THE LEFT HANDED BLOGGER-CHEZ GODFREY- MCCABE 3RD. IN SERIES

We have a very good house. It has nine rooms and a garage (where Claude lives). There are two bathrooms (no baths) and two kitchens (very dark). The floors are painted red, much like an industrial unit and should be easy to keep clean. We must, of course, first buy something to clean them with. Perhaps tomorrow, depending on what football is on.

We have mice (Gloria thinks it is a small rat) and we have cockroaches. Gloria finds the cockroaches easy to live with. I think she has watched 'Men in Black 'too often or there might be something I do not know about her. She has not taken well to the mice (or rat). On seeing one she lets out a noise that is something between a howl and a scream and refuses to go into the kitchen (that is where they seem to reside). I have not seen one so I must wonder if this is not a terribly clever ruse on her part or a genuine phobia. I am under instruction to block up the hole/drain under the sink and this I will shortly do.

We have electricity that works virtually all of the time. We have running cold water most of the time but it is not of good enough pressure to have a shower in the morning. So whilst it may appear luxury to have two bathrooms, we may just as well stick to the buckets we have.

I have yet to work out how to attach photographs to my blog but when I do you will see that we also have a fine garden and as I write, Claude is doing a bit of gardening. Gloria is threatening to grow stuff. It should not be difficult as the climate is perfect for agriculture. Both vegetables and fruit are readily available and the bananas come almost in bite sizes.

We have bought a fridge and a coffee maker on the grounds that we are not here to do penance and anyway I have not spent any of my redundancy money yet. The fridge/freezer was expensive by anybody's standards but it has opened up a whole new world of butter, yoghurt and even fresh milk for cereals if we feel that way inclined. The coffee maker is a real treat as Rwandan coffee is very good. Both items are well worth the money.

I have just seen our mouse-rat so I had better get on with blocking up that hole, otherwise I will be the only one using the kitchen. More to follow stay well.