Mothers' day was a delight. Mr Fink, Little Fink, me and Nanny and Shouty Grandad went to Southwold for the day. What a beautiful day, lovely sun, beautiful beach and lovely company. Nanny was off like a rocket with the metal detector, up and down the beach, beep beeping away. Little Fink was busy with sand and pebbles and such. Shouty Grandad and I settled into the picnic while Mr Fink helped Nanny with the digging. Disaster strikes, I forgot the tea bags. As you may know - I love a cuppa, doesn't matter where it is or what time, I love a mug of tea. I brought a massive catering size flask of hot water (cant stand tea made in the flask and it has to be in a proper ceramic mug, no plastic or metal - urgh) 2 pints of milk, ample sugar and spoons. no tea bags. DOH. Shouty Grandad thought this was brilliant and will never let me forget it. He went off for a walk into town and a general Tea Bag hunt - the rest of us feared for the people attending their beach huts. would Shouty Grandad accost them for their tea bags? Luckily we didn't have to find out, he found a shop up near the lighthouse and we had tea and picnic. smashing.
As for the metal detectoring. We didn't find any valuables, I located a couple of bits of molten aluminium but nothing valuable. Shouty Grandad resorted to asking random passers by to throw odd change into the sand, just so we would have something to find. He got a lot of odd looks but was almost successful in begging for change on one occasion! Oh the shame. All in all a grand day out and the start of the Fink Family Calendar of beach days and holidays.
This morning Little Fink had a shower (it was the Cub take over of the local swimming baths last night so her hair was like coconut matting.) she asked me to check her head as it was itchy. I looked, and looked and looked. Then, I found what I was looking for, I picked it out, pressed my fingernails against either side of it's little body and I pressed. POP it went - how satisfying. Back into the shower she went with the sacred bottle of "Not Nice To Lice" that I purchased off the Internet ages ago. About 4 years ago, she and I became infested with head lice. It happened right at the start of the 6 week summer holidays. Oh boy, I tried everything, non prescriptives, prescribed medicines, conditioner, nit combs (if you could see mine and Little Fink's hair you would know what torture a nit comb can inflict - you really find out who your friends are when you invite them round to de-nit you because you can't part your own hair for the nit cream very well.), tea tree oil, coal tar remedies. We tried everything. After 6 weeks a friend recommended Not Nice To Lice. She gave me a free sample, we used it and bingo - lice away! (It contains the enzyme that encourages the louse to moult, so by making them moult prematurely, they die. you have to re-treat a couple of days later, just to catch any that have hatched and not been affected, but it's a simple case of washing your hair for 10-15 minutes in peppermint smelling shampoo.) Hopefully after another treatment next week, we will all be "biddy" free! Oh the glamour of my life.
http://www.naturallydoesit.co.uk/shop/ this is a link to the Not Nice To Lice site.
A special mention for those that know Big Mac, she has picked her self up, dusted herself off and is doing pretty damn well for herself actually - she passed her course (not surprised after all the work she put in) with distinction and is now Head of the Universe (or something) at the school she works in/runs. Well done Big Mac - the milky bars are on you!
