The Anonymous Widower

Getting The Blues

The tiles in my house are pretty tired.  Mainly due to ten years hard wear with innumerable tenants, but also I suspect because knowing Gerry, they weren’t the best tiles to start with.

Getting The Blues

So I’ve decided to get rid of the hideous tiled skirting board and replace it with an oak one and put down a proper carpet.

This afternoon, I went to John Lewis to see what they’d got. I chose a Brinton’s carpet in a shade called Coast. Mainly because the book had been left open at that shade.

It was only after I left the shop, I realised that it might have been the same carpet, we used to have around the Chinese carpet in our house at Debach, nearly forty years ago.  In that case though, we bought the blue carpet first from a shop in Woodbridge and then bought the Chinese carpet in Hong Kong.

My only problem, is was it C or the Chinese, that made someone leave the carpet book open at the page? A Chinese friend at the time, said that the carpet was a lucky design.

October 6, 2012 - Posted by | World | , , , ,

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  1. […] some ways this extreme decisiveness started on Saturday, when my son told me to go down to John Lewis and check out carpets. But I’d already gone to Primrose Hill to sort out bathroom […]

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  2. […] In those days, the Christmas Day tradition was to go to White Hart Lane to see the football and then come home to Christmas lunch. I could skip the lunch and the awful Christmas television, but at least it’s reliable these days.  I can remember watching High Noon one Christmas and the power was fading, so just before the gunfight we lost all the pictures.  Those were the days. I think one year, life was so boring, that I took my father’s car out of the garage, put mine in there and then washed and painted the wheels a fetching shade of blue.  In fact, it is the same colour, that I’ve chosen for my new carpets. […]

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