.. and looked at him.
Then she realised it could not be him.. because A. we know he is dead and B. this man was Bill but Bill twenty years ago.. she gave herself a shake but he had obviously seen the distress on her face and he said to her "Are you ok, you look as if you're about to faint".. in, oh lordly, Bill's voice.
She started to cry and said "It's ok, except you are the identical double of an old friend of mine of whom I was very fond but he's dead and you gave me such a shock".. he walked the short distance towards her and reached for her hand and said.
"Did your friend live in Washington DC and was his name Bill ......? For a few years ago I met one of his nephews in San Francisco and he had the same reaction and said exactly the same as yourself". She smiled and said "yes, that's him, how weird this is, apparently we all have doubles but your similarity to him is extraordinary".
They smiled at each other, she said "Goodbye" and she walked on.. past our house and went around the corner into Pont Street, she didn't turn to see which house he went into and when she came back from MailBoxEtc the car was gone.
For he wasn't our Bill.. he was wearing a wedding ring.. he was someone else's 'Bill'. So we'll go on dancing to this tune as long as the record plays and then we'll choose another tune to dance to. For nobody said life was easy.. it is just sometimes easier than at other times.
Sigh.
GeeGee Parrot.
May 30th, 2015.
Running through the rain into the dress shop, taking off all those layers to try on two pretty linen dresses.. to find that she needed a smaller size.. always pleasing!
Going to see Kasha at Bartek and introducing me to her.. she squealed with delight at the sight of me and so I thought I would make her day and did a reallyreally good "Miaow".. very loudly! I don't know who laughed the most.. Then off we hurry-scurried to catch our bus, so I suppose we did do quite a bit of tooing and froing.
Her sleep was full of dreams. She was expecting one particular person to appear sooner or later for she had an extraordinary experience last Tuesday when she was coming home from Lidl and she's only just able to process the shock that it gave her.
She was walking down our street and a car passed her, it pulled in to the pavement and out got Bill.. She stood still.. if the truth was told, which it always should be, she was unable to move an inch.. and looked at him.
Then she realised it could not be him.. because A. we know he is dead and B. this man was Bill but Bill twenty years ago.. she gave herself a shake but he had obviously seen the distress on her face and he said to her "Are you ok, you look as if you're about to faint".. in, oh lordly, Bill's voice.
She started to cry and said "It's ok, except you are the identical double of an old friend of mine of whom I was very fond but he's dead and you gave me such a shock".. he walked the short distance towards her and reached for her hand and said.
"Did your friend live in Washington DC and was his name Bill ......? For a few years ago I met one of his nephews in San Francisco and he had the same reaction and said exactly the same as yourself". She smiled and said "yes, that's him, how weird this is, apparently we all have doubles but your similarity to him is extraordinary".
They smiled at each other, she said "Goodbye" and she walked on.. past our house and went around the corner into Pont Street, she didn't turn to see which house he went into and when she came back from MailBoxEtc the car was gone.
For he wasn't our Bill.. he was wearing a wedding ring.. he was someone else's 'Bill'. So we'll go on dancing to this tune as long as the record plays and then we'll choose another tune to dance to. For nobody said life was easy.. it is just sometimes easier than at other times.
Sigh.
GeeGee Parrot.
May 30th, 2015.
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