One of those days

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“They're funny things, accidents. You never have them till you're having them.” (Eeyore in ‘The House at Pooh Corner’ by A. A. Milne). I’m going through a patch of clumsiness right now. Not in any major way (yet) but just little things. I picked a punnet of raspberries from the garden and then knocked it over in the kitchen. I was trying to be helpful in putting Big One’s freshly-washed clothes away – but then I dislodged a noticeboard that’s just hanging on the edge of the wardrobe and that started a whole cascade of things off the bookshelf below. I opened the cupboard to put some clean plastic tubs away, and knocked a whole stack of them down and they tumbled all over the floor. Most amusingly (and potentially disastrous), I managed to snag my trousers on the handle of the drawer as I was just going to sit at my desk, and almost fell over. That could have been the kind of freak accident that comes completely out of leftfield and just wipes someone out. You read about some well-known person who died suddenly after a freak accident resulted in them hitting their head – I could easily have fallen over, hit my head on the nearby radiator, brushed it off as nothing to worry about and then ‘woken up dead’ as they say I am being extra careful this afternoon, it just feels as if something might go badly wrong! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2025.