Life on the other side

Well, I am no having a good day, Grandad fix it has been and attempted to fix our toilet, now of course it would not be a simple task, oh no that would be easy! The problem with the toilet was that it whistled, it the middle of the night, and at just the right pitch to send me into to sleep deprived mania, I would stomp around, because if I was being woken by the bloody toilet them LP should be up too and feel the pain, turn all the taps on in the bath room and it would stop, right until I was just about to drift off to sleep again, and then the whistling would start again….. apparently a valve would fix it!! according to LP and granddad fix it and that’s the kind of thing I am quite happy not to be interested in or know anything about….. so yesterday Granddad fix it arrived with said valve, and after breakfast this morning he fitted it “5 minute job!” apparently.. well about 3 hours, quite a lot of Tupperware, bowls and all the towels later, the toilet doesn’t whistle, but it does leak quite a lot, now Granddad fix it has come to Nottingham to go to a African workshop that he’s involved with (the African connection is something for another post!) so has to go and deliver drums, and leaves me with the leaking, but not whistling toilet…. OK i say I just empty the plastic bowl every so often…. what I don’t realize is the toilet is leaking quite a lot….. and so I am emptying the bowl every 10 minutes… Now I have to go out and get the baby’s formula (from the doctors as she is Lactose intolerant!) and she doesn’t have enough to make it till Monday, and the library books are due back today, oh and we only have about 3 nappies left, I can feel the pressure starting to build… so I think it will be fine, stuff a big towel under it and empty the bowl just before you leave and just do it all really quickly…… So I run to the doctors of course they have lost the repeat prescription and try to look for it in the slowest way possible, then I run avoiding the million old ladies with walkers that seamed to be out just to piss me off, I throw the books into the library as we passed, gave the man at the counter the death stare (my face is also bright red and quite sweaty at this point) because he always trys to get me to sign up to some group or other.. into the chemists back up the hill home, abandon kids in the pushchair, up the stairs 2 at a time, empty the overflowing bowl….breath…. then the I wants start…..before I can even catch my breath to say anything he has requested a banana, juice, raisins, an apple and some milk…. I ignore the request, but there was no ignoring the smell of poo, so upstairs again change of nappy while he is not keeping still at all like I have asked, and now there is poo on the slinky, he throws a strop when I explain he can’t play with it because there is poo on it…. and then the I wants start….. chocolate raisins now….(I thought he had forgotten about them) and there I am pooey slinky in hand 2 year old screaming about chocolate raisins and leaking toilet, oh and the baby’s crying now because she wants her bottle…. and I her my mother say in my head…. well this is what happens if you have sex!

so on my way downstairs I mutter something about fucking chocolate raisins, and Alpha turns to me and says they are not fucking chocolate raisins mummy, just chocolate raisins….

LP calls to see how my day is going, and I have a rant then bust into tears, and he calmly tells me to stop the cistern filling up (how do men know so much about toilets did I miss that day at school?) so I manage to use a hair band to stop it filling up so quickly and he promises to get home ASAP with gin and nappies (what more could I ask for!)

Chocolate raisins have now been flung around the room and are mostly under the sofa covered in fluff, baby has had her bottle and thrown some up on the car mat, slinky has bee depooed and is in a big tangled mess around Alpha’s arm… so all’s back to normal, I am going to make a cup of tea and read this blog, just to remind myself I am not the only one who has days like this…..