Changes are not restful. Changes make me tired. I don’t mean the daily
things, like changing the sheets. There’s nothing nicer than snuggling beneath
a freshly laundered quilt cover… or changing the dish cloth and washing up
sponge. Apparently there are so many different kinds of bacteria living in dish
cloths that it’s impossible to count them all. We’re supposed to change them
every day and the same goes for underwear, but possibly for slightly different
reasons. I sometimes change our daily newspaper order, although I don’t know
why. They’re all as bad as each other and I have been known to try a different
brand of toothpaste but only rarely. You see, the problem is that I don’t like
changes.
I know that we have to have changes. If the world never changed then there
would be no new inventions or discoveries, and that includes everything from antibiotics
to astronauts, but given a choice I’d rather not. This could be the reason why
I’ve lived in Leicester all my life. I can’t imagine what it would be like to
live in a completely new location. I even have trouble when they change the
layout of our local supermarket. I suspect they do it to increase sales but it
just makes me irritable.
Sometimes we decide to change things round in the kitchen but this is
never good for me. It throws me into a tizzy. I spend weeks reaching for plates
where we now keep mugs or cereal bowls where the teapot now lives. It’s the
same in the garden. Alan Titmarsh can dig up shrubs and replace them with different
varieties all he likes. I prefer the garden to look exactly as it did last year…
and the year before… and the year before that.
You may have noticed by now that I’ve recently faced a pretty major
change. I’ve changed my blog template. I have to admit to being thrown into a clammy
panic when I did it. You see, I didn’t intend to change it. I was trying to get
rid of the embedded comments box and replace it with the pop-up variety. It
should have been a simple case of ticking a button but the button has
disappeared. A kind fellow blogger suggested it might reappear if I updated my
blog template. It didn’t reappear but it is the reason why you’re now looking
at this freshly designed page. I suppose I’ll get used to it soon. It’s just a
bit of a… change.
What changes make you hopping mad? Or do you revel in variety?
