Showing posts with label Stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stories. Show all posts

Thursday, 16 April 2009

Brownies

Hey folks, yeah, two today. I just remembered: A few days ago I begun believing in brownies. You know the small creatures from fairy tales that run around your house and fix it when you don't know? Yep, that's the ones. I'm a believer. I've turned. A singular action has made me a believer. Here's the story:

I live in this big, ol' house by my onesies until the rest of the guys get back after the break. Seeing as it is just me, and as I've got the whole kitchen to myself, my washing doesn't get done everyday. It takes a few days in between, just to let it pile up a bit. Seems a waste to fill up a whole sink for a plate or two, a fork and possibly a knife. Now, as I went to bed this rainy and windy night, listening to the wind screaming and howling (not kidding you!) and the house creak ominously as the ghosts haunting this place walked about in the darkest hours, I thought I'd do the dishes tomorrow. They needed to be done, and tomorrow seemed like a good day to do them. Random, I know, but it was either that whether or not the Old Man ghost would get me before the werewolves tried to (werewolves, Old Man seems like stupid fella. And I was actually done contemplating that, and needed something to fill my time with between being bored and falling asleep). So, fell asleep, and woke up in the morning to a bright new day (really quite old by then. It was about two hours after noon). Now, being the duty-bound, responsible adult I am (and also lacking any utensil to eat my breakfast from) I went to do the dishes. An lo! everything was done. We're not talking me having done the dishes and forgot about it done, we're talking spotless, perfectionist done. Not a surface had a spot on it, anything that could possibly shine tried to blend me, not a single glass or plate or fork was left to do. But not only the dishes were done, oh no. When I opened the microwave, after offering up a small thanks to whoever did this and having picked my jaw and sunglasses up, I found that it was spotless. Hygienically cleansed of all possible germs. And all the tea-towels were hung up to dry, everything was neatly ordered, even my two remaining Snickers bars were taken out of the bag and put neatly on a shelf. I will admit, I was stunned. Blown away in disbelief. Then, well, I'm a lad. Hunger kicked in, and I got my breakfast. It is now my belief that we have occasional brownies in the house. I guess they do this every few months when they suspect the house is empty. So, brownies, if you are reading this: Thank you, and you're welcome to stick around here.

Oh, also, they day before, when I had been locked up in my room playing guitar, my housemate and his mom came down here. I'm not complaining when that happens, my housemates' moms usually help clean this place. But faced between mom and brownie, I say it was brownies this time.


For scientific comparison. If seen, do not pursue. At all costs.

Saturday, 11 April 2009

Thoughts for the day...

I've got a big Easter egg this year. Actually, I got a huge Easter egg this year, made of chocolate. It's larger than my hand, and beneath there's twelve different pieces of chocolate all artfully decorated. I'm not one for religion, but I do enjoy Easter. It's traditionally been the one vacation I would see my family up north and spend some time with father. This year I'm gonna be celebrating Easter alone in Wales. And somehow, despite the fact I didn't think I would, I miss spending today with my father, my nan and my cousins. The weirdest part was that I missed looking for an Easter egg. I'm less than three weeks away from turning 20, officially no longer a teenager, and I missed hunting for an egg I'm quite certain my father has placed somewhere for me to find, and not a yellow bunny with a basket. Notice the quite. I'm leaving some room for hopes of future eggs should I wrong.

I do have an egg, as stated above, and it is possible the largest piece of chocolate I have ever owned. But it is not the same. You can't open it to find sickly sweet chocolates or artificially coloured pieces of plastic masking as candy. Nor can you trade different pieces with cousins. Or have your father and uncles eat the ones you don't like while pretending to be nice. In all honesty, I was trying to be nice, if they didn't want it, they could pick something else. Just not the raspberry filled chocolates. They were mine. Try that and you'd have four feet of vicious kid jumping after it. My last egg was a bright blue one, and it was hidden under a huge tree on my stepmother's parent's front lawn. That was a few years ago, because the last Easters I've spent otherwise. Either with someone I've loved or doing something I love, and that has been fine. This Easter I'm poor and alone, in a foreign country, with no one I love and nothing I love to do.

Therefore, in an attempt to stay sane, I will at least have one thing that is the same: I will still find a hidden Easter egg. Fair enough, I will hide it myself, but that doesn't count. I will still have to find a hidden Easter NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY! So shut up and let me have my fun.

Happy Easter, everyone. I'm off for a bit of egg-hunting... :D

Friday, 10 April 2009

The hour for tales

I'm a storyteller, for those that didn't know. I love to read, write, create and tell stories. To embellish the truth, give it scope and purpose. To reach back in time to find old tales of demons and trolls, unlikely heroes and powerful gods. But sometimes, the truth needs no embellishment and purpose to add to it only takes something away. I have many stories to tell you from my encounters through life, for this is why I travel, why I love meeting new people. I will tell them to you. But some, some I will only share sitting under the open Northern sky with the stars above us, the heat of a fire in front of us, sharing a bottle of Suttung's finest mead after the hour of merriment has passed and the hour before twilight is there. For that is the hour of the teller of tales, the time for more serious stories. The ones that are true and honest, the ones that says something about the character of the person. Not humorous or fun, but heavy and worth their words. So, a boon I will beg of you. Make you way to the island this Fire-time. Greet me, laugh with me, fight me and drink with me. And when the stars are out, sit with me and tell me your history and let me tell you mine.