Tag Archives: Spring cleaning

Winter Clean

Posted on August 1, 2020 by Helga

Saturday Today was the day… I did a Winter Clean…as opposed to a Spring Clean! It feels good to have the main areas we live in spic and span again – although there are still a few spots I missed. … Continue reading →

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Cleaning With Company….

Posted on November 16, 2019 by Helga

Saturday What went down at the van Niekerk’s today was unexpected. Mike and I both have asked, ‘what’s got into us?’ We have just got carried away spring cleaning. I think there are two things going on right now. The … Continue reading →

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Basement Pictures Before and After Foundation

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Helga

Friday Today was a slow day for work, a good day for socialising and an amazing day for cleaning! As it’s Middle East weekend, things were quiet on the work front, so I had a slow morning. I went to … Continue reading →

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Out With The Old

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Helga

Thursday It’s been a fabulous time of spring cleaning and it’s not over yet. You can’t accumulate 30 years of stuff and expect to get it sorted overnight. But I have made a good start and yesterday I was so … Continue reading →

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First Time I’ve Done This in 33 Years

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Helga

Tuesday I think it must be the first time I’ve done this in 33 years. I’ll get to that story shortly, but first, today work was on and off, so I spent the time in between time spring cleaning. One … Continue reading →

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Shredding

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Helga

Wednesday Today I shredded! Hundreds of sheets of paper went through my tiny shredder two pages at a time. Paper from more than a decade ago – anything with personal details – got shredded. It was so cathartic. I put … Continue reading →

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Sorting and Shredding

Posted on September 2, 2019 by Helga

Monday Over the last month, I’ve only worked on average 22 hours a week, which has been very comfortable but I have asked myself what did I do with the rest of the time? Today, as I got to the … Continue reading →

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Living With Less

Posted on August 24, 2019 by Helga

Saturday It is true that you get to a certain age when the building up of a home and life that happens when you are a young adult gives way to scaling down. This is for me anyway. It may … Continue reading →

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A Worthwhile Day

Posted on October 6, 2018 by Helga

This morning when I woke up, I knew that today could go either way. I could make it a worthwhile day or have a slack attack (which is what I felt like doing!).  I needed to do some housework, so … Continue reading →

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Clearing out the Roof

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Helga

We moved to this house in 1989. Stacey was 18 months old. David came in 1991 and we grew our family and our belongings. Then came Mike’s Mom in 2002. In 2009, Stacey married and moved out. Granny fell just … Continue reading →

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Team Work

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Helga

I don’t know if I will be able to get out of bed tomorrow morning! Today I worked both paid work and house/garden work. I started by doing some paid work and then I got stuck into sweeping the patio. The … Continue reading →

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Preparing for 2017

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Helga

There are a couple of things that have happened over the last few weeks. The first is that I have a little more free time with work having slowed down. With Christmas coming, I want to be organised.  This has led … Continue reading →

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Here Comes Morgan

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Helga

At the end of August, we bid a bitter sweet farewell to Dustin. After two years of living in our cottage (where Granny used to live), we were sad to see him go, but really happy to know he was … Continue reading →

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If They Are Happy, I Am Happy…

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Helga

12-57pm The highlight of the last 24 hours was a telephone conversation with Stacey. She had skype minutes that were due to expire, so she called me and we had a nice long natter. What a treat to hear first … Continue reading →

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