Elephants and drawstrings

Another evening has passed.  Another evening sat in front of the books, revising.  Odd thing revision; you spend hour upon hour reading stuff, doing past paper questions.  You look at it again the next day and it's all gone!  Mind's a blank!  Or is this just me?

Anyone who knows me will testify that I have a pretty short attention span.  As I sat revising tonight, I kept looking at a picture we have on our dining room wall.  Quite a special picture, even though it was bought from a supermarket!  The supermarket was "Pick and Pay" in Middelburg, South Africa.  It was from a smaller retail area within the supermarket and had all manner of leather goods.  The picture shows a pair of elephants on the run and is burnt into leather.  In itself, the picture is probably not that amazing.  However, the memories it evokes are absolutely amazing and too numerous to mention.  I've added a photo of the picture at the bottom of this entry if you're interested.  Middelburg Jun - Nov 1995.

As for the drawstrings....I (when not engrossed in OU stuff) am quite the "new-age" gent!  I try my best to do my bit around the house.  This includes the ironing.  Yep....you heard me right...the ironing.  I'm not saying this to make all my female readers think "wow" or my male readers think "what?...why?" but because I cannot understand why, in this modern era we still have ironing board covers held on with drawstrings.  The wretched things just do not work.  I always end up ironing creases in the cover and not the clothes.  Maybe it's a divine message saying that my calling really isn't in a domestic capacity???  Answers not on a postcard, but in a blog comment if you like!  Also, if anyone has an ironing board cover that they would recommend then.......please tell.....just don't let on that you're telling me!  OK - our secret....shhhhhh!

TTFN

Hipp