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On not having a pet

I never thought I’d grow up and live in a house without pets. My dog when I was growing up was a black labrador/corgi cross – think labrador face, shortish legs and stout. Her name was Hannah. I used to lie in bed of a morning and hear her thunder up the stairs, along the corridor, the door would fly open and she would leap onto the bed.

At Easter time she would sniff out our Easter Eggs and scoff them.

She was a waggy friendly dog, slightly overweight and a terror on bin day.

We also had a cats. My first cat was a black and white fluffy cat called Tinkerbell. We also had Samson – a very large ginger cat with a flatulence problem. And finally Mr B, also known as Fred. Who was grey and white and turned up in our garage with his leg caught in his collar. A visit to the vet and he was ours.

I had a mouse too, which got eaten by a kookaburra, but that was a sad little tale which I won’t go into here.

So why am I not a pet owner now? I’m a grown up. I can do what I like. I’m obviously in the minority, not having a pet.

Well I guess I’m out of practice. Groover has never been a pet owner. His father was a pilot and so they were always away – not an ideal scenario for pet owners. Also he’s allergic to cats.  And so is my orchid hunter(Hugamuga).

And the longer I live without pets the harder it is for me to like them. I’m not that keen on being sat on by affectionate cats now, and even feel slightly sneezy around them – can you catch allergies or is it low tolerance? And dogs? Well they do smell a bit and I cringe when they lick me. When our rabbit ran away, another sad tale, I was half relieved.
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Does that make me a bad person? Am I depriving my children?

They never ask for a pet, well not since Butterfly ran away.

“We don’t need one because we go on holidays too often”, Says my daughter. What a practical girl. “But I wouldn’t mind fostering a pet on the holidays when we’re at home…”

Hmmm I don’t think so.

Can I imagine us ever having a pet?

If I did it would be a small yappy dog – like my brother-in-law’s Puffy. That I didn’t have to take for walks twice a day. And I’d have to work from home. I don’t think it’s fair on the dog to be out every day.

It could be a while before that happens.  Like, post-divorce. 🙂

House

My bath

The bath needing repairGroover and I are going to get new taps for the bathroom. No. Really. We are. Yes I know we are not the most handy but it has become necessary.

Apart from the fact we are trying to be green, and the taps leak, and the shower rose is stuffed… the spout into the bath has completely broken off.

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See ThirdCat… not so interesting after all… 🙁

Groover, House

Suck it up

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Right that’s it! Cellobella had had enough. Fed up with an enormous Hoover, heavy, impractical and bloody useless she held her hand over the base of the vacuum. As she suspected it didn’t suck.

This beast of an appliance had been the bane of her life since Groover had proudly extracted it, shining, dark red and enormous from its box several years ago. I’m afraid she wasn’t very grateful for the expensive purchase.

What is that?

It’s a vacuum cleaner.

Why did you buy an upright vacuum cleaner? Did you not ask me what I wanted? Did I not clearly articulate that I wanted a light, quiet, pull along model?

Yes you did.

Did you not also consult with our cleaner (sadly no longer with the household because she couldn’t stand the bloody vacuum cleaner)?

Yes.

Did she not say she would prefer to use a light pull along cleaner which is better for her back.

Um.

?????

Choice said it was the best.

Well I’m not bloody using it.

Two years ago…

So maybe we could sell that wretched thing… where is that write up from Choice?

Um… I can’t find it?

Right. Well seeing as we are poor now and can’t afford a cleaner (particularly one who will bring her own vacuum) you will have to do the vacuuming!

Today… Groover leaves for Karratha. Cellobella decides to use the Hoover to clean the house. There is only so long one can go, crunching over the floor. It doesn’t suck.

Cellobella now owns a brand new Meile 5210. It is blue. It is small. It is light. It is quiet. It has a telescopic wand. It can lie down flat to get under chests of drawers. It sucks.

Next weekend, Groover can do the tidying and cleaning of surfaces, kitchen and bathrooms and Cellobella will be happy to take Milly out for a spin! 🙂

[Big Red now has been banished out the back]

And for the record, this is what Choice says about it: (it scored 2nd best of the range tested)

MIELE S5210

Good pointsMilly

  • Good dirt removal on carpet.
  • Excellent for dirt removal from a hard floor.
  • Good range of tools, with onboard storage.
  • Variable power.
  • Telescopic wand.
  • Very good reach from the power point.
  • Fairly lightweight.
  • Dustbag is easy to install and remove.

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Bad points

  • Nothing in particular.

House

Oh yeah

Forgot to tell you… at the end of that horror day (paint/fire etc), I stood on one of my director’s chairs to force the glory vine back onto the pergola and the seat split and I twisted my ankle (not badly).

But the good news is I confronted my pool guy today about taking my chlorinator in for testing (when I didn’t ask for it), giving me a quote for an EXORBITANT amount of money – the part a lot cheaper when I checked on the internet – and leaving my pool without any chlorine on the hottest weekend of the season.

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My pool is now green but the chlorinator is back – sure not working brilliantly, but back – and they threw in some extra chlorine as well.

Ahhhhh. That feels better now.

Dippity, Extracurricular, House, Introspection

My soul is a furnace of love;stoke it to the full

Title courtesy of the Bacio chocolate found on my pillow at the lodge we stayed at last weekend. A charming weekend with good friends and good wine. There are photos to prove it. 🙂

During the weekend, after a very wine soaked evening we went on a wine tour of the region. In a bus. With about 10 twenty-somethings. Sigh. I am getting old. Also was very hungover so it was lucky that the last stop had some jewellery for sale!

The lodge itself was deluxe. Lovely food, well appointed rooms, completely up to spec!

While we were away the coroner finally delivered his findings on Harry’s death. No surprises to those who went to the inquest. Mr Hope was scathing about CASA and it would seem rightly so. I’m just happy it’s over at last. Although it will never be over, not really.

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I also divided up the hugely overgrown irises and now have several (tens) of little ones that will hopefully survive their rough treatment. My plan is to create a bog garden next to the fish pond and plant some of them out. Others will go to new homes. Projects for the summer.

Today I was doing such hard weights at the gym that my watch dug into my wrist veins and they are all lumpy red and bruised. Beauty is pain my friends, beauty is pain. Or at least fitness is. I am starting to feel fit and hopefully will one day be so.

I went to McDonalds tonight with the kids for a quick tea. Honestly why would you eat there? Despite the Salads Plus and Deli Choices I must say I was not inspired (although I saw an enormous young mum of about 20 order a salad). The whole place stank of stale oil. I had an orange juice.

Dippity and I wrote a Haiku tonight about surfing.

I’ve got the hiccoughs
Maybe I’m scared of the surf
A pounding wave breaks.

Photos soon… and happy birthday MIL!

Books, House

Pottering

Last weekend I bowed to commercial pressure and bought the new Harry Potter book. Finished it Sunday night. What was it like? It was a Harry Potter book. Better than 5 I thought. I’ve always said 5 needed a better editor and I think JK agrees – according to an interview I read somewhere she said it was a bit long.

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Back at work properly now. And it felt good to have a proper defined role and to finally unpack my boxes. All that means that today is the first day of my proper weekend. It feels weird to have a weekend in the middle of the week but at the same time it allows me to potter about getting my washing sorted and looking at lighting/paint/carpet etc.

Today I have to design a breakfast bar, take my library books back, pay a couple of bills… oh and have lunch with Melissa. Tough eh?

Groover, House

Near Death Experience

Yesterday Groover had a near death experience or rather – he nearly died. It happened like this: Our oven has had a noisy fan for ages and it is really tiresome to listen to and because we are now “at home” Groover decided to save the electrician’s fee and fix it.

He started by just taking out a few screws to find out what was making the noise and ended up pulling the entire oven from the wall and onto the floor. The power was on. So he’s spinning the fan going “Right this is the culprit”, when ZAP. Luckily he wasn’t holding onto anything (like me) and had rubber shoes on… anyway I’m thinking it would have been alright anyway because if it had been a “serious” shock the Clipsal safety switch would have tripped.

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He fixed the oven though.

Lesson: Turn off the mains power BEFORE attempting to fix any electrical appliances.

Okay I have totally lifted this from GACJEZV but it is so much fun I’m going to have to tell you about it too. I have spent fully ten minutes putting everyone’s name in this thingy and I’m sure you’ll enjoy the baby wizard too…

So… I have the time.

Congratulations to Sonia Neale who does the Bad Mother spots on my old show on the ABC – she has just won herself a book contract with ABC Enterprises – look out for her book come Mother’s Day!

I really must get round to redesigning this blog…

And hey, Happy Valentine’s Day!