Day: August 5, 2015

How to attempt to keep house without panicking

10403606_483675265105690_2060981220485141876_n 10712907_483677188438831_449934974875129366_nI don’t think  that women have genes for cleaning but it’s obvious to children that women tend to do housework more than men so girls get roped in or just watch more.

1.Get a plastic bucket or a tray or some other such thing and walk around each room collecting things which do no live there… assuming nobody else will do it.Then try to put them where they should be like  a bowl of hot water.Or a cupboard.Failing that keep them into a plastic laundry basket  or similar

2.Wash up.Now and then wash the sink with a suitable cleaner and the other appurtenances.Wash cloths  or use disposable ones.

3 Go into each bedroom, unless it’s an able bodied adult’s and sort through clothes etc… hang up or put in laundry basket.Train older children to do this.

3 Put clothes into Washing Machine.Examine labels for temperature.If you are  ucky you may have a machine with a Handwash programme.Use the right detergent… look it up!

4 Now and then it is wise to change your sheets etc as well as towels and other such items.These usually need a hotter wash to kill germs.Hang them outside if possible.You can buy large folding  clothes airers if you have no washing line.

5.Wash  or wipe the table[s].Polish if you like to…Wash the kitchen surfaces as often as you can manage especially if you cut  bread or bake.

6 Vacuum or sweep the floors.But dust first if you dust.Or wipe shelves with a damp cloth.

7.Wash  floors with a mop when appropriate…often if there are many people around.

5 Ironing kills germs.If you can afford it pay somebody else to do it if you are older or fragile.

6 Put away clean clothes,sheets etc. as soon as you can.. in my case it’s usually weeks!

7. Every hour or so make a cup of tea and sit down.Remember  some women do  all this  cleaning and tidying up for years and men often never notice until their wife is ill.Think.. it’s all possible if you think.

8 All that remains is to decide what to eat and to cook it and then wash up.This needs planning ahead  and shopping but keep a few emergency rations like  eggs,baked beans,cold meat etc.Remember fuit and veg…. even if you are alone.Maybe take a multivitamin and fish oil… good for heart and brain.

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See it’s easy really…!

And it keeps you slim [ for a while]

Mercy

This is startling and moving.Do read it.It is beautiful

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Mercy

A Story by Coyote Poetry

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(A sad poem. We need more friends. More kindness.)

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Mercy

Young black man.
22 year old.
He sat alone and ate alone in the mess hall for many days.
I watched him and wondered why?

I knew great pain and understood his face and eyes.

I started to sit with him.
He said nothing for many meals.
Other Soldiers said he was crazy.

One morning at breakfast.
He looks at my eyes direct.
He told me.
“Some of the poor men were still alive at Death valley. They were still breathing.
Pieces of bodies speaking in a foreign language. I held so many of them. All I could do is listen.”

His eyes filled with tears. He asked me.
“Was there any purpose for this war?”

I looks at his sad eyes. I told him.
“You did all you could. Mercy of someone hearing…

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How language can make us believe in certain things

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I am not quite sure how to word this.When I was out just now I said to someone,It’s trying to rain.Now if you think about that sentence  there is an assumption built into it.That “It” is trying to rain,i.e.. some person or being is doing something.But  we know that is not the case.However in more complex speech it may not be possible to tell whether or not a being exists who is acting ot whether it is merely the way that English is constructed that gives that impression.On the other hand people may truly believe not only that God exists but that he is testing you or punishing out by giving your life some nasty  events.And people even atheists sometimes talk like that…an example is when someone has already had a tough time say with their marriage for years and then they get cancer.Then their friends may say,She doesn’t deserve this.Well life is not fair is it?Otherwise Hitler would have been destroyed by a bomb or got leprosy,cancer and gone blind at least…..but he didn’t did he? I can’t think of any more illustrations about the grammar of a language can make the noun is a sentence seem to be a real thing but I shall put some up later or maybe someone else might offer us a comment?

http://philologist.tripod.com/witt-1.html

If bored,read this

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