i promise to be good IF

[cod]

we can have a houskeeping topic

i can stay coralled in there and not bother the card makers ( alwasy very good natured)
the mogglers( ditto)
adn G and t
promise I will occupy myself with bicarb and smelly wahign machines

hopefully there will also be helpful advice about setting a family budget and recipes involving aspic

Youll be telling me you like cuddling up on the sofa with a copy of Womans Weekly next!!

yes, marina - but the wildlife will have migrated to the nearest watering hole to slake their thirst on Pinot grigio.

was behind lady in queue in m&s yesterday who was buying scented ironing water.

but she looked such a scruff. wanted to ask her why she didn't want to buy some nice clothes instead.

I like the idea of a housekeeping thread. Loads of people as about stains and there's nowhere to talk about them.

I'm with Blu on this- I would have nothing, and I mean nothing, to contribute to housekeeping (beyond what do you pay your cleaner type things) and I am very very old.

Cod, what about Style though? You're not really just going to keep to housekeeping are you?

And cod, what if the Arts abd crafts folk come on to Housekeeping and ask q's about the best way to store sequins, and what if the mogglers ant to know how to keep creases out of clothes you travel to a casting in?

You need a MN Gated Development, not a new topic

And call it something fun like mrs beeton's morning room or something there are too many dull titles

or Danvers Household Offices

please dont do it justine - its just downright ..sad

lol batters, and yes tutter, why is that? Huge great big bottles of fabric conditioner next to catering size tomato sauce in the trolley [baffled emotion].

lol at Gated Development

I can just imagine the outcry if someone suggested a "younger mums" topic, but there isn't the same reaction to older mums?

I could look in on the housekeeping one and think "Oooh, one day I might try this housekeeping lark"

older mums need more support

all these pert youngsters make me feel ill

it's the day when someone starts posting as Cathy1988 or whatever that I dread

perhaps just an old fogeys topic

Or one called 'Nasty Stains'.
That would pretty much cover it, one way and another.

pmsl @ Nasty Stains!!!

not interested or nuffink..but > Cod, what scented ironing water do you recommend?

scented ironing water is a consumerist con!

I put two drops of lavender water in my steam water

[smug emoticon]

Tutter - that was probably me
(the reasoning goes, I may look like a bag lady but I smell nice...)

I mean lavender oil

[slightly less smug]

can't beleive I'm ac tually interested or having this discussion but - that's exactly the sort of tip I need cappucino, thanks. Does it not leave oily marks?

no, no marks

What, someone post as Nasty Stains??? [confused emoticon]