Another brick in the wall

I can now build walls. In fact, I can even repair walls that have fallen down. Even better, these statements are not actually metaphors – although I’d like to think I could lay claim to their metaphorical meanings as well – but we are in fact talking about real life bricks here (with the word ‘life’ being taken with more than a little pinch of salt…).

Or, to put it another way, I am now slightly less incapable than I was before, which is always something worth being. Tomorrow I plan to be even less incapable than today. I think it’s a worthwhile target in life.

The cause of the wall-building project was the classic car-meets-wall-car-taps-wall-car-defeats-wall story that we all know and love, as my wife’s ‘tap’ unexpectedly ruffled the feathers of the out-of-date mortar. And, while we’re enjoying mixed metaphor territory, I should also point out that the car is only nursing a minor fracture while the wall wept uncontrollably before nestling itself in various-sized chunks of disappointment on the unprepared garden lawn.

I also wasn’t aware that the word ‘tap’ was a synonym of ‘slammed’ but I guess you learn something new every day…

What I am aware of is that there have been many people before me – perhaps even hundreds – that have learned how to lay one brick upon another (we’re still talking literally here) and so this isn’t exactly Rocket Science but it was an achievement nonetheless and achievements can be hard to come by in life, so you need to take them while you can. And, on the mention of Rocket Science, I must tell you that I am determined to change the cliché to ‘It's not exactly English Literature’ to reinforce just how impressive my degree is.

Rocket Science? That’s nothing. You try reading and talking about books. Who’s with me?

Writing books is even harder and writing blogs is perhaps the hardest thing we’ve mentioned so far and so you have to conclude that writing blogs is probably the most complicated task in the world today.

It is this sort of impeccable logic that not only brings walls crashing down but gets them put right back up again. And, yes, we are moving into metaphorical territory now…