House of Horrors?

I spent yesterday evening appreciating my clean house. Antonia hasn’t been to clean for a couple of weeks and despite the fact we sweep, it is never as clean as when she gets to it! So, I tidied and relaxed without having to walk over wood dust from the woodworm. How lovely I thought, especially as we now have a new table to replace the one the woodworm ate through - in fact we now have a plethora of tables as we were given 2 tables to replace a table and chair!
This morning I had a lazy morning as I don’t teach first lesson on a Wednesday. So I had a leisurely , hot shower, enjoying the peace. Casually took a shirt out of the wardrobe that I haven’t really worn much and put it on. Hmmm, suddenly it was quite itchy inside at the front so I looked for a label or something that may have got stuck there in the wash. But nothing. Then it felt a bit scratchy nearer the collar. As I turned my head there was an enormous cockroach crawling out of the top of the shirt I was wearing, onto my shoulder!! Oh my!! I flicked it onto my bed and then with a towel picked it up and took it outside, whereupon it received a good hammering with a shoe until it was well and truly squashed! Not a sound passed my lips, I was very impressed!

So the start of my morning was spent taking all of my clothes out of the wardrobe and checking them all, Then I emptied the whole wardrobe and sprayed Raid to kill anything that might be hiding! The ‘closets’ here don’t have doors, just curtains so anything can help themselves to somewhere warm and dry to live.

I’m feeling mystified as to why we have all the extra inhabitants on our side of the house: Woodworms, cockroaches, tarantulas, geckos etc as the boys don’t appear to have any!! It’s kind of the cockroach to come to keep me company whilst Amanda is away - but it’s company I could do without!!!