I think you are correct that the New Year is the traditional start of the deep clean. Like the Japanese, the big house clean in Scotland is (supposed to be) done before the New Year. As well as paying all your bills, so you start off the year with a clean slate.
Perhaps the Spring clean became popular because when the sun comes out you can see the dust!
As usual I'm terribly late for the party. It's been hard to even keep up with posts on Instagram. I'd have loved all the talks you've mentioned. There's still so much to say about women artists and writers! Last year I got a small Penguin edition with excerpts from Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market, which I now feel anxious to get started. I saw the trailer for the Great White Silence and it does look like a horror scifi film. So fascinating! And interesting what some people said in the comments about the big clean before the new year in Scotland. Thats exactly what I had planned to do but heatwaves got in the way.
I think you are correct that the New Year is the traditional start of the deep clean. Like the Japanese, the big house clean in Scotland is (supposed to be) done before the New Year. As well as paying all your bills, so you start off the year with a clean slate.
Perhaps the Spring clean became popular because when the sun comes out you can see the dust!
Fascinating, as always, Natalie. Will look out for the book on women's art too. And poor penguins!
As usual I'm terribly late for the party. It's been hard to even keep up with posts on Instagram. I'd have loved all the talks you've mentioned. There's still so much to say about women artists and writers! Last year I got a small Penguin edition with excerpts from Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market, which I now feel anxious to get started. I saw the trailer for the Great White Silence and it does look like a horror scifi film. So fascinating! And interesting what some people said in the comments about the big clean before the new year in Scotland. Thats exactly what I had planned to do but heatwaves got in the way.