This, this is poor!

We’ve run out of tea!!!! 😯

We still have our seven pounds in coppers, we didn’t get to the bank to change it into ‘real money’ yesterday, so we’ll have to pay for our potatoes and parsnips we need to go with our roast dinner all in coppers later, but yesterday morning I used the last tea bag. I’ve still got lots of my fancy, hippy teas but they just don’t cut it first thing in the morning and most of them don’t have anywhere enough caffine.

* disclaimer: I do realise this is still not properly poor – I am using artistic licence and also am caffine deprived so likely to be irrational and feel my woes trump those of all others! 😆

We’ve got mice at our house. Did I mention that before? We knew we had them in the loft from when we got the Christmas decorations out last year but we cleared out the whole area and put lots of cleaning chemicals around to scare them off. But this week we discovered evidence of them in our under the stairs cupboard. We have a very big under the stairs cupboard and as well as housing our chiller we also kept all the excess tins, packets and dry food that our very small kitchen can’t house when I do a full months food shopping. So yesterday morning was taken up with Ady emptying out every single thing from the cupboard, which also included the last 3 boxes of things we’d never unpacked from moving back to Sussex nearly 3 years ago. We’ve taken out anything even remotely edible for mice and used lots of bleach to clean up in there which will hopefully make it a less attractive dwelling for them until we can get something a little more conventional in the mouse eliminating stakes. Our cat clearly doesn’t cut it! I did wonder if perhaps this was the cosmic supply company sending me meaty morsels in our lean time of the month but mice really are too tiny to be worth the faff of cooking ;). Found a few more things for the ebay pile which I’ll try and get listed later today.

In the afternoon we went over to see my Dad. I’d expected my Mum to be there too but she was out with a friend (which when she rang me later she insisted she’d mentioned on the phone in the week, but I’m sure she hadn’t). We came home via the downs to collect some logs to keep the fire burning for another week (loads up there, we’ll get some more again today). The children had tea and then played together for ages – their ‘holiday’ game which they have been playing for years now. I think in last nights version Davies was the Daddy and Scarlett was the child as he kept calling her ‘Darling’ which was cute. 🙂 They also did a load of dot to dot pictures which seemed to be part of the activity packs they give children in some restuarants in their game as they had pretend food straight afterwards. They went to bed and we had a very late dinner and watched an ‘ok but wouldn’t go recommending it to anyone’ film which was in the pile that Ady brought home (actually 3 out of the 4 films he brought have Matthew McConaughey in them and I don’t find him remotely watchable).

And now, curses to the weather for clouding over and ruining my Pre-Spring Walk ideas we’re about to head off for a Late Winter Maybe With A Bit Of Rain And Certainly Some Cloud Walk.