Mother's Little Helper X.0

Apparently, my cousins are coming to stay at the summer house for two weeks. This means we will be in the city, and that mum went into a cleaning frenzy this morning. Out with the carpets! I helped as best I could. I stay away from the summer house vacuum cleaner. It's old and huge and very noisy.

Mum tells me that when she lived in a French convent, they did not have vacuum cleaners, just brooms and mops. Why can't we have that too? Unless she made this up, of course. Not sure.

With the lawnmower stowed in the back of the car, we headed north. Two long weeks until we're back. I hope the bilberries, if any, are ripe by then.