800 ways in which Sarah is a menace...#1
So, I am holed up at home with tonsillitis (awesome. Or not) and my best friend came over to cheer me up - hooray! We've known each other for 25 years (good grief) and we talk about mainly nonsensical things, including:
a) why it's funny to send our friend who's gone back to uni a card with inexplicable pictures and a doodle from the olden days (this is now in the post. I'm hoping it confuses and delights her in equal measure, and in that order)
b) why this picture of Sarah Siddons...
.... is better than this picture of Hester Booth.....
..... and why we should send them both to our friend at uni with no explanation of who these ladies were...
c) ridiculous statements like 'You are a menace in 800 ways and I will tell you exactly what they are...over the next 800 days'. This is something I rashly said to her this evening and so I am starting today. To wit:
Ways Sarah is a menace: No #1: Air-flicking. In my general direction.
To sum up this post, then. One, tonsillitis will make your brain do funny things, like enter into ill-advised agreements about who is a menace to whom and ONLY THEN make you wonder if you really can think of 799 more ways that your best friend is a menace. Two, Sarah Siddons was a better actress than Hester Booth but Hester got more exciting frocks. Three, a quarter of a century of friendship will mean that you laugh like drains at the same things even - and especially - when they only bewilder everyone else.
Hope you all had some laughing like drains time today. No, I don't know where that phrase comes from. Night x