Broken

22.12.16 (just)

This is a major backblip!!

Why am I even bothering?? I've only got two gaps in my entire journal, and this picture tells a story!

Does anyone remember that little poem we used to write in autograph books in school?

   Friendship is like a China cup,
     Costly, rich and rare,
   Once it is broken, it can be mended,
     But the crack is always there.

Another Sunday at work, in fact it was after a long weekend, so extra hard to go back. There seem to be a number of things to sort out, G's a/c being one of them. For some reason, whilst ironing yesterday, it just stopped cooling. Not nice.

Anyway, I managed to get someone to come to take a look while the cleaner was in the house. Normally things go fine, so I was surprised when I got home to find some things on the floor just outside G's room. There is a CD unit just outside which is probably not in the best place. Anyway... back to this blip...

This cross depicting the Christmas story is something G bought in the bookshop she ran a few years ago. It is a piece we both love. She hung it on the wall last Christmas with double sided tape and for some reason, whilst taking it down, it broke in two places! G put it together ready to hang again this year, but for some (unknown, crazy, stupid) reason, she put it on this unit outside her room!

Well, a/c workmen would hardly care what they knocked when going in or out of a room. I happened to find lots of pieces of something. On closer inspection - it was this unique piece! Argh!! Why why why???

Anyway, G put it together (they're not stuck though) and you can see the "picture" again... I can't imagine how many hours it would take to actually glue the pieces back. Surely there's a metaphor and/or life lesson in there!!