Cleaning Up.

Importance of Taking Care of Things.

Before and after stacking. Ready for tomorrow’s breakfast. Time for coffee, maybe mop the floor? Picture by John Rose.

Being engineer
learnt early
value of both
orderly approach and
clarity of thought,
Being organised
helped in
professional tasks of
identifying and
rectifying issues in
complex systems with
minimum of
fuss and cost,
Inevitable that
work habits
crossed over to
domestic life,
Old habits die hard.

One habit is
cleaning up as
cooking permits,
Necessitated by
limited space and
preparing favorite
slow cooked curries
from scratch,
in
my limited space
requires cleaning-up
between tasks.

End of cooking session,
Bench cleaned,
Utensils and dishes
pots and pans
washed up and
stacked for drying,
Bit…