Bunny Ears
Good morning dear reader and welcome to another sunny day at Comb Towers. Spring appears to have sprung very early this year. We have lurched from snow and ice, to torrential rain and now we are little baskers - basking in warm sunshine. Whether this happy state of affairs will last remains to be seen. I hope so as the snowdrops and daffodils are all out in flower and pretty crocus too. In the olden days when I was a young gal, the snowdrops used to have been and gone before the daffs appeared and now everything is out at once! I can’t quite get my head around that one, but then there are lots of things I don’t ‘get’ these days.
BUNNY EARS … what’s that all about? You may well ask, dear reader. When I was about five years old, I contracted glandular fever, followed by measles, followed by chicken pox, courtesy of my siblings. Needless to say I was in a pretty poor way and took a long time to recover. I missed most of my first year at school and many of the experiences attendant on that. One of them was learning to tie my shoe laces
I don’t know how this practical skill came to pass me by. My Mother was extremely attentive in ensuring that we learned this type of skill, to foster as much independence in us as was possible. As we got older, we were taught sewing and cooking and housekeeping skills, girls and boys alike. So, I do not know how my inability to tie my shoelaces got past her. But, there we are, it did.
Somehow I fathomed out how to fashion a bow and make the darned thing stay together. I made ‘bunny ears’ with the laces and then twisted one lace under the other and voila, my shoelace was tied.
I know it’s not rocket science, dear reader and this news will not rock the world, but … apart from Spouse finding my shoelace tying method very funny, I had never given it any more thought. Until recently. Spouse and I were in a bookshop, drifting towards the sales checkout, where three ladies were in earnest conversation. I couldn’t believe it, they were talking about ‘bunny ears’. Yes, really! It appears I am not the only soul who ties her shoelaces in that way. Grinning from ear to ear, I beckoned Spouse to come near and asked one of the ladies to air-draw the idea to him. She was only too happy to and I was ecstatic to find I was not the only person in this world to make ‘bunny ears’. From the ladies' conversations I think it might be more common than I ever imagined.
So, dear reader, if you have a different way of managing a task from everyone else, good for you. You are innovative and original and I’m happy to know you.