It's not all beer and skittles

Making a guest room habitable for a friend this weekend,

sorting out long dormant art supplies,

welcoming home son from an 18th birthday party

all in one piece,

washing the floors,

Hoovering the carpets,

packing a large fragile parcel to send overseas

then remembering there's a postal strike,

trying to give things away

on Freecycle to people who don't show up,

shopping for supper,

driving other son to GP,

collecting a prescription,

driving same son to A&E,

ironing the shirts,

wondering if a husband's interview over the phone to Australia

went well,

welcoming son home from A&E

all in one piece,

cooking the supper,

slipping out to get back my sense of perspective

somewhere in the middle of all that,

and wondering where the expression:

'It's not all beer and skittles' comes from.