The trouble with exercise......

Yes, I know I could get off GN and go and do one or the other!

Be firm and do your walking and housework on alternate days? But then it would pour with rain on a walking day and be glorious weather on a stay-in-and-iron-day. You can't win.

The trouble with exercise is.... it hurts!

I quite enjoy it notso, specially when the sun is shining, like today.

Yes Elegran that would be the sensible thing to do. But I get this urge to get out! (and leave the lot of it)

Can you cut down on the amount of housework you do jingle? If you squint your eyes, it only needs doing every 3/4 days. Leaves you more time for walking and surfing.

Yes. I'll take me glasses off.

jinglej Your family loves you and your taking exercise contributes to your chances of being around longer for them to love. No one loved his/her mother or grandmother because she had smooth sheets and a vacuumed carpet. No brainer.

I've always taken the line that exercise is bad for you!! Think how it makes you feel!!

The trouble with exercise is - when you are feeling lazy, you can't pay someone to do it for you.

Every 3 to 4 days Notsogrand? I subscribe to the view expressed I think by Quentin Crisp, that the trouble with dusting/hoovering, is that you exhaust yourself doing it and then in 6 months it needs doing all over again!
(Apologies to any purists) for paraphrasing his wise words.

I think he also said gracesmum that dust only gets so thick....then no thicker. I can verify that. The reference of 3 to 4 days was my attempt to not seem as slovenly anti-housework as I am in reality.

See, I did the ironing and dusted half the living room (no, its not huge! I got distracted ) and now its started raining.

Tom Sawyer it is then. (reading it to "test it out" to see if it is suitable for GS for Xmas.

Respect jingle.

I love Tom Sawyer, much better for you than house work.I am putting off mine by being on this. Must stop.

..no point dusting a shelf that no one is tall enought to see, either..I also discovered something the other week. Although I dust the house [sometimes] when it comes tiles [kitchen and bathroom] I always used a damp cloth. I never thought to use polish. Obviously not on greasy kitchen tiles but those in the window etc. I suppose I should still use something bacteria zapping in the bathroom sometimes.

Nor is there any point in dusting the top of the wardrobe! If dust is discarded human skin, how does it get all the way up there anyway?

gracesmum ! That's my approach to housework. Where it needs to be clean it is, but I've always got something better to do than dusting.

Tom Sawyer is suitable for everybody, jings.

When I was in the last class at Junior school, in 1956, our teacher read "Tom Sawyer" to us -a chapter every Friday afternoon. Bliss.

I have to get up and do the top of the wardrobes before the end of November as the decorator is coming to do our bedroom which hasn't been painted since 1996 and he's going to dismantle them - oh the shame if he was covered in all that horrible stuff on Day 1
I had a Swiss friend who didn't believe in doing very much housework, if any at all 'life's too short Gally, I want to make the most of it and my kids'. Sadly she died just after she was 50, so when I begin to worry about the state of my house, I remember her and then go and enjoy a walk somewhere or time on the beach and get my exercise another way.

Jinglej, I have the same problem with my walks/housework. If in doubt go on G/net! As for dusting, "Henry" comes out with the little round dust brush and it's done in no time! I love him

Annobel wants to know how the dust gets on top of the wardrobe. Well, clearly it is from the little old lady who reported that her neighbour opposite was parading naked in full view of her bedroom. The policeman who came to have a look told her that he could not see into her neighbour's house from that bedroom window. "Well, not from standing just there, of course" she replied "you have to be on top of the wardrobe ....."

About Tom Sawyer. (Suppose this should go in the book club bit, but still.)

Its got a bad word in it that obviously was acceptable in America at that time. Begins with "n". So, can't really give it to ten year old GS. Perhaps when he's a bit older. I wouldn't want to teach him a word that he hasn't come across yet.

Shame, but still.

He has heard the odd word or two from his granny's lips - by mistake - that he shouldn't have done. But not as bad as that one.

I'd forgotten that, are there not updated edited versions.