BIDDIES, BUSES AND BLOODY DAWDLERS

Saturday, June 01, 2013

BIDDIES, BUSES AND BLOODY DAWDLERS

It may be a lovely day outside but I’m not in the best of tempers having just come back from what I thought would be a quick drive out to Picket Post. It’s been nothing but biddies, buses and bloody dawdlers everywhere you turn! Seriously if you can’t figure out what lane you should be in, don’t know where to find your indicators and won’t drive any faster than 28 miles per hour then stay at home and take up golf or knitting. Those of us in a hurry will love you all the more for it.

Time is of the essence today. It’s all go, go, go; trying to get our less than clean abode in order for tomorrow’s first student arrival. Not an easy task in a house where there’s more dirt swept under the carpet than in a Tory cabinet (but only just!). Slaving over a slow cooker goulash when I should be out there topping up my tan in what could be the only day of summer is enough to put anyone in a major grump, don’t you agree?

Tidying up the deck ready for al fresco dining

Cleaning is such hellish drudgery! I can’t honestly recall a time when I last cleaned so much in one consecutive period. If God had wanted us to live in a plastic germ free bubble we’d all have been born Michael Jackson. As it is, the kitchen has been ‘febrezed’ to within an inch of its life and the carpets have seen more Shake n Vac in the last 15 minutes than in the previous 12 years. I’ve even washed my beaver! (This is not a euphemism for lady garden but what we call the brown furry sofa throw for those cold nights in front of the telly). Yes, a febreze smelling beaver is now hanging on the line.

Photo of the beaver

As if cleaning, cooking and tidying up the patio wasn’t enough to be getting on with, I’ve also just finished icing my daughter’s wedding cake as I’m chief cake decorator as well as mother of the bride.

Wedding cakes after icing

Oh if only I could win the lottery I’d be able to spend the rest of my days in idle pleasure rather than skivving away in house and garden. Living the dream!