Have a Scarlet O’Hara Moment (Book extract from Housework Blues)
So, you’ve spent your time cooking or cleaning or washing or ironing etc, then you look around a few hours later and the fruits of your labour are gone with the wind. Take a deep breath – it’s time for a Scarlett O’Hara moment. Tomorrow is another day It’s true...
It’s a Grrrl Thing (Book extract from Housework Blues)
As a person, it is irritating when people don’t do their fair share, but if you are at all feminist, it’s much more complicated. There are principles at stake. There is often the unspoken question: is it being left to me because I am the female? This incurs a wrath...
Keep it in the Family (Book extract from Housework Blues)
If, for whatever reason, you don’t take on external help (and even if you do – you’ll still have to tidy up before they come!), it makes sense to utilise existing labour sources. I’m referring to The Others. The people you live with. Now you may be thinking...
Housework – a good thing? (Part 2)
Could it be true? (again) Now I am a self-confessed Undomestic Goddess. I am not naturally inclined to clean and tidy. I am a million miles away from the Perfect Housewife. And yet… The other day, I had a few precious minutes of un-spoken-for time on my hands...“I hate housework
but this book enabled me
to at last make some form
of peace with it.”
~ Amazon Review
Gifts for the Undomestic Goddess
