Wet windows and cutting it fine ... Friday 1st Nov

At this time of year a new domestic chore is added to my list. For some reason, and despite having double glazing, when the temperature goes cold at night outside, we awake to moisture on the insides of the windows. Now this moisture can be anything from light fogging, to dripping wet windows with puddles of water dripping off the window ledge. To try to deal better with this, I purchased a reasonably absorbent cloth this week to mop off, and up, the moisture. I also use the rubber side of a squeegee to wipe away any remnants. Then it’s open the windows to get some fresh air in and we’re sorted. I’m not sure if sleeping with the windows open would help, but Mrs P doesn’t seem keen to try it.

To be honest by the time I’ve finished cleaning up this morning, I decide to take a cup of tea and the paper and go back to bed. Well Mrs P is at work and the teenagers are both at school, and there has to be some benefits to being a house husband.

I have one job to do today that Mrs P has left me, and that is to defrost the freezer. I have all day to do it, and I forget! Well I forget until about 4:30pm anyway, with Mrs P due home about 5:15pm today. Rather than panic I empty the freezer, put what I can into the fridge and its small freezer unit, and then put a bowl of boiling water (my idea of a short cut) into the freezer, and start furiously scrapping at ice. Miraculously I manage to get all the ice off, with the help of a couple of more bowls of boiling water, before Mrs P gets home. As well as getting tea on the table for everyone, so some serious multi-tasking going on. I think I just about got away with it, though when Mrs P reads this I might be in trouble.

Yours cutting it close.

Jay