The big clean up

The big red dust clean up! I'm sure many people living towards central Australia would be used to cleaning up red dust, but I'm not! I can still taste it from yesterday, and although I thought our home was sealed up pretty tight, we have a film of red dust over almost everything. The floors in particular always drive me nuts, but they're slippery, so I have to tackle it all today. Of course, it makes sense to start top to bottom, but the floors are what I'm itching to get to!

Ironically enough, I have to say I'm lucky I hadn't finished my big Spring Clean I was hoping to get to. In fact, I'd barely made a dent, as I've probably only covered about 10%. Phew! Because everything, mainly outside, has red dust in every nook and cranny. I'm seeing the bright side to being a couple of weeks late!!

I have a big 7 page Word with a tick list of all the little things I'm wanting to do, which makes it easy to utilise a free 5 minutes I might have here and there, where I can just choose one thing of the list.

Shannon Lush has some great tips that she spoke about on Drive on the ABC yesterday evening. I haven't had a chance to listen to all of it yet, as the kids were making a racket on the drive to Mums and I missed most of it, and I can't listen to at the moment as the kids are too busy squabbling over lego (should I be adjudicating or just let it be a free for all?!). Mum said a big one was to put pantyhose over your broom and use that on the floors before vacuuming (and even over a dustpan brush to use over your car before washing). To use water last! And also to start from the top down.

Luckily I already wiped over my washing line with a cloth, it was filthy, and would only make my washing dirty, defeating the purpose of washing it in the first place!

This morning I got out for my 1 hour walk. I was swooped again! And now I'd better go and settle some arguments and get stuck into the cleaning.