Shegetz' Tales of Oddness, Part 3: Liverpool
At the same time as I was supposed to be in Manchester, I was spending a lot of time in Liverpool (well, Birkenhead - sorry, plassie Scousers!) seeing my lady of the time, mostly, apart from the sexings, indulging in the long-standing north-west tradition of sitting around one family members' house and drinking tea until you're sick. In this case, it was her aunt's house, and very weird it was too.

The garden was completely surrounded with wooden fencing, and you looked out onto it from the living room window. Whenever I sat in that room and wasn't looking directly out of the window, I can't really describe it, but I could not shake the idea that the garden was ringed by wire fencing, like chicken wire. I kept being genuinely surprised that it was wood, not wire, whenever I would actually look outside, as whenever my mind was 'filling in the blanks', it was always daylight, and always wire fencing. I could even see the light from outside coming into the room, even in pitch night. I asked, and about twenty years ago when they had first moved in, there was wire fencing that they had fairly rapidly replaced. I don't know why I kept seeing it like that, as it was a pretty pointless 'vision'.

There were also several incidences where I would get a strange feeling going down my back and the atmosphere would almost visibly become darker and more dingy. Several people said they could see a dark ring behind my head and moving down my back, and in the end I just learned to ignore it.

There was also the time when we - me and the then-gf - were walking to the massive Tescos just past the church at the end of Laird Street, and I suddenly paused and announced that the perfectly normal house we were walking past was somewhere I definitely didn't like. I was then told that it's locally known as a bit of a weird house.

All of this is completely pointless, I know, and I wish I knew the reasons why whatever these things are persist in bothering with me as I try my best not to be interested. I'm sure a lot of it can be explained away through science, too.

All very weird though.

I'm done now. Combined length? Don't be so filthy.
( Shegetz Chris Kamara's comedy moustache, Tue 8 Jul 2008, 16:08, Reply)