Some people you tend to listen to .... others you tend to mildly ignore. We have one family acquaintance who often comes across as mildly vacuous or empty. This poverty of thought seems to be an abiding feature of his personality, and with such individuals you accustom yourself to the aura of inertia and calm nothingness that surrounds them.
But as with such people, sometimes their whole demeanour can suddenly change, and when it does it comes as a major surprise. You know the elevated condition is only temporary and that soon they will revert to their 'normal' self with the same anticipation you have when an hotel lift goes up to the higher floors, you wait with expectation for it to come back down to ground level again. Yet while it lasts it is like meeting with a new person for a brief time.
It is hard to know why this should be such a cathartic event, but the whole Covent Garden thing really got to him, and he was bowled over by the street excitement generated by the acrobats, musicians, jugglers and clowns. It got him so animated that he went into copious detail about every little thing he encountered. In such circumstances you can now face the danger of becoming tedious from too much talking and start to harbour an emerging desire that this unusually excited and chattering individual would soon revert to his predictable laconic state.
And it is no surprise to say that he soon did ... thank God.
This is all in the way of highlighting this post's special promotion for Covent Garden. Clearly, there has to be something good happening there.
