Compound
– plaster – ban – decade - disorder
THE
ANNIVERSARY
On their tenth anniversary, Sue and
Richard decided to celebrate a decade of wedded bliss by splashing out
on a fancy restaurant. Then, Sue noticed
something that piqued her interest. A
mystery murder on a steam train! She
talked to Richard about it, he was a bit dubious at first but then agreed. Anything to keep his lovely wife happy, you
never know he might even enjoy it. How
they were going to serve a five-course meal on a steam train was beyond his
comprehension.
The day dawned. Sue made him laugh as he unwrapped her
present to him. The tenth anniversary
was ‘tin’ and this is what she gave him.
A Man Tin. He laughed at the ‘pointless stuff I must
keep’ in his opinion that was more Sue’s department than his. He prided himself on being rather good at
only keeping what was useful and discarding old, worn out, blunt or otherwise
useless ‘stuff.’ Sue on the other hand had
drawers full of disorder and chaos, a compound jumble of stuff
that she thought might come in useful one day.
Of course, he had spoilt Sue as he
usually did with a beautiful gold locket that she swore she would wear
constantly around her neck. She loved
beautiful jewellery and trinkets and ornaments; in fact, he was at his wit’s
end as to where he could build another shelf for all her ornaments. There wasn’t a spare piece of wall
anywhere.
Then he had a brainwave. He could strip the old wallpaper off the
spare room walls, repair any plaster that was chipped away, fill and
re-paper the walls. He bounded
downstairs after his shower and presented the idea to his loving wife.
‘Richard, I am putting a ban on
you starting anything today!’ She gave
him ‘that look’. She knew him too
well. He was just itching to get started
but they had to get ready for their murder mystery event on the steam train.
Much to Richard's surprise he thoroughly
enjoyed the evening, especially the food which was cooked to perfection and
served on the swaying steam train without the servers spilling anything.
To cap it all it was a themed Sherlock Holmes evening. Such great actors and interaction from the passengers, clues to find and the murder to solve. They went home very pleased with the evening’s entertainment.
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