Ear Worms

I spent Sunday in Birmingham with the Giles family (Clair, Gavin, Harriet, and Esme) along with Clair's brother, Darren, his wife, Katie, and their 9 month old son, Jonah.  In the morning, before we set off, Harriet, Esme and I were talking about music (actually we were putting together a Jibjab video) and I was telling them what an ear worm was - those songs that get stuck in your head and you just can't stop hearing them.  One of theirs was "Let It Go" from the movie, Frozen.  Later, as we were wandering around central Birmingham, we went into the new library to see the view from the roof, the Shakespeare Collection, and the children's floor where there are lots of activities for kids to do.  So often it happens when you learn about something for the first time shortly thereafter you hear about it again. So, the irony that there was a woman there on the children's level "bottling" ear worms was not lost on us.  The idea was to record your ear worm onto an audiotape and then the woman cut that portion of the tape and put it into a bottle and labelled it.  Any other person with the same ear worm would have their tape added to the same bottle. Esme, Harriet and Gavin recorded their mutual ear worm, Gotya's 'Somebody that I Used To Know', chose their bottle, and watched the woman seal the ear worm in it.  It was just so strange that we'd just talked about ear worms and here was this woman creating this ear worm depository.

It was a lovely day so we wandered along the canals and squares before having a late lunch.  Back home, we said good bye to the Huckerbys who headed back to Sheffield and had a quiet evening. What a lovely day!

Monday, I take the train to Chesterfield where I'll be staying the friends near there until Thursday.  The days are flying by now!