Lock-down Day 562

Oh, crap! More load shedding! I only just saw the news - power going out in half an hour! Better make myself another flask of coffee!

Can't do the laundry without power ... sigh.

Power went off about quarter past eight and came back around twenty to ten. Coming on earlier helps, as I can get started - but going off later doesn't help much. Unless I'm doing last minute preparation for the outage.

I stripped my bed again, washed the mattress ... okay, so I spent about quarter of an hour brushing Mewthos before ... I don't want to see so much as a whisker of his, when I'm cleaning up his ... mess ...

And then I treated the pavement outside my bedroom with a home-brew of vinegar, salt and a few drops of liquid soap.

Now I'm busy getting the details of the light bulbs, so I can have spare ones again. Oh, I have some ... somewhere ... I've looked, but I think they're still in some box somewhere ... sigh. Plus, there's the fun involved of me getting on a ladder ... even the second step has me swaying dizzily! Don't ask me how I'm going to fit the light bulbs, let alone replace the cover!

The two main bedroom lamps are easier, they hang a little lower - not fitted against the ceiling. For now, I've swapped the bulbs.

Fortunately, I don't have to wash the duvet again - just the cover, protector, sheets, etc. As if that isn't enough. I've also taken down the curtains ... and where is Mewthos, while I'm working my arse off, cleaning up his mess? Curled up on the bed, on the fresh sheets! Hrmph! While I'm sitting here, wondering whether I should wash the rug as well ...

I've just checked on my peas, they're not quite ripe, yet.

Effing great! I've washed the protective sheet, hung it outside and the effing wind blows it into the effing dirt! So, it may smell nice, but it'll be covered in mud! And just to add insult to injury, I injured myself trying to lift the fallen over washing stand! Jammed my hand between a hinge ... I'm blaming Mewthos! If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be washing my effing entire bedroom ... yet again! Worst of all, I've taken absolutely everything out ... yet I can still smell cat pee! I've sniffed the rug ... it's not the rug.

I think Mewthos has picked up on the fact that I'm not particularly pleased with him at the moment. He's bringing me gifts. Calls me to the kitchen then puts down a teeny tiny lizard! Twice now - I think it's the same lizard, because I took it outside the first time around.

Power is about to go off again ... grumble.

Good news - I could do with some - as I walked towards my bedroom, a smell of fresh laundry greets me! No pong of cat pee! I think I have managed to get it all! Oh, I sprinkled the mattress, the blanket and the protector with bicarbonate soda - I can only guess that that did the trick.

During the second blackout, I washed the dishes, cleaned the kitchen and then went into the garden. Cleaned the bed with the broad beans and maize, started on the - now overgrown - rose bed, but gave up after a while. I'm better off cleaning the pea and bean bed than the bed with a dead rose bush, I'm afraid. What I had hoped to be the rose bush making an effort turned out to be creepers! I pulled them out, roots, bulb and all ...

Some trouble getting back online after the outage ... now I'm going to snuggle in my lovely, clean, freshly laundered bed!