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[allana]

You know the NHS is really cash strapped when you're asked to provide your own Lucozade for a glucose tolerance test. I guess I shouldn't expect any tea and biscuits afterwards, either....

In other news, nesting continues unabated. I'm working the washing machine to within an inch of its life and even more worryingly, I'm utterly immersed in Kim and Aggie's new Cleaning Bible. I shall be conducting weird and wonderful experiments with baking soda and lemon juice before the week is out :P I'm also wading through Tad Williams's Otherland epic series. Well, I say wading, I'm sure Dave would say zooming--I'm on volume three and I started on Thursday or Friday last week :P

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[feelforfaith.livejournal.com]

At the risk of catching the cleaning bug, what is the Kim and Aggie's Cleaning Bible?

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

Kim and Aggie are two very scary women who have a show called "How Clean is Your House?" They usually unearth the filthiest homes in Britain, shame the owners thoroughly, and make the rest of the country frantically scrub their own homes lest they get any nasty infestations.

This is the book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0718149068/qid=1150729454/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/203-0485879-1096740). I really like it for the conversational tone and the fact that it tells me how to do--what are probably blindingly obvious--things that I've either never been taught or have forgotten how to do.

[stonefinder.livejournal.com]

Baking soda and lemon juice....

I haven't heard of that though I do know that baking soda and vinegar is an excellent cleanser. I suppose it's the acid and base reaction that does it. Oh, in case you don't know - if you start washing windows with vinegar after they've been washed with store bought window cleaners, they'll probably streak like a bitch. This is because of the waxes in Windex and the like. It'll stop once the build-up is gone; white vinegar makes a great glass cleaner.

Now why the fuck am I telling you this? House cleaning tips from a slob. That's rich.

*perplexed*

[bella-cheval.livejournal.com]

Since you're on a housecleaning spree, ya wanna come over and clean mine for tea and biscuits?

No?

Ah well, I tried.

Glad to hear you're doing so well with Speck bubbling and growing in your tum [waves at Speck].

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

It's very good for removing limescale from surfaces. White vinegar does the same job, but lemon juice smells a heck of a lot better.

And I have resolved never to clean our windows. Far too dangerous and far too much like hard work--I remember well being pressganged into cleaning windows when I was a kid!

[feelforfaith.livejournal.com]

They usually unearth the filthiest homes in Britain, shame the owners thoroughly

Sounds like fun, LOL.

[2lazy4linux.livejournal.com]

It's classic Feel-Bad TV shaming the viewers vicariously through the actions of the folks on the show...Ang didn't even mention her recent addicition to Anthea Turner's housewife thing

Whilst I appreciate the lovely looking seat covers I am worried she'll do someone an injury when she's experimenting!

[feelforfaith.livejournal.com]

LOL. I used to have spurts of house decorating mood, and then I would watch all these shows on the Home and Garden channel, but thankfully, they were always short-lived. (Which is why, nine years after we moved in, my dining room still has bare windows.)

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

You can probably catch repeats on cable. It was exported to the US with the same presenters and same title :)

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

I am worried she'll do someone an injury when she's experimenting!

So I shouldn't polish the floors then? I've got a lovely recipe for floor polish and the kitchen floor needs something.

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

Alas, it's a one house only deal. But a good try!

[glammetalkitten.livejournal.com]

Anthea Turner? Now I am traumatised. I'm sure a line of some sort has been crossed!

[feelforfaith.livejournal.com]

Are you trying to talk me into watching a show that will make me feel guilty? LOL

I don't recognize the title, but there is a show here called "Clean Sweep" where they go into houses which are totally cluttered and disorganized and clean them out (one room usually). They, too, make fun of the owners and stuff, but it's not in a very humiliating way. (Or maybe it depends on your humiliation threshold :).

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

Ahh, you won't have seen it. It was a BBC4 series where Anthea--now repackaged as the ultimate housewife--takes two hopeless housewives/househusbands to task. (Debate rages about whether it is appropriate to have a home-wrecker hosting a show about house-work and an inferred happy marriage. Also, people who have been on the show point out that Anthea does have a housekeeper, chauffeur etc.)

Anyway, it's a good show to watch if you have storage problems. She does present good solutions on occasion and it always makes me want to clean something.

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

It's not so much making fun of people as being shocked and horrified in a slightly over the top way.

Although, if I was faced with the prospect of clearing out a full freezer, where the owner had left the power off for two months and not gotten around to doing anything, I'd be screeching, "This is the most revolting thing I have ever seen!" too. (IIRC, there was green-black sludge oozing over everything and they wound up vomiting in the back garden.) And the look of sheer horror on their faces when a flesh-eating beetle wandered across a kitchen counter...

Classic TV!

[2lazy4linux.livejournal.com]

I think Ang is trying to brainwash Speck in the womb so that he comes out fully trained in housework.

[kyra-belmont.livejournal.com]

You know...

You may be right! :P

[silentinflames.livejournal.com]

I hear baking soda works wonders. Mom once gave me a little booklet listing all the possibilities to use it. I have to see if I still have it.

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

It's great stuff. Shame you can only buy it in little tubs, though.