As I was holding my iPhone at the time, I was at a loss as to what it might be. ‘I don’t think I have any other vibrating things in my bag,’ I replied.
The taxi driver raised an eyebrow.
Over the course of the journey, the noise continued (inaudible to me) and Gym Buddy seemed more and more baffled.
On arrival at hers, it was so dark she couldn’t see the keyhole, so I pulled out my keys as on them is a little torch in the shape of a duck…
When you squeeze it, it lights up. But it also quacks – inaudibly to me!
‘That’s it!’ said Gym Buddy. ‘Thats the noise! I thought I was going crazy as I did think it sounded like a duck quacking!’
‘Did you think you were going quackers?’ I asked, finding the whole thing very amusing.
Until...
...I had the realisation that this duck torch has been in my handbag for at least two weeks!
That’s two whole weeks of wandering around with a quacking handbag I can’t hear.
What must people have thought as I quacked along the pavement, on bus journeys and eek, everywhere?!
*cringe!
So moving swiftly on, I also have some other extremely exciting news. I bought a digital radio. Now, radio is not much used to me in terms of hearing voices and wotnot, but I do love listening to Heart, Capital, Classic FM for the music side of things. I don’t know what I can’t hear, but deafinitely enjoy what I do.
So anyway, I have never really used a normal radio before as people always complain that I’ve not got it tuned in and they can hear loads of crackling, and while this doesn’t bother me, it’s just meant that in the past I have naturally gravitated towards the safety of CDs.
But the lure of an Orla Kiely Digital Radio was too much for me, and so I gathered together all my birthday money, shook out my piggy bank and got counting until I had enough.
And last night was my first night with a radio in my house for ooh, about 20 years… and I LOVE IT!
The digital tuning means I have a perfect reception without and fiddly knob twiddling(!) and I also have more cheese available to me than I could wish for… with a little bit of Arrow Rock thrown in for good measure.
OK, so there’s a lot of talking that means nothing to me, but then, in every day life there’s a lot of that, too. And seeing as my radio is incredibly pretty, I vote it can stay!!!!
4 comments:
wow enjoy the radio.
The duck is now else where i should think!
That's a very pretty radio, DG.
Too funny about your quacking purse.
That reminds me of the time I was vacuuming the inside of my car. Sitting in the driver's seat, trying to get at the floor near the clutch, I unwittingly had my forehead rested on the car horn. Brought the whole neighborhood outside to see what the ruckus was all about!
Haha! Dee, that made me laugh so hard people stared at me in my office – glad I'm not the only one who does things like this!
Sarah, thought you'd like that radio – Orla Kiely does a range in Target over in the US I think!
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