September is gone....October is here, along with the start of the school holidays for us, and the start of daylight savings. This was our September, summed up in a layout....
...and closer...
The weather has warmed up just in time for the school hols. Here's some of what we've been up to....
Cattle work yesterday. The bulls go in with their girls at the start of October each year and everyone gets brought in to the yards for vaccinations, ear piercing (as the kids call it!), and the little boys get "the snip" to put it gently. One sweet little boy oblivious to his fate....
Mia watching the action from a safe distance...
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Today the kids dug out their cossies and set up the hose on the slippery dip...
while I planted some seedlings and pottered about in the garden...
Now, back to the cleaning thing....I hate housework as much as anyone, but occasionally I get a serious cleaning bug. Yesterday was the laundry....today the bathroom....they look so good - I keep glancing through the door whenever I pass to admire my handy work! I'm battling a head cold at the moment, so I've decided to thoroughly clean one room per day until the whole house is done.
Tell me I'm weird....but I have to share these little tips with you. Firstly, this stuff....
...it actually gets all the soap scum off the glass shower screens!!! That job has to be one of my most hated...so you can understand my excitement....I use it with a microfibre cloth and it's just fabulous.
I have black and white checkerboard tiles in the bathroom and I love the way they look...but I HATE the way they show up every scrap of dust, sprinkle of powder or speck of fluff. Mopping with half a cup of metho in a bucket of warm water works perfectly (also on the kitchen lino) - and you would think it would smell yukky, but it doesn't, and way cheaper than floor cleaners. My "mop" by the way, is the broom with an old t-shirt wrapped around its head.....with the bristles underneath I can get into all the edges and corners, sticky stuff scratches off gently and I just chuck the shirt in the wash afterwards. Love it.
What's your fave house cleaning tip???
seriously about the mop! Way to go!
ReplyDeleteI find it easy to clean the laundry with HOT water with disinfected and than you tip the bucket of when you and dh are standing there, and Dh will grab everything out of the way! while trying not to get burnt by the hot water! haha Nah that was only once! I find Jif gets everything off! I should go natural!
A little drop of eucalyptus or lemon oil on your cloth, wiped on the window ledges, etc, deters spiders. I live in a very spidery area, and this keeps them away for ages! Good tip on the broom, I will try that. Panty hose on the broom works well too! (Make sure you take them off first!)
ReplyDeleteHey Penny, I love eucalyptus and lavendar oil in hot water to clean bathroom, laundry and kitchen floors, eats off grime, leaves a beaut shine on the kitchen cork, and the other tiles, and leaves the whole lot fresh!
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beck P
Hey Pen, its Beck again.. and I do have to say for the bathroom cleaner that eats soap scum off, and is really cheap and easy to use, I swear by Earths Choice shower cleaner. Its in a spray bottle in the shower cleaner section, just spray it on, leave for a few mins, if you have build up, give it a scrub (I use the kitchen broom) and then rinse! Nog loves, leaves a nice clean smell, and soo easy to use, and grey water safe! Let me know how you go!
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