Here’s the question: is the new house haunted?
Why do I ask? Well, three things have now happened which, if you were of the mind, you might put down to paranormal activity. 1) I have started a diet… Don’t be silly. Let’s start again:
One: the television suddenly started playing, loud, about an hour after we’d gone to bed. Two: after sorting that out, the money from my jeans’ pocket suddenly fell out and clattered to the bedroom floor. Three, this morning the extractor fan in the kitchen outside my office suddenly came on of its own accord.
Okay, so the answers to these three events are: One: the TV was on some kind of automatic turn on function by accident, or we’d turned off the DVD player but not the TV so after an hour of being on and not showing anything it decide to click back from DVD mode to TV mode. Two: getting back into bed after turning the TV off disturbed the jeans hanging on the end of the bed and gravity did what it does best. Three: well, that’s a bit less explainable.
Sitting here wondering what the noise was, and checking the air con, as that’s what it sounded like only much louder, I then went to the kitchen to see where it was coming from. The fan was on full power and had come on. I tried to turn it off only to realise that the switch is broken; it slides across the various settings but is not actually connecting to anything. The only way to turn it off is to throw the fuse, which I did. This also blacks out the light in the kitchen, and then I remembered that this was how we found that switch when we moved in; fuse, off. So this must be some kind of recurring problem. Only question is: why did it wait five weeks before suddenly turning on? Why hasn’t it done it before?
So, the answer to the question: is our Symi house haunted? Must be, no, it’s just a quirky Symi house.
You will be glad to know that the vertigo is not as bad today (Friday) as it was yesterday, though the symptoms persist: head pressure, shallow breath, wobbly world and ear noise, and to the extent that I think a trip to a specialist is in order. Nothing serious I suspect as it’s been around for years now and I’m still here (as the ‘Follies’ song says), just that it’s getting worse. Adrianna was very helpful by suggesting that coffee can trigger the symptoms, and we have been enjoying a lot of that recently. So, I will, meanwhile, try cutting that out of the paranormal diet and see if it helps (along with salt and alcohol).
Anyway, here’s wishing you a good weekend and hoping the cat lets us sleep. He’s been very unsettled these past few nights, shouting to come back in when put out at night, which he’s never done before, and then starting again at five in the morning, if indeed he ever stops.
