sunday 23rd april

Nice laid back morning, which is just how a sunday morning should be. I've got that Commadores song "Easy Like Sunday Morning" going around in my head now. Mooched about and did yet more tidying and putting away. How does this house get in such a mess? Hop rang about 11.30 and asked what I was doing so I queried him about the piles of dirty clothes lying about the place, and he said that the clothes badgers must have left them for me. More like bloomin' Badger terrorism, leaving washing bombs to explode when my back is turned.
Anyway did a spot of tweeking geraniums and pegging out the washing before lunch, after which I got on with a bit of spanish translation for tommorrows class. Went to the small park before tea, although we were only there about 10 mins before Lucy had had enough. I asked her if she wanted to stay abit longer or go home for tea and she replied "tea!", and sat in her pushchair.
Little varmit nearly caused a fire later, as I was watching Antiques Roadshow when I was sure I could smell burning. Hop had closed the kitchen door to stop Lucy going in and running amook, but she'd obviously got in just before and turned on the rings on the hob. A plastic placemat had slipped onto the hob, melted, and kicked up very nasty accrid smoke. Lucky I had stayed downstairs otherwise we would have been kippers! Jokes aside, a close call. I stuck the extractor fan on full blast and opened all the windows, so the smell was gone before we went to bed.