Keith's Ramblings

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“Have you seen my scarf darling, the blue one?” called Jonathon as he searched under the coats and jackets that hung by the door.

Julia sighed, and with a half smile said:  “You’d lose your head if it wasn’t screwed on!”

Just lately one thing after another had vanished. Nothing of particular importance. A pen, only a cheap one, but he liked to use it. He’d also mislaid a photograph of himself receiving an award at his firm’s dinner, and another of him reclining on a sunbed. And what happened to last year’s diary? He needed to look up a detail about a meeting, but it was nowhere to be seen.

“Good morning Julia”. Cheryl, their home help breezed into the kitchen with her usual cheery smile.  “Jonathon left for work already? I’ll start my cleaning with his study today” she said as she tied the strings on her apron.

Cheryl was a stickler for tidiness. Trouble was she was so tidy that Jonathan often couldn’t lay his hands on things which he had known the exact position of before Cheryl sorted them out.

“I found these in the rubbish bin,” she said. Julia looked into the plastic bag and saw a pile of old greetings cards, from birthdays and Christmases past.

“Mind if I take them,” she said. “I can put them to good use”

Julia saw no reason why she shouldn’t. Jonathon was a bit of a hoarder, so she was delighted to see the back of them.

One afternoon just as Cheryl was about to leave, Julia asked if her if she would like to take a bag of Jonathan’s old clothes with her – they were almost new but not often worn. Maybe she could sell them at the church jumble sale. She took them willingly.