Perhaps you could all think of this post as an eccentric letter or newspaper-cutting from an elderly female relative who has lost her mind and talks to bins. Wow, if this blog is still running in forty years, it's going to be pure gold.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Riveting Videos of My Floor
The old floor, and the new. You'll need an extra-big bucket of popcorn for watching these: they're cinematic triumphs. Of course they aren't. They're videos of the floor. I don't know why I think anyone out there with a shred of grey matter and self-respect is even slightly interested in seeing how noisy the floor used to be, but here we are.
Perhaps you could all think of this post as an eccentric letter or newspaper-cutting from an elderly female relative who has lost her mind and talks to bins. Wow, if this blog is still running in forty years, it's going to be pure gold.
Perhaps you could all think of this post as an eccentric letter or newspaper-cutting from an elderly female relative who has lost her mind and talks to bins. Wow, if this blog is still running in forty years, it's going to be pure gold.
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Wow. Derek is really deaf.
So if I admit I watched the videos, do I also have to admit to lacking gray matter? Because that was established long ago.
The new floor is delightful. No one likes a floor that talks back.
No, you are very kind to indulge me. All the comments I get on this blog are from clever, talented, lovely people, and you all deserve something more worthwhile than a film of me running up and down.
Derek is deaf as a post, and yet I can't stop talking to her. I think I talk to her less than I used to, but I'm not sure. Of course, every time I do speak to her, I say "Oh, you can't hear me. How silly," piling more and more fruitless spoken words into the ears of a cat that can't hear OR understand English.
I quite liked the video of you running up and down; it was much nicer than being treated like a halfwit by my teenagers. And I would have hated the noisy floor.
I have to admit that the second video has left me with a little bit of a happy feeling I didn't have prior to watching it. The array of hopping and bouncing steps you demonstrated for us was delightful.
It's the tiny jete at the end that does it.
It's a beautiful sight!
I really love that Ian puts in floors in what looks like his bathrobe. And I think the second video is brilliant...such quiet!
I very much loved the second video, with the hopping and the jumping, and the little kick in your step too.
It isn't just that Ian does DIY in his dressing gown, it's also his fine disregard for safety toed boots, safety googles, etc. that I love.
It looks like Derek truly approves of your new rug. Minnie wallows around on our nice rug and smears it up with white cat hair. At least Derek's more earth-toned coat will blend in better.
Never get a predominantly white cat, if you can help it!
Now I know where the Ministry of Smiley Walks is headquartered.
Second video is Ministry of Silly Walks: New Floor and Rug Division!
Upon watching the second video of the oohshinynewquietfloor, I thought, "But this needs a comedy soundtrack!" Then, on further reflection, I thought, "No, the happy flup-zupping sound of Antonia's jeans and the jubilant galloping of her feet are PERFECT." And clearly, writing this comment has taken all of my five-months-pregnant brain cells away from me. You're welcome.
somersault. smackinamaowf. yay.
cavort cavort CAPER
I would very much like to watch your videos, but they are remaining slightly blurry still images to me. Harumph.
The second is perfection in every way.
It's astounding.
He works in only a bathrobe?
And a superhero leotard.
Smackinamaowf to the old floor, I say! :D
Jete: perfection.
On the down side, you no longer have the perfect fart-disguising floor; you'll have to lay off the beans in future.
Wow, the old floor really was shit! No offense to Ian there, because the new one is extremely nice, as your happy feet and lower legs so eloquently demonstrate.
Excellent floor videos.
Love the little fillip right at the end of the second video. What (or who) is mysterious lump in the background though?
Absolutely love it!
Loved the new floor. Very nicely done :)
That was weird.
But quietly weird. Very well done indeed!
Ooh, such beautifully quiet gamboling! A job clearly very well done.
Wonderful! Coolness galore. I happily lost some grey matter in the process of watching these videos; and I must say, after watching the second, I am sitting here with an idiot grin and feeling much happier than before (maybe I suffered from an undiagnosed superfluity of brain cells...teeheehee). Hugs, Lola
The second video made me smile~
Ok so I could care less about the floor (no offense) but what I REALLY love is that Ian does home improvements in his bathrobe. That's that little touch of not rightness that keeps me coming back for more :D
This is the best blog ever.
wonderful post! I can't believe how much better and more beautiful the new floor is. If I'm still around in 40 years, I will be watching this, although the technology will have left us in the dust by then. Still and all...this is absolutely marvelous entertainment. Sincerely yours from a batty old lady who does talk to her shiftless bins!
You are an excellent jumper.
"... clever, talented, lovely people..."
*preens*
*trips over cat*
Correct perception is restored.
I was hoping that Oscar would be doing the worm across the floor in the second video. However, despite that absence, it was, as many other commenters have noted, strangely uplifting.
I do all D.I.Y. and almost everything else in just a bathrobe. Life just doesn't feel right otherwise.
I think if you just added a voice-over of you muttering "Smackinamaowf" repeatedly, the video might do well in some of the lesser known film festivals.
In the second video, the floor doesn't make as much noise.
I fear I may have read too much of your blog. On seeing Ian's bathrobe I immediately wondered if he was 'air drying'.
An entirely inappropriate thing for a total stranger to be thinking... but oddly difficult to put aside...
The sequel, in particular, should be in line for a BAFTA.
HA! I totally watched each of those twice, so that probably tells you something about your readership.
You are a bloomin' marvel.
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