Monday 16th December - more losts and founds

After yesterday's post was published we watched a little more television  (no idea what now) and then went to deal with the battery operated candles. Not as straightforward as it sounds; the candles come from five different sets and use three different remote controls. Three sets each respond to the remotes they came with, but the fourth set are... different.

One remote switches them off when you press 'off' but another remote switches them back on when you press 'off'. The regular game is seeing who can extinguish all the candles with the least use of the remotes (and the least mutterings of unsuitable language if it is going really badly).

The Game didn't get going last night as we couldn't find on of the remotes... After 30 minute's careful searching we resorted to finding the on/off switch at the base of each of the eight candles. We were NOT happy!

We continued the search, to the extent of checking every waste bin including the kitchen bin. De Nada. Rien. Zip. Zero.

The remote turned up this evening under a small tin beside where it is usually kept. Cheers all round.

This afternoon I bribed myself to write the next tranche of Christmas cards today with a couple of very small home-made biscuits.  They're healthy biscuits, right? After all I made them with granola. (Please don't correct me! I like to spend quite a lot of time living in an alternate reality la-la land where granola biscuits and caramelized nuts are healthy and very good for me...) anyway, where was I? Oh yes, one biscuit for every 10 cards seems reasonable rate to me. 

Once I'd eaten 2 biscuits and written 22 cards (I never knew I could be an over-achiever) I stuck on the lost-and-found stamps which were still where I'd put them yesterday. There were four European cards as well, so I worked out the postage to put stamps on them too... but where were they?

BB had posted a load f cards this morning, and we reluctantly came to the conclusion that they had been swept up and chucked in the post box with the others. My relatives in the Netherlands and France were going to receive unstamped cards with extra payment fees. Oh. Sad face. 

But then! Lookee lookee - there they were! Happy face!

I really can't cope with such an up-and-down life for very much longer. Tomorrow may be the day I decide to lie down in a darkened room and listen to Bach all day.