If this is how this whole month is going to go…

Yesterday my cleaners came (Merry Maids sends them out in a team of two) and left the house all shiny and clean.  Later on, however, we had an incident which involved icing sugar going all over a worktop, some cupboard doors, the floor, a catfood bowl, and Gloworm's (clean on that day) school uniform.

Later, Abstract had to move all the furniture (TV, TV table, bookcase and huge pile of books with associated dust) from one corner of the sitting room into the centre, to make way for the gas engineer due to come today.

Today the gas engineer came and fixed the gas fire in the sitting room and then serviced the boiler in the kitchen, with attendant mess (although he did borrow the hoover and did a great job of cleaning up after himself).

And the cat jumped from the boiler over my bowl of cereal in order to get onto the clean (and forbidden territory) worktop, spraying hair as she did so.

Oh, and yesterday both Sparkler's and Gloworm's shoes broke.  Sparkler's was just a strap, which she super-glued, but the whole heel of one of Gloworm's shoes disintegrated.  Which meant she had to wear trainers today and take a note explaining to her teachers.

And it's only the first day of the month.