The 3 Ps

Lady Thinker, http://www.sidmouth-town.blogspot.com/ has sent me a meme about household management. As I'm chained to my desk for most of the week, I'm always short of time when it comes to domestic chores so my main tip is delegation, particularly with regard to polishing, hoovering and ironing. A laundry is very useful for sheets: I've never worked out how to iron sheets without part of them trailing on the floor, gathering dust straightaway; far simpler to collect them pristine and beautifully folded from a laundry.
Cooking and entertaining are more my forte and for these the military tip of "Prior planning and preparation prevent piss poor performance" comes in handy. Menu planning, shopping and making as much as possible in advance all mean than a dinner party is usually a four day event.
Being an office-wallah means that I don't have pets. I do, however, own a stone cat set in a crouching position with glass eyes which is an excellent mouse deterrent. I once came back to a flat where I was living and found a dead mouse six inches in front of the stone cat. It must have had a heart attack. There were mice in my house in Winchester last year and I moved the cat into the dining room. They didn't venture in there after that. (This year I sealed the hole under the oven which was their main port of entry.)
I'm sending this on to Eurodog, Sicily Scene, (both tags on my blog) Swearing Mother (http://brummiemum.blogspot.com/) and Dave Cole (http://davecole.org/blog).