I have a younger relative who works jolly hard – sharing the responsibility of running a very busy office that deals with many many folk by phone and computer.  In their line, some folk are so intense that they forget the company needs a holiday too.  So when some young entrepreneurs are battling away at […]

Oh how much does each young family have to do to get ready for the Christmas and new year festivities these days?  We have the summer holidays which are happy, jolly and expensive affairs.  Home we come, get ready for school – new uniform ordered and labelled up.  Half term holiday in October brings the […]

I don’t mind a spot of vacuuming myself – a quick whiz around my own house is quite bearable.  I live alone and don’t like to wear out the cleaner so it’s only weekly, not daily.   That’s not something you can pick and choose about when you run an office – especially if you ever […]

Whenever I hear the word ‘cleaner’ I  think of the old fashioned Mrs Mop – images of an apron clad lady of a certain age entering Civil Service offices and uttering the immortal words “Can I do you now Sir? …..”    Things have moved on from that basic lick and a promise kind of bin […]

When you share offices with several colleagues, you get to know them well over a number of years.  You get to understand, though not necessarily enjoy, their funny foibles and when there are mishaps in the kitchen or washrooms, you can sort it out between you.  Or at least that is what grown ups should […]

I have found the best way to keep my house and body clean and fresh in the amazing summer is to deal with anything dirty as soon as possible.  Insted of lazily leaving my breakfast or lunch tray festering on the worktop whilst I am busy on something else, I now train myself some discipline.  […]

Summer holidays are such a strange thing for us all.  We really look forward to them coming and get all prepared.  New garments and special holiday wardrobes set aside that then brings much packing and unpacking, repacking completed just as the taxi arrives for the lift to the airport.  We always set aside this expenditure […]

May brings the start of those lovely summer holiday thoughts.  The weeks are getting lighter and all that ghastly wet and snowy winter nonsense is over for another few months.  In the old days there was a definite move to spring clean around the end of Easter and through to Whitsun – this is now […]

When you get back to the office after any kind of break, there is always that anticipating when you turn the key to he office to see whether  you’d been careful and booked the cleaner or janitor to carry out a thorough springclean of the shared kitchens and washroom facilities.  This can, and should of […]