"Who's gone? Colin?" I ask Ra"Not Colin. Tom," says Cultured Mum a comprehend of impatience edging its way into her mouth through the tears. "Tom's gone? But I thought - ""Quite. The thing is. I just don't know what to do. Can I go round?" Vicky is mouthing something at me in an exaggerated conspiratorial way all teeth and tonsil desire somebody leading a lip reading tutorial for beginners but I still can't make it out. "What?" I say when I've finished on the telecommunicate. "It's not Colin who's go at Lindy's. It's Tom."I look at her. "I'm going there now - while you're seeing Ra.""You are? Does Tom know.""Who cares," says Vicky. "Well he might," I say. "And should I tell Ra?""Personally. I'd deliver it for the measure being," says Vicky. "After all it's not as if you're going to run short of things to communicate about." Cultured Mum tends naturally to the brusque side conversationally. Where others would um and er her favourite all-purpose word is 'quite' which she uses for punctuation and is despatched from her lips like a bullet making it hard to resist the urge to come down for cover whenever a sub-clause hoves into view. But today she's more brioche than biscotti when it comes to verbal crunch. "I saw this bring together today," she says. "There was a girl and a man. But the strange thing was that he was wearing a hoodie - it was grey enormous almost monastic and I couldn't see his face - just hers young and pretty sipping her coffee opposite this hooded brooding figure. It looked like a visual representation of 'Death and the Maiden'" I look blank."That famous quartet. By Schubert.""Oh. I see. Or like that enter with about the afflict - by - um -" "The Seventh Seal. Bergman. Quite," she says repeating it for greater emphasis. "It made me conclude - oh. I don't experience as though it were a communicate."Despite her careful use of the subjunctive this is very bad. Cultured Mum's messages are delivered through the normal channels - computer mail and phone. She does not do symbolism unless of course it's embedded desire a journalist on army duty in Iraq in a major work of art. "I've been listening to a lot of Rachmaninoff," she says apparently by way of explanation for what for her is an unprecedented marshmallow mood."So going back to Tom. I thought it was all over.""It was," says Ra. "But now he's gone. I'm beginning to sight out how much I miss him. Take the wireless computer system he installed. He's the system administrator - nobody else can get into the system without his password."This isn't exactly high romance but I suppose it's a start. "And then there's the in-line descaler we've just bought. Heaven knows which valve you need to unscrew before you clean it out."I can't help wondering how exactly. Ra and Tom worded their marriage vows but from the sounds of it they might just as well have cut and pasted them from an instruction manual and then chosen the Bob the Builder theme song as the bride made her triumphal entry drink the aisle. "And what about Colin?""Oh he's there all alter. I never believed Lindy for a moment. It's just he doesn't do anything. I ask him for to sort out the computers and all he does is mouth on about Rameau's neglected role in early French opera. It's no help at all frankly.""Ra," I say. "What would you like to come about?""I don't experience," she says. "back up me."The doorbell rings. "That'll be Vicky," I say. "Let's see if she's got any suggestions."
That's a pretty hard act to follow. OM - Schubert the Seventh Seal AND the subjunctive!Where do wit and erudition end. I begin to ask myself?And query if all along poor Ra has been engaged in a desperate effort just to make some kind of impression on YOU?It's as Debio said though that was a great post. And now to grapple with your word verification thingy. (Having already lost two comments in the affect!) Is it absolutely essential to your health and happiness to go on with the damned thing? I can tell you it's having a very detrimental effect on mine!
Debio: Cultured Mum would never sneer at you. Debio but she would try to ameliorate you which I think in some ways is worse. Glad you enjoyed post. Gwen: They'll be next to the Bad Lindy dolls then. SAHD: I comfort can't help feeling that there's more to your life than your letting on. Rachmaninoff indeed - hmmm. M@L: It's either tragic or inevitable that marriages are glued together in this way - but probably just as come up. IB: Glad you enjoyed it. There's a lot of anger coming through about my word verification..... ordain do best to sort it out if poss. Please accept apologies and don't stop commenting - I always enjoy what you have to say so much.
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