Saturday 8 June 2013

In the Tunnels of Time - Researching Love.




A fair amount of what appears here starts life as a half remembered conversation overheard someplace else by one of our research team who then absentmindedly mentions it over breakfast.

The research team, 99 per cent female, are for some unknown reason known as the backroom boys, or BnBBrB for short.

And many of them ARE short.

But short is good.

Except, sometimes, when it’s the overheard half remembered conversation that is short.

It went thus -  “there are six or seven different ways to show love.”

“Six or seven? Which? This is important”

“Well some people show their love by saying nice things – words”

“Ok”

“Then there’s acts – doing nice things, or doing things nicely, I can’t remember exactly.”

“What do you mean you can’t remember?”

“It might have been building and mending things.”

“What? The acts? Or is this number three?”

“There were more.”

“And?”

That was it.

The research staff got up and left the breakfast table, and the washing up it transpired, and disappeared.

They haven’t been seen for months.

It’s like that around here.

It’s frustrating, but it’s normal.

One gets up after a bit, washes up, maybe cuts the grass and eventually goes for a run.

Life continues.

The quest for understanding love too.



editors note - june is Tunnel Time. More info here.

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