Now you all think having an opera evening a very simple thing to do. In my experience it is not that easy, we have had an exploding sub woofer and now have one on loan till ours is repaired, if it can be. We have a golden retriever who everyday this week has found something truly hideously smelly to roll in (she likes it caked behind her ears) so I have air spray, scented candles and lavender all around the house. Then sitting down for a cuppa, horror of horrors a swarm of flies has the nerve to come in from the balcony door, opened only to get rid of dog whiffs. I am sitting, jumping up with fly swat, back down, up again , have caught and marmolised 8 so far but there are still 2 on the loose, and you know flies, 2 means in reality 22. Now there is nothing worse than the curtains pulling back, the big screen rolling down and then a fly landing persistently on the tenor's nose ( they seem to prefer the tenors)
Last year you may remember we had the dead rat in the walls scenario (we had put poison in the roof space to catch Mister Big Rat, but he died knowing he was going to get his own back by reeking for weeks in the walls.) At the beginning weeks of the opera, too difficult to say "come to the opera with a peg for your nose ". Excuse me must just get that buzzy one... smash. The salon now looks like a fly graveyard. Oh! well I have done my best, let the show commence.
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