The Simple Life

Without Prejudice

We have gone back to basic living at the house of the seven dwarves, the males now out number the females, 8 to 2. No one is more cost concious that my daughter Yvette who likes to think of herself as the Area Manager, and I am but a humble servant type. Lights get turned off, at the wall. The internet has been worked to death. Creating some Zombie eyed males, all pumped up on testosterone and COD.

So we have to limit the usage and that is done by turning off the modem. There is much consternation and moans when this happens, but we ignore pleading and pack them all off to bed. The house is basic and smells of cooking, male underarm deodorant and sometimes on hot days cat pee in one of the rooms. She can never quite work ot which room, but it's there just as an undertone.

She always hates windows and doors open until it's really hot. I however am a planner and out comes the fans and water cooler and blinds to shield the rooms from the sun. I always feel there is so much more I can do and want to do. There are limits as to what you can do at the moment as we have to cordone off areas of the garden if we ever want to get anything in the ground.

We plant, thing one and thing two, waddle out and pull everything out. Or add water to a newly dug spot and add water and Mud, miraculously appears. Last week they painted the wall of  my unit with it. Placed it in the dog water bucket and covered themselves in it. We nickname them other names like Seek and Destroy, but they couldn't care less.

I have been baking, spring cleaning, dodging the weather as much as possible and generally resdiscovering Groundhog day, every day.

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