By rights as I am writing this I should be somewhere around Evesham on the way home to Somerset, but I'm not feeling very well and have decided to delay my return and have a day in bed.
This therefore has been my view from my bed, and for me this is interesting. The bed is about 40 years old. I can remember it being delivered by the And So To Bed company at my parents previous house in South Shields. It has a horsehair mattress and still very comfortable. This room used to be my office for the couple of years I moved back home in the 1980's to live with my parents while at University as a mature student of 26. The Action Man horse is one of the few relics of my childhood. The photograph of the younger me was taken by my Uncle Ken thirty odd years ago. In the fireplace obscured slightly is a Charles and Diana wedding fire screen tapestry which Aunty Lilla completed in 1981 after mum found the pattern impossible to follow.
The bookcases dad built when they moved in here and hold all manner of interesting stuff aside from books, local history pamphlets, dad's models, photograph albums and back copies of the Northumbrian magazine to mention a few. The stamp albums on the chair are dad's, he's been a stamp collector all his adult life. No longer my office it is the guest bedroom and where I stay when visiting dad. Today however it is my sick room, and lying here it has given me time to look around it in detail and reflect that in the wardrobe remain some of mums clothes which she'll never wear now but still hold her perfume scent. This year dad has found he can no longer get upstairs, we've converted the dining room as a bedroom, so in many ways this room has become a time capsule of life that is still having bits added to it.
A room with history very much part of the present.
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