LIVING IN A BUBBLE!

So having finally gotten around to remembering to write, if not spell I thought that I should perhaps keep the momentum going, at least for a while.

The weather is horridly grey and rainy today, so jobs indoors for us.  We have finally worked out some sort of system for cataloguing all of our Carnival Glass.  At our current rate of progress it will take about 12 months I reckon!

And a little excitement in our ‘Lockdown’ lives today, we have to go to the Opticians, normally a chore, today an expedition into a strange new world.

It is good to get out again into the real world albeit carefully.  It is not good for us old people to get to insular in our safe little bubble.  It tends to make for tunnel vision, a common thing in people who don’t get out there much.

Take the Carnival Glass bowl in the picture on this post.  It is called ‘Brooklyn Bridge’, the people that made it over a hundred years ago made the first few batches without the inscription between the Airship and the Bridge.

They knew that it was Brooklyn Bridge and the glass bowl made for the 25th Anniversary of its building.  They only had to look out of the window and the bridge was there.  It wasn’t until someone said ‘Well what bridge is that then’? That it occurred to them not everyone knew what it was, so they changed the moulds and now the writing says “Brooklyn Bridge”.

But what a perfect example of living in a bubble, you have to live in the whole world not just in your own little circle.  Otherwise you tend to miss the obvious, and a lot of life and what is the point in that!

Although, actually because they did it then, even for just a short while, if you ever find one of the original bowls without the words, it would probably be worth a fortune now!