Evening, dear Peeps of the Kitchen
I'm getting worried that the next post I type might just go into the ether, because everyone will have had to pack up and leave in a hurry. Please don't go too far away, soop. Anything can happen (and often does) when you aren't keeping a watchful eye ?. And last to leave, please switch on the Dishwasher!
Have I had a busy day? Wow. The sun was pouring through the windows this morning, which made me set about cleaning them. I then had a real blitz of our bedroom. Not only usual laundry but washed, cleaned, dusted, polished, vacuumed every last inch, including all the corners. Plants have been sorted out, en suite has been polished, mattress turned and........a new duvet (well, a spare one) has been removed from storage and my wonderful down one we took to the laundry. Nice lady said it would be ready by 7pm when they closed - this was at 4pm. We said, no worries, we'd be back tomorrow. All looks sparkling clean now - not even a trace of a cobweb or itsy bitsy spider. Just need to press on and do the rest of the house now and GrandmaFrench's Spring Cleaning (just a tad overdue) will be complete. We are just unable to do anything really energetic when it's so hot, but today has been very windy and only 23 degrees, so we've come to life, as it were!!!
Incidentally, Grandmajean, ferns are tough if you don't let them sit in water or be terribly dried out. Yours looks very healthy. Can you bear it taking over the corner of your bathroom and plan to split it into, say, 3 plants in the Spring? That's probably more stressful for you if you're anxious around house plants, but you never know you might be very proud of yourself when the time comes!. ?
Hurrah for Mr Muse's leg, let's hope that someone really pushes now to get that better for him. Very sad news about his friend's Wife. Doodle you are just like me over varifocals. I look (and feel) as if I have just stepped out onto the moon when I try those. Never have got on with them - it's kind of 'one giant leap for mankind' with me wobbling about and putting my feet where they shouldn't be. My Optician told me (rather unkindly, I thought) that I should have started getting used to them when I was a lot younger and they wouldn't work now. (He was right).
I also have Astigmatism, Jax. One eyeball football-shaped, one eyeball rugby ball-shaped; oh what a fetching wench!! This makes prescriptions more difficult and contact lenses a no-no.
Sorry to disappoint, by the way, but there will be no mobs of Police visiting our neighbours and their building site and asking questions about the badly-built house! Oh no, siree, this is France - where life happens only slowly (and sometimes not at all). We need to wait until the house is built, occupied, and the occupants make a lot of noise before the Police will attend, apparently. Well of course we do. Any involvement by the Police would only be of the comic variety, otherwise. Bet they're not terribly well up on measuring the depth of footings and worrying about load-bearing walls! Not sure why the town planners told 3 of us that the Police would come and inspect it. Think they might have been on the grape juice at the time our letter arrived. But others more qualified have looked - we are waiting for a verdict and you Kitchen ladies shall be the first to know
Never mind builders - what about that little Babba, SueD? On the way, at last, and how exciting is all of that. Try to sleep tonight if you can - the calm before the storm.
Disgusted at your Son's treatment Hello - that's all I'm saying. Hope he is feeling somewhat better - if only for some sleep; and your DD is in better shape now. I looked online for those magic straws (very long ones which enable the holder not to need to hold, just to drink from any angle. Brilliant, except every website sold out. That's the story of our lives at the moment, I think.
You earned your Grandparent awards today, Urms - in the shape of a drink and a bit of a sit down in the Pub'. There's something about the heat and noise and mayhem of drying little shivery kids after a trip to the swimming pool that can give me an instant thirst headache! I lost my place in the news - did you buy a teddy-bear coat or just covet one?
Henry has a goldfish called Sharky, Susan? My DH commented that he hoped H just has a sense of humour and his fish doesn't have teeth to match the name!
To all and everyone - especially if you're under the weather like Blossoming, sending warm greetings and wishes for a peaceful and restorative sleep tonight.
And to dear soop - Keep Painting, Lady! You've got a busy schedule.
Nighty night all
Hugs from me and mine in France x
