The best thing to do in our house at the moment is keep your head down. It seems Mum and Dad have very different views of cleaning. I keep telling them to be more like a dog \u2013 if you keep yourself clean then nothing else really matters. They have an altogether different approach. In Mum\u2019s eyes cleaning is something to be done regularly. Apparently, dog hair everywhere is not acceptable \u2013 who knew?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dad looked blank when Mum asked him to help by cleaning a particular room in the house. \u201cI\u2019ve done that one,\u201d he said. Well, he has but Mum thinks it might need doing again seeing as that was two weeks ago! Dad seemed surprised. Now Mum is dreading the state the house in Switzerland will be in when she finally gets to visit again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be fair to Dad, when he does a job he does it properly. Some of the things he has cleaned haven\u2019t looked like that since the work was done to the house before they moved in, or so Mum admitted to me. I don\u2019t think she wants Dad to know how much better a job of things he is doing than she is. I\u2019m just staying out of the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All I can say is I hope this is the only time they ever decide to move house as the process seems alarming. There was one point yesterday when Mum was even thinking of throwing out another of my old dog beds. Not just putting it away but actually throwing it out \u2013 in the rubbish bin! We compromised and I agreed for it to go through the washing machine as long as I could keep it. Now all I need to do is get it suitably dirty again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wilma suggests you keep your head down around here at the moment. This whole moving thing is getting out of paw.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}