Continuing on with the wardrobe move, still surprised she still had the adidas jacket, as said to her "i thought that would have been long gone", she told me she used to wear it all the time when she went jogging and to the gym with her friend, as recently as just last year, around November/December. She said it kept her cosy during the colder weather, but then they stopped just before Christmas, and because of the long winter we had, lasting up till May this year, they have not yet decided to go back to jogging and the gym.

After moving a couple of dresses into her new wardrobe, another BIG surprise for me, the nylon adidas tracksuit, that i got in Florida about 10years ago, the one where i did n ot like the bottoms as it was either too hot or cold to wear, and the jacket has no lining, which again i did not like that much. Monica took this about 6 or 7 years ago when she was at our house baby-sitting while me and my wife were seeing a comedian that night. We returned home to her wearing it, the jacket didn't look too big on her as she had tied it up to her size with the drawstring waist, the bottoms however looked way too long, overlapping itself by her feet. She had a bath so she did not want to put back on the clothes she had been wearing and came across the nylon tracksuit in our closet, and she knew i was not that bothered about ever wearing it again. She did ask when we arrived home if it was o.k to take it, i agreed.

She took out the tracksuit and she also told me she got the bottoms shortened by using (easy stitch) or something like that, its an iron-on stuff instead of using needle and thread to re-pair and re-hem clothes. She did a remarkable job, she showed me by putting them on, over her jeans and they were an absolute perfect fit, the bottom was just at the floor but would be fine when she put trainers (sneakers) on. She had worn the tracksuit one rainy Sunday afternoon about 3 years ago when she was at her friends house, she was late coming home for dinner, so when she got home it was straight to the dinner table with her mum, dad, Claire, her boyfriend Dave and her other sister, Sandra.

As Monica was the baby of the family, she was always the centre of playful attention, as i mention before. After dinner they had a blackforest gatau and her dad dipped his fingers in the centre and tried to rub it into Monica's face but she grabbed her hood and turned away, Claire who was sitting next to her, tried to pry her hands away so they could pull her hood and get gatau on her face, but she did not manage, Monica grabbed the drawstring to her hood and while they were all trying to get her hand down, she was pulling the string tighter leaving a small hold by her nose, so they never managed. instead Sandra got it in her face instead. They were also preparing Semalina, which is like custard, but pink and probable tastes better too. Monica loved the stuff. She was still being harrassed by her dad so she ran out the back, and Dave soon followed, he had a cigarette, while Monica was then concentrating on releasing the tension on her hood and getting the drawstring at even lengths, when she felt and then saw the semalina pouring down her shoulder on her front and dripping from her hood, she said dhe was totally covered, she had to try to catch it with her seelves to stop it dripping down the bottoms, but there was too much. Dave used the hose to wash her off a little, but she was too cold, she ran up stairs into the bath-room, where Claire and their dad was waiting, they pushed her into the empty bath and turned on the shower, and left.

Monica then continued, she just lay there for about half hour and it was nice and cosy, the warm water keeping her warm. She then gave the suit an iron a few days later and it still, to this day, looks as new, same with her red jacket. She wore the suit as recently as this year, the street was still very deep with snow/ice/slush so her dad could not take her to work, so she had to walk, it was pouring with rain, and the walk to her work was a good 30-40 mins, due to the state of the footpaths, so she put the suit over her work trousers and winter coat, which kept her dry, apart from the shoulder and part of the sleeves where the rain leaked through the stripes.

I would love to take the suit back home and let my wife get wet or messy, but at the same time, i thought, naa, she has preserved it for so long and was nice to know it still had its uses. We then left and went to the tip with the old wardrobe dismantled, she was still wearing the red jacket, nothig changes, she still wore it zipped up to the top, and she walked rubbing the material against itself so she was very noisy, i did also notice, usually when she walks, she holds her handbag in one hand and the other hand is swinging away from the body, but when she wears these nylon/rain type jackets, she does the opposite, arms rubbing against the body to be a noisy as possible it seemed. This went on for a few hours as we also took my son the park on his bike so we were walking for maybe an hour or so, and that rustling/cracklying noise from her jacket was starting to annoy me, i also was wearing a similar jacket, but nowhere near as noisy.