Puttering around in the smial
Since, as we say it in Hungary: do it yourself if you have no servants. Meaning the dratted cleaning, of course.
As we currently don't have any help, I rearranged the scheduled cleaning frenzy from the one-day-two-women version to the several-days-one-woman version. That it, I've cleaned the bathroom, the loo and the kitchen today and will do the rest next week. That, at least, gave me the chance to do a more in-depth cleaning, including scrubbing the bathtub and the working surface in the kitchen thoroughly. So, it ate half my day, but at least I got to do these small, time-consuming things I never get done during the big frenzy.
That doesn't mean I wouldn't still hate housework like the plague, mind you!
Before I'd start the cleaning, I spent one "delightful" hour making breadcrumbs for future cooking and grating almonds and hazelnuts for future baking. My friend Evie gifted the latter upon us as a belated contribution to the Christmas baking. She meant well, but I wish people would ask me what I would need and/or want. I never buy whole almonds or hazelnuts, they are such a pain to grate by hand. It might be that the already grated or chopped ones have some other stuff added to them (like seminola or breadcrumbs) to fill up the weight, but it's such a relief to simply open the package and start baking. Well, I'll be able to do so with these now, but it was such an effort! In the end I thought I'd dislocate my shoulder before finishing the task.
Not much else was done, accordingly. We still had leftovers, so I didn't have to cook, and after yesterday's wave of congratulatory phone calls we got ignored by the rest of the world as usual. My personal agenda for the day is to finish typing up Chapter 4 of EMV II but I'm not entirely sure I'll manage
As we currently don't have any help, I rearranged the scheduled cleaning frenzy from the one-day-two-women version to the several-days-one-woman version. That it, I've cleaned the bathroom, the loo and the kitchen today and will do the rest next week. That, at least, gave me the chance to do a more in-depth cleaning, including scrubbing the bathtub and the working surface in the kitchen thoroughly. So, it ate half my day, but at least I got to do these small, time-consuming things I never get done during the big frenzy.
That doesn't mean I wouldn't still hate housework like the plague, mind you!
Before I'd start the cleaning, I spent one "delightful" hour making breadcrumbs for future cooking and grating almonds and hazelnuts for future baking. My friend Evie gifted the latter upon us as a belated contribution to the Christmas baking. She meant well, but I wish people would ask me what I would need and/or want. I never buy whole almonds or hazelnuts, they are such a pain to grate by hand. It might be that the already grated or chopped ones have some other stuff added to them (like seminola or breadcrumbs) to fill up the weight, but it's such a relief to simply open the package and start baking. Well, I'll be able to do so with these now, but it was such an effort! In the end I thought I'd dislocate my shoulder before finishing the task.
Not much else was done, accordingly. We still had leftovers, so I didn't have to cook, and after yesterday's wave of congratulatory phone calls we got ignored by the rest of the world as usual. My personal agenda for the day is to finish typing up Chapter 4 of EMV II but I'm not entirely sure I'll manage