Leaving London and downshifting to become a full-time parent and rural homemaker
We’ve just come back from an idyllic 4 days away by the seaside enjoying really special cloudless blue skies and warm temperatures but as soon as we got back home I felt so blue by what seemed to be an enormous mountain of chores staring at me from each room.
The kids playroom is looking particularly [...]
Yet another housewifely revelation for this one who is very slowly becoming domestic. I only found out last week that the reason accomplished homemakers do regular dusting is because they had secret knowledge which has been kept from me for 34 years…
Apparently the trick is to do the dusting *before* you can see it. Makes [...]
My friend Rach (already totally domesticated) has discovered that if you line the kitchen waste bucket with a few sheets of old newspaper then the bucket itself stays nice and fresh unlike my slimy stinky bucket which is still recovering from me forgetting to empty it for a few days.
Just take the newspaper and its [...]
Another post which starts with the disclaimer ‘Sorry to everyone who was shown this trick when they were mini and therefore thinks this as being another piece of obvious knowledge’…
But to all the people out there who, like me, weren’t born knowing that the best place to keep the role of bin bags is in [...]
A weekly hour long effort on a Monday cleaning and tidying the house using the following checklist keeps the house pleasant to live in.
I do also do a daily vacuum of room(s) which need it, as well as all the other daily housekeeping tasks (wipe the loo, clean the sinks, do dishes, clean up after [...]
I had employed a cleaner for the last decade to come to my house twice a week for a total of 5 hours a week in order to vacuum, iron, scrub toilets, wash baths, floors, windows. I had never lifted a finger in my own home and had no idea how to.
After we moved away [...]