I like cleaning!!

I know someone out there who has just fallen off their chair, when reading this headline. This will be the someone, with whom, I hid in the car eating sandwiches whilst other "volunteers" cleaned toys with cold water and no gloves, on a grey and rainy day, a few years ago.

Anyway, today I decided, I like hard work and cleaning.

Today I scrubbed, polished, brushed and scrubbed some more. For hours in fact.

It was really rewarding. I took layers of dust away and removed smears of paint and produced something rather sparkly with lots of effort and elbow grease.

I reluctantly had to stop to eat, and when finished I couldn't wait to get back to it, to scrub some more.

I believe the context was important to the fulfilment I felt.

You see over the past 2 months, with the help of many suppliers, we have renovated a small house into something very sweet. This included, knocking walls down, installing new kitchens, bathrooms, everything. And today the last supplier finished and left us with a house that was completely unpresentable but fully functional.

So we had to turn this around as quick as we could, to showcase our little treasure to the world.

It was dirty and dusty work, but undisturbed, I slogged away.

You see I am not the sort of person who seeks out this kind of work, but today it had to be done and I loved it.

It is not often you do a task with such positive and immediate results.

So today I loved cleaning. Is this a new me???

Unlikely, I will just go and iron my posh frock and get ready to be back at my desk tomorrow!