‘in for me, in for me, they’ve all got it in for me’ – Kenneth Williams in Carry on Cleo I believe….

We’ve been ‘paying’ for our good fortune of last week with a string of mini-disasters that just don’t seem to want to lie down and give us a break.

The greenhouse that was giving us such great joy only a couple of weeks ago is now looking very sorry for itself as our tomato plants have got some sort of disease and are keeling over at a rapid rate of knots.

Yesterday’s fire is still stinking out the house and it’s now competing for repulsive smell with the back bedroom, where a plumber didn’t tighten a valve, the whole room got flooded and now the mouldy carpet stinks to high-heaven. Our home is a cacophony of smells, if there can be such a thing.

Add to this the car being VERY sick – it’s been back and forth to the garage almost every day over the last week and it failed its MOT test today as the final straw! We’ve had a lot of wasted time today as a pop into the MOT test station to get a new certificate at lunchtime stretched out for most of the afternoon, culminating in me losing a chunk of my working day and needing to alter my travel plans for this week at very short notice.

Top that with a little sweetie dog who’s got girlie troubles and has wee’ed on our bed again today without knowing what she’s done. That meant another bedding change and we can’t fit the duvet into the washing machine so it’s another trip down to see ‘Pearl’ at the launderette for us.

I know that in the grand scheme of things we are very lucky and that these are, in fact, just minor bits of bad luck but sometimes, when it’s one thing after another, I just feel beleaguered and that’s how I feel tonight.

Then, just as I’m in despair, I walk down the garden and notice that the corn has lost its frilly stuff. A quick investigation reveals it is, indeed, ready so two cobs were pulled then shoved into the oven, leaves and all, where they steamed themselves for twenty minutes and came out as succulent and as sweet as anything you’ve ever tasted.

And I think to myself…..it’s a wonderful world!

Last year we were in full-on clear out before move mode!