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Would/do you employ a cleaner?
I did. I broke a leg in 5 places and had a baby in quick succession! The hospital/social services provided me with a home help. But I always felt obliged to tidy up, use dustpan & brush before she arrived! And things I really couldn't do, like change a quilt cover, she couldn't do because I didn't suffer from one of the specified medical conditions that service was supplied for.
Would you work as a cleaner?
I did, while I was employed in a junior post in the civil service within a hospital. The job got me my beer money - £10 per week!! This was in the mid-eighties BTW. I had to catch the hospital bus to an outlying suburb, clean the employer's house in Millionaire's Row eg. 2 rooms per week out of 10 in the house for a couple of hours, then walk to her tennis club and clean the locker rooms, office and sweep the courts for the rest of the time.
The denoument came when I was bitten by a mouse while cleaning the downstairs lavvy and when my hours of work coincided with the Day of Atonement and I wanted to work and she couldn't come to terms with letting me!
I would go back to being a cleaner now, but I don't DO early mornings! |
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