Speechless with admiration

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That’s speechless admiration for every house-wife and house-husband.

The last three days I have been based at home in Falmouth whilst Annie has been working – and so the place has been mine.

I first of all acknowledge that there haven’t been any children in sight (apart from the students who live above us) – I can only imagine……

The fact is – that I live in a man’s world – and also the world of the sole trader who travels extensively on business.

A world in which I can decide to:

• start and finish every task – one at a time and
• choose not to be interrupted

In fact I had planned for these three days to be a kind of self-indulgent “buffer” time – to think and plan.

What a wake up call this week has been.

Constant multi-tasking:

• bed making
• dishwasher replenishment
• emails
• food shopping
• phone calls with clients
• snail mail
• cleaning
• laundry
• broken down appliances
• emergency launderette trips
• Christmas shopping
• personal and professional planning
• calendar maintenance
• expenses forms
• cooking
• clearing up
• phone calls with Team CB
• taxi rides (including a 10-mile drive last night that took two hours)

And to make matters worse – constant interruptions!

Not “my schedule” but “everyone else’s schedule”.

For once I know what its like to run a household – and it makes what I do for a living seem very simple.

Cheers to the home-makers all over the globe.

I can’t take much more of this – actually hit the sherry last night!