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Comforts ©
By
Michael Casey
Home
comforts and being comfortable are very important things, I noticed Harry and
his girl seemed so comfortable together tonight, so rather than write about
them I’ll write or rather talk about comfort. A girl a boy is a very comforting
thing, to listen to you, or pretend to, to give you physical comfort too, after
a very difficult day.
But
what other things are a comfort? Soft toilet paper and plenty of it, nice warm
towels straight from the airing cupboard. Hot water in the tank so you can have
a bath, your antidandruff shampoo so you don’t look as if you have just come in
from a snow storm, or from a wedding or from a carpentry shop. Providing that
your children haven’t used your shampoo
to wash Totoro the cat, so you
have to use the dregs of shampoo and even a bar of carbolic soap on what’s left
of your hair. All these are the comforts of home, any home.
Milk,
your milk left in the fridge so that you can make a cup of coffee the British way, with milk, but no sugar. Or just
have milk to go with your cereals. Though as often as not, Totoro the cat purrs
“milk” so she has the last of the milk so you cannot even have a final cup of
coffee. Your girls love the cat much much more than they love you , their dad.
Dry
clothes that have been brought in off the washing line, and left to air on the
radiators, providing your girls were not WhatsApping their friends, whatever
that’s supposed to mean. So when you the leader of the family need dry clean
clothes they are there ready for you, on the radiator. There’s no space in the family wardrobes as
you live with 3 girls, so your clothes are squashed into a small corner, where
the cat loves to sit, but thankfully not spray.
Up
a corner of the living room is your bare wooden chair that you sit on. You bought new furniture 3 years ago, by
coincidence when you had your unplanned quadruple heart attack, but it was too
low and hurt when you sat on it post op. So you perch on a bare wooden chair,
made comfortable with the addition of
some horrid stripy cushions, while your girls stretch out on the brand new
trendy but low sofas. Home is comfortable for them but not for you as you all
watch tv.
You
decide to buy a single arm chair to squeeze up a corner so you are comfortable
as you watch tv. Only they are too big to fit in the space. Until finally you
find one, only you cannot find the legs, which are hidden under the seat, in a
secret zip up section, something never ever before invented. So you lose face,
but are saved and helped by a nice Polish guy, to find and attach your chair
legs. Then finally you can squeeze an armchair into a corner, and like Little
Jack Horner you sit there and watch tv, you bum is no longer sore after 3
years.
All
these are simple little things that are my home comforts. A cat does make a
house turn into a home, even if Totoro wakes me up in the middle of the night
so that I can let her out a window. Then if in the middle of the night I get up
for pain or for a drink Totoro will suddenly appear on the kitchen window
wanting to be let in at 3am or 6am. Her job is to purr as I stroke her fur, she
is a home comfort too, whatever your point of view.
Fruit
in the fruit bowl is always nice so long
as your pigs don’t eat it first, Royal
Gala apples and bananas are great. Our new supermarket does have nicer food
than the old one, though you do have to pay a bit more, but judging by the
family happiness level, it was a good decision to switch when my daughter was
revising for her GCSEs. Nicer bread, we have switched to brown bread all the
time now, one brand is so much better than the others now we have made the
switch. These simple simple things really DO make a difference to home comfort.
Underpants
make a difference too, so long as they don’t shrink in the wash, I replaced a load
of my flags and guess what when I put
them in the wash a load of the new ones shrunk. Tight pants that strangle your
bits are no good to any man, a home comfort is a body that is comfortable, and
not squeezed and squashed by tight shrunken underpants.
If
you add all the things up that make up Home Comforts, they can be varied and
many and don’t have to cost a pretty penny. You just want to feel relaxed and
comfortable, like a pair of old slippers, and a dressing gown which keeps you warm
while you write your next talk for all your readers. Then your life will
Sparkle, so good luck to Harry and Markle, for she is your home comfort from
abroad.
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