Early Morning – Rising Refreshed

The sun’s warmth shines through my bedroom window, awakening me to begin a productive day. My body moves as if on autopilot, stretching and executing tasks to which it has grown accustomed. I am energized by the newness of each sunrise, recognizing that this is my chance to take hold of the day with vigour and enthusiasm unseen before

As I go about my job as a cleaner, I have newfound motivation in every stroke of the mop, every flip of a duvet and every tidying up of odds and ends. In each action lies pride, knowing I can provide an atmosphere that encourages comfort and serenity for others. The glow from within seems to amplify until I am bathed in an ethereal light competing with the sun.

Cleaning Supplies – Preparing to Shine

I’m all dressed and ready to start the day with my trusty cleaning supplies. These are the trusty tools that help me keep homes spick and span with little fuss. I ensure each product is in its rightful space before heading out for the morning’s job.

Organisation is Key

To ensure successful cleaning, organisation is key. Knowing what needs to be done allows me to complete tasks in a streamlined manner. By assigning certain supplies to specific rooms or surfaces, I can navigate through house cleaning quickly and efficiently. This not only saves valuable time but minimizes the need for multiple trips up-and-down stairs carrying bulky products.

The Right Products Make All the Difference

To get superior results, it’s important that I have quality products at hand. These should reflect my client’s individual tastes, as well as leave behind an absolutely spotless finish on every surface. Everything from furniture polish, window cleaners and bathroom disinfectants must be secured – not to mention dusters, brooms, mops and vacuum cleaners – so that whatever the task requires can be accomplished with ease!

Keeping Safe

At all times, safety comes first during any house cleaning session. Not only do I use eco-friendly options wherever possible, but I also use work gloves whenever harsh chemicals are used and protective eyewear if ever called for. After all, working diligently is no excuse for putting yourself or anyone else in harm’s way!

Food Choices – Nourishing Coordination

As I drive, I think of all the delicious light lunches that can provide plenty of sustenance and give me the energy to make it through the rest of the day. While glancing at traffic patterns, my mind wanders off to possible menu choices, like a London maid determined to prepare a wholesome luncheon.

I have my eye on a light salad, perhaps with some fish or homemade soup, that is sure to leave smiles on everyone’s faces. There are also grilled vegetables with feta cheese and herbs for an easy yet flavorful selection. Wraps are another option, filled with fragrant couscous or lentils and vegetables, which add a crunchy texture to every bite.

A delectable lunch doesn’t need to be put together from scratch. I can usually find meals that don’t require much preparation but are still nice enough for company. There is always something special about freshly-baked quiche served with a green salad – It’s simple but very satisfying indeed!

With such delightful ideas for lunch, I am sure it will be an amazing day!

Destinations – Charting Course

With my route planned several days in advance, today, I move from one home to another at a steady pace. It’s important for me not to fall behind; if a house takes more time than expected due to particularly grime-filled areas, adjustments must be made throughout the day.

Surfaces – Scrubbing With Care

As a professional cleaning technician, I understand the importance of preserving people’s possessions. That’s why I take extra care when entering someone’s home, doing my best not to disrupt their lives in any way.

Once I’m inside, I get straight to work with a gentle yet meticulous vigour that ensures each and every surface is cleaned to perfection. By performing an efficient and thoroughly clean, no square inch goes unturned.

With thoughtful attention to detail and eco-friendly cleaning solutions, my job is to ensure the home looks as good as new once finished – free from dirt, grime and all germs!

Meticulous dusting and sanitizing of surfaces alongside organized organizing of spaces helps maintain safety and hygiene within the home or business. The results are often nothing short of breathtaking; gleaming surfaces that feel brand new after they’re finished being scrubbed away!

My speciality services are customized around each individual client’s need for speed and quality. Utilizing the latest technologies in twice-weekly deep cleans, weekly resets or even monthly refreshers — whatever is necessary —my goal remains consistent: leave the customer feeling proud of their space once again.

Final Touches – Careful Consideration

Before parting, there are always those extra tasks such as folding laundry or tidying away items left out; attending to these details completes my duties every time and ensures customer satisfaction is achieved before bidding them goodbye with a warm smile on my face!

End of Day: Unwinding and Re-Charging the Batteries

At last, it’s time for me to head back home after thirteen hours of hard work yet satisfying work; it never fails to give me great joy to know that many homes have been brought back into order by the end of today! Now all I want is food followed by proper rest before starting again tomorrow!

I have always been fascinated with Victorian times and people. Especially I take a great interest in how Victorian house and carpet cleaning was carried out – what methods and tools did those hard working maids and guys used? Fascinating stuff. Looked from today’s perspective one wonders how on Earth were those cleaners able to do even a half-decent job. Looking at pictures and reading books it looks like they somehow managed to maintain those magnificent Victorian households in pristine condition.

I came upon a wonderful little piece written by my grand-grandmother when she was a young lady. A journal entry that tells of what it looked and felt like to be preparing for Christmas Day in the olden times. Cleaning and cooking at its best 🙂 Not as dramatic as the cleaning up of the public face of Victorian London but still a great insight.

Here goes.

It is Christmas day and the house is a buzz with activity and excitement. The Seymour’s have relations coming for dinner and there is much to be done. There is soup to be made, beef and pork to be roasted. Plum pudding and mince pies to be made and punch to be prepared.

Daisy, the scullery maid has fitted in well. She is a hard worker and I get to do a lot more cooking now that she is working in my previous position.

However, it is Christmas and its all hands on deck. There are dishes to be cleaned and vegetables to be scrubbed and peeled. Beatrice is making a good cook, although she is not very adventurous , unlike me who loves to experiment.

We all work very hard throughout the day and then finally the guests have arrived and are settled in the dining room. The soup is being served and there is an awful moment when Mrs Chalmers, one of the guests , has dropped her spoon into the bowl, splashing soup everywhere.

The butler saved the day with his expertise way, of handling situations like that, and still managing to put Mrs Chalmers at ease.

The dinner went well, as did the pudding. Afterwards, Mrs Reynolds and guests retired to the drawing room to play Christmas games and for the piano. However, not before Mr Reynolds made a speech to thank the cook and servants for a lovely dinner and wished us all a very happy Christmas.

Frantically we all chip in to clear away and wash up so that we can have our own Christmas dinner in the servant’s hall.

Tomorrow, I am to be given the afternoon and evening off and will be able to visit my family. I am very excited to see them as it has been months.

The dinner went very well and it was very strange to see the likes of Mr Spooner, the butler being quite jovial instead of his usual straight faced self.

There was much laughing about and if a bell rang from upstairs the servants would take it in turns to go upstairs.

I finally crept into bed about eleven thirty, so tired I didn’t even have time to say my prayers.
It was very hard to wake myself up the next morning but the thoughts of seeing my family later was helping me to get washed and dressed in the bitter cold bedroom.

I crept downstairs at six o’clock and Daisy was already there, cleaning the floor. I do forget sometimes it’s not all down to me now. Together we get the fires going and the kettle on the boil for tea for us and the upper servants. They all have a busy day today again and I feel very lucky to be having the afternoon off.

Finally, it is twelve noon and I wish everyone a happy Christmas and make my way upstairs to change.

I feel very grand in my blue going out dress and my black hat with matching blue ribbon.

I make my way to the nearby rail train station to catch a train to see my family. I feel very grown up and a woman of the world as I sit on the train looking out of the window. I watch as hundreds of houses seem to pass by outside but of course it’s me that’s passing by them.

I day dream for a few minutes and imagine what’s going on at the house.

Daisy would be working the hardest cleaning the floors and scrubbing the tables. Washing and scouring the pans until they shone and washing up the crockery, glasses and cutlery.

I would help her if I had been there but as the train pulls into the station my stomach does a skip and a leap as I look out the window and see my mother and father.

Oh, it’s so good to see them I can hardly wait and I clamber to my feet and make my way to the doors.

First Things First

 

As most of modern writers do, I have picked up a pseudonym for my writing endeavours, a simple female name “Becky”. So, Becky, that’s me. Here goes one of my stories that has a lot to do with y personal experience in life although some if it is a bit of fiction.

Meet Becky The Young Housewife

 

The winter morning sun woke Becky from her Saturday morning lay in. She squinted and looked at the clock. It was only 7.25am so she rolled over and tried to go back to sleep.

Trouble was, she couldn’t. Now she was awake she knew she would have to get up.

Anyway, she had a lot to do this weekend. She would pop over to see mum and dad today, then to the shops and she was cooking dinner for Mark tonight.

Becky has been seeing Mark regularly since they got back together again. They are so happy and all past problems seem to be gone. Just the usual kind of quibbles that most couples have.

The snow and ice have kept Mark busy in his job as a plumber, fixing burst frozen pipes.

He had to put in many hours but tonight she would make a special meal for him.

She crawled out of bed and pulled on her dressing gown.She shivered and turned the heating up as she walked past the wall thermostat.

She made herself a cup of coffee and sat there thinking about what she had to do. The flat needed some deep cleaning she thought as she looked round the lounge. The floor and inside windows needed cleaning and the upholstery was quite grubby but she knew she would have to get the cleaning company to the sofa and chairs if she wanted a good job done.

Becky felt almost human by the time she had showered and dressed. She vacuumed all through and mopped the wooden and kitchen floors.

She needed to change her bedding next and had already stripped it to air. Becky smelt how fresh and clean her sheets were. Being very careful to wash them in at least 60 degrees to kill any dust mites and then a nice hot iron to finish off any strays.

Since Darren, her brother had treated her to have all her ironing done by a local cleaning company she had strived to keep it down.

Get To Work – Cleaning The House Is Fun

 

She dusted and polished around the flat and then set about cleaning the bathroom. Every night before she went to bed she would squirt some bleach around the inside rim of the toilet so she just had to clean the outside of the loo and seat. When she had finished cleaning the sink and bath, she decided to do some window cleaning.

Becky had made her own window cleaner with 50/50 white vinegar and water and had recycled an old spray cleaner bottle. She didn’t have that many windows and finished them in record time buffing them up with some soft kitchen paper.

When all her work was done, she tidied herself up and drove round to pay her mum and dad a visit.

Dinner Is Tastier When Tidy Up Is Complete

 

They asked after Mark and Becky’s mum invited them both round to dinner the following Sunday. “Roast lamb with mint sauce” said her dad smacking his lips and rolling his eyes.

Becky laughed “Hmm. Sounds good mum. I’m sure it will be fine. I’ll ask Mark and ring you”

When Becky left, she pulled in at the supermarket and bought the food for tonight’s dinner with Mark.

She was really looking forward to it and had decided to cook a fish pie and vegetables, cheat and buy chocolate torte and cream for dessert and Mark was bringing the wine.

Her stomach gave a little somersault in anticipation of the evening ahead.

It has been a long time since I have been able to sit down and properly dedicate time to my other passion – writing. As some of you (who know me, obviously) may already know that I have been a professional house cleaner for most of my adult life (and a little bit before that). Being a perfectionist in everything I do has helped a lot in all aspects of my life.

I remember back in the day (excuse my sounding like an old lady) I used to stay and work for longer than I was normally paid for. I loved cleaning and was not afraid of hard work. I always completed all tasks and house chores no matter if it ate up my personal time. I had my honour and passion for succeeding in everything I did so money was not my main goal. Leaving a happy customer and making a name for myself in the not so glamorous world of clean-up professionals was what I was aiming at.

So, now, when I have a lot my time on my hands that I know what to do with, I decided to purchase a shiny new Macbook and put my thoughts and endless war stories from the cleaning cupboard into digital form. Maybe some of you will hopefully find these amusing, funny and useful.

This is it for my first post. I am so looking forward to my real first story.

Ta-ta for now.

Yours sincerely,
Ms Weber