Holiday? Celebrate!

A miracle. We have just been away and all went well! Well there was drama back at home but more of that later – yes we went on a holiday that broke neither me nor the bank. The hotel was perfect; the rooms were exactly as described: huge & silent with, great views, designer bathroom accessories & Frette sheets on the bed. The bar had a great wine list & was funky & cause for much amusement (you don’t expect Shane Warne style hair worn with skin-tight silk shirts & shiny pointy boots in the middle of Dorset. And that was just the men!) The food in the restaurant was amazing! Dinner was sublime & the breakfast delicious. I am still in shock.... But what a fiasco back at home. The KC was left (grudgingly – her not us!) with a cat sitter who she knows well. Not her usual but there we are. Waking at 8ish Sunday morning I switched my phone on to get 3 texts – first text sent at half past midnight. From cat sitter to tell me all the electric was off ... 2nd text sent at 12.45AM to let me know she’d run out in her PJ’s to get help from a neighbour who had been coming home from a night out & they’d sorted it. 3rd text was telling me that fixing electrics must be a “boy thing” & that all’s well, not to worry! Now this is not the first time we have had problems when leaving the KC with sitters. Virtually every time we've gone off on jolly hols we’ve received calls telling us variously that the heating had gone off, the burglar alarm was broken & needed silencing at a cost of £200 or that there was no hot water as the boiler was broken .... Once we even got a call telling us that the sitter had been admitted to hospital! Hmm .. only one common denominator here. The KC looks far too innocent to me... where does she hide her toolkit??