Gave up yesterday, went out to the cafe for tea.
Earl Grey or Darjeeling?
Full fat breakfast tea, accompanied by a delicate dish of sausage, chips and beans! I only went so I could ‘borrow’ a tomato sauce for home as I never buy it. It was 2.30 pm and that was my breakfast/lunch/tea apart from some healthy fruit a bit later on when I ran out of big pills. The kitchen looked lovely as I hadn’t done a thing in it and not cremated a single item for at least two weeks.
Well the brain fog is getting worse this week. Not because of my symptoms but because the balance of doing and resting is up the Swanee! A visiting dog has left me thousands of little visitors that have bitten me for three nights. How horrid, no sleep, torture, I have spent 35 hours near enough spraying, boiling, scrubbing, hoovering and then repeating the process. Just when I think I am winning, something starts biting. I am on my third boil wash, every sheet, blanket (cushions are in the bin), had to erect an extra washing line. I am rubbing a bicarb solution on my skin and head before I go to bed in the hope that it will keep them away or they are all dead. Strangely, it must be the horror of it all, I look quite well but when this has finished, I know that the fog will set in for days to make up for all this nastiness.
What is the flea for someone can please answer me that? I haven’t even got any blasted pets. I was so desperate last night that I sprayed body spray all over my head to try to keep them away. I think it worked but then I found that I couldn’t flippin breath so had to go out in the garden, oh my word!
I am in the solid belief that this Christmas I shall love from a distance and I will lock my door to all pets, visitors, small children. Anyone entering will have to come with a health certificate and a vet’s pass.
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As that great philosopher WC Fields is misquoted as saying, “Anyone who hates dogs and children can’t be all bad”.
Hebe, you are in my list of “People to look up to.” You’re in good company; as others are Boudica, for services to the maritime tourist industry, Sssue for her indefatigable efforts to uncover the riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma that is Albrecht Durer; and Krakowian for something I’ve forgotten, but I have his name written on a Post It note in my shed.
These and other stars in the constellation known as Forum show the true path to spiritual enlightenment and a lot of tea breaks.
Well done,
Anthony
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Why thank you, I think. I’m not sure whether it’s an accolade or a denunciation. But luckily I’ll probably have forgotten it by teatime. Which is probably any minute now.
And as for working out the conundrum known as ‘Albrecht Durer’, I believe that is an impossible task.
Sue
A. You are a star. And don’t forget it.
B. You will forget by teatime.
C. True.
Thanks for trying anyway.
Albrecht D.
What are you on about Ant?
Thank you, I shall take that as a compliment, don’t get many now I’m a bit knackered! Winning the war here folks, quilts ready for the launderette, pillows and sheets down the tip, final battle tonight then I think peace will settle on Alsager and I might do a moonlight dance tomorrow to celebrate and buy all new things. And the washing machine hasn’t blown up, blessed indeed!
Fluent gibberish. I thought you knew that.
Take all that back! The flee man doth arriveth forthewith to fleece me of some money and hopefully put an end to this awful horrid episode. And I am so tired now, the fog is really setting in. I would settle for an itch-free night and a long rest tomorrow. If he sets flee bombs off and other treatments I’m just going to the local hotel to sleep. I don’t have any bedding now, all down the tip after this morning’s horrible event. Will have to pop out later to buy something to sleep in that isn’t colonized by non-rent paying things with more than two legs!
Aw hebe, you are surely visited by a very plague of beasts. I hope famine doesn’t strike next. Will keep fingers crossed that the flea man has wrought lasting change to your dwelling place. And that you find alternative quilts, pillows, sheets etc without too much further angst and shekels changing hands.
Once you have a bedroom of peace, cleansed of all unwanted multi legged beasties, I suggest you get into your bed. Rest and hopefully the fog will only last a short time.
Sue
That sounds horrendous - a flea infestation. l have 4 dogs - sometimes 7 when family and friends arrive with theirs. Thankfully, never seen a flea on my dogs. l do fairly regularly put the Frontline spot on on them. Just to be sure. l also worm them as well.
The visiting dog must have been in a terrible state - poor thing. The parasites suck the blood. Thankfully, dog fleas will not live on you. Each animal has its own type of flea - They can still bite you - but not lay their eggs on you. Only human fleas can do that.
You can get a household spray - via ebay or amazon. Or your local vets - but usually more expensive. lf you have room in your freezer - that will soon kill parasites. The same tip works for smelly trainers. Pop into a plastic bag and freeze. Kills the bacteria that make the smell.
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The time has come - l shall have to get rid of my husband. My dogs are allergic to him - and they have the majority.
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Thank you, the soothsayer spoke and sayeth nay, nay and thrice nay, the little beggars have had their commupance (excuse the spelling). A little bit of patience for a few days now just to be sure and a bit more boiling up things just to be sure and fingers crossed. A quick visit to Matalan whilst the bugs were being dealt with means that I have new bedding.
I said to ‘Mick’ the flea man, that in the middle of the night I was considering that if there is a spiritual force, why did they invent fleas? What use are they? Then Mick showed me his legs and back! He destroys pests of all kinds. He went on holiday last week to France bibawaking and a straw ferral cat brushed into his sleeping area twice. He thought he was being bitten by the midges but after his whole body turning red raw and him stripping off and running in cold water to try to ease the pain and soreness, he realised that the flea man himself had been riddled with fleas. Busman’s holiday - fortunately he said wherever he goes, he takes a small blasting pack so blasted the area and waited up till the cat wandered in and blasted that too. I thought I was fed up, he looks like he should be taking his skin to hospital it was that bad. What next, yes let’s hope there isn’t famine. I’ve got a feeling that something is on its way, I have been really lucky for months, never lasts long does it?
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Procedure for washing hair: Lather, rinse, repeat as necessary.
That’s fine, except sometimes I find myself doing the ‘repeat’ before the ‘rinse’.
And you know that you have memory problems when you get up to fetch something and forget what it was in the time it takes to cross the room.
I don’t think I’ll need a room at the Home for the Bewildered. I’m already there, indulging in frequent episodes of extreme silliness with my husband.
Crossword clue for the day: ‘Of sound mind’ (4) S _ N _
Any ideas?
Sue
Also you should really remember shampoo and conditioner for head, face wash for face, shower gel for body, etc. Confusing them tends to cause problems.
Sue
Actually I take that back. Anthony is loopier than most if not all of the rest of us.
Old Moores Almanack indeed, as if that’s true. I only go by an augury that’s been divined and interpreted by a magus specialising in entrail reading.
Sue
Ooooh!
You’re a bit old school aren’t you? Get you with your entrails.
It’ll be runes before you know what’s next. Is it your birthday or something?