Mice and malfunctions

Things that I have done this week:

• put all the winter clothes away
• picked mouse droppings out of the sugar bowl
• saw a mouse flailing around the kitchen in a trap, half-dead
• watched in horror as my laptop spectacularly malfunctioned
• fell in love with the man at PC World who heroically fixed malfunction and rescued my data
• smoked out the entire house while trying to light the woodburner, and had to evacuate
• washed several loads of wood-smoked clothes 
• eaten several of the kids' Easter eggs
• felt immensely guilty, and replenished the egg stocks
• broken up several fights between Betty and Dolly
• been on numerous play-dates
• noted that our windows haven't been cleaned for seven years
• realised my new favourite chef is Hugh F-W (sorry Jamie O)
• wondered how long it would be before I felt safe to enter my kitchen again, and cook
• had lots of cruel thoughts towards the mice
• thought about moving house
• began packing, perhaps a little prematurely, for our holiday next week
• got all the winter clothes back out again