It is amazing how relatively simple things can send your cozy world into chaos.
From cars that drive on the other side of the road (making a half-awake pedestrian crossing hazardous to one's health) to making change with unfamiliar coinage (especially without my eyeglasses) -- adjusting to life in the U.K. is, well, an adjustment.
The oven in the kitchen of my hosts is on an unfathomable system. In fact, I can't even find it on wikipedia at the moment. Most of their appliances need to be turned on twice -- once at the electrical source -- then again (actually a good idea -- though I had forgotten and momentarily thought I lost the usage of the top of the stove.)
Besides the drivers, pedestrians and cyclists use the opposite side on walkways and paths -- and even the escalators are reversed.
Tonight I'm attempting the washing machine as my hosts have wisely gone on a week's holiday.
Not quite as perplexing as Alice's journey through the looking glass. Gradually, I suppose, the 'curious' and 'curiouser' will become the familiar. Or will the familiar become 'curious' and 'curiouser'?
Whoo, boy, I hear ye about the appliances! My oven (wait, it's not called an oven in these parts, but a "cooker") needs to be turned on about three times!
ReplyDeleteLeft will feel right, in time. :-)