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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My mother is pretty much obsessed with cleaningI can understand why. We have a large family and a very big house, and the presence of several children means things get very untidy very quickly. But it genuinely seems as though it never stops. However even the best cleaners make mistakes.
A few years ago we lived in a very large old Georgian house. There were about thirty rooms to clean, even with the extension sealed off. However hard she worked, things got overlooked. And one of the problems of big houses that don't have the recommended staff of four people, and instead just one women and her part time cleaner is mice.
In the chicken pen outside you'd occasionally see the odd rat, and eventually my parents bought my brother an air-rifle and told him to try and frighten them off. He got more seagulls than rats. Inside the house fed by the odd sandwich falling to the floor and not being seen, there were mice. My mother can't stand them, and her cleaning binges got even more extreme after an incident in the front living room where she came down one morning in her spike-heeled boots to find a book, heard a squeal, looked down and realised she had skewered a mouse on her heel. Not a dead mouse, a live mouse. After that it was the exterminators in.
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 10:59,
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BlimeyShe couldn't have skewered a mouse on her boot if she was actively aiming for it - that's the kind of thing that only happens by accident.
Have a click.
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shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 16:55,
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