Crows In The Road
Another strange day. The first part was spent waiting for the engineer to come and look at the fridge-freezer. I was able to do this sitting outside with a book, albeit that I was a bit more wrapped up in layers than I have been of late. I’m enjoying the habit of sitting out there, even though a neighbour suggested I was like a Stasi agent noting the comings and goings in the street.
Most of the comings and goings were birds, including the titular corvids–jackdaws, magpies and ravens. I took my binoculars out in case we had any more buzzards being mobbed by seagulls and tried to take advantage of the clean air to see what was going on over in West Lothian, but I couldn’t get them to focus; despite the slight chill, the sun was strong enough to heat the air and it was like trying to focus through a shimmering gel.
The story of the fridge freezer is that we’re waiting for a quote for a replacement part. It’s possible that the repair will cost as much as a new device, but it isn’t easy to choose a new device, have it delivered to our front steps, manhandle it up the steps and into the house and then install it (the installation is the easy bit). So we’ll probably pay to have the current one repaired because circumstances demand it. Notably, the freezer helps limit the number of trips to shops.
I’d like to say I spent the afternoon being creative. In fact I went for 40 winks and ended up sleeping for 2 hours. If I had interesting dreams, I don’t remember them. The headache from yesterday has gone, I think, but its after effects are still here, notably a need to catch up on sleep. I expect to sleep well tonight.
I should also say that this was another day when, for the most part, my phone was on vibrate only (in case the engineer called) and I’ve stayed off the laptop until it was time to write this.
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Music: I was slow to come to the music of Elvis Costello. I knew of him, of course, who couldn’t? But I only knew the singles. That changed somewhat with Almost Blue in 1981 and changed decisively with King of America in 1986, which was my primary point of entry into his albums. The title song contains one of his great, snide, couplets:
She said that she was working for the ABC News
It was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use
That album led me also to his stage shows–I saw him with the Attractions, the Confederates and solo, occasionally aided and abetted by Nick Lowe. Tonights music is from King of America, and was suggested by a comment I picked up earlier about GI Brides.
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