Everything is Relative

For a person who lives alone I have emptied the dishwasher many times since I returned to the UK.  Far more than usual.  In fact when I’m on my own I don’t use it very often at all.  So how can I make a posting out of that?  Well I was half way through emptying it this morning and thinking what a chore it was (and conveniently forgetting that after my guests had gone last night I had no washing and drying of dishes to do ‘cos it all went into the machine) when I thought to myself how much life has changed from my childhood when there were dishes to wash and dry and how much I have for which to be thankful.  And what a sorry state we are in when we consider emptying a dishwasher a chore.  So I played the Glad Game.  I have dishes to wash because I have food to put on those dishes.  I have glasses to wash because I have wine to put in those glasses.  And I have a lot of washing up to do because I have a lot of friends with whom to share that food and wine.  So I told myself this morning not to moan about emptying a dishwasher but to give thanks for the fact that I had that opportunity.

Powder v Tablets

I buy washing powder. I know that you can buy washing powder in liquid form (if you see what I mean) but I was unaware that you could get it in tablet form. 'Why' I asked CJ 'would anyone want to buy soap powder tablets?' Apparently it's so that you don't gunge up the place where you put the soap in the washing machine 'cos tablets can go straight into the drum. My machine empties the powder perfectly well. Anyway I accidentally bought tablets last week. When I came to empty the powder I thought I'd bought into the container in which I keep powder, I discovered my mistake. So now I've got to open packets of powder tablets. The world is becoming full of packets I can't open without scissors.

Whilst I was muttering to myself about this I suddenly realised that I always buy my dishwasher powder in tablet form. How odd? Moi, a male, inconsistent. Wonder how that happened.