I knicked this idea from somewhere else – though I can’t say where. I saw a shot very similar and for some reason unbeknown to me it popped into my head and I decided to have a go for myself tonight. The original was better!

Considering the time (10.15pm) when I set off to get this shot and the sound of rats scurrying about above my head as I shot, I’m reasonably pleased with the effort, even though, as I say, the idea isn’t a new one.

Lots of things are hanging on by a thread in my world:

My sanity (builders, dust, noise and rubble)
My temper (lack of sleep)
My will to live (start of another journey away from home)
Rats – the rat catcher comes again tomorrow and (so DM reliably informs me) he’s got a glint in his eye

On the positive side, DM saw an owl in the garden, the bathroom is starting to look like a bathroom and the last of the humdinger holes has been made. Now it’s time for the good bits. I have a new stock of Lush bath thingys ready and waiting, including a gold, sparkly fizz bomb (any Lush devotee will tell you). I can’t wait for my first dip in the new bath. Hopefully by the end of this week….

Someone else was having a bad day instead of me last year.