Treat your boots as your friends, and grease them twice a week

[desperance]

I have this lovely big thick heavy block of wood as a chopping-board. Every now and then I think to scrub it down and oil it. And then oil it again, and again; I don't do it often enough, and it suffers a lot (sitting as it does between the cooker and the sink: it gets baked from one side and soaked from the other, weeks and months on end between oilings), and drinks up the oil every time I think to do it.

It is not the only one. I oiled it this afternoon, and wandered out of the kitchen; and wandered back to find Baz up on the block, happily lapping up the oil.

(Also? I really, really need to sort out - this largely means "throw away" - the contents of my kitchen cabinets. Biologically, this is probably more urgent than sorting out my office, which was due to be the immediate post-novel project. But: I am a man who was nearly reduced to tears of frustration this morning, simply by the state of my desk and my inability to do anything about it. My kitchen cabinets are altogether beyond me, out of my stars...)

Comments

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

I am doing my pre-Christmas freezer, preserve and spice cabinet audits. Also Clive James read this article on the radio this morning - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7768021.stm

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for the link! I did hear it this morning, and recognised it intimately, but I never thought to search for the text.

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

They always publish it, which is good because sometimes I'm only partly awake when I listen to it. There was a definite chord, this morning.

[anef.livejournal.com]

If I look at the table covered in books and papers and think about tidying them up, it makes me feel quite helpless. But if I pick up one thing every so often and put it away, the pile and the task begins to diminish. That's what I'm doing off and on at the moment. One piece of paper every half an hour. I'm not saying it's fast...

[pennski.livejournal.com]

I am finding myself looking at various little tasks and thinking "I could do that now" but deciding instead to look at lj.

So the fridge door compartments are filthy.
As is the cutlery drawer.
As is the bathroom sink.

But at least I remembered to empty the drip collector under the kitchen sink - which had filled up completely and was about to engulf the box of new water filters.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I am scarily good at that kind of sorting (you can get a reference for me from ms_cataclysm or bugshaw)> If it's really daunting,I hereby volunteer to come and help (will work for houmous).