Things that go bump in the night

Last night I slunk upstairs to have a hot, soaky bath to find things were not going to go quite according to my plan. The bathroom light bulb had broken and I had forgotten to buy a spare. So the only remedy for the situation was to have a bath by candlelight... oh how romantic, I hear the cry, well yes sometimes it is romantic and sometimes not. Last night was of the 'not' variety, I had wanted to read a book for a while, I am reading The House at Riverton and really enjoying it. Despite lighting 6 candles and strategically placing half of them in front of the mirror (thus doubling their light output), it was almost too murky to read.

Can't see anything in my bathroom? no, nor could I!

So here it is with the aid of the flash.

I contemplated flashing the camera every few seconds, but obviously that wasn't a terribly sensible option, so sat in the bath with candle in one hand, book in the other and cup of tea on the chest of drawers by the bath, going cold because I didn't have enough hands! Oh well, I will pop out to the ironmongers this afternoon and get a new bulb or two.

Sometimes I think that the most interesting things happen when we are not watching. There are nights in our home when I wish we had closed circuit cameras, so that when we awake we could see what our cats have been up to during the small hours.

This morning however, we did not need video footage to know exactly what Freud had been doing in the night. I think that Freud may have minor mental health issues, he certainly does some very strange things on occasions and last night was another example of this.

It would seem that the loo roll that we were using last night (because our box of tissues had run out) and had been left on the sofa, was a dangerous enemy and needed to be dealt with in the most serious of manners. So he gave it what for!

Still, I suppose it is better that he shreds a loo roll than some poor little creature out in the fields.

Off to do some work, chat soon, Liz

P.S. It's now 9.45 pm and I have just washed my hair and got out my new hairdryer ~ a Christmas gift from my mother ~ the instructions that came with the dryer state 'do not use with bare feet'. Maybe I am just being dumb, but I use my hands to hold a hairdryer!