At work the other night and gradually losing the will to live i dispaired at the state of the store and was hustling round trying to put everything right so that people could come back in the morning and foul it all up again. I noticed someone had unpacked an inflatable "support england" chair and left it laying in the middle of the aisle (bastard customers!!) so i started wrestling with it trying to get this hideous object back in its origional packaging when woomph!!it hit me....
The smell was exactly like that of, of something from way back in my childhood, and i was immeadiately taken back to when i was a little girl. There i was sat on my baby deck chair kitted out in my finest sun hat and minnie mouse shades, dangling a small plastic fishing rod in to my paddling pool trying to catch plastic fish, my toes just barely reaching the water and that smell the smell of cheap plastic being warmed by the sun.
One of the neighbours was mowing their lawn and the noise hummed in the background accompanied by the occasional car driving past and voices carried on the still air. All i was concerned with though was catching a fish, i'd probably have to fight it a bit to reel him in but it'd be worth it!
I splashed my toes around on the waters surface, causing ripples and making the assorted bugs and grass clipping that had fallen in through out the day dance and bob about. The air was so warm it felt thick and i could almost taste it, everything seemed so bright and the sun light was playing over the water in my paddling pool like thousands of tiny dancers, it was beautiful.
The familiar chimes of the ice cream van broke through the still air with the tune "Teddy bears picnic" and all of a sudden various childrens voices could be heard on both sides of my garden begging parents for ice lollys pleeeeeeeeease. Good idea, the fish wern't biting today anyway so i hopped off my small deck chair feet splashing in to the water up to my ankles and ran across the lawn to see if i could have an ice cream, grass clippings sticking to the soles of my feet as i went.
Still couldnt get the sodding chair back in the box, ah well it was almost 6am sod it, someone else could fight that battle i was going home to sleep, maybe to dream about summer and ice cream vans and plastic fish.
The smell was exactly like that of, of something from way back in my childhood, and i was immeadiately taken back to when i was a little girl. There i was sat on my baby deck chair kitted out in my finest sun hat and minnie mouse shades, dangling a small plastic fishing rod in to my paddling pool trying to catch plastic fish, my toes just barely reaching the water and that smell the smell of cheap plastic being warmed by the sun.
One of the neighbours was mowing their lawn and the noise hummed in the background accompanied by the occasional car driving past and voices carried on the still air. All i was concerned with though was catching a fish, i'd probably have to fight it a bit to reel him in but it'd be worth it!
I splashed my toes around on the waters surface, causing ripples and making the assorted bugs and grass clipping that had fallen in through out the day dance and bob about. The air was so warm it felt thick and i could almost taste it, everything seemed so bright and the sun light was playing over the water in my paddling pool like thousands of tiny dancers, it was beautiful.
The familiar chimes of the ice cream van broke through the still air with the tune "Teddy bears picnic" and all of a sudden various childrens voices could be heard on both sides of my garden begging parents for ice lollys pleeeeeeeeease. Good idea, the fish wern't biting today anyway so i hopped off my small deck chair feet splashing in to the water up to my ankles and ran across the lawn to see if i could have an ice cream, grass clippings sticking to the soles of my feet as i went.
Still couldnt get the sodding chair back in the box, ah well it was almost 6am sod it, someone else could fight that battle i was going home to sleep, maybe to dream about summer and ice cream vans and plastic fish.
