Wet, Wet, Wet ....

Now I know most of you will automatically think of the band with same said name ...

Well I'm not ... what I'm thinking about is the crappy shitty weather .... I bet you won't believe me when I tell you it has NOT stopped raining for over a week !!! Yes you heard right ... I'm thinking I be needing to find old Noah and be booking me & SONshine a space on his Ark ... cos if it carries on like this for much longer I think there's gonna be a flood ...

Mind you if I go back over the blog for last year, and the year before that and even the year before that, I think I'd find the exact same sentiments around about this time ... I'm sitting here wondering why on earth I thought I was ever coming to Africa for HEAT ??? I'm sure as a kid growing up here in SA there was heat ... at some stage ... I mean Hollywood's got it all wrong ... nah ... I think they must've invented the tale that Africa was hot ... no actually I am a bit wrong there ... cos although its rain, rain, rain .... its not exactly cold ... I can wonder around the un-insulated house with it's gaping windows and large gaps under the doors in jeans and a t-shirt ... with flip flops on (what a sight !!!)

What's getting to me is the moisture ... and the MUD !!!! with 2 dogs in the house ... who have no respect for my furniture at all .... especially the Kleo of the Bells ... who as a smaller 4 legged canine believes that to dry oneself one must rub ones muddy wet paws all over mums lavender & white duvets !!!! ... hence the reason I do not believe I will ever have a clean and pretty house ... who you trying to kid ... with 2 dogs and 2 men in your life .... never !!!(Ok Paul, I know you're not here all the time ... but when you are you just add to the masculine mess !!! LOL )

I mean SON-shine comes home covered in just as much mud ... he's out at rugby practise in this pouring rain ... and he loves it ... you wanna see the colour and state of those boys when they come off the practise field ... visualise those army movies of the soldiers knee deep in mud in the trenches ... now bring that thought forward to today and add teenage boys !!!! That's what it looks like ... and they LOVE it ... I'm sure they BEG coach to do leopard crawling in this weather !!!!

And let me tell you ... moisture and paper just DO NOT MIX ... here I am trying desperately hard this week to get my A into G and pack kits for the Christmas workshop ... and I'm frantically printing instructions and the printer keeps jamming cos the paper is DAMP... I take out papers for the kits ... cut to size and within an hour they are curling their corners up at me ...before I have time to get them sealed comfortably in their zip lock waterproof bags !!! I spent a day 'Cri-Cutting' 200 sets of Christmas words ... (I'm feeling a bit Noel, Love, Peace & Joy 'ed out right now... oh and let me tell you ... it took a whole day to do these !!!) then bagging them up was fun cos they felt all limp and damp !!! and the letters were sticking together ... me is thinking we don't need air conditioning ... we do need heating ... or maybe some sort of climate controlling device to keep the damp out !!!!

I'm not even gonna mention (oops I just did )the PILE of wet towels everywhere (for drying dogs in an attempt to keep some mud off and for walking on to try to save the cream ...stoopid choice carpets ) ... and the baskets full of washing ... Did I tell y'all ... I do have a tumble drier ... lived 8 years in England .... never needed one ... here it's on the go daily from September to December .... no wonder SA has power issues !!!!

And then this week ... SON-shine is writing 2011 final exams so it means he's only at school for the times that he is writing ... talk about feeling like a taxi service !!!! If he doesn't have an exam on a particular day he doesn't have to go into school ... and most days this week he has written papers for 2 hours !!! So as the P of P ... how much work do you think I'm actually able to do in 2 hours .... like um ... NONE !!!! ... especially when 3 hours later he's wanting a lift back to school for pre-pre-season practise !!! .... ;-( ........