Busy Busy Busy - Pumpkin

 

Well that was a busy week! Work, as ever is busy, but on top of that I'm prepping for a trip away (more about that another day), the cleaner is away for a few weeks and Halloween is on the horizon. Oh yes, and the leaflets have turned up again as part of son's job.

So as well as my normal daily chores - work, feed family, walk dog I've been having to fit a million other things in as well.

As a result of this much of last week was about getting up at 05:00 to make sure I had time to do the additional activities such as house cleaning and delivering my bit of the leaflets. It's not all me, husband also gets elbow deep in our filth when the cleaner doesn't come and also does his bit with the leaflets. Though we're both getting pretty bored of our leaflet involvement!

We both have 'preferred' jobs - let's face it they are neither of our favourites. I can tolerate cleaning the bathrooms and the kitchen (except the walk in shower, which puts me in a foul mood). Husband can tolerate doing the hoovering and emptying the bins.

So between us we can get the house looking ship shape, though you will note that dusting is on neither of our lists. 

I deliver about half of son's leaflets alone. We've told him that when the clocks change in Spring he's going to be doing the deliveries on his own. So only about 6 more instances when I'll have to do the leaflets. Though I suspect he'll drop the delivery once he does it on his own. Watch this space. I'll not be very impressed if he does drop it. Husband and son do the other half together.

I try to multi-task and do the dog walk at the same time as delivering leaflets, though I'm aware it's not a great bit of exercise for the dog. The dog has been with me so often now that it does a staggered walk whenever we go out, wandering up people's driveways even if we don't need to.

At some point I'm going to need to tidy up my study - it's an utter pig sty. The bit on camera looks ok, but everything off camera is an absolute mess. It'll probably only take about 20 mins to sort out. But I'm suffering from a massive streak of can't be arsed at the moment.

On Thursday I was head down working in my study and suddenly there was an almighty great bang on the window (which reminds me my windscreen got a crack in it the other day as well, must get that sorted). I looked out of the window to try to work out what it was, but couldn't see anything. I went downstairs to take a look around and there outside the back door was a beautiful wood pigeon, so perfect. 

Very sadly I think it must have broken its neck flying into the window. I wasn't sure what to do. But going out again half an hour later it had passed away. I didn't want to leave it out in the rain for the cats and foxes to eat and was a bit bemused about what to do. In the end I picked it up and put it in a carrier bag and threw it in the bin. It just felt so wrong - but what else was I to do.

It was such a beautiful bird - absolutely in the prime of it's life. It literally broke my heart.

So that's essentially the second living thing I've had to bag up and dispose of this year (the rat earlier in the year being the other thing). I'm hoping that there's nothing else around the corner. It's definitely not my favourite thing.

Then in one lunch hour during the week son and I did a flying visit to a pumpkin patch. Good thing we did because there were barely any pumpkins left. I think if we'd left it til the weekend there would have been no choice. Because I was on a time limit we literally jumped out of the car, grabbed a wheelbarrow, sprinted to the furthest end of the pumpkin patch where the fewest people were. Grabbed one MASSIVE pumpkin, one normal sized pumpkin and a few eating pumpkins. Then ran to the pay point, ran to the car and drove home. 

I have no idea how we did it, but when I sat back at my desk I still had 7 minutes to spare.

Who says you can't achieve the impossible.

Anyway, we're all ready for Halloween, son doesn't want to go out Trick or Treating as he's to old for this now. But we have plenty of sweets in for the kids. I like Halloween so I'm actually looking forward to it. Though dog will go utterly bonkers every time the doorbell goes. I suspect we'll end up leaving sweets on the driveway.

So that was the week gone by, busy busy busy. Though reading back it doesn't sound so frantic, but literally every second of every day something was happening.