Ladders, superstition and things going wrong!

Well I didn’t think that I was a particularly superstitious person, but as I walked under a ladder last week, it did cross my mind that I hoped I wasn’t bringing any bad luck upon myself! So let’s see.....what has happened since then? Well first of all I lost my wooden ring that Rob got for me when we were down in London the other weekend, I’m a bit gutted because I really liked it, and whilst I can still hope that it is going to turn up, I think in reality the likelihood of that happening is fading fast.... Next, we used the fold out gazebo at the weekend when we were camping, but we didn’t peg it down (I know that hindsight is a wonderful thing – but we kept needing to move it round as the sun changed position, I know that’s no excuse and we should have put the effort in to peg it each time) Anyway, it was fine on the Saturday, but on the Sunday the wind had picked up and it was quite strong and gusty. A gust of wind caught the gazebo and now one of the legs is bent and it is not able to fold down anymore. We were quite gutted about that too, as we haven’t even had it long and have only used it a handful of times. Rob is on a mission to try to fix it in some way, so hopefully it will be used again! When we arrived home from camping, we realised that we had managed to lose the key to the internal garage door. No amount of hunting managed to turn anything up, we even when so far as to unroll the tent to check some of the pockets in it (so having thought we’d packed it up for the final time this season, we found ourselves, well Rob and all four of the girls, crawling inside a half unfolded tent, feeling in various pockets, but unfortunately to no avail). So Rob makes the decision that he is going to have to break into the garage and fit another lock, this firstly involves two phone calls to two different people for advice on the best way to go about it, he then stands poised, with a tool in his hand, ready to do some serious damage to the garage door, when he finds that the tool he has is too small (no jokes here, thanks!!) While he decides what the next course of action is, he checks through our other keys and finds the SPARE for the garage door!! The door is saved at the eleventh hour! Under minor issues, I couldn’t find one of Hannah’s crocs for the camping weekend and we had to go without it, Rob stood on the broom handle and bent it, and I turned the TV off at the wall at the weekend, forgetting that I had programmed to record the X-factor! (Thank goodness for the watch again function on V+) Whilst I don’t feel that I’ve become hugely superstitious, I think that maybe I’ll avoid walking under ladders for a while!!