Originally Posted by
MarkBastable
I think this needs a slight adjustment before it's sufficiently honed to make it into the soon-to-be compiled LitNet Guide to Life. I've had a bit of a shot at editing it...
Tip 89-Spring clean your house once a year. It's a pain in the b***, but well worth it. Your house will feel all shiny and new again. Unless of course you invested a huge amount of time and money finding and buying a house that was neither shiny nor new, because shiny, new houses tend to be characterless and, more to the point, badly-designed, and anyway, although you don't mind a certain amount of non-obsessive cleanliness which is not at all the same thing as shininess and newness, you have a thing for Edwardian and Victorian domestic architecture, which, obviously, is anything but new and if it's shiny that'll only be because you've over-polished the original brass door-handles which somehow, thank God, survived the Sixties' and Seventies' fashion for wholesale desecration of turn-of-the-century houses, which was an attempt, broadly-speaking, to make them feel all shiny and new again.
It might need a light-touch line-edit, just to really sharpen up the pithiness, but I think my almost imperceptible modification adds something...
