2nd September, 2009 - 42 Home Improvements #7

Those of you in the know, have been eagerly following this series of entries, as I try to improve my household in 42 ways (one for every year of my life). Number 7 was completed this evening when I re-hung a mirror. This is not the same mirror that I hung earlier in this series. It was a different mirror.

It had fallen off the wall, and fortunately had not broken (therefore if I now experience 7 years bad luck it is entirely down to God, and not the supernatural forces of the mirror demons). I am strangely superstitious about matters such as this, which is odd, given my pretty rigidly rationalist views of the universe. But something about mirrors breaking, and the number 13, and saying the name of The Scottish Play in theatres fills me with an irritating dread. For me these things are doubly irritating, because I know the fear to be completely stupid. And yet... and yet...