Take a look above. Are you watching closely? Good, because I am going to ask you a very important question about that picture: what is it a picture of? A napkin? A stray cloth? A hankie perhaps? That’s certainly a hankie to me. Except it actually isn’t. If you have read lady luck you’ll know that I am currently aggravated by a stinking cold. Having thoroughly drenched my own hankies, I scour the house for fresh ones. The in-laws hang things to dry above their bath and, lo and behold, there on a line was this hankie. Thoroughly drenched, I later discarded it in the linen basket for washing. But it wasn’t to be; it re-entered my consciousness with a CRASH BOOM BANG hours later, with my darling wife terminating a screaming match with her mum and turning up the volume on me, after finding the aforementioned in the linen basket, soaked in snot. Well my friends, it turns out it was not a hankie after all, but an Eve Lom muslin cloth, normally used in my household for hand exfoliating one’s face or, as the lady herself says, to wash the day off. I have little else to say through my bruised eyes if not, check with the wife before you pick up harmless hankies around the place. There is no such thing as ‘just a rag’ in my house and a rag can bring disastrous consequences to one’s well-being.
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
