Saturday, 17th May 2014

We went to see The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe last night and it was really good! It was a production by Exeter College so I was a bit dubious, not really sure what to expect. 

Considering the fact they are still kids really, and they must have quite a small budget, it was amazing!!! A really good night out and it was completely packed so it looks like it was a success for them. We are going to the theatre again next weekend - check us out, we are so fancy!

Got home and my house stank of petrol! The strimmer had leaked, thankfully on some hessian sack in the 'allotment corner', but the smell was horrid! I was quite relived it was petrol though, when we walked in the door we thought we had a gas leak on our hands.

Today I am meant to be writing my assignment but keep procrastinating (which as we all know is totally out of character...) and even ended up having a conversation with the neighbour, an activity usually avoided at all costs (including doing a lap of the road if I see one of them entering the hallway before I do, small talk is the WORST). It was nice to sit in the garden and chat though, and she is really nice. The cat has already bonded with her and spent the whole time I was talking to her rolling around on his back trying to persuade someone to rub his tummy. Any friend of Muddles is a friend of mine, I guess.

I was forced into the garden by an ENORMOUS wasp in the front room. Dan is not in the house and I knew I should have closed the window but it felt ridiculous to do that when it is 20 degrees C outside! But as predicted an evildoer flew in and then went and hid behind the sofa where I couldn't find it. And I have to sit on the sofa to do my assignment! I stood wild eyed in the middle of the room holding a cup in one hand and a shoe in the other for at least five minutes (not sure how this whole situation was going to play out, I couldn't decide on a weapon). Then I decided I would just go and sit in the park for four hours until Dan came home (yes, that is perfectly sensible). Just as I was finding a solution to my hair (straigteners being located exactly where the wasp had last been seen) it flew back onto the curtain so I was able to remove it with the cup (shoe was not needed after all). I was shaking so much afterwards and my pupils were like little dots, I had been so scared!! I had to go and sit in the garden with a cup of tea. 

Needless to say, the window is now FIRMLY closed and will remain that way until the wasps die off in the Autumn. I am still slightly paranoid that the wasp on the curtain was a different wasp to the one that flew behind the sofa, but I am going to have to try and put that out of my mind...

I guess now that has been resolved I really do have to do my assignment!!

xx