The merry-go-round

My life is like a merry-go-round right now. I need to stop it and get off but I can't seem to move. Events seem to have a life of their own and I just follow along.

1. It looks like I will be moving house this year. Fed up with noisy neighbours and the barking of 4 dogs in very close proximity, my patience finally snapped. I was rewarded by finding an eminently suitable house which WH and I could just about afford. We are still awaiting confirmation that it will be ours, but even if this one falls through then the decision has been made and we will move on to another one.

2. Having sold my mother's flat in 2 days, her estate is all but wound up. Just a million bits of paper to file and a few bills to pay. Must be a record for something legal in this country.

3. WH has a new labourer who lives a way away. I now find myself in the position of feeding the hired help every day for 2 weeks whilst they work locally.

4. My garage wall is subsiding rapidly. It has to be completely taken down and rebuilt. Fortunately we have some reliable favours to call in. It will, however, depend on me providing bacon sandwiches on tap for 2 days, but hey, it's not like I have anything else to do.

5. Goggins has gone senile and won't be on his own any more so wakes me at all hours, day and night, and demands a cuddle, food or preferably me to find WH immediately as he prefers to sleep on top of him. Not so easy last week when they were working 150 miles away.

6. Misty has learned to tap. Not just anything but me. He wants me, he taps my arm; he wants food in the night, he taps my face; he wants me to get off the phone, he taps my leg. It's a funny little tap, an outstretched right paw, claws well hidden and he just gives the tiniest of movements; it's like a feather tapped you as it floated past, barely perceivable but still there all the same. Still pretty annoying when you're doing something, like trying to sleep

maybe.

But my Lyme treatment is going well, a couple of Herxes and some strange effects but I am starting to feel some small improvements. I am very optimistic. In fact I think I deserve an extra holiday. I'm looking at Easter right now!