We are sitting in the Library's upstairs section where people can browse through books and watch the tourists wandering by below. You can even go to sleep, as long as you don't actually lie down. This is what one of us is doing (while sitting straight up in the chair) because the next cottage keeps not being ready. He thinks (and I agree with him) that all this waiting is a load of codswaddle.
Nevertheless, changeover days must be tolerated because they usually end with an open door and a nice cup of tea.
The tourists below this window are going in and out of one of my favorite shops here. It is called Colenso and has almost everything you need for a successful holiday. I have visited this shop many times looking for a flat iron ('hair straightener' in British), clothes pins for making pour-over dark Columbian coffee of a morning, an electric coffee grinder, and a bunch of other things I did not know I needed. The proprietor is happy to see his customers, and booms out at them, "I have exactly what you need!" no matter what it is you say you need.
From where I am sitting, he has brooms, mops, coffee machines, other small appliances, chicken pots large and small, platters for roast chickens, paint, kitchenware, electrical and hardware items, ironmongery (what's that?) and tools. The proprietor is a local man whom the local people come to see on a regular basis. They call him 'John', and he also calls their names and their babies' names. He is the perfect Local.
If you go out of his shop and turn left, you will come to the Cinema. The Cinema is very important because it is where Rosamunde Pilcher used to go see films as a girl. AND, it is showing the new Tom Cruise movie RIGHT NOW. I know very little about this movie except that he is in it, and that lots of crazy things are going to start happening. There should be a nice looking young lady in the near vicinity, and a team of friends who know how to set up those crazy things right along with Tom. Am I right?
We will go to this movie some time soon, after purchasing/eating a double Chinese dinner, which, if we are too full to finish, the chances are high that it will come back home in my bag.
The SconeLady has not seen this film yet, so kindly hang on to your spoilers. The filmmakers are bad enough with well placed spoilers on the Internet. Just today I saw a parachute with Tom Cruise hanging on to it, explode. I really do think it exploded, and wasn't special effects. This is because I saw Benji Dunn helping to hold the parachute and pour an explosive liquid inside of it. Next thing you know there is the explosion! with Tom Cruise rocketing terribly quickly to the earth. To me that qualifies as a big spoiler.
The cottage company never did tell us it was time to enter our cottage, so I made a command decision. We grabbed our bags and went. Sometimes you just can't wait any longer, especially if you think all this waiting is a load of codswaddle.
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