Too warm to clean

I am so tired. The temperature here has been hovering around 28C/82F during the day and 14C/57F during the night. That is so much warmer than I am happy with on both counts. To put it in perspective this winter, the worst one in this country since the winter of my birth, we had the heating set at 17C/62F at it's highest and dropped it to 15C/59F whenever we could. The heat stops me sleeping properly hence the tired. It's funny, I once spent 7 weeks abroad in 40C/104F and while I was definitely warm I wasn't as uncomfortable as I am now. We have a very wet heat here in the UK. We're a wet country as a whole but in summer that makes it sticky.

So I am trying my best to not be grumpy and to just get on with things. I have just finished of scrubbing our house to within an inch of it's life. We get so busy and so involved with our various projects that the tidying has a tendency to get put off. (I would like to point out that we are not total scutters we just get behind a bit :oD) I spent Sunday cleaning and organising the upstairs, yesterday was the kitchen. As you may know our kitchen is very small which makes every task seem monumental as there is no room to do anything. I intend to re-organise all the cupboards and shelves as well as scrubbing everything, tonight was the living room. It's all done now except for my sewing pile which is a task unto itself.

Ah well, it;s 00:15, its cleaned, made bread and backed my boss a birthday cake. I'm off to bed folks!

Simple is hard work

Phew, no one ever said that the Simple Life was easy.

Sunday always seems to be our mad day. We get lazy during the week and things pile up. Suddenly it's Sunday and we have to get Spadgersdottier back home and there is a ton of stuff to do. So today Spadger took her home on his own and I stayed at home. The main reason for this was to get the bread done. However while he has been gone I have cooked the bread, vacuumed the whole house, dusted the living room, scrubbed the kitchen floor and cleaned the bathroom. It's amazing what you can do when you set your mind to it. The only this wrong with all this is I missed the dinger on the oven and the top of the bread is a little crisp. Oh well. I've also cleared all the ironing today.

I must get better organised if I'm going to live the Simple LIfe. There is so much to do and I refuse to go down the convenient but wasteful/chemical route anymore. Up until now all the housework got left until the weekend. That is just the way it has always been. I think I need to start doing more as I go. Sweep the kitchen after I make bread, wash the bath thoroughly after use, that kind of thing. There just isn't enough time on a weekend to do everything unless I dedicate my whole weekend to it. Once we get into planting season I will have to be organised as there will be as much to do outside as in so we will both be busy.

Living Simply does not mean easy or with less to do. I guess it means more deliberatly. I'm not going to quote Walden as so many people do however living deliberately is the first step in a Simple Life I think.

So now to go and deliberately get some cake as I think Spadger has just pulled up!