I am taking the opportunity to make some progress in the Grand Design, Chez Nous. I don't know if Channel Four would be interested; they'd probably have to run it over several series or at this rate, even decades.
Anyway, a heavy duty power cable had to be pulled through various attic spaces which was like an episode of that Time Team thing also on Channel Four, as various artifacts came to light.
Letters from women when Relationship lay fallow, including a reply I'd sealed but hadn't sent due to some possible change of heart. On opening, this detailed Likes and Dislikes in two columns, all quite frankly an embarrassment, the correspondent must have been left thinking - 'that guy never wrote back, nothing happened.'
Further in the past an A4 cartridge pad with a self-portrait pencil drawing of me in my twenties, with hair. Going to art college sort of happened but I changed my mind after one morning.
Further still, Brooke-Bond Tea card albums including one about Space Exploration, card number 50 depicting the nuclear powered manned trip to Mars planned for some time in the 1990's... Yes, well, that never quite happened and neither has the Moon Base, card number 49.
Another thing that never quite happened was the completion of a 'Working Model Steeple Engine'. This was what my Dad, 'The Old Boy' was working on 27 years ago when his number was called and it was time for him to go - 'aloft', which was about as close as he got to talking about the possibility of death, which definitely did happen.
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Most things around me at the moment fall into the 'never quite happened' file.
Anything else you have been putting off?
The redding out will be the biggest.
Think of all the potential millions of sperm that never quite happened with the ovum. We should all be grateful that that particular sperm did very well.
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