Belated and bloated Happy New Year!
Happy New Year and all that jazz!! I do like Jazz and the little Jazzies you can buy from the sweet shop up the road. It is very quaint and old fashioned with lots of vintage items on the shelves such as old weighing scales and what not. They often buy items from us for their displays, we are a real community shop!
But as we're in the spirit of new year and resolutions (probably most have been broken by now I just keep moving the goal posts of mine) then I’m resisting the ye olde fashioned sweet shop and thinking about, above and beyond my waist as I hardly recognise myself these days along with my ever changing hair colour, I remind myself of the “horse of a different colour” from the Wizard of Oz as I walk through a door my hair changes hair colour, seriously I do cause a stir when I dye it and it’s not even bright colours just alternates between blonde to dark brown as a rule.
Anyway I’m enrolling myself into a food diary keeping course which basically means I write everything down I eat so will be full pretty quickly. It is hard work mind, working in such close proximity to us: the oxygen is slowly replaced by air particles consisting of pastries and pasties.
Talking about smells one of the volunteers who I happen to work recently informed me she has lost her sense of smell and call still smell peoples breath but not things like sausage rolls and tulips (what an odd combination). This made me feel semi uncomfortable and self conscious as I had eaten a sausage roll and it was bloomin’ lovely and worried she may detect the smell of it on my breath and detect it that way?
The body is a funny thing and so are people, no wonder people study other people so much it must be a ongoing experiment socially, biologically and every other alley you can discover a lot about people by working here.
Like when people say in the shop when they pick something up they think would suit their friend and bellow out “Ooooh thats right up ya alley Bev!” where did that phrase come from and what does it mean being up someone’s alley! I don’t know for sure.
I am now joined to the world of the twitterish and follow a group called “Random Useless Facts” which is pretty useful as I’m learning something because everything else I obviously know! Thanks for reading me oh and my other new year’s resolution is to learn French, bonjour et au revoir!!
