Before I start on my piece for tonight, take a look at Emma’s article Just a bit of Lettuce.  I know where she’s coming from on that one.  I’ve had similar conversations with my friends.

Also have a look at the latest on the articles section titled Common Sense.  This is brilliant, it was apparently sent in an email to Katie and she felt she had to submit it for the blog.

So, on to me.  There I was sitting quietly at the computer Friday night when my husband looked up and told me that some friends of ours had asked if they could call in and see us on their way through to a hotel they were staying in locally to us.

Brilliant, we haven’t seen them since last October. 

And then I looked at the clock which read 10.30 pm and realised that the whole house looked as though we’d had a mini tornado ripping through.

Not that our friends would have minded, they are really down to earth and with children of their own they understand that tidy houses and children don’t always go.

But I just couldn’t let people in to see what I can only describe as a pig sty.  It’s more surface clutter than anything but you know what it’s like.  You start one job and then another pops it’s head up that really isn’t important, but you still have to do it.

Like, cleaning the kitchen windows.  I kid you not at midnight Friday I was cleaning the kitchen windows. I ended up staying up until turned 1.00 in the morning, with my husband,  to make the house look fairly presentable and then I did more in the morning.

There must be a little panic gene in my head that switches on when I know we are having visitors.  It’s like a siren shouting alert, alert.

Anyway for all that we had a great day with them visiting the Thinktank in Birmingham and I’ve really enjoyed looking around my now tidy house.  Ah bliss!  (Well for 5 minutes anyway!)