September 12th My Absolute Worst Nightmare Happened

Today was one of those days where I felt like getting to my knees, wringing my wrists and pleading ''Why Me Lord, Why Me.''  Was this due to being tested to my extremes? A sackcloth and ashes moment? No - definitely not. It was due to a bug of the loathsome kind.

People that know me well are aware that I am a homing device for creepy crawlies. They have their SatNav's set to hone in on myself and my body parts. If it is at home, you can guarantee it is when I am being a work widow and on my lonesome, or when George is fast asleep.  I could never live in the tropics or on a lovely Pacific Island. I only have to visit these places and have the creepy crawlies land on me to occupy my personal space.

Here are a few examples. Throw up in a toilet in Papua New Guinea and turn my head slightly to see what is on the wall next to my face. Oh never mind, it was just the biggest ever, hairy mother forker spider, the size of a man's hand, I have ever encountered in my life. The bastard came back the next night as well. Geckos - they are adorable and frightened of Homo Sapiens - except this particular one. I had one reclining on my leg. Then there was the time I was dining at an exclusive, very upmarket restaurant in a 5 star hotel restaurant in Fiji. This big as, at least 6 inch long,unidentified Black Flying Object zoomed in, buzzed around and decided to land on my arm. Did I say ''Oh Bother, that is tiresome" Oh no, I jumped up and screamed all of the four letter expletive words in existence - and then remembered the company I was in.  Let's return closer to home.. a few months ago whilst it was still warm, I was walking Minnie through the park. After a wee while I felt something scratching my rotund posterior -  I was wearing a dress that was mid calf length.  I felt it through the material and thought is that a ball of cotton - how strange. Then I realised it was a forking big cockroach and I was squishing it next to my skin.  Pass me the Gin Bottle as in right now! These are just a few examples and certainly not all.

You may well wonder what does the above have to do with my daily blog and photo of the day. Well may you ask.  I did my usual morning routine. Black Coffee, Porridge down the gullet, in to the office (negotiating peak hour traffic down my hallway - ie Minnie's toys), work and then it was time to shower before inflicting my presence on a customer.  Just as an aside - does everyone else have the same shower routine every day?  Talk about deja vu and I must break the cycle, just to freak my brain out one day!  Anyway shower completed (and our shower is over the bath), hop out, grab the towel and then see something black in the bath. I had just hopped out - and I didn't have my glasses on. I peered closer... and closer ... and then realised there was a forking, very much alive black cockroach in my bath!!  Where the heck that mother had been whilst I was showering, I don't want to think about. Oh my god and I was butt nekkid!!  One can of flyspray later that bastard was headed to cockroach heaven - via being flushed down the toilet. But I have these nightmares of one day sitting on the toilet - and all of these native black cockroaches I have sent to cockroach heaven, coming back up to bite me on me bum!

Here is what I encountered in my bath.