Here’s something to brighten your day….. I call it ‘The chaos that happens when things are going too well!’… I was sitting quietly, minding my own business and reflecting on the year that has been, when I get a ‘Nikko rolled in something’ shout from one of my boys… just as the creature in question jumps on my bed!…. Holy mother of god! The smell is like nothing I have had hit my nostrils before! I swear the smell came into the room before the dog did (and certainly stayed long after he left)…… Dead Frog! The most horrific thing I think I have ever smelled… indescribably putrid!
You have no idea! …

Nikko was very pleased with himself… strutting around as though it was Chanel number 5, loving himself all kinds of stupid! – and adding insult to injury (my nostrils may never recover) while we were working on containing Nikko… Daisy went and rolled in it! Thankfully another man-child came home at that point, and helped me to take them both downstairs to wash them. And just when thoughts of containment and control entered my head, they took off and chased the lizard that lives near my pool!!!

Now I have a maggot infested dead frog in my bin, two dogs (that still don’t smell entirely right after 3 rounds of shampoo) running around the house like the lunatics that they are, a lingering smell because I can’t figure out which surfaces they made contact with before I got them, a giant lizard swimming in the pool taunting us all… and Clayties voice in my ear saying ‘it is what it is!’

Merry Christmas!

Thank you for all of your love and encouragement! Thanks for following along with my musings each week and for the support that you send my way! I have had a truly great year with some fabulous people and so many amazing new memories made.

From my family to yours, I hope this Christmas brings joy and laughter, great food and merriment, good people, happy moments and so much love! x