Castling

A friend commented on how much housework i seem to be doing. And you know what, it is not enough.... i do not understand how people keep their houses dustless and spotless. Is there some sort of spell that you could buy/sell your soul for, that will do this for you? Such houses, i can only uncharitably speculate are occupied by people who either do not shed their skin OR have sold their soul OR have nothing else to do with their lives... or have enslaved some house elf – usually called the mother.


I probably write about the housework more than i do it actually, truth told. I’m sure that my children and husband do not at all feel the effects of my assiduous tending of hearth and home. Quite possibly i am imagining most of it. Possibly i am simply fantasising that i am cleaning the house. Although should i say that if i was really fantasising it wouldn’t be about housework, i can promise you that much.

I CAN’T WAIT till Christmas is over. Can i put that in enough large capital letters? Can i? No. Everytime i go, i’m not going to do so much, every time i do more than i did last year. However i must say that having bought all my Christmas presents this year by September i do feel slightly smug and superior.

OK so what else does one do apart from clean the house? There’s studying. I do a bit of that. Mothering. All the unexpected delights of being a mother. For instance yesterday Ghin managed to do some minor damage with my scissors to his hand. It was a tiny prick, the wound, not Ghin, but you would have thought we were performing open heart surgery without the aid of acupuncture or GA. There is homework. There is performing a duet with Oisin of Hark the Herald Angels Sing. There is doing stuff for the school, like cooking or PR work, there is being with friends. I am a bit shy about taking photos of outings with friends and putting them on the blog... perhaps i shouldn’t be so shy.

There is work of course. Work takes up the other non housework part of the day. Today we were at Stormont Castle meeting ministers. That was fun.

Tomorrow we will be meeting about World Wetlands Day and the Big Garden Birdwatch. I don’t generally write about work because i don’t think work likes it much when i do that.

Anyway... time to go... Peter is coming home today but i didn’t tell the boys that. They are going to be soooo... surprised...