I couldn’t believe it. I’d cleaned the damned things, just the day before, but the windows at the side of the house were once again festooned with cobwebs. Not only that, but at first glance and before my first coffee, they looked filthy. I was not best pleased.
Cleaning windows has never been my favourite job. No matter what I use, there is always a streak or a haze, corners I’ve missed or fluff left behind… and my little flat has a lot of windows for its size, streaming light onto every speck of dust that settles. Not only that, but arthritis and window-cleaning do not work well together.
Granted, the windows are all now within reach…no more dangling precariously out of upper floors in an attempt to clean glass in frames designed by some warped and evil mind. At least these days, I only need a step-stool to reach the top corners and anyone not quite so vertically challenged would be able to clean them with ease.
I sipped my coffee in the kitchen eyeing the windows with distaste. It wasn’t until I opened the garden doors for Ani that it occurred to me that the ‘filth’ was probably moisture. She bounded out, laughing, into a morning cocooned in golden mist rising from the fields. The grass was heavy with dew that sparkled as soft light streamed in, illuminating my little home…
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Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
I feel your pain. I have a lot of windows too. I only clean the worst offendors… boys handprints, snuffly dog nose marks etc. They always look worse on sunny days, but we don’t get too many of them…
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I face due east…every morning reveals a nightmare 😉
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Lol! Sorry… that should have been a commiseration, not a chuckle. My house is laid out so that our use of the rooms follows the movement of the sun… it streams into my bedroom in the morning, shines into the back of the house during the day (kitchen) then moved to the other side of the house in the evening (kitchen and living room). I really like that… feels right. 😊Also, I’m a bit batty! 😂
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Both my living room and bedroom face east…the kitchen west… so there is always light, which I love.
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Wonderful isn’t it when the light catches a spiders web.. Such remarkable little things which create such intricate webs. And Window cleaning is one of my pet dislikes also. 😉
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Spider-silk is fascinating stuff… but they can stay outside please, after the debacle with the spider bites earlier this year!
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yes I had a rather nasty bite this year two in fact.. that still have left their red marks.. I never felt them bite though such is their poison, luckily I heal well, but I am very allergic to insect bites and they swell larger than normal.. Along with a few plants too whose leaves irritate my skin and I come out in a rash.. Yet still love to be in the garden better than anywhere else.. 😉
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I react badly to insect bites too…and never felt the spider, just saw it while I was driving and had a foot covered in blood when I stopped. It went downhill from there x
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Yes you don’t feel them.. no wonder your foot and leg needed hospital attention..5 bites is a lot..
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The hospital just found it really interesting. They were quite excited about it!
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We’ve got fixed glass in our biggest window and all our windows are two stories up. They do not get cleaned from the outside, ever. I’m not sure they ever have been, by anyone. Hosed down, but not washed. Even with a long stick, they are to high up and there’s no way to get to them from the inside. Surprisingly, the periodic hosing down seems to keep them acceptable if not really “clean.”
I clean the insides, though … but most of the dirt isn’t inside. It’s outside.
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I am enjoying being able to reach at last…I really am…
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A web-bow! how cool is that!!! 😀
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It was just beautiful 🙂
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