Through a set of circumstances, very unexpectedly, I ended up having to entertain a television celebrity for several hours one day last week. Sometimes my house is immaculate, sometimes it is not - and it was not! All the floors needed a good sweep and mop. The cat had overindulged on dried food again and deposited a heap of cat-sick in the middle of the lounge carpet. The woman asked to use the bathroom - I hadnt been in the main one for a couple of days as we use an ensuite. A possum had been camping on a disused air-con grate in the ceiling and made a nice pile of droppings on the floor below. "Oh dear, where did that come from? It wasnt there before....what is it? Oh possum droppings! They sleep on the grate blab blab blab" on and on I went, making it all worse than it was... It was also when my poor QH mare had died and the tractor wasnt home to bury her til a couple of days later, so you got the occasional whiff of something very not-nice every so often. Eventually I had to tell her what it was....
She was most gracious!
