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Title: Have you ever looked under your......
Post by: Fleecewife on August 27, 2013, 01:37:08 pm
.......Kenwood?
 
There are lots of cavities under there, plenty of room for SPIDERS and their webs  :o :o :tired:  as well as old bits of flour and crumbs.
 
I hadn't made a cake for ages, so I decided to spring clean my mixer and for probably the first time ever looked underneath it  :P :P :P .  Still, I feel much better now it's spider free  :wave:  Now for cake  :yum:
Title: Re: Have you ever looked under your......
Post by: Rosemary on August 27, 2013, 01:54:44 pm
 :) I have a few corners like that - made the mistake last week of standing on tiptoe to look at the shelf we keep the cookery books on. Not good  ;D
Title: Re: Have you ever looked under your......
Post by: happygolucky on August 27, 2013, 01:55:35 pm
I noticed mine had encrusted cake mix on the dials and nobs too.......its amazing how much appears when you put your glasses on....this post reminds me of a time years ago when I had made cakes and franticly cleaning my Kenwood so leaning to worktop level and the thing fell onto my eye...I spent that Christmas explaining to people how my mixer gave me a black eye..............I do not think anyone believed me :innocent:
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Post by: shygirl on August 27, 2013, 02:15:53 pm
beware when cleaning things - it can be dangerous  :-J. i spent ages scrubbing and polishing my windows (they usually have hand, paw and nose prints on them from dogs, cats and kids) and my son walked straight into the patio door thinking it was open. he had a scab on his forehead for a fortnight...ho hum. dirty is much safer  :roflanim:
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Post by: Rosemary on August 27, 2013, 04:08:06 pm
beware when cleaning things - it can be dangerous  :-J . i spent ages scrubbing and polishing my windows (they usually have hand, paw and nose prints on them from dogs, cats and kids) and my son walked straight into the patio door thinking it was open. he had a scab on his forehead for a fortnight...ho hum. dirty is much safer  :roflanim:

Love it  :roflanim:
Title: Re: Have you ever looked under your......
Post by: happygolucky on August 27, 2013, 04:10:08 pm
Well I got a  black eye and as my mum had a business she also had a cleaner, the cleaner polished the piano seat and my piano teacher slipped off :roflanim:
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Post by: Bionic on August 27, 2013, 04:43:31 pm
shygirl, what on earth posessed you to clean windows?  :roflanim:
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Post by: shygirl on August 27, 2013, 07:10:34 pm
shygirl, what on earth posessed you to clean windows?  :roflanim:

the estate agent was coming - its amazing what you have to do. they are safely dirty now  :roflanim:
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Post by: mowhaugh on August 27, 2013, 07:24:28 pm
No I haven't, and I don't know whether to or not now!  Cleaning is such a novelty in our house, William quite often asks "Can we do hoovering, mummy?".  Can't wait until he is big enough to do it himself!
Title: Re: Have you ever looked under your......
Post by: Lesley Silvester on August 27, 2013, 08:57:53 pm
I don't think I want to look under my Kenwood. Maybe it's a job I can get my cleaner to do.

Title: Re: Have you ever looked under your......
Post by: happygolucky on August 27, 2013, 09:26:39 pm
My husband appears to have a thing with the hoover, when he's here its always out  :innocent:   (the hoover)
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Post by: Fleecewife on August 28, 2013, 01:45:41 am
My husband's obsession is cleaning the loo.  It's always immaculate so I hardly dare sit down  ;D
 
I became a housewife at 13 when my mum was dying and it bores me stiff now.  I don't mind the occasional blitz but I can't be doing with all this regular dusting and polishing business - I've had nearly half a century of it and enough is enough  :tired:   I quite like finding pockets of amazing dust or three year old tissues hiding down the back of the chest of drawers, and as for culturing new strains of mould in the fridge - well it's one of my favourite passtimes  :roflanim:   No not really - I do like my food to be as immaculate as my husband likes his cludgie  ;D
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Post by: ZaktheLad on August 28, 2013, 07:03:20 am
Looking under the toaster is much the same as looking under the Kenwood....
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Post by: Sbom on August 28, 2013, 12:00:39 pm
I keep peering down the back of my chest freezer and thinking I really must pull it out and and clean underneath/behind, but I know it won't be pleasant so maybe it's a job for another day  :innocent:
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Post by: happygolucky on August 28, 2013, 02:48:30 pm
I lost a pair of canvas shoes and found them 2 years later behind the washing machine in our garage, along with a few pennies and loads of dog hairs.......