It is nice waking to hear my two cats playing under the bed. Not so nice when I realise they are playing with a half dead mouse which I will inevitably have to retreive and put out of it's misery. I thought I'd managed to get around the whole complicit cruelty to small animals implication of cat ownership when i discovered that K&P love non-applicator tampons. And I mean LOVE - could spend hours chasing one around the house. Unfortunately, it seems they've wised up to my little scheme - a bird and three little baby mice so far this week :(
Why, Twitter of course! Here's what I've been blathering about:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/871314/1
I just, and only just, persuaded myself not to flame someone who really, really deserved it.
On another note - Peter just brought me in a baby bird which, unfortunately, was not entirely dead by the time he brought it to my attention (by jumping into my lap and yowling with pride) so I had to prise it from his jaws (no mean feat, I tell you) and then wring its neck. He's now clearly very angry with me and with Katie for some reason. She keeps trying to play with him and he just huffs and walks away with a little "i have put away such childish things" shrug of his shoulders. Poor Katie she looks very desolate and, alas, she's such a little bird brain it will probably always be like this now - she wouldn't recognise a mouse if it bit her on the nose.
I'm usually immune to such things but for the last two years I've been buying this very good, but very expensive product:
It's great, it makes my skin feel amazing, banishes the dreaded "body spots", the smell relaxes me and it leaves my skin smelling sexy for days. But it costs over a tenner for a pot that lasts a few months.
So, in the interests of my own personal credit crunch (what do you mean I can't borrow any more money? When did this happen?) I've been experimenting with replicating it. Well, I say experimenting. I mean experiment. It took me exactly 5 minutes to replicate the product exactly. And the ingredients cost about £2.50. I'm feeling so unbelievably smug I'll replicate the recipe here:
Ingredients
Sunflower oil
Table salt
Scent (I hesitate to use the phrase homo therapy) oils to preference
Method
Mix half a cup of the oil with a cup of the salt
Stir to form a thick paste, about toothpaste consistency
Add the oils - I used a few drops each of lavender and sandalwood but you could use eucalyptus or citrus if you wanted something more energising or tea tree if you have skin problems
That's it! Like I say I'm feeling very smug. Not least because it means I've broken the hold of yet another unnecessary, overpriced item of consumption. And I smell lovely!
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