Domestic Dilemma

Written from the heart. Read Diary on Sunday (the day of the arrival!)

DOMESTIC DILEMMA!

Have you ever noticed, when a visitor's expected,

Your normally neat and tidy home suddenly looks neglected?

There! Around the handles! Surely that's a smudge!

And over there I see a stain that nothing's going to budge!

Why didn't I buy new cushions? Why didn't I clear the drawers?

Why didn't I throw out that old mat and polish all the floors?

Those plain white cups and saucers suddenly look too plain.

Oh no! Behind the standard lamp! Not another stain!

It seems I'm normally half-blind, deluding myself as well.

I thought my home was Heaven! Now I find that it's just Hell!

I'm trying to shrug my shoulders and pretend that it's all right.

'They must take me as they find me. I will not get uptight!

I won't be judged by my stupid house, but by my cheerful ways.

In any case they're only here for a certain number of days.

And once they're gone I can return to my previous attitude.'

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Oh no! I'd almost forgotten! I've got to give them FOOD!

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Another cry from the heart here:

http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2008/07/52-move-over-marlene.html