The glass is always cleaner...

I often wonder what the ritual is at other peoples houses in the hour or so leading up to visitors arriving. Is it a mad dash tidy around like I do, or are other people just that little bit more organised, or here's another idea, perhaps they don't mind if their house is in a state of disarray when others come to visit?

I've been meaning to clean the ranchsilder for weeks now, the glass is about as far away from clean as you could get - I'm talking little hand prints and food smears on the inside, and splattered bugs and dust on the outside.

I have this disorder - well, that's what I'll call it, particularly when it comes to cleaning windows and ovens. I just can't seem to motivate myself to do it. In my list of top 10 worst house keeping jobs, oven is at #1 and windows comes a close second. There are a zillion excuses as to why not to clean them, trust me I know, I've used them all. I've even lured myself into a false sense of security telling myself 'I'll do it tomorrow' - and as James Bond well knows, tomorrow never comes.

So there's some food for thought - Is the glass always cleaner on the other side of the ranchslider? In my case, no.