" The Serious Has Happened."

 
 It is really, really serious I am in a to-do-to-do.

 My secateurs are missing, plus a cup or two. I know they are out there somewhere, because I know they go hand in hand.

  The rule here says no more cups of tea, until the pair are found.

 But where Oh! where are those secateurs, have they up and done a runner, gone somewhere else to live.

 Are they hanging out all together, just hiding out there somewhere, where I haven't had a look.

  My distress is really, real. I managed when all the kids left home, cos its what you  have to do.  I don't miss the extra washing or all that horrid cooking.

 But alas, I am not that brave, I have to have my daily brew and my little bit of snipping.