No Tarts tonight folks and no grumbling either.
YOU have absolutely not the foggiest clue which Tarts WE were going to give YOU, so a little bit of suspense will not harm or hurt in any way.
WE have other things to tell YOU Dear Readers!
YOU have read that SHE has a strange syndrome called 'Shiny Sink', I know, it is a peculiar name, is it not? SHE developed this habit after being told about the wonderful website of FLYLADY!
A friend told HER about it.. some of the emails are hilarious but the bottom line is extremely sensible.
Here is a snippet of her wisdom.. that your home did not get untidy in one second.. no sirree.. it took some time and so when it comes to making it tidy again.. that won't happen in a second either.
But instead of thinking "ugh, housework, go to do this, got to do that, plus clean ALL the brass, copper, silver, paintwork and windows", you take a room a week and do it properly.
Working with a timer for 15 minutes, absolutely everyone can manage 15 minutes of housework, you just start, go to the site listed below..
www.flylady.net
There are places called 'HotSpots', HER desk, was most certainly, a very HotSpot and now it is tidy!
Today's HotSpot was the 'demi-lune' table by the front door in the hall, it is only little and on it there is a dish for keys, gloves and HER bus pass and a very pretty lamp but underneath.. oh dear!
Shredder lives there on a pile of magazines which SHE accesses every month, so they are staying, shredder was emptied, summer shoes were put away, winter boots moved into boiler cupboard, skirting board washed, carpet brushed.
It appears that norty Miss Mouse has been busy snacking on BoneMeal! So that box had to be bagged and put with RoseFood in a bucket with the hand tools that are kept at home.
Bucket also placed into boiler cupboard. SHE wiped the wall beside the door, took up the door mat, gave it a good shake and vacuumed the area.
Whoosh.. and just like that, the hall was clean and neat and tidy!
Raining hard, another HotSpot could be tackled.
On the back of boiler cupboard is a wonderful rack system, it holds things that SHE uses all the time, the key to bleed the radiators, a set of keys for guests, jar full of different strength electrical fuses, a steel measuring tape, a straight and a Philips screwdriver, a pair of pliers and spare pedometer.
There is a hanging rail at the bottom, there are HER ice-walkers, clean (and ironed) dusters, a small handsaw and a bag of assorted wall plugs, which was hanging over another bag
And what was in the bag underneath?
"Oh thank you FlyLady, thank you so very much".
Obviously SHE had found something! Yes and how very lovely the contents were too!
When SHE did that shoe raid on Neiman Marcus's giant store Last Call in Austin, Texas in 1996, one of the pairs was by J.Renee. A pair of dark (pine) green leather low heeled shoes.. so comfy!
They needed reheeling and SHE put them into a bag to take to George, the best shoe menders in London. And forgot SHE put them there.
SHE has had sad thoughts for over two years now about being so silly to have thrown them away by mistake, thinking that SHE must have done.. for SHE has looked absolutely everywhere for them.. except on the back of the boiler cupboard door.
So there was no trip to north London but instead, another two areas of OUR home have both been polished, sorted and vacuumed and those lovely green shoes are safely in old wicker who will take them, together with another pair that have to be reheeled, up to George, the shoe magician.
What a happy day, because of a 'HotSpot' and
because SHE shines HER sink!
GeeGee Parrot.
January 22nd, 2014.
Postscript: How to find George.
K G Shoes,
253. Eversholt Street,
London NW1 1BA.
Tel: 020 7387 2234.
Eversholt Street is behind Euston Station.
They are the only cobblers in London who can repair steel heels.. a la Chanel (who send all their repairs to this wonderful company).
YOU have absolutely not the foggiest clue which Tarts WE were going to give YOU, so a little bit of suspense will not harm or hurt in any way.
WE have other things to tell YOU Dear Readers!
YOU have read that SHE has a strange syndrome called 'Shiny Sink', I know, it is a peculiar name, is it not? SHE developed this habit after being told about the wonderful website of FLYLADY!
A friend told HER about it.. some of the emails are hilarious but the bottom line is extremely sensible.
Here is a snippet of her wisdom.. that your home did not get untidy in one second.. no sirree.. it took some time and so when it comes to making it tidy again.. that won't happen in a second either.
But instead of thinking "ugh, housework, go to do this, got to do that, plus clean ALL the brass, copper, silver, paintwork and windows", you take a room a week and do it properly.
Working with a timer for 15 minutes, absolutely everyone can manage 15 minutes of housework, you just start, go to the site listed below..
www.flylady.net
There are places called 'HotSpots', HER desk, was most certainly, a very HotSpot and now it is tidy!
Today's HotSpot was the 'demi-lune' table by the front door in the hall, it is only little and on it there is a dish for keys, gloves and HER bus pass and a very pretty lamp but underneath.. oh dear!
Shredder lives there on a pile of magazines which SHE accesses every month, so they are staying, shredder was emptied, summer shoes were put away, winter boots moved into boiler cupboard, skirting board washed, carpet brushed.
It appears that norty Miss Mouse has been busy snacking on BoneMeal! So that box had to be bagged and put with RoseFood in a bucket with the hand tools that are kept at home.
Bucket also placed into boiler cupboard. SHE wiped the wall beside the door, took up the door mat, gave it a good shake and vacuumed the area.
Whoosh.. and just like that, the hall was clean and neat and tidy!
Raining hard, another HotSpot could be tackled.
On the back of boiler cupboard is a wonderful rack system, it holds things that SHE uses all the time, the key to bleed the radiators, a set of keys for guests, jar full of different strength electrical fuses, a steel measuring tape, a straight and a Philips screwdriver, a pair of pliers and spare pedometer.
There is a hanging rail at the bottom, there are HER ice-walkers, clean (and ironed) dusters, a small handsaw and a bag of assorted wall plugs, which was hanging over another bag
And what was in the bag underneath?
"Oh thank you FlyLady, thank you so very much".
Obviously SHE had found something! Yes and how very lovely the contents were too!
When SHE did that shoe raid on Neiman Marcus's giant store Last Call in Austin, Texas in 1996, one of the pairs was by J.Renee. A pair of dark (pine) green leather low heeled shoes.. so comfy!
They needed reheeling and SHE put them into a bag to take to George, the best shoe menders in London. And forgot SHE put them there.
SHE has had sad thoughts for over two years now about being so silly to have thrown them away by mistake, thinking that SHE must have done.. for SHE has looked absolutely everywhere for them.. except on the back of the boiler cupboard door.
So there was no trip to north London but instead, another two areas of OUR home have both been polished, sorted and vacuumed and those lovely green shoes are safely in old wicker who will take them, together with another pair that have to be reheeled, up to George, the shoe magician.
What a happy day, because of a 'HotSpot' and
because SHE shines HER sink!
GeeGee Parrot.
January 22nd, 2014.
Postscript: How to find George.
K G Shoes,
253. Eversholt Street,
London NW1 1BA.
Tel: 020 7387 2234.
Eversholt Street is behind Euston Station.
They are the only cobblers in London who can repair steel heels.. a la Chanel (who send all their repairs to this wonderful company).
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