Just to say.....

Just to say, that......

I have had a shower.

Yes I have!

A real proper shower,

..not one like I had when we first arrived,

with the water being heated up in a black plastic bag,

this shower being called a 'camping shower'.

It was alright a couple of times,

having a shower in the open air

with the sun shining

and the bees buzzing

with Lester keeping an eye out for any unexpected human visitors.

And then there was the caravan shower

and oh what a squeeze of a place to shower in that was,

and then the boiler broke so that was that.

For a while there was a flannel and bowl.

For most of my time here, it has been thus so,

although friends fitted a little hot water boiler in the house

which at that time did not have a roof

so it was a 'fresh air' shower for quite some time until the roof was fixed.

I did not like that shower.

The water was undecided as to whether it was going to be very hot or very cold,

and standing in a plastic box,

holding the shower nozzle in one hand,

fiddling about with the cold water tap and the hot water tap with the other,

no, it was not my preferred choice of keeping clean,

so a  flannel and bowl it was for me,

except in the very  coldest of winter weather

when I often became lax

and went au naturelle.

I have a shower,

a proper shower,

because our hot water and cold water are all fixed,

and the bathroom is finished,

and so I had a shower,

a proper shower,

and

it

was

an

absolute

delight.

The loo flushes.

Yes, it does.

I can sit on the loo

and 'go',

then get off,

and

flush.

xx