fun for all the family...

another family/religious holiday, another trip to A&E with my sister.

we`ve realised what her "thing" is. with some people it`s writing, some it`s music, some it`s kicking a ball around a pitch. my sister? her gift is putting the `special` in special occasion by throwing the big holidays (first christmas, now easter) into disarray with a variety of tricks. after the mystery seizure on christmas eve, her lastest trick is getting hydrogen peroxide in her eye just as we`re about to leave to go to suffolk for sunday lunch, necessitating a quick trip to casualty and then over to moorfields eye hospital in the east end (which was quite strange as it was all shut up and dead apart from the A&E part of the hospital.)

it`s a real gift, i think you`ll agree.

(she`s fine. i don`t have that inappropriate a sense of humour that i`d be laughing if she`d gone blind. they just irrigated it for what felt like ages, did a litmus test - on her eye, *shudder* - and gave her some ointment.)

i`m starting to wonder whether someplace with padded walls might be safer for her - and us...

tower bridge is falling down

best overheard conversation last night in london eye pod between two American ladies who were looking at one of those skyline guide things, trying to identify everything.

Woman #1: Where's Tower Bridge?
Woman #2: Ah don't know
Woman #1: Well Ah thought it would be really obvious. It's like bright blue isn't it?
Woman #2: Ah think so.
Woman #1: So where'd it go? That's Bucking-ham palace, that's Waterloo... Ah don't see Tower Bridge nowhere.
Woman #2: Well maybe they tore it down. They done tore London Bridge down, y'know.

I was snickering in the corner throughout this exchange then kindly informed them it was actually round the bend in the river; we were now too low down to see it as it was blocked by buildings along the south bank.