How clean is your house?"Part of my kitchen floor are thick with dust, grease, part of a broken mug, a few mummified oven-chips, a desiccated used teabag and a couple of pieces of cutlery", says Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic. To most people, that's filth. To some of us, that's dinner. Tell us about squalid homes or obsessive cleaners.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:00)
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yellowFew years ago, not long after me and my brother moved out for good, my Mum moved into a new house which was a bit smaller and nearer her work.
One of the things she liked about it was the lovely light kitchen. It had a big window looking out over the garden which let in loads of natural light, and the effect was amplified by the yellow colour scheme in the kitchen. All the tiles and the wallpaper, and the ceiling and even the lamp shade were this creamy yellow colour which gave the room a kind of a sunny glow. I even bought her a yellow kettle as a moving in present to match the colour scheme.
So my brother and I were helping her move in and he happened to touch one of the walls. Kind of sticky. Mum hadn't touched the walls before she moved in. A wet sponge was applied and the yellow smeared away to reveal white underneath. I'm guessing it was a mixture of chip fat and nicotine stain but we had to scrub the whole place down, walls, ceiling, the lot. It was completely minging.
Oh yeah and on the stairs the white painted bannister where we thought the white paint had rubbed off to reveal dark wood underneath? That layer of brown filth came off with soap and water too.
(, Sat 27 Mar 2010, 17:41, Reply)
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