Back in the day
when all this was fields, and I was just a tiny and small Herr Doktor my mum had a dose of the flu.

She decided to sleep in the front room so that my dad could get a good nights sleep as he had to be up early to go to work. So as normally happens when you try to sleep when you have the flu, she kept waking up.

At one point she bumbled into the kitchen to make herself a hot toddy to help her get back to sleep. When she opened the kitchen door she dropped the cup and screamed her head off waking the whole house!

When she had calmed down a bit we managed to find out what had caused the upset. She said that she had seen a coffin sitting in the corner of the room where the TV stood, and this had just set he off.

A few days later while talking to the next door neighbours, who had lived there for years, we found out that the owner of the house that we were living in had been a chimney sweep and that one day he had been sweeping his chimney, slipped and fell, dying instantly when he hit the ground. His family had laid him out for viewing in exactly the same place as my mum had seen the coffin.

Nothing else happened in the eight years we lived there.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:23, 1 reply)

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(Rsoles, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:04, closed)