Once upon a time...

... there was a little house in the village of G. There lived 3 gentle folk and a HAG. One day this HAG grew ill but still plodded off to work because even tho she was ill, she KNEW that there were THINGS TO BE DONE. The gentle folk went on with their school and work while the HAG alternated between cleaning up after them while grumbling that she was "ill for crying out loud and couldn't they have a care?" and being in a generally bad mood. The gentle folk finally got fed up with the grumbling and mumbling HAG, and ate her for supper.

Of course their house went to ruin as the clothes didn't magically get washed, folded and replaced in their cupboards. They ran out of toiletpaper. Dishes stacked themselves into high mounds in the sink and on the counters. No one threw away the empty milk cartons that were placed on the kitchen counter, so that the stench grew unbearable. No one insisted the lawn be mowed. Old paper grew in heaps on the floor along the walls, on the tables and in corners. All of these things and more. But the gentle folk who in reality were very VERY VERY MESSY PEOPLE, did not REALLY see it all. And so they lived happily ever after. The end.

This of course is a rubbish story. And impossible. No one can kill a HAG you know.

As you may or may not have guessed, I am a tad disgruntled. Being sick does NOT give me permission to be miserable and grumpy. Not even when due to my aching bones, on getting up from a few hours' doze (due to said aching bones, stuffed sinuses and inflamed throat AND a little ibuprofen), I semi-explode because of the mess incurred (due to said doze). Why? Well, I suppose because I'm a mum and therefore classed under 'super-hero' and not really given the privilege to be ill.. Had I been the dad now.... ;-)

But yaaaay! I have a daughter!! She thoroughly spoiled me with a cup of tea with HONEY because as we womenfolk know (and pass on such things from generation to generation) HONEY is great for sick people.

So now after some doses of honey and ground cinnamon, I am on the mend.. And surely a bit more positive than yesterday ;-)