He may have been The Best Man, but I have met many better men. These include: Jeff, Cudjo, Elijah, Jones, Jess, Rubens, Nigel, Yoggi, the Two Uncles, the men at the Garage, the Kwik Fit Fitter, and of course Michael. I don’t mind being blanked, and I should have suspected something was amiss, when Michael handed me the telephone to chat to him; and the line was dead. Michael and I suspected that we had been cut off. Yes we had, but obviously it had not been a technical fault. He knew that I was on the plane, and in the check-in and baggage collection I stood out somewhat. But he didn’t want to acknowledge me let alone chat. Jeff and I had discussed people, almost as much as Michael and I have discussed ‘the ignorance of man’ in the past. We have all concluded that such people exist everywhere. Sometimes the behaviour occurs through ignorance and sometimes from malice. But there is an upside; here is one future wedding that I don’t have to attend.
I am sat in the corner of what used to be known as my Cinema Room. Four leather chairs and a 50 inch television from the days when most homes had nothing bigger than a 28 inch screen. Television tube technology limited the average screen size. Technology moves on and tube sizes increased slightly prior to the arrival of LED and Plasma. My large screen is rear projection. 100Htz flicker free multi angle viewing, but it takes up a lot of space in what is after all a small room.
Sometimes change is not about technology, it is about changing focus. Our Grandson Justin arrived a few months back and the 6 foot by 2 foot table for the ‘n’ gauge train set is already set up in the ‘Cinema Room’, while the large Church scene in 20mm H0/00 scale is resting below the table. The larger scene will form the centre piece for the larger train set when I get around to building it. Meanwhile my thoughts return to Africa. Pauline is making rice, potato and chicken. Many of the smells from the kitchen remind me of my time in Ghana. If I wasn’t poorly, I would consider this as finger food. But tonight I need to play it safe and use a fork. But watch out guests, for when I get the recipe for ‘kinky’, fu-fu and the like, you might have to ask “is the bowl for drinking?” “No”, I will reply, “It is to wash your hands”.
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