Senior moments have begun
In keeping with my new status as a retired old wrinkly I went to the garden centre yesterday. I inspected the geraniums, decided not to buy any new ones yet and had afternoon tea on the roof terrace overlooking the bedding plants.
Got in the car to go home and first and turned the ignition key just enough to connect the electrics so that I could change the CD to Iron Maiden, A Matter of Life and Death. And then panicked because although the car was correctly in reverse gear, it wouldn’t move out of the parking space. Then realised that I hadn’t actually turned it on. The engine is very quiet compared to some of the old bangers that I have driven in my time, but I didn’t think I had Maiden on that loud.
5 minutes later I could hear a strange noise. Tuk, tuk, tuk, tukka, tukka, tuk, tuk.
What’s that! Please not the big end! This is the newest car I have ever owned!
I turn the CD off and pull over to listen better. And it has stopped. Funny. A bit later I put the music on again and after a few minutes I hear the tuk tuk noise again so I turn the music off to give it some more attention. But I can't hear it now.
Eventually I realise that it is some extra percussion under Nicko McBrain’s main drum beat.
Now where did I leave my reading glasses?
Posted on 5:56 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
