Day 26 What was that noise?

This morning at about 3am, we were woken by a loud noise. I personally was not too worried as to me it sounded like the cats had knocked the washing basket off the washing machine.

Sean being the cautious type went to investigate. He checked outside, he checked Illi’s room and Declan’s room and also the laundry but to no avail. So I got up and checked the laundry (where I thought the noise had come from) and concluded that the cats had knocked down a plastic jug which was on top of the fridge.

This morning when I was sitting in the lounge room talking to Chrissie (who had stayed the night), I turned around and noticed the mirror on the ground. I said “how come the mirror is on the ground, was it reflecting light into your eyes?” she replied that she hadn’t touched it and that THAT must have been the source of the noise in the night. I was sceptical as the mirror is quite large, the frame very heavy and it was hung about 1.5 metres from the ground and ended up on the tiled floor standing upright intact! Upon further investigation it seems it was indeed the mirror that crashed down, the wire on the back snapped, it hit the blanket box which must have broken its fall and then landed on the tiles! I would guess the mirror to be about 6 years old and as it is framed by reclaimed fence palings I am surprised that it suffered no apparent damage for its ordeal! Chrissie wanted to know, seeing the mirror didn’t break, does that mean we get 7 years GOOD luck??
The above pic is of the mirror, the wall it fell from and the blanket box that helped ‘save’ it.