Daily Sparks Writing | How to Wash Windows
~ Taking inspiration from Rajiv Surendra and Ruth Milligan ~ I am sitting in the old workshed. There’s a distant dull thump of music. A magpie jeering. Clock ticking. In front of me, in the pigeon holes over the desk, a tiny seed-head with its seed-ballast is a fan of fine fronds that could spin away on the breeze if i hadn’t given it shelter here. Dormant. Waiting. Perhaps soon i will set it free, give it a chance to grow. . . . How to Wash Windows, with Rajiv Surendra | Life Skills with Rajiv How do you get to fifty and not know how to clean a window? D__ who cleans the outsides, makes it look quick and easy. But he comes to do it once a month; he’s got years of experience; he’s probably got some kind of secret formula in that bucket of froth. Or perhaps it’s just washing up liquid. I’ve never asked and now I wish I had. What D__ does is he slops on plenty of liquid with a cloth, squeegees it off with his squeegee and he’s done; and he does a nice job too. So nice that ...
