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Bec

It's a long weekend in my state of WA, but I work on NSW public holidays, so I have to wait an extra week. Never mind -- I've also booked some days of leave so I'm looking forward to a long, long weekend.

I'm going to meet up with at least one friend, do a heap of weeding and reading and cooking, and also clean the house. I feel as though when I was younger, I would not have been excited to clean the house. Maybe it's a middle-aged thing.

One of the kids' friends was hanging out in our kitchen the other night while I was making tea. He told me how they had a large spare room but that they didn't have anyone over because their house was a mess.

And I said, 'I know what you mean. Then again, our house is also a mess, but somehow people still come over and don't seem to mind that much.' And we laughed together about that (because he was over and doesn't seem to mind that much)!

It was one of those times when words come out of your mouth and you realise it was completely new thought you'd not said aloud before but also was totally true.

I still would like a cleaner, tidier house. I love it when the kitchen bench is empty of stuff and the washing up is all done. But maybe I have moved on from a deep sense of shame at not having coffee-table-magazine-level of home presentation and gained the perspective of 'the people who really matter don't care and will probably even wash up if I asked them to'.

I do love a good and unexpected epiphany (I guess all epiphanies are unexpected, but you know what I mean).

#cleaning#ThingsILove#epiphany
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Wen

Visiting my mum after a bit of a gap (other members of the family have been there regularly) but things have made it difficult to travel. Now working through the pantry. Should mayonnaise be this colour? Not that she eats it and it was in a far recess.

Heinz Mayonnaise reimagined. A once white sauce.now brownish
#cleaning#purge#yukk
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cobalt

Here I am posting another #TipOfDay, what the heck—why not, in the face of pervasive societal anxiety and continuing traumas as fascism coalesces daily. Here’s a teeny tiny bright spot I enjoy and have a bit of control over. I finally have my full arsenal of household cleaning brushes. Latest ones include the crevice brush and a new favorite the small slim white brush with stiff bristles that go over the top and continue on a curve back down. This one is perfect for all the percolator filter basket parts. Great to get coffee grounds out of this filter basket with small slits. #Brushes #Cleaning

Almost a dozen cleaning tools laid out on the counter on a black silicone mat with 2 red round silicone trivet mats. The crevice tool brush is at bottom. The favorite slim white brush is 3rd down, under my standby old toothbrushes.
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quackademic

This is a well designed piece of research. It finds, unsurprisingly, that better cleaning = fewer hospital acquired infections = reduced costs.

How astonishing that such an argument needs to be made!

If we had more #respect for the #work done by #cleaners the connection between how well resourced they are to do their work, & outcomes for patients & costs to the hospital, would be obvious to all of us. Even hospital administrators.

When cleaning is contracted out & budgeted through line items that are separate from those used for clinical services, perverse incentives are created to ‘economise’ on non-clinical functions to improve a notional bottom line. I would guess something like this is at play here.

As is so often the case, the funding model is the problem. #health #hospitals #cleaning

theconversation.com/better-cle

The ConversationBetter cleaning of hospital equipment could cut patient infections by one-third – and save moneyA new study has found improving cleaning practices in hospital could make a big difference. Here’s what the researchers did.
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Heather Evans

Good morning tooters, welcome to #Friday & a lovely day ahead. It’s around 14c right now & heading to a rather warm & sunny 29c.
Yesterday didn’t go to plan at all, too much faffing around by me meant I didn’t do my balance class, nor did I go swimming 🤷🏼‍♀️. I did make my new little inground composter & set that up & moved the other inground composter I have, to a new spot. So I did actually do something but it was certainly a very slack day for me compared to my usual.
This morning is clean & dust the house & then head for a swim, probably straight after lunch. Young Miss 7 was going to be spending the day with me, but decided she wanted to go to work with her Daddy instead. He’s a concreter, so I think she will get very messy 😂, but she’ll enjoy her one on one time with him.
Hope everyone has a fabulous #Friday, enjoy the day 🌻.
#Weather #Exercise #Cleaning #Garden

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cobalt

Btw I’m sure some folks are waiting for the exciting conclusion of washing my runner that was dreadfully dirty and clogged with ground-in dog hair. Ta-da, here it is and look it’s not just all dirty gray and beige. A pattern even! If interested the photos and story was in my posts yesterday afternoon. #Cleaning

Part of a long gray and white carpet runner I had to spend hours cleaning. My posts yesterday tell the story of all the dog hair in it and dirts. It’s partly outside here so we could vacuum it after drying overnight. The vac is in foreground.
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cobalt

Here is that same dirty gray and tan carpet runner now soaking in the utility sink outside. This is the second soak. The first soak I used only water. Drained it and now soaking in Super Washing Soda. One more soak with a light detergent coming up next. #Cleaning #TipOfDay

Thus tan and gray carpet runner shown in the sink is on the 2nd soak as described in post. You can see the water is still dirty light brown. There are various bottle and cups on the top ledge of the utility sink outside. The spray faucet is far right.
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