Shiny like a new pin

I'm sure it must have rained on Saint Swithens Day, as every day it there is some rain sometime through the day or night ad today was no different.
All hopes for a brilliant summer are fast fading, still lets be 'Pollyanna' about it and keep our fingers crossed for September. It's not over till the fat weather man sings.

My friend Stella and her son's girlfriend came around today and blitzed my bungalow throughout for me. It looks lovely and shiny, plus everywhere smells so clean.
I can keep my bungalow clean and tidy by doing a little each day... normally when I can't sleep at 1am as you well know by now... but Stella can do all the tasks that involve cleaning products and cleaning my windows inside and out which is a task that I really have problems with now. The cleaning products tend to affect my breathing somewhat.
Besides with a proper blitz, it's then a lot easier for me to continue keeping up the good work.

She also brought freshly baked lemon drizzle cake, apple cakes, chocolate chip shortbread and plain shortbread... Oh lead me from temptation!
I swear that she is Mrs Beeton reincarnated.
I did have a plain shortbread square with my morning coffee with Stella and Laurie and it was soooo good, but I resisted and only had the one square... I was so impressed with myself, because that one square melted in my mouth!
I took mother her share of the cakes over and put the rest in the freezer, but I will take one out for my birthday on Sunday and not feel so guilty at all about eating it. After all how can you feel guilty about eating cake on your birthday?!
Though it is very possible that come 3am tonight, I could have my head in the freezer trying gnaw my way through a frozen apple cake.
Hopefully my little bit of gardening that I did out in the back garden, will knock me out come bedtime tonight. I thought using the loppers on the 'Russian Vine' would help build up my upper body strength.
I'm not sure what part of me was being built up though when I was picking up the cats poo in the little flower bed near my bedroom window! Yuk
Has anyone heard of lion's poo? It's suppose to ward off all cats from your garden. Instead, I used a whole pot of coarsely ground pepper out of my food cupboard, only for it to rain and wash it all away again.

I took mother out for lunch today.
It was her first outing in over a week because of her chest infection and she thoroughly enjoyed being out and about again, even though we did end up at Halfords where a cute guy had to rescue my window screen washer cap.
I am such a klutz.
I knocked it off the side of the car while filling up with screen wash and it fell right inside my engine where I couldn't reach it. Then I nearly lost my varifocals in this bottomless hole as well after bending down looking for it...Durr!
Still everything ended up okey dokey and mother enjoyed her little impromptu visit there, but she enjoyed her scampi and chips more bless her when we eventually got to the restaurant.
Never a dull moment hey!

Lots of love Debbie x