Let’s start with some confusion:
Shenanigans. Although “shenanigan,” meaning trickery or mischief, is often attributed to the Irish Gaelic “sionnachuighim,” meaning “I play the fox,” others claim it derives from an American Indian word.
Or: Shenanigans. Earliest records of it are in California (San Francisco and Sacramento). Suggestions include Spanish chanada, a shortened form of charranada “trick, deceit;” or, less likely, German Schenigelei, peddler’s argot for “work, craft,” or the related German slang verb schinäglen.
Whatever, it’s the wrong word anyway because there was no trickery or deceit over the weekend. It started with us having the urge to scrub the bathroom walls. Having been away for only one week during this humid time, we returned to find the black mould had grown worse in places, and thought it was high time we did something about it. Here’s a handy tip: if you have a hob scraper for a ceramic hob, they’re also very good at scraping off limescale and dripped paint, as long as you’re scraping tiles, which are, after all, ceramic.
In the evening, we had dinner with the godboys which they cooked, followed by a game of cards with their mother that Neil won. (The cards, not the mother.) Saturday was a quieter, calmer day at home with me writing (of course) and Neil pottering around. I went for a short walk, I think, I can’t remember, and that reminds me that we’ve had some interesting coloured skies of late.
On Sunday, after more writing and so on, we popped out to the Rainbow to say hello to Yiannis who offered us an omelette, but we had a sandwich planned for later, and we sat there watching the news while listening to the radio, and planning a dinner party. One of those evenings.
And that leaves us free to wander into this week and see what will happen. There’s a shipping ban at the moment following bad weather yesterday, but Neil’s aiming to get to Rhodes on Friday to sort out his wayward phone contract. I’ve got a couple of piano lessons to give and some model to build, a few chapters to write and blogs to do, but otherwise, nothing major is planned. So, as things stand, you can expect a week of no-news news.
