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Personal: 10:34 and All Is Well
Friday, i stayed up for the 8AM call about the oven arrival time. Initially it had been intended as a morning delivery, but they changed the time to afternoon. I went to bed, knowing that there would be morning forage delivery, a quick drop in by the Head Millennial (who is house sitting nearby and wanted to do a few things), and likely a bunch of phone calls, all of which would wake me. I also got a surprise wake up from Squirrel, who came out to discover Tavy making an escape to; see where Head Millennial had gone. Were they hiding in the bushes? (He knows Millennials come from bushes and the short drop in really confused him). Squirrel needed to check if Livia had escaped. She had not. Livia escaped once in her youth and it was terrifying for her. She was napping in my bed like a good girl. Still checking was absolutely the right thing to do.
There were calls, including the police "charity" scammers who have clearly gotten some new auto-dialer numbers. Sigh. If I got two hours sleep together, I'd be surprised. Forage delivery blocked the door again, but luckily hadn't put them right up against the door (a thing that periodically happens), so I could open far enough to push them away far enough so i could drag them through.
The oven arrived in the hottest part of the day, which was not pleasant for anyone involved, as I had to go out, prop the door, and guide them in, and those poor bastards were trying to work in it, I turned on main room fans and air-conditioning, but the brief trip outside, followed by my frantic cleaning of the under-oven space after they pulled the dead one, very nearly did me in.
I was thirty seconds from getting the last mystery glob off the floor when the phone range and I had to talk squirrel into getting it as I was blocked in by the arriving oven. I intuited it was my social worker, and managed to stop squirrel from telling her to call back later, but rather to wait. I huddled in the space between the small chest freezer where Squirrel keeps his meat and the sink while they pulled the oven forward so I could escape.
I explained about finally finding a dentist willing to do the crown, but they wanted 1700.00 cash up front and told me I should personally bill medicare for reimbursement after. I had tried to tell them that wasn't how it works. They kept insisting they weren't in network for medicare even though that's not how medicare works either. (Not exact wording, but the gist). This was basically the endodontist problem all over. I gave her the dentist contact info and she'll do battle with them next week. who knows. If we are lucky she'll open that dentist for medicare users too, just like she did the endodontist. She is the bureaucratic equivalent of Wonder Woman and she is my best hope for winning a crown before we have to do the root canal all over again.
Let's all hope, shall we.
I needed a bath at this point between sweat and allergens and sticky things that had dripped down the back wall, so i gave squirrel the pre-cooled living room, bathed, and went back to bed. It was clear I was not getting back to sleep, so the cats and I read peaceable for a couple of hours in the nice filtered air. I was nearly done physio when Head Millennial l called needing a ride, which was fine. We chatted while we sorted it out and there are now plans for the Head Millennial to bake me a vegetarian lasagna for Saturday first meal. We are both very excited to try the new oven. (Don't worry, i ran it the requisite recommended time this afternoon to "burn off and leftover manufacturer oils).
Tavy nearly knocked me over when I went to water the plants, still looking for his missing Millennial, Poor Wee Button. The cats did not like workmen and the whole day was made of disruptions, but they've settled down now that everything is normal again. Livia ate her meat, everyone has had pets and snacks. My stomach is full, I am hydrated and medicated, and by the time I went to pick up the millennial, there were normal for summer here clouds and there was a good breeze coming off the bay to chase the heat wave funk away.
All is well at the Cat asylum tonight.
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Unshakable Faith (2023)
Episode 30 Breakdown
The police team report back that all areas are secure and Police Captain Chen thinks the major target must be the full submarine blueprints, but Factory Chief Han advises he locked it back in the safe at the time of the fire and comfirms it's still there.
The police team see a demonstration of the delay mechanism on the acetylene and phosphorus ignition that was found in the burnt out workshop and Ji Danyang calculates a maximum of 5 hours possible for the trigger delay.
When Nurse Bai visits Secretary Lu in his dorm again, he is wary and wondering how she could have known something like the fire would happen to give him the time to photograph the blueprints, and asks her if she is a spy. He says if he gives her the camera then he cant turn back but he still cant bring himself to condemn her and gives her the camera on the promise they will go to Hong Kong together.
Officer Hongmei discharges herself from the hospital while Nurse Bai tries to get her to stay and rest and they meet a tired Ji Danyang who is worn out from the planning of the survival test. He tells them that they still need to find a suitable location and that Nurse Bai's Specialist Medical Unit will be needed again soon.
Nurse Bai delivers the camera film to the hiding spot and seamstress Miao passes it onto the Fake Li Qiuchen with the message that the experts are looking for a testing location. Meanwhile, the police team set up sentries on the mountain around the air raid shelter and guard as workmen prepare the space in secret.
Fake Li Qiuchen visits Dr Bai again to question if he wont rejoin the KMT, does that mean he's planning to report them, but Dr Bai says he doesn't care what they're doing, he just wants no part of it. In turn, he asks if Fake Li Qiuchen had coerced Nurse Bai into working with them but is told that they're only using Nurse Bai to force Dr Bai to help Snow Wolf kill Expert Chief Chu, and Fake Li Qiuchen agrees to arrange a meeting.
At the abandoned warehouse Dr Bai answers the phone call from Snow Wolf and tells them that if they don't show up he'll walk. He hangs up the phone and turns to leave but is stopped when a voice calls out to him. From behind a partition, Seamstress Miao appears and identifies herself as Snow Wolf and gives him the order to return to the field. Dr Bai complies, on the condition that they leave Nurse Bai out of it and Seamstress Miao agrees.
Assistant Welder Rui meets with Nurse Bai at the hospital under the ruse of having another nosebleed and she warns him about the investigation into the ignition trigger, and gives him an envelope of money from their superior.
The police team link a part of the ignition trigger to Assistant Rui, and Officer Hongmei advises that she had one of the welders inquire about Assistant Rui's apprenticeship, and learned that he'd been recommended to Master Welder Niu by someone who was recently caught as a spy. Master Welder Niu is called to the police office and confirms that he saw Assistant Rui destroying evidence. Master Welder Niu is angry that Assistant Rui is lying and suspicious and he works with the police to corner his apprentice, but Assistant Rui runs from the workshop with Officer Hongmei in pursuit.
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I was so proud of Secretary Lu for working out that Nurse Bai was a spy and was hoping that he would destroy the camera or something but no. That mini camera wouldn't have been easy to use, I'd laugh if half of the photos came out blurry because Secretary Lu was nervous and looking over his shoulder the whole time he was taking them. I mean, there's no guarantee that whoever you're coercing has a lot of experience with photography and cameras in 1958 didn't have auto focus or anything.
"For the sake of their beautiful future." Gag. Oh Secretary Lu. Can he at least survive this to share a cell with Security Captain Li and they can bond over being dumbasses in love with the wrong person?
It's good to know that the KMT spies don't know everything thats happening in the factory and havent learned of the air raid shelter.
The seamstress is Snow Wolf! That would explain why she was growling at Lai Guangrun. Unless this is another diversion and she's covering for the real Snow Wolf. They've kept their face secret for this long, it wouldnt surprise me if it turned out to be someone else. So they need Dr Bai's medical expertise for their plan to kill Expert Chief Chu, by why so covert? Is that just because all of their other attempts have failed?
Confirmation that Assistant Rui went to kiddie spy school too. But your days are numbered now boy. I liked how Hongmei used one of the other welders to buddy up to Assistant Rui to question him. I was wondering what his involvement was about. And I feel sorry for Master Welder Niu, he's a fun and exuberant side character to watch and he doesn't deserve to have a dodgy apprentice.
Hongmei was too busy wanting to get out of the hospital and back to work, and Nurse Bai wouldn't take them if Hongmei wont, so despite the nice gesture our math man is left holding his fruit.
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Here are my headcanons of Duck:
-He’s autistic due to his communication issues, speech patterns, repetitive language, trouble with controlling his emotions, feeling uncomfortable in unfamiliar situations, obsession with the sea, and hypersensitivity to touch, smell, and certain loud sounds.
-He might be Jewish due to the way how he speaks in the CGI series and he does have the facial features.
-Before 5750 and the same day as 5741’s built, he was the first 57xx Pannier to be built in Swindon but this all happened without the GWR’s permission. Due to this, he was built with uneven axles. Unexpectedly, he also had a mental disability and he couldn’t speak and understood social cues. He was considered to be scrapped until Cornish workers begged them to give him a chance. The first steam engines which were made by a Cornish man named Richard Trevithick had a lot of issues yet they made history. So they believed he had potential. Anyhow and before 7715, he’s the first 57xx Pannier to work in Cornwall.
-He was not given a number during his GWR days due to his issues
-Since he was a “surprise” engine, he has been through some modifications. Whereas he’s the only 57xx pannier to pull auto coaches. Along with being the only pannier to pull slip coaches.
-7715 is Duck’s younger sister, Jackie who is very spunky and tomboyish. They also have a close bond together.
-He was transferred to Paddington roughly in early 1941 to help out with the damage that was caused from the battle of the Britain
-While he was about to be sent to Sodor, workmen gave 5741’s old number plate to help him feel better
#duck the great western engine#thomas and friends#headcanon#fan theory#autism#tumblr sexyman#autistic headcanon
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"MOTHER ACCUSES SON OF STEALING JEWELRY,” Toronto Star. February 27, 1933. Page 2.
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Youth Admits He Took Her Watches and Bracelet and Sold Them
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Mrs. Nellie Baldwin, mother of Ed. Baldwin, complained in police court to-day that her son, 17 years of age, had taken two watches and a gold bracelet and disposed of them unlawfully. When asked by Magistrate Browne what he did with the jewelry, the accused lad replied: "I sold them on Yonge St."
Crown-Attorney Malone declared that Baldwin had left school three years ago, and that at the present time his parents had but small control over the boy's actions.
The case was adjourned for further Investigation, to March 2, bail of $200 being accepted.
Held on $5,000 Bail
John McGregor, charged with criminal negligence, was remanded on bail of $5,000 till March 27. It was stated by the crown that the injured party would be unable to appear until about that time. Goldie Klyman was the person alleged to have been struck by an auto driven by McGregor, at Euclid Ave., about 12.20 a.m.. Feb. 19.
Charged with conspiracy with intent to defraud the Workmen's Compensation Board, Lazo Baitch was ordered remanded to March 6 on $5,000 bail.
Alfred G. Hall, and Fred Hastings. charged with theft in the amount of $1.500 and $33.90 were remanded until March 6.
Heavy Bail Demanded
Solomon Ruckenstein was remanded to March 6, under bail of $20,000. on charges of theft and conspiracy, involving $100,000. Crown-Attorney Gibson requested that the bail be set at the figure named, since the amount. of $15,000 had failed to hold a man named Lewis, allegedly implicated in the case. Detective Glasscock brought Ruckenstein here from Montreal.
W. J. Webber was remanded. to March 6 on a charge involving $560 worth of stock, preferred by Rosa Neital of Walmsley Blvd. Bail of $5,000 was set.
Looking For Lottery Man
Benjamin Cutler pleaded guilty to having lottery tickets to sell and was remanded till March 6.
"Cutler tells me that a man comes. every Monday and hands over about two dozen of the tickets which are sold at 25 cents each," stated Arthur Roebuck, defense counsel, in reply to Magistrate Browne's question as to where the tickets came from.
"Yes-yes," commented the bench, quickly, "and accused has told me that same tale before-but I'm not going to be fooled with much longer. I'll either find out who the man is higher up, of know why. I'm going to remand Cutler from week to week, if necessary, until his memory re- rives sufficiently to give the court the answer required. And I don't believe him when he says he doesn't know the name of that ticket supplying man."
Fined 77 Celestials
William Douglas. superintendent of the Orphans' Homies of Scotland, Bridge of Weir, was a visitor who sat on the bench beside Magistrate Tinker in early city police court to-day.
Fines aggregating $154 and costs were assessed against Cheng Yu and 76 others, guilty of "gambling on the Lord's Day." Two dollars and costs each was the penalty imposed.
Edward Wicherley was fined $10 or five days for fighting in front of a theatre on Saturday night. Martin Wrobel, said by police to have been the aggressor in the scrap with Wicherley, was ordered to pay $10 or go to jail for seven days. Wrobel was given permission to go out and get money to pay the fine.
Joe Kearns was fined $30 or 30 days for being drunk,
Fred Falconer, said to have spent three months in jail over drunkenness charges, was to-day ordered to pay $10 and costs or serve ten days. Mick
Mackerly was sent to jail for 60 drys for stealing aluminum bars from the Aluminum Company of Canada.
It Was Wing's Birthday
Low Wing was charged in the liquor and traffic court with having liquor in his restaurant on Elizabeth St.
"Some of the businessmen on Eliza- beth St. were putting on a little party, testified P. C. Sheer, 29, who visited Wing's cafe at 4 a.m. and found a bottle.
"That day is my birthday." said Wing, through Interpreter Chin Wey, "and I invited in a few friends."
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Jack Ryder was cutting in and out of traffic in Bloor St., when P.C. Hainer (457) saw him late on Friday night. To-day he was convicted of reckless driving and was fined $10 and costs.
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When Edna Masey's car stopped. on the tracks at Sherbourne and Wellesley Sts., P.C. Jackson (736) investigated. "She was absolutely Intoxicated," testified the officer. "She couldn't stand or answer any questions." Edna was committed to jail for seven days.
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Joseph Keeling charged with reckless driving at Jarvis and Maitland Sts., asked for a remand till March 6 to give him time to finish a painting job. It was granted and he was told to "expect the worst" on that date.
Stephen Zrebruk charged with having alcohol illegally, pleaded not guilty and was remanded for a week.
Edward Sopher, charged with reckless driving and Arnold Lawrence, facing a charge of breach of the Excise Act, will appear March 6. Bail in each case was set at $500.
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Violet Evergarden Ever After: Chapter 3
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No one would imagine that a single drop could be the start of something so big. However, it would earn itself great meaning after a while passed. Should it continue pouring, it could also summon boundless blessings and curses.
Love was almost like rain.
The Journey and the Auto-Memories Doll
That one was a rain of betrayal.
It started with a calm morning, the sky unfolding without any hints of being enshrouded in dark clouds. Regardless, it did not take too long for the capricious rain brought by the heavens to turn into a downpour rarely seen in recent years.
There was no longer any sign of the rain that had started to fall like gentle kisses from paradise on the black hats of gentlemen walking around town, over the backs of cats dozing under the sun or onto the cheeks of children who opened their mouths and burst into laughter. The current season was the end of summer, and it was raining for the first in a long while in Leidenschaftlich, where the skies were constantly clear in summer, but had the god that controlled weather gone crazy? With time, as if a bucket had turned over, the city was hit by a flood.
This story is about an uneventful day, which did nothing but pass, in the lives of people who worked at a certain postal company.
The rain and wind struck the entire building as if attacking it. The doorbell rang loudly because of this, a man standing in place and staring at it with unease.
Creak-creak, the door moved. Ring-ring, the bell resounded. Since it was ringing despite there being no customers, he had become concerned and found himself coming down from his residence in the top floor.
In the previous year, the building had been shot with rocket artillery, and not only had it earned an enormous hole but a fire had also occurred – however, thanks to the quick skills of workmen, the hole was now closed and the walls had been neatly rebuilt.
The man was a stylish redhead. He was the president of this company, which he had named after himself.
Claudia Hodgins had been left all alone in the empty postal office. Still, it was normal for him to be there, as it was both his home and workplace. However, since he was by himself at a time that would usually still be within business hours, no matter what, he looked like he had been abandoned.
The postal office had been in great turmoil because of the storm. Surely, so had its peers. With the deliveries stagnated, complaints were coming from the clients. Nevertheless, the transportation was not carried out by machines devoid of feelings. It was something done by humans, who had been given birth to by someone and who had families waiting for them when they returned home. In lieu of the unpreceded disaster, as the president, he had notified all employees that business would be closed for today.
To begin with, the customers had stopped coming in the middle of the day. If he had to say so himself, this might be the expected. Deliberately going outside amidst such strong wind and torrential rain was an act of sheer madness.
Curious about what was going on outside, Hodgins had approached the entrance from the side. He felt like attempting to open the large doors just a little. He wanted to see how inundated the ground was. Just when he slow and carefully reached a hand towards it, the door opened with force despite him not doing anything.
“Ow...!”
“Oh, my bad. More importantly, we’re screwed; it’s just impossible, Old Man!”
Hodgins was teary-eyed as his precious nose took a hit. He was lightheaded for an instant due to the pain, but soon regained consciousness. After all, one of his employees had come back dripping-wet. Hodgins pulled him – whole body wrapped in rain gear – by the arm, bringing him inside and closing the door. Although it was only open for a few seconds, the entrance was already drenched.
The visitor took off the hood over his head, allowing his face to be seen. He was a splendidly handsome and fine man of sky-blue eyes and sandy-blond hair.
“Benedict...!”
Benedict Blue. One of the postal company’s postmen, who had been working in it ever since its founding.
“It’s impossible – actually, it’s absurd! Working under this rain is absurd! I look like I’m in the bath already. I wouldn’t have come here if I weren’t soaked... Making the staff pull out was the right choice,” Benedict said as if angry-yelling, shaking his head in the same way that a dog or cat would and splattering water splashes at Hodgins.
This wetted most of Hodgins’s shirt and face, but he was unable to reprimand his employee, who had been doing strenuous effort. He accepted it in resignation, wiping Benedict’s face with the sleeve of his shirt. “Okay, stay put.”
“Uoh, what’s with you? Stop.”
“Welcome home. I was worried. Good thing you’re all right.”
“O-Oh. What, hum... I’m back... You were worried about me?”
“Of course,” Hodgins said, to which Benedict turned away with an obviously embarrassed attitude after a moment of bewilderment.
Outside, vases and planters that may have been at the eaves of people’s houses, as well as shop signs, had been turning into weapons for a while now, dancing around the city along with the wind. Managing to come back unharmed and safely amidst this weather, where one could not know what would come flying their way, was something to be happy about.
“I’m just fine. This job’s easier than running around shooting guns. Anyway, I was left with the letters and packages of a guy who fell from his motorcycle and came back by myself. Was best to do that, right?”
“Aah, so someone got hurt?”
“That newbie, Clark. But he only scrapped his knees. He fell lots of times when he was learning how to ride, but for real, it’s surprisingly depressing when you fall off other than during practice. He was crying, y’see.”
“Aah~.”
Knowing who the person in question was, Hodgins pitied him. He was the youngest postman to join the company as of late. It was difficult to find human resources for postmen as they were quick to quit.
“He’s young, after all...”
“You call him young but... he’s already a grown man. I wonder if he ain’t lying to us about his age... I thought he was a baby or something.”
“You can’t compare him to a city boy fresh from the battlefield like yourself. I’m gonna get you a towel and a change of clothes now, so don’t move from there.”
“Why?”
“You’d wet the floor. Don’t tell me to go around cleaning up where you walked.”
“Clean it up,” he said while laughing, to which Hodgins’s shoulders slumped. He was a reliable companion, but also a young man who knew not how to show respect for his elders.
——Well, guess I’m a so-called doting parent for thinking that’s cute – no, doting boss.
Anyhow, they needed towels, Hodgins thought as he went back to his room. He grabbed a few large towels and held a pair of trousers and shirt that Benedict would apparently fit into under his arm. Then returned to the ground floor. By the time he did so, the number of people had increased.
“Uwah... Amazing, it’s like squeezing a rag.”
There were three more other than Benedict. If they were to be separated by types, one of them had evacuated after receiving a report of work, one had evacuated after finishing work, and one had been ordered to clock out, but all had come back halfway through, as their bodies were about to be blown off by the overwhelming storm.
“Please stop.” There was Violet Evergarden, whose golden hair was in Benedict’s grasp.
“Why? You said your hair was wet.”
“You just want to touch Violet’s hair, Benedict. Isn’t that right?” Lux Sibyl, who had given up on wiping her glasses and was glaring at the empty space.
“That’s not it. Don’t say weird stuff, Lux.”
“You knooow, my hair’s just as long as Violet’s.” And Cattleya Baudelaire, who scowled at Benedict with her arms crossed.
The members who had been there ever since the founding were Violet, Cattleya and Benedict, but Lux, having joined midway, was now a skillful secretary who covered up the schedule of the employees and president and moved them around like chess pieces. As the four people whose ages were close to each other’s came together, the conversation naturally livened up.
“You—You’re that kinda thing. If I touch you in a place like this, it’d be that kinda thing. This is our workplace, so there’s all that kinda thing. Morally speaking, it’s that kinda thing.”
“What do you mean ‘morally speaking’?!”
“I wish you wouldn’t say those things even if you think about them. Right, Violet?”
“‘Public morals’...? Benedict, what am I from your point of view?”
“V, you’re like a little sister to me... Aah, Old Man, gimme another towel.”
It was a terribly joyful thing that the company’s young aces had returned to it safe and sound.
“Everyone, don’t move from that spot no matter what. Hey, Cattleya! Don’t move!”
However, wiping all the water off the bodies of those four turned out to be a bone-breaking work.
Out of kindness, Hodgins invited the four people who had gathered up at the postal company to his residence in the top floor.
The whole floor was his apartment, thus it was quite large. A family of five could live comfortably in it. The furnishings were arranged in wooden items and serene shades of dark brown and green. It was a relaxed, adult atmosphere, where was nothing particularly funny. It had a faint scent of the perfume that Hodgins always wore.
The invited four let out sighs of relief. The biggest reason for it, although there was also the fact that this was Hodgins’s apartment, was that they were able to escape the horrible situation outdoors. With the exception of Lux, three of them were tough enough to take part in the act of physically crushing other postal companies, but human beings could not win against natural disasters.
“Hey, what do we do? We can’t go home anymore, can we?”
“There’s nothing we can do. We got no choice but stay in Old Man’s place.”
“First time something like this happens, huh. But we’re all together, so... might be imprudent of me to say this, but... it’s a bit fun. Violet, are you worried about your home?”
“Yes, about the flowerbeds.”
“You should say ‘about the people back home’, V.”
“The two went on a trip, so they are away. I promised that I would take care of the flowers in their absence, which is why... I am worried about the flowerbeds. Besides, if that house were to be destroyed by this storm, this place would meet its end much sooner... We have little time left to live.”
“Don’t go from talking about your family to destroying the company, Little Violet. Hey, hey, everyone, you’ll catch a cold so get changed first. Put the towels in the laundry basket. Benedict, don’t throw the towels wherever!”
As told by Hodgins, the employees firstly decided to change their clothes.
Violet and Cattleya had just returned from a work trip of two days and one night, thus they had a change of nightclothes in their bags, but Benedict and Lux did not. Although there was a height difference between them, Hodgins had no issues with lending clothes to Benedict, who was also a man, but there was a need for careful selection when it came to Lux.
“Shirt... shirt, shirt; all I have is shirts.”
“Hum, President, I’m fine with anything.”
“Eeh... that okay?”
As a result, the boy and girl came into the scene wearing baggy clothes. Benedict looked almost the same as when he and Hodgins first met. When he was left to chance completely naked in a desert, he had borrowed a shirt and trousers just as he was doing now. He seemed pleased with it, however...
“Feels kinda naughty...”
...the problem was Lux.
“Benedict’s fine, but maybe it won’t do for Little Lux? Is this okay?” Hodgins asked everyone with a meek face.
They all had at last settled down, each seated in a place of their preference while sipping tea. The employees were relaxing as if they were in their own homes. Contrary to the peaceful state of the situation inside, there was still a sound of rain hitting the windows and a troubled noise of something colliding against the building outside.
“What is ‘okay’ supposed to mean?” Sitting on the sofa, Violet tilted her head. Being comfortably dressed in a dusty-pink nightwear gave her usually disciplined self a slightly soft and gentle air.
“Little Violet.”
“Yes.”
“Your nightgown is cute, huh.”
“The people from the household bought it for me. Well, what is ‘okay’ supposed to mean? Was there any problem?”
“Little Lux’s clothes.”
For whatever reason, they had the person in question standing in the center of the room. With everyone’s eyes on her, she seemed uneasy.
“Hum... why do I have to stand in the middle?”
“Little Lux, stay like that and don’t move.”
“All right.”
“What is wrong with Lux’s look? You mean to say it lacks adornment?”
“Why would that be the case, Little Violet?”
“You are the one who chooses attires for us Dolls and you have particularities regarding the clothing and accessories, so I concluded that you might deem the plain shirt as not enough.”
“No, no.” Hodgins flailed both hands. The things he was saying had a moral value to them, out of fear that her outfit was perhaps vulgar.
Benedict had dealt with it by securing her trousers with a belt, but as Lux had too thin a waist, the outcome was the belt falling off. In short, she was not wearing pants. Inevitably, she was dressed in nothing but a shirt. However, her short stature fortunately made it look like a shirt-dress.
As Hodgins explained his concern, everyone said, “I see.”
Showered with their stares more and more, Lux began to blush.
“It gives off a dangerous feeling when you think she ain’t wearing any, but on second thought, isn’t that the same for skirts? There’s actually an open hole in them, but it’s not visible, so they’re classified as clothes. No big deal, is it?” Benedict had been standing with his back against the wall just a moment ago, yet had suddenly drawn close to her and started examining her fixatedly.
“Don’t say ‘not wearing any’!”
“Well, I mean, you really ain’t wearing any... but that’s okay. No biggie. You’re probably not an option for Old Man, so no worries. Right?”
“That’s rude!”
“I’m saying you don’t need to worry about that kinda thing... Should I take mine off, then? I see; I’m fine with it. I’ll be the same as you. That all right? I’m gonna take it off.”
“Stop, stop, stop!” As Benedict put a hand to his belt while laughing, Lux repeatedly hit his chest with her fists to stop him. Lux was red up to her ears. “I can’t take this anymore! Violet! Take Benedict to over there!”
“Understood.”
“Owowowow, V, ouch, that’s not it; it was the Old Man who said weird stuff first. We’re friends, so I was showing that she doesn’t have to get hung up over something like...”
Caught in Violet’s arms, Benedict obediently sat on the sofa. Perhaps in order not to allow him to escape, she gripped his hands and sat next to him.
Cattleya cut through the silence, “The tea is delicious.” She was scattered over the bed. She must have been tired from returning from the Doll business trip. Her eyes were downcast. She might be sleepy.
“Cattleya, do you not have any comments to make? I want to hear lots of opinions.”
“Eeeh, me?” Cattleya joined the needless debate as if it were a bother. “Hmmm... if someone were making her wear this because it’s their taste, it’d be gross indeed, but there’s no other clothes for her... It’d also be horrible to leave her with just a towel wrap, so I think it’s valid. Speaking of which, President...”
“Hm?”
“You’re saying that even though you pick open-chested clothes for my Doll outfits? And the times you were choosing Doll attires for me, y’knooow, you were never so considerate to say ‘not this, not this either’ when discussing it with the people from the made-to-order store...”
Her manner of speech was somewhat thorny, but Hodgins did not make much out of it. “That’s because they look good on you.” Rather, he said decisively, with an earnest gaze and excessive confidence, “Because they look good on you. Is my judgement wrong?”
“E-Eh?” Being replied to so unapologetically, Cattleya’s reasoning jumbled up, to the point she found herself wondering if she was the one in the wrong.
The Doll outfit that Cattleya usually wore was composed mainly of a crimson dress-coat, so there was no mistaking that one could not wear it unless the person was remarkably stylish. In addition, there was also no doubt that it was lascivious. Whoever looked at her would find their line of sight momentarily going to her chest. Still, whoever looked at her would remember the woman named Cattleya Baudelaire at once.
“No... it’s not like your choices are wrong... but I only forgive you because you’re the boss. I was shocked when you first showed me that outfit! I didn’t use to wear something like that before.”
“Well, but y’see, an hourglass-shaped person looks more slender when the area around their collarbone is exposed, and it’s pretty.”
An evident question mark floated above Violet’s head at the unfamiliar word. Benedict pointed a finger at the tea set arranged on the nearby table. An hourglass used to measure the time it took to steam the tealeaves was lying there. Perhaps finding the similarity between it and a plump chest and dainty hips, Violet nodded as if convinced.
“You’ve got an hourglass-shaped figure with that slim waist, so I gave you a coat-dress that puts this on display. You can adjust it with the ribbon, so it’s not a pain, right? It has a wonderful line in mathematical terms, y’know? Plus, you also have a cheerful character, so it doesn’t look vulgar. That’s important. It means that outfit takes into consideration even the personality of the one wearing it. And the owner of that made-to-order store is famous not just in this country but abroad. The outfits of our Dolls are on a whole different level in comparison to other companies, aren’t they?”
“Y-Yeah.”
“I don’t want to bring this up, but they’re very expensive.”
“Eh, I’m sorry. S-Should I pay you back? Either that or you can dock my salary...”
“No, you’re my Doll, after all. Nobody waters a flower to get money off it, right? It’s fine, Cattleya. Just stay pretty. It’s exactly because I have obsessions over clothes that I don’t want to make a girl look vulgar. And it’s exactly because I like girls that I want to have them shine wonderfully. That’s also why I have a few complaints about Little Lux’s usual plain clothes, though...”
“I don’t know why you decided to run a mail service, President, but I accept that passion of yours. I’ll wear those clothes with care. But, President, I’m doing my best, so I want a new outfit. A cute one.”
Listening to the conversation of the two in silence, perhaps tired of going along with her superior, Lux looked at Violet and Benedict’s direction with a gaze that quietly asked for help. There was a gap on the sofa that seemed enough for one person to sit. Having locked eyes with her, Violet told Benedict to scoot over after a brief moment and patted the open spot. Lux sat next to them, looking happy.
“Violet, what’re you drinking?” Lux peeked at the teacup that Violet was holding.
“I wonder. I took the tealeaves that were in the kitchen. I do not know what type of tea it is.”
“Darjeeling.”
“Benedict, how did you know?”
“‘Cause that guy likes Darjeeling. All the tea cans he has are nothing but that.”
“Guess I’m gonna drink that too; my body got cold from the long time under the rain.”
“Heeey, the three of you who ended the talk before we noticed! Listen to what I have to say.” Hodgins put his hands on his hips, pretending to be angry.
“We were deviating from the main subject. We deemed that it was not a necessary conversation and took action prioritizing Lux’s rest,” Violet expressed with a clear voice tone.
“Besides, this talk’s about bedroom wear, ain’t it?” Benedict added a two-fold retort. The blond, blue-eyed duo that looked like siblings stared at Hodgins with questioning eyes.
“Ugh, I comply with you two no matter what you say when you both look at me at the same time, so cut it out. But I’m not giving up. I think she needs one more article of clothing.”
“Hum... President, I’m okay with this. I’m already thankful that I could borrow your clothes. Besides, when you make such a big fuss about it, things that weren’t lewd in the first place start to seem lewd, so to say,” Lux said, wanting to end this topic as fast as possible.
“The solution has come to me. Wouldn’t it be best if I took the shirt and trousers and had Lux wear this nightgown?”
However, Violet wound up rewinding it.
——Violet!
Lux hit Violet repeatedly in her mind.
“Ah~, that’s right. If that’s the case, I can do it too. But maybe my nightgown is too big? It’s a negligee just like Violet’s. The shoulder length might be the problem for this one...”
“Old Man, you gonna die if you don’t obsess over the stuff we wear? You ain’t. Give up.”
“No way. Days like this one don’t come by. All five of us are trapped in the company and we can’t get out. You’ve got no choice but stay here in my house, right? We’re having the best of parties, a pajama party. I want it to be a good one. But I can’t enjoy it when I’m worrying over Little Lux’s clothes.”
Benedict contemplated a reply to Hodgins’s words for a few seconds, but soon stopped. He was probably tired. He looked Violet’s way and asked, “Hey, you not hungry? I’m gonna take a look at the kitchen.
“Hey, don’t ignore me.” As Benedict stood up, Hodgins chased after him.
“Benedict’s gonna make something? Yay! You guys probably don’t know this, but he’s good at cooking.” Cattleya lined up behind them.
“I didn’t say I was gonna make anything, though... Well, if you’re hungry, I can do it.”
“I shall assist you.” Violet raised her arms, rolling up her sleeves. Her prosthetics made a creaking noise.
“V, you can cook?”
“To some extent. In the military, I used to make preparations for the cooking. Mrs. Evergarden... Lady Tiffany also trained me on it.
“M-Me too... I can peel the potatoes, and stuff.” Lux hastily went after everyone. In a trail, a big move to the kitchen began to take place.
“Lux. You don’t usually cook, do you? I can already tell by just that statement. I’ll teach you.”
“Most things get solved just by peeling the potatoes... Benedict, you’re making fun of me, aren’t you?”
“Am not, Potato Demigod.”
“Violet, Benedict insulted me!”
“Benedict.”
“Owowow! V—! Don’t poke my sides! A hit from those crazy-ass prosthetics of yours ain���t no cutesy way to poke anyone! It just hurts like it normally would!”
In the end, Hodgins was able to find a light feather-print sweater in his closet and gave it to Lux. As she put it on, with her short stature, its length became the same as that of a long cardigan, which Hodgins was awfully pleased with for how adorable it was.
The madder-red sky was not visible at dusk, the outside morphing into evening with no changes in the rainy weather.
Benedict made a soup at random with the vegetables available in Hodgins’s kitchen, which had seasonings in abundance, while Violet and Cattleya supplied it with cookies that they had brought back as souvenirs from their ghostwriting business trip. Lux brought over small candy marbles that she kept stored in her desk at the company, and Benedict, instructed by Hodgins, reluctantly took an expensive bottle hidden on the liquor shelf of the latter’s room.
“Hey, let’s rummage through the desks of everyone in the company. There are probably gonna be other ingredients in them.”
“If it’s Mr. Anthony’s desk, I think there’s definitely something in it. Mr. Anthony always gives me sweets... We’re in a state of emergency so I’m sure he’ll forgive us for it.”
“There were sweets in the reception guys’ desks. Would they get mad if we took them?”
“Definitely seem like they would. But this sweet... is one of the tasty ones... I wanna eat it.”
Lux, who was still growing, and Benedict, who had missed lunch and did not have enough with just the vegetable soup, procured more food. The sweets that the hungry thieves sneaked from the company employees’ desks turned out as what could be considered a big catch, and so, the five people trapped inside during a day of usual rain commenced a night party.
The five of different ages, genders and positions were already at a state where they could be deemed as a single family through the many incidents they had overcome and the time they had spent together. They laughed a lot, talked a lot.
“You remember when Violet brought Lux over? She went to negotiate it directly with Old Man with so much might, like, ‘I have picked up a puppy. Please give me permission to raise it here. Now, hurry’. They were holding hands and she wouldn’t let go of Lux, explaining the situation all at length as if to say she wasn’t gonna move until he gave the permission. The way Old Man acted so suspicious back then was a real blast.”
“I remember~! He was like, ‘Eh, “demigod”? Eh, “abduction and confinement”? Have you told the military police about that?’... President was so troubled, walking in circles around the two. It was the funniest thing of that year.”
“Hum... I’m sorry.”
“No, no, don’t apologize, Little Lux. You’re our main player now, so you did what you could to get where you are. You really exerted yourself in this unfamiliar land. Work for us forever, ‘kay? Rather, for me. Little Violet does some unbelievable stuff sometimes, but she generally doesn’t do anything wrong, so back then, her first-time deed shook up even someone like me, with plenty of life experience. Saying no didn’t even cross my mind.”
“I knew that President Hodgins would give you a generous treatment. If I had not concluded so, I would not have done such a thing. Thank you very much for that time, President.”
“Little Violet... Little Violet’s all grown up too, huh; you’ve become a wonderful lady...”
“Well, she’s got you as her example of guardian figure, after all.”
“I was raised by both Benedict and President Hodgins. You are my examples.”
“Eh, so I’m Old Man’s son...? Gimme the whole company.”
“No way! Actually, you’re taking a part of the company in the future, so that much should be fine, right?”
“You were serious about that? If you split the company...”
“Yeah, I’ll be the vice-president. V, call me Vice-President Benedict.”
“Benedict will be... the vice-president?”
“Violet, you haven’t been to the company too often because of work, right? I’ll stay as President Hodgins’s secretary, but some of the employees will go to Benedict’s side. That’s gonna be pretty lonely... Still, the company will be built inside the country, so it’ll be close in terms of distance. But it won’t be the same building anymore.”
“Other people... will also be gone.”
“Did I tell you that my role’s gonna change too?”
“I have not heard about that.”
“I’ll be transferred to training the newcomers. Violet, you’ll stay as you are. Well, between you and me, if we were to debate on which one should be the instructor, it’d have to be me. I’m good at looking after others.”
“Cattleya will be... an instructor...”
“I’ll be here like always. The Doll department that Little Violet and the others are in will stay in the main office and you’re largely in charge of the numbers in our Doll department, so your role won’t change.”
“Sounds like I don’t make money when you put it like that.”
“No, it’s not like that... I’ve been keeping the right people in the right places since long ago, right? I asked you to do this because I thought you could be everyone’s big sis. Besides, wasn’t it you, Cattleya, who immediately replied that you’d to it when I said your pay would increase if you became an instructor?”
“Well, that’s because I don’t know how long I could keep on being a Doll. It’s a job you can do even when you get older, but walking up mountains has been hard lately. Probably because of my high heels.”
They truly laughed a lot and talked a lot.
In their feel-at-home looks, they played card games, discussed memories of their trips and laughed holding their stomachs at silly stories. The night went on and on and the heavy rain outside gradually subsided, but no one said, “Let’s go home, then”. Days like these were a rarity. They all knew this much.
“I’m having lots of fun today. It’d be great if it were always like this.” The words that Cattleya muttered with a big smile spoke for everyone’s feelings.
Whenever a fun feast reached its climax, the loneliness towards the fact that it was going to end would cross the corners of people’s heads. That applied not only to this day that God had granted them but also to matters in the long run.
Perhaps the company named CH Postal Company itself could also be considered a feast to the people gathered in it. “May this dream, this fun time go on forever,” they wished.
The dream had begun with Claudia Hodgins. He then picked up Cattleya Baudelaire, Benedict Blue and Violet Evergarden.
“Make sure to just lick it. So, how’s that?”
They had built the company office building in Leidenschaftlich and started it together. As the postal business was a privatized one and the competitors were many, nobody could predict at first for how long this company would continue to exist.
“This stings.”
A local customer then came, earning them a large-scale contract in the delivery business.
“Eh~, you okay, Violet? You’re better off as someone who can’t drink...”
Their Auto-Memories Doll activities began to stand out.
“But everyone is changing.”
“Doesn’t that have nothing to do with drinking alcohol? I drink ‘cause I like it. If you don’t, then stop.”
“That’s right, Violet.”
“No... Major has a taste for drinking during meals, so I had been thinking of learning to do it one day as well. You are all changing one after another whenever I blink. I have started eating with other people quite often at work as well. I, too, shall adapt...”
Along the way, a girl who would later become a brilliant secretary joined them.
“I see... Then I want to try drinking too. I’m a secretary, after all. I have to eat out with other people. What kind of taste is it, if you had to compare?”
Despite the major changes in the personal life of each, all of them had contributed to the development of the company, to the point that they spent every single day being busy.
“Close to that of a perfume. In that it is hard to swallow.”
There would surely be many, many more changes.
“Hey, I can’t approve that opinion. Big Sis here will introduce you to delicious drinks. Rather than being taught by a man, you should learn from me. Lux, you can’t yet.”
Surely, their fates would twist further.
“Eh~?!”
“Benedict, bring another one. And something to crack it open with.”
For people to gather up, an encounter had to have happened. That was what it meant.
“Aight, aight...” Benedict stood up from the sofa. He had been dragged into Cattleya’s scheme, in which she had planned the conspiracy of attempting to make Violet Evergarden consume alcohol, because he himself had complied with it.
“O-Owah. Old Man. You were here?”
“‘Were here,’ you ask... this is my house.”
As they came across each other in the kitchen, Benedict had let out a brash voice without thinking. The reason might be that he perhaps was seen grinning as he walked in. Despite his nihilistic attitude, he was happy to spend time with his friends.
“I-I know. I was thinking you were taking too long in the toilet...”
“Cigar.”
With the kitchen’s small window open, Hodgins was smoking a cigar. All of the women despised the smell, so he rarely ever let them see him smoking. Just when Benedict was thinking about how he had suddenly stood up and disappeared, there he was, smoking in secret.
——He only smokes when he can’t calm down, though.
There was no better day to relax with their companions, and yet.
“Hey, take a look outside. It’s so quiet after the storm... like the wind. Even though it was so loud before.” Perhaps due to him being a little drunk, Hodgins’s face was red.
“True... Hey, need more booze. Ain’t there anything easier to drink?”
“Eh, why? You can’t give it to Little Lux.”
“Cattleya wants to make V drink some. Well, ain’t it okay? I think it’s about time she learns the ropes. Dunno when we’ll get to drink with her again... and it’s better to have people you get along with teaching you this kinda thing, right?”
“Eeh... it’s still too soon. If you insist, isn’t it enough to drip a drop of rum into her tea?”
“Can you even call that a drink? Make it a degree higher.”
Hodgins gave a strained smile. “Hey, hey, her big brother figure shouldn’t be saying this...”
“I say it because I’m her big brother figure. I mean, we’re getting more rookies. She’s the highlight of our Doll department. Eating with people is part of having a big job. Before she gets involved with someone who wants to make her drink...”
“Does this have anything to do with me telling you to be the branch manager?”
Hearing a slightly icy voice coming from the president, Benedict blinked. “No... sorta.”
“She’s still a child, and I’ll definitely always be with her in those kinds of places, so it’s okay. It’s still early to teach her how to drink. Nope, nope.”
“A ‘child’, you say... well, she’s got a childish side, but she ain’t one anymore.”
“She is – you, Cattleya and Little Lux, too, are all kids to me. Because you’re quick to do this kind of thing if I don’t keep an eye on you... My, my,” Hodgins said, blowing out the tobacco smoke. Mismatched as it was for someone with such a mature appearance, Benedict could get a glimpse of childishness in him.
“You’ll keep trying to do that from now on too? That’s impossible; face the reality,” Benedict bit out incidentally.
Silence.
Benedict’s words were not wrong. The CH Postal Company was growing rapidly as a business. The fact that the postal company led by Salvatore Rinaudo had withdrawn from the postal industry in the previous year had a major influence in this. They now reigned at a pivotal position in Leidenschaftlich’s postal service. The CH Postal Company would soon account for nearly all of the commissions from the people living in Leidenschaftlich. Other than being busy with work affairs, there were even discussions about relocating the head office because of problems with waiting areas and break rooms due to securing new employees.
“Like, you and I are gonna get damn busy. The Auto-Memories Doll department is gonna be the main organ of the head office and my place will be ordinary mail, right? We’ll be teaching people how things go, and I’ll be doing deliveries too. You’re the one with the busiest role. Anything and everything’s gonna be relayed to you. Getting to be close to your employees like until now while doing all that is just...”
It was natural for a company that had become bigger to do a corporative split-off and for one of their employees to manage the branch office. Benedict was still young but had the power to bring people together. The task would not be an impossible one if they put a veteran of the head office in charge of taking over it. They could do this, Hodgins had decided, thus he came up with the proposal.
“The regular meetings and other stuff that I take part in happen in the head office... It’s not like we won’t get to see each other.”
“Everyone will have a different post and position. We won’t get to see each other. Same for you, Old Man.”
“If it’s work, I can adjust it. I’ll do my best to administrate everyone so that the employees can get a time every now and then to relax like this...”
“Old Man, even if you do your best, V’s dating that nasty-ass military officer, so won’t they get married someday? Dunno ‘bout it, but... that’s why it’s impossible to always watch over us in the first place...”
Silence.
“Hey, don’t clam up.”
What was being thrust at Hodgins now was something that he did not want to look straight at, despite thinking about and readying himself for it. That was what he was being told.
“Hodgins – hey, Old Man.”
It was something that Benedict Blue had the right to say, exactly because they had been doing everything together from the start.
“Hey, don’t take it in a weird way. I ain’t saying this to be malicious. You left the Auto-Memories Doll department in the head office ‘cause your wish to watch over V is a big deal, right? I get it. She’s special to you.”
“That’s not it; I—”
“But she won’t be a kid forever. She’s different from back when she started working, with you teaching her everything. She’s someone who’s gonna let go of your hand one day. She ain’t your real daughter or your girlfriend. Then, if you had to say what she is, at the end of the day, she’s your employee. You’ll part ways one day. If you don’t get ready for that now, will you manage to get over it if she marries into that bastard’s family and he makes her leave the company?”
“Will you manage to get over it?” The question ruminated in Hodgins’s heart.
Benedict had shot him where it hurt without mercy. He was a gun expert. His aim was precise and the bleeding made Hodgins want to hold his own chest down.
——Will I recover if I ever have to be separated from Violet Evergarden? Hodgins pondered earnestly over the question. ——I don’t know.
He truly did not know.
Bonds were things that could not easily break off once they had connected, yet reality, time and busyness unpityingly caused the existence of “friends” to grow far apart.
——To the point that I don’t know, I...
Surely, a day like this would not happen five years from now. Their place to return to amidst the rain would be somewhere else.
——It’s not just her, but also you and everyone else.
To begin with, they might not even be working in the company itself anymore until then. More of them would fall for someone, nurture their love and move their places to be in life to their “homes”.
Twenty, thirty years from now, it might be hard for them to even work. Or they would not be alive – there was also that possibility.
The one who was more aware of this than anybody else was Hodgins, the oldest of them all.
——I’m the one who’s farthest apart in age.
That was exactly why he did not know.
“I have no idea.”
He did not want to see it. Did not want to think about it.
“I have too many things that matter to me, so I can’t make a move anymore. Y’know, you... you might aught at this, but... rather than when you’re young, getting hurt becomes scarier when you grow older. You start losing the energy to do your best and heal. It’s tiring. Still...”
Hodgins had thought that the youth in front of him, who referred to him as “Old Man” on a daily basis, was probably going to laugh, yet Benedict was expressionless.
“Still...”
He did nothing but listen. His posture of properly listening at times like these somewhat...
——...looks like Little Violet.
“Still, I know I’m the one who has to get moving the most. I’m getting everyone involved in the things I wanna do. That’s why I do what I have to. I also counted on you, because I trust you. I left it in your care. But... that and my feelings for her and you guys...”
“I get it.”
“...are different things, right? Y’know, you’re... mean. I’m like a foster parent to you, and yet... Even if you understand my loneliness...”
While Hodgins spoke as if bursting out, Benedict put a hand to his mouth as though to stop him. “I get it.”
Time halted completely.
Was he supporting the flustered figure of the one who was like a parent to him?
“My bad.”
Before he had noticed, he was carrying a load of things he must protect. Was he doing this due to realizing that he had left Hodgins to chance, thinking, “That’s because it’s him”?
“My bad. That just now was on me.”
Silence.
“I didn’t have to pick today to say this. Isn’t that right?”
“You think I’m being lame right now, don’t you?”
“Nah, you ain’t all that cool in the first place.”
“That’s a lie; I’m a generally-acknowledged beautiful young man... no, beautiful middle-aged man.”
“You might not be cool, but well, that’s what’s good about you. Right?”
Silence.
“The cool thing about my Claudia Hodgins is his uncool side.”
Since Benedict was speaking as if to comfort a child, Hodgins told him to “shut up”, slightly annoyed, yet burst into laughter nevertheless.
The rain caused all sorts of things to pour. The way that people were drowned by the drops trickling down from the sky inevitably made them think about something.
As dawn broke, Claudia Hodgins sat up, body heavy from not getting much sleep. When he peeked at his room’s bed, Violet and Cattleya were sleeping wrapped in the same blanket. On the sofa, Benedict was scattered about, snoring in a way that made him want to laugh.
Hodgins looked for where Lux Sibyl might be. He went down from the third to the second floor, and then from the second to the first floor. She was nowhere to be found.
While thinking it could not be possible, Hodgins opened the front door, and sure enough, he could see the figure of a girl walking down the street towards him.
The clothes she had put to dry yesterday were surely half-wet. What was it that she wanted to do outside so badly to the point of going this far? He understood when he saw what she had in her arms.
“Ah, President.”
Lux was holding a paper bag with a lot of bread in it. The amount was enough that the small girl’s face could not be seen.
“Little Lux... could it be you went to buy us breakfast?”
Thinking back, this young woman was the kind of person who was always quick to act when she was trying to do something for someone. That was all it took to be a considerate person, but without kindness in their heart, they would not turn out this way. The reason why Hodgins had nominated her his secretary was not just that she could do any sort of work.
“That’s so nice.”
“Yes, the bakery owner is very nice. I woke up a bit too early, and when I went on a walk to see how things were outside, the bakery was just about to open and they were getting ready... I went to take a look ‘cause it seemed so delicious and they told me to come in.”
“Ah, hm...”
“I was so touched when they said they baked bread for people who were hungry early in the morning, so I told them many thanks for selling them and bought lots of it. It’s the bakery from that street around the corner.”
“As expected of my secretary. Did you properly get the receipt?”
At those words, Lux showed him a smile that resembled a blooming flower. “Huhu, of course.”
For Hodgins, who had spent the night deep in thought about all sorts of things, that smile was a soothing one. It was like the water of a lake for someone who was feeling thirsty.
Hodgins wordlessly took the bag from Lux. “Little Lux, I’m seriously glad you came to us.”
“Only in this kind of situation, right?”
“All the time. Always. Little Lux, you’re still young, will probably keep working with us... and you’re such a good secretary... I’m the happiest CEO in Leidenschaftlich.”
“Are you going to hire me for life?”
“Eh?”
“Is that a no?”
“No, I could. But that’d mean working with me for life, y’know?”
“Is that bad? I have nowhere else to go.”
When asked with such an innocent look, Hodgins faltered.
“I won’t say the stuff Benedict does, like wanting the company for me.”
“Well, I might... end up giving it to you if you say that, so don’t ever. Hahah... Of course, keep working for us forever and always at my place. Huh, this is kinda like a marriage vow... Wanna take this opportunity and marry me in the future? Just kidding...” Upon thinking that the jest that came out incidentally was an unsavory one right after saying it, Hodgins looked at Lux’s reaction, only to find her staring back at him blankly. He had made himself into a caricature of an old man bothering a girl. “No, it was a prank! But hey. Little Lux, you might be the only one who can go along with me, so having this kind of small talk is... I-I’m not looking at you with dirty eyes, really! We’re too far apart in age, after all! We’re c-close enough that we can crack this kind of joke to each other, right?”
Lux pretended to think for just a few seconds. “Huhu, I can tell. That it’s a joke, at least. But not happening. We’re not getting married.”
And then, she flat-out rejected him.
“Ah, yes.” Although Hodgins would have been at loss if she had accepted it, his shoulders dropped somewhat.
“But President, I’m prepared to nurse you if you ever become unable to work.”
“Don’t... suddenly thrust such a cruel reality at me.”
“Eh, is it? From my point of view... this is quite a deep form of love. President, you’re the first decent adult who accepted me. I’ll devote my whole life to you.”
“Little Lux, you sure like me a lot. Gonna marry me after all?”
This time, Lux actually grinned and replied, “I’ll take that one home and consider it.”
“Amazing; that answer’s like the business talk at the company.”
“Because you’re teasing me... even though you’re well-aware that I don’t even know love yet.”
“Don’t know love yet”. The destructive power of those words caused Hodgins to regret his lighthearted proposal a little.
“Then, I’ll ask again in about five years. I should be at a nice middle age by then.”
“You say that, President, but you’re going on a trip with some hottie next week. I know it.”
The duo, who somehow seemed like they would or other be hanging together for a long time, returned to the office with bouncing chatter.
In order to make breakfast for everyone together, Hodgins and Lux stood in the kitchen by themselves.
Besides the already-baked bread, they would need drinks and vegetables. Those were merely simple preliminary preparations, but Hodgins felt that just this was somehow enjoyable, unlike doing the work on his own.
“President, you have yours with one sugar cube and a slice of lemon, right?”
“And for Little Lux, it’s two sugar cubes with milk, yeah? I know it.”
While arranging the bread on a plate, they also poured water over the tealeaves and left them to steam. Perhaps due to the scenery that could be seen from the kitchen’s small window being a blue sky with not a single cloud in it, it was awfully dazzling.
“Good morning.”
The next person who appeared amidst the morning sunlight was Violet. Her soft golden hair was just a bit disheveled. Hodgins’s hand naturally reached out to it.
“Morning... You’ve got a bedhead, Little Violet.”
“Excuse me...” Violet looked back at Hodgins as he caressed her head, seeming a little embarrassed. Her eyes were just slightly red. She might have not been able to sleep very well.
“Morning, Violet. Are Cattleya and Benedict also up?”
“Benedict was awake until a while ago, but when I got up from the bed, he began sleeping again by Cattleya’s side.”
“Morally speaking, it’s that kinda thing. I’ll go give him a warning.”
Hodgins laughed a little, seeing Lux off as she walked away while rotating her tiny shoulders. He then turned his gaze back to Violet. Her bedhead, which he had supposedly fixed with the caressing, had returned. For some reason, both of them being alone like this in a kitchen bathed in morning sunlight struck him as extremely peculiar.
Just the two of them, having such a tender time. How many more opportunities would they have for that?
They were already at it. He should talk about something. That was what Hodgins thought, but the words did not come out of him. Not because he had no topic to discuss. He could come up with as many things to talk about as he wanted, such wanting flowers to decorate the table or that they would surely have many customers today who were unable to come yesterday.
But he did not want to spoil this morning. He felt that it might crumble if he spoke even one sentence.
Violet was there. She had her blue eyes directed his way, looking at him. It was no longer awkward for the two of them to stay silent. That was their relationship.
Perhaps still sleepy, she was in a haze. He wanted to watch her standing amidst this gentle time for a little longer.
As she would usually always seem wide-awake, Hodgins believed that she was laidback to this extent due to being in the presence of people with whom she could be at ease from the bottom of her heart. That he had played a part in this feeling of security of hers.
——Will you forget one day?
One day, the position that Claudia Hodgins occupied in the life of Violet Evergarden would become smaller.
——She only gets bigger on my end, though.
Going to the hospital numerous times. Pushing her wheelchair. Giving her a notebook and teaching her how to write.
——I for sure can’t forget. These moments, days, everything like this with you.
The fact that he had not stopped her from fighting in the war. That he had thought they could use her.
——I can’t forget.
Delivering to Violet an outfit that could hide her prosthetic arms, yet that would also make her look her most beautiful.
——I’m sure I won’t forget about this morning either.
About that quiet morning, which was much like the one from before everyone was caught in the great storm and barged in.
Hodgins touched Violet’s hair again. Although she had told Benedict not to touch it, with Hodgins, she all but slightly left a strand in his hand’s care and let him take it, almost like how a cat would do.
——Aah, I want to hug you.
He was not in love with her. That would never be the case.
However, if she were his real daughter, on days like these, mornings like these, he would have easily said, “Good morning, precious” and embraced her.
“I had a dream, President Hodgins,” Violet whispered out of the blue with a freshly awake, faintly hoarse voice.
“Dream...?”
The stunning young woman, who was no longer a girl, talked about her dream like a child, “Yes; in the dream... you owned a clothing store.”
“Huhu, that so?”
“I cannot make clothes. You told me that you did not need me, President Hodgins, if I could not make clothes...”
“That’s horrible of me, huh.”
“Even when I said I could polish the shoes, clean up or do anything, you did not listen...”
Unlike the real one, the dream version of Hodgins had apparently chosen to part ways with Violet.
“Little Violet, what did you do about that?”
“I asked countless times. However, you rejected it countless times. I thought about standing in front of the shop until you allowed me in, but it started raining like yesterday.”
“Hm. And then?”
“Major Gilbert came to pick me up and told me to come home with him, but...”
“Hm.”
“I waited for President to come out of the store even as the lights went out.”
“Hm.”
“Despite waiting and waiting, President Hodgins did not come out, and at some point, a passerby told me, ‘This shop has moved’.”
“Even though it was open until just a moment ago?”
“It was a dream, after all... And then – and then, I asked where it was and went after it. Benedict and Cattleya also appeared in-between, but they seemed to have other things to do, saying they would come after me later... As for Lux, she was the only one who had been hired by you from the very beginning, so she also asked you to hire me again, but in the end, you said no could do.”
“Hm...” Suddenly, Hodgins felt so pained about everything that it was hard to breathe. “And then, Little Violet, what did you do...?” His hand reached out to Violet.
“I kept looking at the interior of the store beyond the shop window from outside.”
Not towards her head, but towards her eyes, where her golden lashes fluttered like the wings of a fairy.
“Inside it, many people – people that I know and do not know – came and left... showing how lively the shop was.”
A sea had silently formed in them, which dissolved and disappeared once Hodgins’s index finger touched it.
“Major came to pick me up for the nth time and said you had told him that my standing there was causing him problems. But, for whatever reason, I at the very least knew that if I stepped away from there even for a moment, you would never let me in... therefore, I could not comply. But I did not want to trouble you, President, so I was unable to make a decision... I attempted to ask Major for instructions, but he was also gone before I realized.”
The sea – the teardrop – turned into a pearl and slipped down her cheek.
“I... I... ended up crying.” Violet stared at the sky, the look in her eyes seeming almost as if the scene from her dream was there at this very moment. “To think I would cry like that...”
“Hm.”
“That was why President Hodgins would not hire me, I thought... And also why Major had grown tired and left.”
“Hm.”
“Then, without my notice, you came outside. You looked the same as that post-war day when you went to visit me at the hospital. You were very surprised with my appearance, as I was soaked with mud and rain. And so, you said this: ‘Guess we’ll start with how to hold a needle’. You told me that you had not invited me for the new job because it would surely be difficult with these hands of mine, so I was extremely relieved... Then, then...” Violet’s words cut off at once.
Unable to hold himself back, Hodgins pulled her into an embrace as if shoving her little head into his chest.
While being embraced, Violet said with eyes that looked as though she was still dreaming, “...with some effort, I could still be helpful. I was able to confirm this, after all.”
Hearing her let out a relieved sigh in his arms, Hodgins forgot about both his and Violet’s positions, clasping her to his chest very, very firmly. “You sure are helpful... Was there anything about me that made you feel uncertain?” Upon realizing that his voice sounded tearful, Hodgins allowed the tears to overflow at the truth.
——Aah, I’m such an idiot. Got caught up in it and ended up crying too.
As the girl whom he thought of as his own daughter, despite her being an actual adult, had shed tears, he found himself crying along with her. Almost like a child. Even though he was supposed to conduct himself as an elder in this situation.
“I do not know.”
“But, has anything like that ever happened until now...? You had that dream because you were uneasy.”
“‘Uneasy’... That might have been the case. Yesterday night, I came to know that many things were progressing while I was away, so I have the feeling that I was quite agitated.”
“Sorry; we were doing things on our own accord. Even though we’ve been together since the founding.”
“No, I am often absent, and it is only natural for some things to be decided in the meantime. I am an employee. I feel that your judgement is correct. Employees must correspond to the changes of a company. My surroundings are about to change significantly. I am grateful to you, President, for letting me be here like always. However...”
“‘However’...?”
“However, I do not know if I can cope with it. With the matters regarding Major, the ones regarding the company... with the fact that Benedict will be going to a different office building. When I think about these things...”
“It’s okay.”
“When I think about them, I realize that the number of things I should prioritize has increased too much.”
“Little Violet.”
“The order of priorities...”
“It’s all right.”
“I have to deal with situations of every kind as I live, and yet...”
——Surely, Violet Evergarden wouldn’t be alive if she didn’t do that.
Always, at all times.
She had been living through corresponding to her surroundings despite being at loss regarding its circumstances, putting everything she could do to use while looking for a place to belong and an adult who would take care of her. She was not allowed to waver. For beasts, hesitation was death.
Violet did not know unconditional love. She now had at last earned herself this warm place through her efforts, but it was about to suffer a rapid change with the course of time.
After running, running and running, Violet – previously one such beast – was watching the nest she had finally found crumble down. Even when people knew they had to prepare to start running again, there would come a time when they would be short of breath and unable to move.
Violet had gone from wild animal to person.
Her human parts and animal parts co-existed, occasionally revealing themselves. When she was the animal, she simply did not mind how much a place changed as long as she could live in it. However, it was difficult to live while holding something better, more important.
Now that she had become a person through the increasing of her emotions...
“I shall fight. I can always be of use. President Hodgins, please forget this aspect of me that I just showed you.”
...she had turned into just a girl who was a little bit scared of the future.
“Please... forget about it.”
Who had made her this way? Gilbert was likely the first, but the ones who had done the finishing touches were definitely all the people in this place.
“No way, I’m not forgetting.”
At Hodgins’s words, Violet lowered her eyebrows, looking troubled.
“Don’t make a face like that; I’m not teasing. I meant to say that you don’t need to worry about it. You indeed might’ve gotten weak. But is that a bad thing? You had nothing when you met me for the first time. Not even your brooch, right...? But now you have lots of things. You went on a journey for a long time and got more stuff to shoulder while you were at it, so it’s no wonder that you’d end up in a dilemma.” Albeit knowing that Cattleya, Benedict and Lux were looking at them in shock from the shadows at the doorway, Hodgins went on, “You know... life is a journey. Little Violet, you’ll go on this journey, won’t you?”
He had already forgotten about his anxiety. The feeling of frustration at such things and the overwhelming wish to cling to someone were now gone.
“You started your journey with a little less luggage than other people, so you’re staring at your bag now that it’s gotten a bit heavy, wondering what happened to it. You don’t know what to throw away anymore.”
He was able to think, from the depths of his heart, that he had returned to his usual self. While embracing her, who was indeed still young and confused in the middle of her journey, he was finally able to think so.
“You need clothes and money, of course, and good shoes are vital. Right, and an umbrella too. When you look into your bag and realize that you actually have nothing that you can get rid of, it’s indeed a problem. Even though it’s a hassle because it’s so heavy. What do you think you should do?”
He could still be useful.
“Train... my physical strength... No, calibrate my prosthetics...”
He was still needed.
“You’re such a fool... Either leave it in someone’s care and continue the journey or have someone take half of it.”
Even if it were only for a short while.
“Gilbert will probably take half of the luggage. I can take care of the rest that you can’t carry over here. I’ll be in Leidenschaftlich forever, after all. Little Violet, no matter where you go, I’ll stay here and wait for you to come back, and no matter when you come over, I’ll welcome you. I’ll take care of the contents of your bag with pleasure.”
——Even if you only remember me a few times a year someday...
“Listen up: whenever you’re troubled, remember that I’m here. And then you’ll be able to go on a journey again anytime.”
——...I’ll ready myself to welcome you at any time of the year.
“Am I really supposed to leave my luggage here?”
——I’m the kind of man who can do that, and you need it for sure.
“Hm-hm, that’s not it. Y’see, this is about memories. All you have to do is to know. That I’m here. This is the way to make your luggage lighter. Whenever you’re having problems, bam, remember me. If you do that, the worries you have now will definitely decrease a little. Y’know, at the end of the day... people’s place to come home to aren’t places, they’re ‘somebody’. You should know that much. You’d have gone to any battlefield if Gilbert was there, right? Someday, yes, you might quit being an Auto-Memories Doll. You might not come back to Leidenschaftlich.”
——It’ll be great if this “someday” never comes, though.
“But your current memories are with me. I’ll be a representation of them. So that you, my dear... will be able to open your memories anytime. When this moment right now becomes nostalgic to you, come see me. I’ll always be here. Waiting for you. You’re feeling ‘lonely’ right now. But... Little Violet. You have me. You’re not alone.”
——I want you to remember.
“I do not understand very well... However...”
——I’m always protecting you.
“...you have always guided me.”
——Waiting for your return.
“I never doubt your word.”
——I’ll be waiting here.
“But, President Hodgins, I have only one wish.”
——I want you to show up when your journey ends.
Deciding to deal with the sobbing coming from behind the door later, Hodgins opted for staying like this for just a bit longer. Her lover might get angry if he saw it, but he had the right to do it, at least to some extent. After all, she was Claudia Hodgins’s dear employee.
Hodgins asked with a particularly gentle tone, “What would it be, Little Violet?”
Violet blinked and looked up at Hodgins. The last drop spilled from her eyes.
“If, only if... there comes a time when you will quit the postal company and start doing something else...”
“Hm.”
“...please call me. No matter where you are, I will rush to you.”
“Hm.”
“I will definitely be of help... Even if not, should your luggage become too much, please call me when you need someone to carry it for you. I shall hasten to visit you.”
“For real?”
“Yes. I, too, will carry President’s luggage. You should know it. I am strong.”
“Huhu, yep, definitely. One day, you’ll understand what I mean by ‘luggage’. Hey...”
No one would imagine that a single drop could be the start of something so big. However, it would earn itself great meaning after a while passed. Should it continue pouring, it could also summon boundless blessings and curses.
“Hiya, I’m Hodgins. What’s your name?”
Silence.
“This kid’s such a taciturn.”
“She... doesn’t have a name yet. She’s an orphan with no education. Can’t talk either.”
“That’s so terrible of you. She’s such a beauty. Just give a name worthy of her.”
“Little Violet, thanks for meeting me.”
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Gave Hotspur oat cake – Read over and sealed, and sent by George, my letter to Mrs. Norcliffe (Langton Hall) and to I[sabella N[orcliffe] – (William Vallance’s Esquire Sittingborne Kent) – Told Mrs. N– [Norcliffe] I should have answered her letter sooner but waited to hear from Mrs. Barlow her banker’s opinion of the French funds – Sent both Mrs. N– [Norcliffe] and I[sabella] N[orcliffe] a copy of Mrs. B– [Barlow]’s copy of Mallet’s note –
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We are completely equipped and experienced to deal with any car towing request in the town. We not just provide car towing Dublin but also offer different vehicle recovery services. We have various other services to offer, such as roadside assistance, battery jump-starting as well as even more. So the next time your car stops in the middle of the road call us immediately. If you choose to check your car on your own or at the most select to repair it yourself, after that your car probably won't get the appropriate treatment it requires. Our experts will certainly check each and every part of the car also for small damage and also repair it after that and also there itself.
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Disadvantages include relatively excessive cost, a intently defined pH vary of activity , low exercise on molds and yeasts, excessive foaming in CIP methods, and incompatibility with cationic surfactant detergents. Whereas QACs are positively charged, these sanitizers are negatively charged. Their activity is reasonably affected by water hardness. Their low use pH, detergency, stability, low odor potential, and non-corrosiveness make them extremely fascinating in some functions. Like QACs, acid-anionic sanitizers are surface-active sanitizers. These formulations include an inorganic acid plus a surfactant and are often used for the dual function of acid rinse and sanitization.
Jejuni had been isolated from a hundred faecal specimens obtained from a London cattery. Several staff have looked for potential links between lowered microbial publicity and rises in certain auto-immune and other immune-related illnesses which have accompanied the rise in atopic problems. However, as within the case of atopic illness, other research discover no affiliation with these indicators [147–151, 144], whereas others counsel that sure infections may trigger the illness [151–155].
A bucket can be used for multiple functions when doing family duties. A container that may maintain water, a bucket comes real handy to rinse out the mop when cleansing floors or to rinse out a material when cleaning partitions. This can be used as a carrying cleansing caddy or a small storage vessel to put in other cleaning provides that may be easily carried around. You should sort out every kind of mess that comes alongside - dust, dust, debris, pet dander, stains, spills, grime, grease, molds - you name it!
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Tyler and his workmen are extremely skilled and nice to be around. The educated and insured techs from Happy Home LLC don crisp uniforms earlier than traveling to homes with cleansing provides in tow. When performing weekly and one-time cleanings, they use options that safely clear domiciles without harming youngsters, pets, or furnishings. They also provide, Property Maintenance, Pressure Washing, Painting, Window Cleaning, Landscaping, Deep Spring Cleaning.
It’s straightforward and handy, plus it helps hold the neighborhood clean. And everyone knows cleanliness is a critical element of group residing. Mostly importantly, pressure washing has better results than most other cleansing strategies. It’s fast, straightforward, and reasonably priced — and it will enhance the looks and well being of your house or business for years.
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Eliminate the stress of getting to deal with a quantity of contractors for multiple services. If most critiques are optimistic, then it's probably that this business is trustworthy and does good work. However, if critiques are combined or negative, then this can be an indication that this firm needs enchancment to deliver on their promises.
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We routinely verify the marketplace to be sure our prices are lower or at most, right according to respected insured competing companies. Apart from freezing temperatures and lightning storms, strain washing can be done in any weather condition. Rather than use extra strain and danger damage to your home’s siding or roof, our technicians use various cleaning brokers to make it easier to do away with powerful stains. The situation of your business’s exterior says lots about your organization. An unmaintained driveway or building comes across as unprofessional and will encourage potential prospects to show to your competitors.
Microfiber cloth may help you to have streak-free home windows. Although we maintain 275 gallons on our truck, that solely lasts for 20 to half-hour. As most of our jobs take longer than that, we need to have entry to an outdoor water supply.
How Do I Clear And Care For Window Blinds
Open the blind totally, and vacuum utilizing the identical technique as above for cleansing roller blinds. Concentrate on the bottom and sides of your Roman blinds in the occasion that they brush the perimeters of the window sill and frame as they'll collect more mud over time. By utilizing a mud attachment, simply ensure you’re using a low setting to keep away from damaging the material.
This course of contains taking down your blinds or shades, cleaning them in our cellular cleaning truck, then rehanging them once they are dry. The at-home blind cleansing process removes the hassles of eradicating, driving and rehanging your blinds or shades. Before we get into tips on how to clear blinds, let’s take a moment to understand all that these oft-overlooked accessories do for us and for our houses. To deep-clean your faux wood Venetian blinds, observe the steps for fake wood blinds above. If your Venetian blinds are wooden, use the cleansing technique outlined above.
The vinegar will take away any amassed grime and dirt, and you’ll have spotless blinds when you’re finished. If you prefer a more ‘hands-on’ technique, use a microfiber fabric and barely dampen it. If your blinds are additional dusty or soiled, add a drop of rubbing alcohol or a drop of dish cleaning soap to assist reduce through the mud and grime. If you've blinds you know that they do an excellent job of keeping the solar out of a room and including privateness however they're additionally nice at trapping dust and debris. Dust and dirt left on blinds reveals, but worse than that, it could add allergens to your house that you simply don’t need.
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It’s necessary to not wipe cleaning options off as soon as you’ve applied it to a floor. Many disinfectant products, corresponding to wipes and sprays, need to remain wet on a floor for several minutes to be able to be efficient. Always learn the instructions to verify you’re utilizing the products as beneficial and to keep away from damaging sensitive items corresponding to cellphones and other electronic units. Yes, you’re hearing it in all places, because it’s the most effective line of defence. Wash hands incessantly with soap and water for at least seconds. Second, the system saves power because the water that it does use doesn’t have to be heated to extract stains from materials.
Some CSI improvements would include new gear, new signage, free Wi-Fi or cellphone charging stations. Typically, new washers will feature a robust ROI and a huge CSI, versus a brand new water heater, which could have a great ROI and no CSI, as a end result of no one sees your water heater. Washers and dryers have much more appeal than behind-the-scenes investments similar to on-demand water heaters or photo voltaic panels. Chris Ward, president of 4WARD Energy Solutions, primarily based in Houston, famous that laundry homeowners must look beyond merely how rather more cash certain “green” initiatives may cost. Transport clean linens to patient care areas on designated carts or inside designated containers that are frequently (e.g., at least as quickly as daily) cleaned with a impartial detergent and heat water solution.
967, 1258–1260 Gloves used for the duty of sorting laundry ought to be of adequate thickness to minimize sharps injuries.967 Employee safety personnel and industrial hygienists can help to find out the suitable glove choice. Clean/sterile and contaminated textiles ought to be transported from the laundry to the health-care facility in vehicles (e.g., trucks, vans, and carts) that enable for separation of clean/sterile and contaminated items. Clean/sterile textiles and contaminated textiles may be transported in the same vehicle, provided that the use of physical obstacles and/or area separation could be verified to be effective in defending the clean/sterile items from contamination. Clean, uncovered/unwrapped textiles saved in a clear location for short durations of time (e.g., uncovered and used inside a couple of hours) haven't been demonstrated to contribute to elevated levels of health-care acquired an infection.
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Contact us at present to be taught more and to receive a free quote for lavatory cleaning companies. Don't depart the state of your restroom cleanliness as a lot as likelihood, Let Summit Building Services take care of you with our skilled restroom cleaning providers. CLR PRO Industrial Multi-Purpose restroom cleaner is a unhazardous, multipurpose cleaner that breaks down calcium, lime and soap scum on glass shower doorways for a streak-free shine. “CLR is great at attacking mineral build up,” says Bruce Vance, owner of Town & Country Cleaning Services in Chapel Hill, NC. The restroom airport fixtures like toilets and sinks must be scrubbed as needed and at the very least as quickly as a day.
While the labeling on chemical cleaners may state that they’re safe for piping, they’re nonetheless formulated with powerful chemical substances. They’re secure if used once in a while, but for extra frequent cleaning, use non-toxic drain cleaners like DIY mixtures or enzymatic cleaners. Thoroughly cleansing something from top to backside is a daunting task and annoying because it will get dirty once more so quickly. Because of that, many individuals choose to rent knowledgeable for a deep clear each every so often. A little-known trick to cleaning a toilet sink is to let your faucet do the give you the outcomes you want.
The hot spots embody mild switches, urinals, restroom doorways, altering stations, and toilets. Let’s be trustworthy, this is arguably the nastiest area to work on. Unfortunately, a failure to scrub the bathroom bowls correctly may lead to a threat of gastrointestinal viruses caused by dirty toilet bowl/seats. Take your cleansing to the subsequent stage with the Scrubtastic Spin Scrubber, electric bathe scrubber. The cordless, rechargeable, multipurpose bathe scrubber comes with three brush heads so you probably can clear every nook and cranny in your bathe. The deal with extends to 39 inches, so you don’t have to climb to succeed in the top of the bathe.
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This scene shows you how Q , Quartermaster of Q division reaches out to James Bond with a car insurance damage form. He asks Bond whether he will need collision coverage, to which Bond replies in affirmative. Q goes on to ask about fire, property damage and personal injury. Q is
In this blog, Learning Perspectives will explore Car Insurance.
What is Car Insurance?
Car insurance, motor Insurance or auto Insurance helps in protecting the vehicle from damage or risks associated with the vehicle. This insurance protects your financial loss against accident or theft. Car insurance provides coverage for:
Property- Theft or damage to the vehicle.
Liability- Legal responsibility for physically injuring others or causing damages.
Medical- Cost of treating medical injuries.
Motor insurance usually covers the following:
The damages to the vehicle due to the following perils are usually covered under OD section of the Motor Insurance policy:
Fire, Explosion, Self- Ignition, Lightning
Burglary/Housebreaking / Theft
Riot & Strike
Earthquake
Flood, Storm, Cyclone, Hurricane, tempest, inundation, hailstorm, frost
Accidental external means
Malicious Act
Terrorism acts
While in Transit by Rail/ Road, Inland waterways, Lift, Elevator or Air
Land slide / Rock slide
Minimum coverage depends upon the coverage chosen by an individual.
Insurance Costs:
Premiums payable for the car insurance depends on many variables. Different insurance providers charge different premiums. Before buying a car insurance, it would be wise to compare prices across various platforms.
For Own Damage:
The Sum Insured under a Motor Insurance policy reflects the value of the motor vehicle determined based on the concept known as Insured's Declared Value.
It is the value arrived at based on the Manufacturer's present value and depreciation based on the Age of the Vehicle.
For Third Part Damage:
Compulsory Personal accident cover for owner-driver is also included. Policy can also be extended to cover various other risks like Personal Accident to occupants of vehicle, Workmen's Compensation to Driver, etc over and above the cover available to him under statute.
References:
https://www.policyholder.gov.in/Why_Buy_Motor_Insurance.aspx
Written by: Ms. Gitika Chandra
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