Just Beneath the Surface...

Maybe the Moon is at odds with Saturn, perhaps Capricorn is roughing it up with Pisces, or we are fast approaching the end of the Year of the Rat. There just seem to be more problems affecting more people than you’d normally expect for mid-September.

When the wife collected the cat from “kennels” this morning, the moving force behind the cattery had thrown a tantrum. He’d “upp-ed and off-ed” with his wife, leaving the rest of his family (mother, sister, etc.) in considerable turmoil. The business was running okay, but just beneath the surface…

My business has been affected. We knew that Ross would return to university in mid-September, but we didn’t expect the mail order department to be poached without warning by Jackanory (or is it Blue Peter?). I thought that things were running smoothly, but just beneath the surface…

My neighbours (I live next door to a graveyard) have been affected. Out of nowhere there is the need to create a disabled parking amenity beside the road immediately outside my rented house. This will entail the removal or replacement of one or more bodies (subject to their having enjoyed peace and quiet for at least one hundred years). There are no disabled people yearning for this facility, but it is apparently “the law”. I thought I lived in a quiet and well-governed village, but just beneath the surface…

The weather is foul; money is short and customers are slow in paying their bills. This is normal for the time of year, but just beneath the surface…

By way of a footnote I must stop using brackets (I'm doing this blog partly to try and improve my writing style). I'll also try to abandon italics, and to cut the number of punctuation marks I use by half. Moreover I may even snaffle a copy of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" (I've sold enough in the past). It might give advise on how to cut down on the use of "inverted commas". If not I'll have to book punctuation lessons with Mrs Chip (the first of my bag ladies). She'll "learn" me!