Spring cleaning – is anyone?

Gillyb Or does your DGS only clean windows when he is not working as a "trapper" down the coal mine.

Oh dear; it's survived the winter only for me to rip half of it's wing off . However, I have a huge nettle that grows in my front garden and I refuse to dig it up [my son keeps telling me I should] as it's there for the buttlerflies. And I've started planting a few small buddleas [sp]as well so I've made up for my badness [still feel awful, though].

Movedalot, I don't do the same things as you don't do!
I have no cleaning routine, just do an occasional bit when the mood takes me, which is seldom.

shysal there is a magnet on my toaster which says "I tidy house is the sign of a bored woman* . Well I'm not bored

Tegan, it was an accident! Don't beat yourself up over it. DH once sawed a rotten branch off our plum tree only to discover that he'd cut the leg off a small frog which must have been sheltering in it - he felt terrible about it and hoped the frog would survive, but sadly it didn't.

He did give it a decent burial, though...

I have never done a spring clean in the 38yrs I've been married, and have no intentions of starting

Love the juxtaposition right at this moment of the two threads:

Spring Cleaning ..... is anyone?

Too posh to wash?

Tegan, the poor butterfly was a message to you not to spring clean the shed.

Sheds are lovely - they're not supposed to be spring cleaned, are they?

But Butty we have his and hers sheds and he dumps his stuff in mine! One day I will finally have a properly organised shed - one day.

I will need to clean out my Wendy House (aka garden shed) as it will soon become impossible to get into it without a risk of serious injury.

NellieM does not want to get impaled on her own garden forks or plant stakes !

i tried to save a frog that had lost it's leg [think a bird had got it]. I put it in the garage with food and stuff but [how stupid can anyone be] made sure it was quite warm. I'd heard that they can re grow limbs and wanted to see if that was correct.

When I say shed cleaning.... I just mean taking everything out, sweeping out a bit (a very bit!) and putting things back in in such a way that I don't have to climb over a lawn-mower to reach anything!

And The Den has been an artist's studio (well, two of them actually: MrB and Minibags), a gym (MrB; you won't get me in a gym, or Minibags), a sewing room (me), a sit-innery to enjoy the sunshine (it's a kind of lean-to with aspirations of being a conservatory), and what it currently is – the armoury. At the mo it is housing twelve CPR mannikins (Annies) as well for the Rotary Heartstart sessions I do in schools.

It needs a tidy up and sortoutery. Not to mention de-cobwebbing.



Mañana....

I leave spring cleaning to the Victorians.Life use to be much dirtier with coal Fires and dirt streets.My new neighbor is from Canada and renting her house from a Kurdish family that had to move back to their country.Hopefully not permanently,anyway she was commenting on having her dirty windows cleaned and she ask me "don't Americans have their windows cleaned?" All I could say was errr... No. I myself haven't had mine cleaned.Its a big deal to do it when most windows have extra storm windows with screens attached.

Move - you need a padlock and key!

I burn logs for six months of the year and so there is dust. So a little spring-cleaning is necessary!

Tegan, that was DH's theory and hope. He looked after that frog for days, although I knew in my heart of hearts that it was hopeless...

My sitting room windows have 48 panes; so that's 96 inside and out. Enough.

..it went sort of mouldy ...

Oh dear - I'm afraid I didn't dare look....

Short answer - no.

Not sure about cleaning chimneys Neiiliemoser as i don't have any . Plus he hates being dirty or sticky so the soot might be a bit too much for him to bear! He just loves cleaning windows, sweeping and polishing and so long as he can reach with his little toilet step he is fine.

Would rather decorate than spring clean, all or nothing sorta gal so intervals maybe differ to calendar years ;)

Tegan we get quite a few frogs in the garden and I often have to rescue them from the cats. I was amazed one day to find that the frog I'd picked up had no back feet. They seemed to have been severed quite neatly and had healed up. The frog was hopping about quite happily on the stumps.

This is only my second Spring in this house so I don't think I need to this year