Steamed up for WOYWW

It's been a long hot summer,

ending with a huge bang

in the form of ex cyclone Oswald.

That one hurt, my post about it is here.

I am finally back to WOYWW

after what seems years, although it's only months.

Here is my desk today

Yes, I know it's a mess and I wish I could blame the cyclone

but you all know what a grot I am, so there's no point

trying to blame a puff of wind.

On the left in the little wheelie bin are some really cool

little gifts that my wonderful friend in England gave me

when she visited in November last year.

I am a mad Doctor Who fan and these pencils and pen 

are just the bees knees.

The painting on my desk is of my new best friend,

the Shark steam cleaner!

I live right by the sea, I couldn't have picked a place with sand,

oh no, I had to live by the mud flats, sticky, gooey, dirty brown,

blow in the wind, mud flats.  So you can imagine what my 

white walls and white floors house looks like most of the time.

I can never keep up with the housework.  In the old days, when I was working,

I had two cleaners come twice a week and it was always clean then,

but retirement and age have caught up with me and

it gets cleaned as much as I can when I can.

That was until I found this little sucker, it is so much fun. 

 I spent a whole day just going around the house 

steam cleaning all of my skirting boards (it's a big house).

I've been cleaning window sills, mirrors, you name it I've steamed it.

You can attach a hose and reach all sorts of places,

usually places that I didn't realise were so dirty,

hey I'm short, what I can't see I don't normally clean.

The only thing I keep forgetting is that steam is hot and travels upwards.

It gets a little hairy when you forget and start to clean with the wand thingy and 

aim downwards.  I must have the the best steam cleaned arms in town.

But enough of my steamy fun, today I have returned 

to What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

and you've seen what is on my desk,

now may I suggest you have a look at

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see what everyone else

has on their desk today.

Happy desk hopping everyone.