Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Run for the hills

On the second day of holidays... same tune, more strident... the twoo love tortured me...

First the sneaky slamming of the door, as He slipped off to the gym with all the grace of a bull elephant, woke one and then the return visit repeated the process. Giving up one stumbled out... just full of the joys of holidays... to suck back morning mouse as He chirped merrily in one's direction. You know there was a time in our relationship when He was the late riser... it was much... quieter. Peering at Him over the rim one might have thought it couldn't get any worse. As it turned out one small slave was wrong...

We live in a hot humid climate, a climate that at this time of the year is hostile to everything but the insects. In an endeavour to equalise the balance of power to a tolerable level we have to bomb the house. For the record it is very hard to coordinate a two family evacuation of a home, particularly when one is disabled. As luck would have it today proved to be the day that the stars aligned and His mother seizing the opportunity, distributed bombs between our homes and fled... leaving behind her husband for us to dispatch to respite and in charge of insect genocide... at least we think that is was what she had in mind.
As an aside it was quite a humorous sight watching Him zigzag along the combined length of the houses as poisonous gas erupted behind him J

It left us no choice but to head out for a little retail therapy. A couple of hours, a list and a budget... what could go wrong? As it turned out, quite a bit. We hit the shopping area when it was in the middle of massive end of sales reductions.  Six hours later we staggered to the car having gone broke saving money. Honestly we have never seen prices like it and with a bit of luck our wallets never will again.

The whole thing has left us with some very hot clothes and no choice but to remain shut-ins for the rest of the week. We will be forced to create our own entertainment...
No good is going to come of this...
But for tonight one small slave is safe... He has passed out from excitement exhaustion J

3 comments:

ancilla_ksst said...

Oh boy, amazing sales!!!

Master's piece said...

Yeah they are evil incarnate :(

rumcg66 said...

I know this is a REALLY stupid reason to delurk (I've been reading for months and I LOVE your blog)but... how come you don't get air conditioning? Is it just considered too luxurious there? Is it an environmental concern? I live in the states and anywhere that routinely exceeds 80 degrees Fahrenheit, AC is considered a necessity.