You may be rather green......

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I have 24 hours of 'domestic assistance' per week courtesy of the firm. She started on Monday and my house looks immaculate.

I am very happy

My friend has a domestic assistance and she spends her whole time cleaning before she comes.

Ignore me, I'm just jealous

Oh how fantastic [jealous smiley]

LOL at myself - the painkillers aren't helping my back but they're sure doing something!!!!!

ah, but all those dinner parties and fixed smiles and smarties in enormous goblets... you end up paying in the end...

Smarties in goblets? I'm obviously going to the wrong dinner parties...

Smarties in enormous goblets? What is that all about??

must've been a particular regiment then... must ask dh who it was... an after dinner thing, coffee and smarties... never quite understood it but they all seemed to do it...
probably got some deep and bizarre significance about the colourfulness of a particular battle they failed to win or something otherwise meaningful... or maybe the CO just liked smarties so they all did it to get in his good books... it was at his house i first experienced it, come to think of it...
or perhaps trying to be 'different'... a bit like when we all had to float bloody flowers in shallow bowls of water and artfully lay petals about... hmmm....

It couldn't have happened at a better time too as I go back to work full-time 7 weeks on Monday. It will just be brilliant to have her.

I also have a gardener!

I will be spoilt until 2011 - then it will be back to living in a pigsty state of chaos and a garden like a jungle.

Oh, yes I remember the floating flowers!

Oh how lovely .
I loved having a cleaner when in Cyprus. That lady was an angel. I wasn't even working and only had dd1 then. Oh happy days .

sooo jealous... any chance you could spare her for say 12 of those hours and send her over to northern ireland???

I would if I could! I used to live in Omagh!