Categories: rejoice-with-me, freecycling
Tags: plumbing, singing, freecycle, Tube.
Date: 20 December 2008 22:05:41
Latest from my local Freecycle: 'WANTED: Rubber cap for tubular leg'. Is it just me or does that sound disconcertingly surgical? (it turns out it was something to do with a bike rack on a car...).
Getting back to loftier matters, eleven of us sang our guts out at Turnpike Lane* underground last night in aid of Christian Aid. In our years of experience of this annual event, we have discovered that it takes precisely one and a half hours to sing one's way through the entire Bethlehem carol sheet (with a short break for mulled wine, homebaked mince pies and Pfeffernüsse, provided by yours truly).
I then went to Covent Garden to meet a Shipmate and we had a good girly chat about flooded basements, plumbers etc. As if I didn't get enough about plumbing in my day job as a plumber's spouse...
Talking of which, things are looking good for said plumber to bag a job at a Further Education College, teaching mechanical engineering. This would be a considerable change in our daily lives but he has really had enough of crawling under sinks now. Especially since he hit a magical birthday this year (half-century, in case you're interested).
*or, in the terms of the anagrammatical Tube map (see Wibsite home page for sample), 'Internal Puke'.