I BLAME BEAUTY

We were awake this morning at stupid o'clock, I was awoken to the music coming from the Beauty and the Beast video-well I suppose it could have been worse!
Last night I watched a TV program Nazi Pop Twins-it was a documentary about Prussian Blue who are a nationalist folk duo in the USA. There is no way that I agree with the ideologies promoted by the family but I was more concerned with the psychological damage all this propaganda appears to be having on the girls. They just do not appear to believe the things their mother believes and their mother was just not able to accept this. There was also one point when the mother called one of the twins a C_NT, I was just stunned that the mother would use this word on camera. School boys, drunk men and Brit Flicks are the only time I have EVER heard this word used and as a nurse I have not led a sheltered life but hearing this word used by a mother in the context of family life was shocking.

SOME KIM AND AGGIE PICTURES







I have a some photographs of a certain bedroom that Kim and Aggie might like to see!

I also watched Kim and Aggie last night, Fiona and I LOVE watching How Clean is your House and of course Anthea's Perfect Housewife but I wonder sometimes why we bother because we watch half of the show behind our hands it is so bad. Kim and Aggie appear to concentrate on really filthy houses and Anthea on very cluttered and untidy houses and I definitely agree with the analysis on Wikipedia

The show is light-hearted and often camp, falling more into the entertainment category than the factual genre. Much of the appeal comes from the almost voyeuruistic pleasure of seeing how untidy some people let their houses become (many have not been cleaned for years), though the cleaning tips add some practical value to the show.

Every time I watch the program I have a huge impulse to hire a skip to sort out my garage( and SnoWhites bedroom). From the 1 August all of SnoWhites possessions will have' left the building' and I will have plenty of space to allow me to store my art supplies in the back bedroom whilst I sort out the front bedroom as an art studio, I cannot wait(for the art studio of course!).

Yesterday I walked up the Wash Powder and cleaning aisle in ASDA(WALMART) and I nearly choked at the fumes that were coming from the products, surely it cannot be safe for the shop employees to work with these fumes or for them to be used in homes?
Here is something I found on the BBC website
I use the Ecover, soda crystals plus borax.

Clean Home, Clear Conscience
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Looking for a chemical-free cleaner? With naturally derived ingredients, such as coconut soap and chalk powder, you'll know you won't be killing off the local wildlife, but do they actually work? We put our favourites to the test.

Ecover Cream Cleaner £1.25 for 500ml from supermarkets How eco is it? It’s made from chalk dust and plant-based ingredients, all of which are biodegradable. The containers are 100 per cent recyclable. Is it any good? Marvellous. It’s probably as good as a traditional cleaner but without the chemical nasties. A quick squirt on a grimy hob shifted even burnt-on marks. Baths and sinks come clean, too, with only a little elbow grease and, once you rinse them clean, look really quite sparkly. This felt the closest to a traditional kitchen/ bathroom cleaner and, although you do need give it a good rinse afterwards, it produced the best results. Score 5/5

Soda Crystals From any supermarket How eco is it? As eco as you can get. Is it any good? Not so much a cleaner as a handy natural solution for breaking down grease (such as in the U-bend of a sink). It can be used as a water softener for laundry, too. We used it instead of bleach on a blocked sink by simply pouring a couple of cups worth of crystals down the plug, swiftly followed by a kettle of boiling water, and it did the trick. Got a waste disposal unit? Emptying half a cup and some hot water into it every few weeks will stop grease and smells building up. Score 4/5

Liquid Soda crystals £1.49 for 500ml How eco is it? It contains no phosphates, enzymes or bleach and is bio-degradable, too. Is it any good? Pretty impressive. Just squirt it on and leave it for a few minutes to work, then get scrubbing. You don’t need a massive amount of elbow grease to shift grimy units and burnt-on mess on your hob, and you can also use it to get rid of caked-on gunge in pans (though you can’t use it on aluminium ones) and stained chopping boards. Score 4/5

E-cloth Cleaning System Kitchen/Bathroom Pack (one general purpose cloth, one glass/polishing cloth), £4.99 How eco is it? The cloth contains loads of tiny fibres to shift grease and grime and no chemicals at all. Is it any good? It’s worth having in the cupboard, but you will need another all-purpose cleaner to tackle every job around the kitchen and bathroom. It came up trumps on lightly soiled worksurfaces, glass and stainless steel, where it left surfaces clean and quite sparkly, but was less impressive on a grubby hob. Score 2/5

Simple Green All Purpose Cleaner £9.99 plus £4.99 p&p for 1L of concentrate (makes up to ten 500ml trigger spray bottles when diluted – works out at £1.49 for 500ml) How eco is it? No bleach, ammonia and phosphates. Comes as a concentrate, which saves on packaging and transport costs. Is it any good? Yes. It may not smell as gentle and lovely as some of the fragranced cleaners we tested (it’s like a more traditional cleaner though the lemon is much nicer than the original), but it does do the job if you leave it for a handful of seconds to work. Just spray it on and get to work – you don’t need to rinse afterwards. Because it’s a concentrate, you can change the strength of the mix for different tasks. Score 4/5

Yesterday when I went to pick Beauty up from school I sat and waited as usual in the hall for her and suddenly she came squealing HERE I AM into the hall being pushed by JOHN the teacher's aide at 50 miles per hour in her wheel chair! WHAT A STAR!