#104.21 - Saturday is cleaning day

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I get up every Saturday looking forward to cleaning the house. I now have the time and space for this. Previously I would be as a mother to young children trying to keep the typhoon together, but now, I can have a relaxing Friday night, get up in the morning for my run, come home, do my Irish and then clean the house. In the future the cleaning the house bit will be occupied by Forest School, but maybe I could do that before 1030 which is when Forest School is.

I have totally worked out a system which consists of how the house is hoovered, in what order, and beating out the rugs, then folding things. All windows in the house are open for the hoovering. Now that it is spring time they stay open. The house gets an airing once a week this means and the entire place is scented with lavender. I empty the contained between switches. Previously I had to empty it out four times when I hoovered every six weeks but this is much much better. Hoovering every week. There is a pleasant rhythm which is aided by my improved mobility.

I also discovered that to hoover carpets you use the brush setting - this helps you to brush your carpet as it is hoovered. The hair is gathered and you feed the hair into the gullet of the machine. Everything else is easy peasy but I think that over the next few weeks there will be less and less to hoover from the carpets. I took out a massive chunk of hair from it today. It was shocking actually seeing how much was lifted. Why did I not discover this sooner?

I also do the laundry. I discovered the source of the flies - the bin with the holes. So I have stopped using it. I swept up a load of larvae from it. Why did she create this weird bin with holes in it? What did she use it for? 

What a gorgeous day. I really should do something with the garden... not sure what now. But I really just should.

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