Let’s start with the good news…. The Banjo will be available on Kindle very soon!!! Finally! Yes, I’m working towards a release date of FRIDAY 13TH MAY. I’m not superstitious, it’s okay. I will have the cover to show you next week and I am so excited!! Yippee!!
I have been very busy this week; much of my research for Singles At Sea has been completed and so it will be full steam ahead (see what I did there?) on that one, too. Yay!
Well, more good news is that the guys are racing ahead with the work on installing the pool and the decking.
Pic from two days ago
However, this morning one of them queried the pool dimensions. He pointed out that the pool we’ve got is 16’x12′ when I’d given them 18’x12′. Oh dear! I was not very happy and was about to get onto Bestway Pools and give them a piece of my mind when I checked back through my e-mails and lo and behold….. it had always been 16’x12′! I’d been getting above myself thinking it was bigger than it was. (No, please, no jokes!)
I feel such a fool. They have been very nice about it – given that they’ve done all the prep for the wrong size!! It’s a blessing they discovered it now and not once they’d done the cement base, but I’ve certainly given them a lot more work. I’m sure that although they smiled and said ‘That’s okay. No problem,’ inside they must be cussing me and thinking ‘What a stupid woman!’ And I don’t blame them.
This makes yesterday’s senior moment – putting black pepper on my breakfast cereal instead of cinnamon – pale into insignificance. 🙁 🙁
It’s been a stressful couple of nights, too, due to a couple of frogs. On Sunday night I was putting the washing up away before bed when I saw movement out of the corner of my eye – and there, on the front of the microwave – bold as brass! – was a frog! Oh dear! I disabled the alarm and opened the doors in the hope he’d hop it but he didn’t. Well, he did hop it, but along the worktop and under the cooker. Now, I hate killing anything; I think there’s a place for everything in the world and that we shouldn’t kill things. But, after half an hour I decided I’d have to do something. So I got the mosquito spray. Just at that moment Froggie started climbing up the wall and parked himself on top of the cupboards. I gave him a generous spray.
He leapt down onto the floor next to me and I flew into the bedroom. I could see him sitting in the middle of the living-room floor so I sprayed him again and he hopped off behind the sofa. I decided to go to bed and deal with it in the morning. I shut the bedroom door – then realised there’s a 2″ gap at the bottom and these frogs can squeeze through the tiniest gap imaginable. So I soaked a towel in mosquito spray and stuffed it along the bottom of the door.
And spent the night sitting up, staring at the towel, waiting for froggie fingers to appear.
They didn’t and when I got up there was no sign of him. However, when the cleaning lady came later on Monday morning, she found two – yes TWO – dead frogs, one behind the cooker and one……….UNDER MY BED!!!!!
So, I breathed a sigh of relief, and even though the mosquito spray seemed to have worked I looked up ‘What kills frogs’ and found things such as citric acid – where, pray do I get that? – and also Raid for Roaches. So I went into town and bought some of that.
On Monday night I was in the bathroom getting ready for bed when out of the corner of my eye, I saw froggie feet sticking out from under the cistern. I dashed and got the Raid and started spraying it liberally around the bathroom. The frog went mad. He leapt all over the place – into the bath, on the towel rack, up the wall, onto the cistern and then – AT ME!!
I slammed the door of the bathroom and sprayed more Raid along the gap. I could hear him smacking against the door and the walls for several minutes. I plugged the gap under the bathroom door with a Raid-soaked towel to deter him from venturing into the rest of the house and went into the bedroom.
I closed and locked the door.
Yes! I actually locked the door. Well, you never know with these frogs! He might have been able to leap up and open it!!
And so, I spent another night sitting up waiting for Frog-Attack. In the morning I washed at the kitchen sink – there was no way I was going back into the bathroom. And when the workmen came they went in and found him dead on the floor.
I have now sprayed Raid for Roaches around every door and window. I don’t want to kill anything, but just hope that will serve as a warning shot and the frogs will find someone else to terrorise.
I am such a wuzz.
Almost choked on my cinnamon whirl xx