Now that we have survived our move without any major disasters, it is time to get back to work and blogging. As I said, we didn't have any major disasters but I kept on thinking that we would and that this one thing (whatever it was) would be the thing that would finally trip us up.
I was trying to explain this to a friend and wanted to say to him that I thought something (the stairs to be precise) would be the thing that threw everything into disarray. I realised that what I wanted to say was that I thought the stairs might be our "Waterloo" and then I realised that that saying doesn't exist in German.
It got me thinking about what it means "to meet your Waterloo" and how apt it often is. I also wonder if it is only us Brits that use that phrase because for such a long time Napoleon was the big bad enemy and we were over the moon with the result of the battle of Waterloo. Germans just say a terrible defeat.
And finally it made me start wondering what everyone else then thinks that the Abba song means!