Sometimes I ask stupid questions.  I couldn’t find a dish cloth in the kitchen and I asked Marty if we had one.  He told me that he didn’t think so.  I thought about this and then I asked the stupid question.  “What did you use to clean the worktops while I was away?”.  I’ve been married for 15 years, you’d think I’d know not to ask questions like that.  I did discover the answer today after two hours of cleaning in the kitchen.   I can now see the worktops and it’s obvious that no-one has cleaned them in the past month.  I’ve even discovered the source of the nasty smell that’s been annoying me since I got back.

My kitchen isn’t big and I still haven’t finished cleaning.  Now that I’ve almost washed all the dishes I can see that the stove top is filthy and that the worktops, as well as being dirty, have been stained with tea rings.  I’m really hoping that baking soda will remove those or I’m going to be annoyed.  Actually, since I took a break to write this I’m probably already annoyed.  But I suppose there isn’t much point in that and I should go do some more cleaning.