There are a lot of family members, so it's entirely likely that furniture will get moved.
Cue: housewifery.
It's been forever since I last did it, so I might as well do it and then forget about it for another age.
I started at the end of last week, in the sitting room. Sofas have been moved and vacuumed behind, skirting boards dusted. The fan cleaned. Top of pictures wiped. There will, no doubt, be an accumulation of debris and detritis over the next couple of weeks, but not enough to embarrass me unduly.
Then the downstairs bathroom and lobby. I've reviewed all the magazines and chucked a load. Then the upstairs bathroom. It's fully tiled, and I washed the tiles this morning. . I do realise that there isn't really any 'furniture; to get moved in either bathroom, but the bathroom needs to be sparkling. Do it now, then swish and swipe just before visitors happen.
I'm now doing the kitchen, which was a bit accidental. I only meant to clear it up a bit, it's become a dumping ground over the last couple of weeks as various projects are finished and new ones started. Somehow I found myself cleaning under the coffee machine, which led to a behind the coffee machne clean, which led on..... I've even hoovered up some cobwebs from the ceiling, and I feel bad about that. I like spiders, and I try to maintain a spider friendly house: clean cobwebs are not usually removed.
I've resisted emptying the kitchen cupboards, but I'm ruling nothing out at the moment. I suspect it may depend on how long it takes me to finish the kitchen.
I'm trying to pace myself. In my younger days, I'd have done a mega long day of non stop vigorous cleaning. Now, I just don't care enough. I do care, I just don't think it's as important as I once did.
But I'm still cleaning.
My daughter in law will ask me if I've cleaned. Last time she came, we made a pact that we wouldn't do it just because the other is visiting. I would still have tidied. And I would still have cleaned the bathroom, and cleaned their bedroom. But I wouldn't have done this level of cleaning if it wasn't for the other visitors.
Anyway.
That's my break time over. I've only done one quarter of the kitchen, and I'd like to get at least half of it finished today.
