OK, I spent the weekend sorting out a routine for keeping up with the housework. My house certainly wouldn’t qualify for one of those grotty homes you see on the TV cleaning programmes (but then I suspect they’re deliberately made to look so bad). All the same I can’t currently keep up with the spider webs and dust that an old house seems to encourage. My routines are based very loosely on www.flylady.net. If you haven’t looked at this website before I can recommend it. It’s a bit happy/clappy for my personal taste, but I got a lot of useful ideas, such as creating a control diary. Now I have to put it into action.