I have to give credit to the baking soda
It began with having to stay home as Oisin was sick today. Ghin wasn't THAT sick, in fact it turned out he wasn't sick at all, after all that complaining last night. But i am quite worried about Oisin. I think it is growing pains. He is not the kind of child to fall sick easily so when he is sick and sick so often as he has been this year, it is a bit worrying. When i say often, i mean like once every two months. That's quite a lot for Oisin. But he has grown one inch since November and i really think it is growing pains. His entire body is aching every now and then and he is now taller than i am.
Anyway, he had to stay home, so being very anxious about his well-being i stayed home too. He recovered around three pm. It doesn't help i know to keep asking him how he is. But he did manage to eat a good dinner. He may actually ask me for more food later.
I decided to then clean the kitchen since Chinese New Year was round the corner and i needed to get ready and my kitchen is an embarrassing mess. But we now have a cleaner and since she is now doing the basics i can do the deep cleaning. And i decided to use.... baking powder. OMG. I cannot believe how wonderful it is. No nonsense, no smell, no mess, i just applied a bit on my wet rag and wiped a VERY dirty shelf and it just cut through the grease. And dust. And with a few wipes the thing was as clean as anything/ The wall behind the cooker. Spotless. The sides of the cupboards - spotless. It was a miracle. Just on sheer novelty alone i just kept on going. I threw away lots of sauces and things. And i organised all the condiments. Many of my spices got dumped. It was a real spring cleaning in the middle of winter.
I wiped the shelves down, the deep cleaned the baking area and switched the baking cupboard with the dry good cupboard. Now my dry goods cupboard has an Asian section, an Italian section and Peter buys all these packets of Ainsley Harriot food, so it also has an Ainsley Harriot section,
I sorted all the cooking implements, shined up the pots and pans... really once i get started it's hard to stop me. But stop i eventually did when i finally tidied up the plastic container section. I managed to dump lots of stuff there too.
Tomorrow i am going to do the under the sink section. It is really very therapeutic.
I love - you know what i love - i have fallen in love with the ordinary. I went to donate some books at Banardos today and found a set of necklaces. These white stones that have this shiny transparent bit in them. The clasp was at least the 1930s. It was going for only £1.49 and £1.99 respectively. Sometimes i wonder who prices these things. I also found an Anysley china mantle clock which was £3.99 and a Colefax and Fowler book. I know the Colefax and Fowler and very fussy and not at all fashionable, but the profusion of flowers and the ideas are something i really have settled with. I think i would like to modernise it. I think i culd marry it with boho chic and come up with something very sweet. Cos, you know, i am sweet, right?
Ok time to put the boys to bed and head there myself too. The weeks have just flown in. Where does all the time go?
Anyway, he had to stay home, so being very anxious about his well-being i stayed home too. He recovered around three pm. It doesn't help i know to keep asking him how he is. But he did manage to eat a good dinner. He may actually ask me for more food later.
I decided to then clean the kitchen since Chinese New Year was round the corner and i needed to get ready and my kitchen is an embarrassing mess. But we now have a cleaner and since she is now doing the basics i can do the deep cleaning. And i decided to use.... baking powder. OMG. I cannot believe how wonderful it is. No nonsense, no smell, no mess, i just applied a bit on my wet rag and wiped a VERY dirty shelf and it just cut through the grease. And dust. And with a few wipes the thing was as clean as anything/ The wall behind the cooker. Spotless. The sides of the cupboards - spotless. It was a miracle. Just on sheer novelty alone i just kept on going. I threw away lots of sauces and things. And i organised all the condiments. Many of my spices got dumped. It was a real spring cleaning in the middle of winter.
I wiped the shelves down, the deep cleaned the baking area and switched the baking cupboard with the dry good cupboard. Now my dry goods cupboard has an Asian section, an Italian section and Peter buys all these packets of Ainsley Harriot food, so it also has an Ainsley Harriot section,
I sorted all the cooking implements, shined up the pots and pans... really once i get started it's hard to stop me. But stop i eventually did when i finally tidied up the plastic container section. I managed to dump lots of stuff there too.
Tomorrow i am going to do the under the sink section. It is really very therapeutic.
I love - you know what i love - i have fallen in love with the ordinary. I went to donate some books at Banardos today and found a set of necklaces. These white stones that have this shiny transparent bit in them. The clasp was at least the 1930s. It was going for only £1.49 and £1.99 respectively. Sometimes i wonder who prices these things. I also found an Anysley china mantle clock which was £3.99 and a Colefax and Fowler book. I know the Colefax and Fowler and very fussy and not at all fashionable, but the profusion of flowers and the ideas are something i really have settled with. I think i would like to modernise it. I think i culd marry it with boho chic and come up with something very sweet. Cos, you know, i am sweet, right?
Ok time to put the boys to bed and head there myself too. The weeks have just flown in. Where does all the time go?
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