We have a small dining room. Well, it's not even a dining room, it's a little conservatory on the side of the house, where we eat. It has an enormous table in it. I protested at the size of the table at the time of purchase, but a) I was not paying for it and b) both my housemates loved it and wanted it badly, so I gave in reasonably gracefully. It's a beautiful piece of furniture, but it belongs in a room twice the size.
It can seat eight, but usually seats two or three. It also (therefore?) collects crap. I was looking despondently down it this evening, and decided to count the number of things on it.
There was:
1. One metal pot stand with a half a pan of split pea dal
2. One half bowl of yoghurt
3. One bowl of aloo sag
4. Two dirty plates with cutlery
5. Two empty wine glasses
6. One pair of flip flops
7. One plant mister
8. One polystyrene box of basil, coriander and chive seedlings
9. One fleecy top
10. One newly baked cake still in its tin
11. Two towels
12. One pair of swimming trunks
13. One little rucksack
14. One fruitbowl containing five pears
15. One candlestick with no candle
16. One washbag
17. One wooden pot stand
18. One egg cup containing beads from a broken necklace
19. One tin of Water Hawk
20. One pen
21. One clothes peg
22. One pencil
23. One rubber
24. One sellotape dispenser, with sellotape
25. One thank you card
26. One book called 'Amusements in Mathematics'
27. One book called 'The Computer Music Tutorial'
28. One letter from a life insurance company
29. One newsletter from Abel and Cole
30. One letter from the Folding Sliding Door Company
31. One local newsletter
32. One Turkish tile
33. One map of Israel from the CIA World Factbook
Why can't we be cool and minimalist? There aren't even any children in the house. And I didn't even think about counting the things on the floor... thought the list would start with 'several thousand hairs'.
joella
3 comments:
(78s) Jenni says Dansettes is what you need. She's got one, and someone else on my friends list is muttering about something in his dad's garage. Or ....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-DANSETTE-RECORD-PLAYER-WITH-LEGS_W0QQitemZ6558683559QQcategoryZ1442QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
The guy with something in his dad's garage hasn't gotten back to me, but another friend has pointed out that there's a slick and agonisingly stylish modern solution:
http://www.djstore.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.pl?item=veshandytrax
Oh, I'm drooling.
When I participated in a research trial of cognitive behavioural therapy I had to fill in a questionnaire before each session so they could screen for rather more extreme issues than mine. One of the questions was 'Do you make lists?'. After seeking clarification (who doesn't make lists?!), I was told to only answer yes if I made lists of things like the contents of my cupboards...
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