by Danielle | Nov 16, 2009 | Blog
How to get your family to help with the housework (Book extract) Family: your allies on the home front If, for whatever reason, you don’t take on external help (and even if you do – you’ll still have to tidy up before they come!), it makes sense to utilise existing...
by Danielle | Nov 9, 2009 | Blog
Housework – a good thing…? (Part 2) Can housework be a good thing? (Again!) Now I am a self-confessed Undomestic Goddess. I am not naturally inclined to clean and tidy. I am a million miles away from the Perfect Housewife. And yet… The other day, I had a few precious...
by Danielle | Oct 29, 2009 | Blog
Why housework is mental Let’s play Spot the Difference. Woman A arrives home. She hangs up her coat, bag and keys. She looks around her tidy home, smiles and decides she’s got time to relax in her beautiful sitting room with a cuppa and a magazine. A flustered Woman B...
by Danielle | Oct 17, 2009 | Blog
Is housework good for creativity? (Book extract from Housework Blues) Dust, vacuum…create? The results of housework are all too fleeting. You spend your time performing boring tasks and before long, they need doing again. There’s not much scope for any...
by Danielle | Oct 6, 2009 | Blog
Looking after No 1 (Book extract from Housework Blues) The Nurture Gene Women are instinctive nurturers and carers. Historically, we are the caretakers of the species. Even in recent times, women who work full-time still tend to be the ones who make a house a home,...
by Danielle | Sep 24, 2009 | Blog
Housework – a good thing? Can housework be a good thing? It just might be! Allow me to demonstrate with a personal story… My youngest child has recently begun ‘Big School’ (though it could well be the tiniest Primary school in the country…). It’s quite a milestone in...