I used to share a bedroom with a sister who was always much tidier than me. It would be a battle ground and after a while, her irritation with my less tidy ways would boil over and a clear demarkation line would appear, beyond which I dare not let anything of mine stray – particularly [...]
There is a tiny office near me where a relative runs a web based business – all kinds of activities online and so her business is all contained within the one room – no goods arriving or going out, no packages to worry about and no garbage beyond the usual lunch packets and chocolate wrappers, [...]
In a lifetime ago I worked for a small company out in the sticks – a funny little industrial unit way out of town a few miles off the nearest bypass. It was idyllic though, we were surrounded by nature, birds, squirrels, farmland. For those of us who were not in a tearing hurry to [...]
When the family is small the worry is always that the little ones will crawl around and pick up germs from all the muck an dust that infiltrates the home. Those carpets, so lusciously soft and inviting, may look nice and clean after the daily vacuuming, but they still harbour and unimaginable number of foreign [...]
After the lovely relaxed months during summer, there is probably an inclination to leave some of the less regular cleaning chores ‘for a rainy day’. There is always that niggling feeling that spending too much time on cleaning up and tidying around the place, somehow it is a shame that the good weather is not [...]
On a very busy day, it can be extremely difficult to do all the housekeeping tasks that need doing to keep on top of this never ending task. It is possible to whizz round each room and plump up cushions and pillows, shaking other covers and sideboard cloths into shape as we go. The kitchen [...]
A small family lives near me – the mum is a bright cheerful young woman, usually with one child firmly attached to her right hip and the other child hurtling around on a new on trend scooter. The mum works unsocial part time hours, evening and weekend shifts some drive away. The dad of the [...]
After an unexpected and thankfully very brief stay in hospital after an out of hours doctor referal escalated rapidly, there is something to be said for the efforts that go in to making our clinics and hospitals as clean and bug free as humanly possible. Just a few short years ago, there were tragic cases [...]
In the fast moving work life both men and women are busy in earning bread and butter because of which it becomes very difficult to keep an eye upon cleaning things at home. To hire a cleaner is not easy because individual services are expensive than the expectations. You can get the cleaning services by [...]
Visiting the school toilet facilities was always a disturbingly grim procedure. In the late 1960s with the proliferation of massive great secondary schools and technical colleges, there were always a great number of toilet blocks and for some reason, a call of nature could so easily be made to wait for as long as possible, [...]