Living the dream part 3

Quite a simple one this. There are many aspects to life, which in a normal regular day to day living scenario become quite mundane and matter of fact. But here are some examples of things you may take for granted, that have become a little extra chore for us.

1. The simple delight of a dry tea towel. This is a vision of our possible future as autumn will start to set in, but we have been at the foot of the lower western Pyrenees for 2 days now. During those 2 days the weather, whilst generally being dry, has had a certain hanging mist quality about it. Therefore, the beauty of a dry tea towel has been forgotten. You can't beat the arid quality of cotton that has gently and slowly been drying by the Rayburn during the day. A tea towel that has absorbent capacity and quality. So if you are ever envious of us, then remember, we have tea towel issues!

2. Laundry. You step up to your washing machine, load it, et voila the clothes get clean. You also then tumble them (where appropriate), put them in the airing cupboard, over the Aga or Rayburn. We were in dire need of washing to be done, especially Jasper, who was perilously close to running out of underwear! So the two emergency washes were done. However, we have only managed to worsen the above tea towel drama and multiply it ten fold. Clothes are very slowly getting dry, but it has been a painful process.

3. Going to bed. So on an evening, I imagine you get tired, turn everything off (if you are anything like me then you have an OCD-like order of taps, gas, fridge, heating, doors, lights, windows, children to check) then change and slide into bed. This is a bit of a chore for us. There seems to be a silent avoidance tactic by both Clare and I at the moment to see who has to make the bed. We both become busy and try to find other tasks to do. So imagine if you had to dismantle your table, drag the sofas about, cover them all with bed sheets and then do your obsessional checkings? This is our life. We have dismantled our rear lounge and made our bed now 35 times in 35 nights. Only to follow it up in the morning by doing the reverse. We don't have the pleasure of just waking up and leaving it all behind! 

So this part of the blog serves to remind you, that as you return to work, school or whatever you do, although we may be living a dream through this blog, there are some things that make life a little more complicated. I've not even managed to mention wifi, information about the world, gas, plumbing issues, charging technology, shopping, road networks, etc..... So count yourselves lucky!

Ed