Life on hold

Spring cleaning has had to be put on hold this week as Martin has managed to tear his calf muscle, leaving me to hold the fort. 

We've recently decided to modify the kitchen, and in an amazing stroke of luck we found a secondhand Rangemaster 90cm induction range on eBay in our town and went to pick it up in the week. 

That's when it happened. Martin lifted his end of the range, but didn't even get it off the ground before his calf muscle snapped. He had very large calf muscles and it looks like they were too tight and couldn't take the strain. Luckily the seller had some friends he could call on to help us load it into the van. 

So until further notice I've taken over all of his chores inside and outside the house, including 3-4 hours of weekly grass mowing and - a super special chore for this weekend - brush-cutting the nettles in the paddock down. 

Deep joy.