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What a terrible way to start the morning especially getting up at 0210hrs, Ants. The reason for this is that I had to get up early to see my wife and eldest daughter off as they're going away to work for a week as I have already written in previous blogs and as they were making coffee, what else do you do first thing in the morning, my daughter looked at the wall and there were ants everywhere and when we moved the fridge we were horrified to see thousands of ants on the wall, floor and back of the fridge, then as always my daughter went into panic mode. Although they had to go she had to spray, vacuum and generally get wound up as if I couldn't handle the problem when they had gone, of course not I'm too old to handle that problem but that's the way she thinks. Every problem can be handled as long as you don't panic after all they are just ants how hard can that be,spray, hoover and Google on how to get rid of these little insects. When the shops open I'll get what I need and problem solved, well at least I have something to do in an empty house. The usual job's coffee, blog, wash and wipe dishes, feed the dogs and then go to the shop to get a permanent cure for the problem,I've used crushed bay leaves for the moment until I can decide the best way to get rid of them for good, what a way to start the day off. Now it's just peace and quiet waiting for the washing machine to finish so I can sort out that job and then just think about what I can do without any interference, the house is clean because my wife went beserck with the cleaning yesterday as it seems no one thinks that I can do what needs to be done but that's life when you live in a family atmosphere the men are not capable of doing anything as well as the females of the family, I have never had any problems with living alone before so I don't see why they can't rely on me to keep the house clean. There is one good thing about them going away to work and that is I can watch the football in peace, eat at normal times and generally enjoy my sort of holiday while it lasts until the phone rings just to check up on me and to see I have done what needs to be done. 

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