Spring cleaning – is anyone?

No I don't use them for dusters due to an excess of modesty and anyway they are not big enough

Maybe I could use them for steaming puddings in!

by BUY!!

Cotton ones for dusters or floor cloths. Synthetics aren't much use for such tasks. I have a drawer full of assorted colours, not many white. Now, excuse me while I go and by a supermop....

Mine never get used; have a drawer full of black ones and white ones but always go for the black ones [too much information, methinks ]. Don't you use them for dusters, petallus? I've usually got one floating round the house where I've got bored with the dusting, put it down and then left it there for the duration [weeks; months; years ]...

They go a horrid grey colour after a lot of washes.

Why just all the white ones petallus what did they ever do to you?

Have now done the compost area of the garden, the shed and the garage. Still full of junk but cleaner and tidier and more organised [organised junk ]. I saw one of my resident rats on the bird table yesterday. It was the size of a squirrel [in fact I thought it was a squirrel at first]. I threw a bucket of water over it but it still came back later. Alas, I'll have to rethink the bird table; I assume there's plenty of food for them now anyway? wurzel; I only see cobwebs when I've got my reading glasses on . The shed [this is another shed where my son keeps bike bits] is always full of cobwebs; in the house I attack them with a dry vileda supermop and in the shed and garage [where the cobwebs are megahuge] I use a damp vileda supermop. I have a selection of vileda supermops that have various uses and always keep an old one that's ready for throwing out in case of a blocked loo. You can't have too many vileda supermops ; one of the great inventions of the 20th century!

Just threw out all of my white knickers and bought new ones.

Quite a few other clothes have gone!

Felt great doing it!

I don't see any dirt, unless it's leaves from outside, if I'm not wearing my reading glasses! But I was very embarrassed when my daughter found
several ceiling cobwebs in the hall as her place is immaculate. I always
say it's more important to look after people - will we worry we didn't clean enough on our deathbeds?!

Of course not nanaej. Wait until the fifth spring at the earliest.

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

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.

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

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.

Short answer - no.

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

..it went sort of mouldy ...

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

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...

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

Move - you need a padlock and key!

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.

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 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.

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 !