God know what possessed me…but today I took to my knees with a scourer in one hand…gumption in the other and scrubbed the bathroom floor.
No fancy schmancy steam mop today …just good old fashioned elbow grease and sore knee-caps.
There I was head down & bum up, stuck beside the toilet bowl and it got me thinking…
. THIS was the way our Mums and our Mums’ Mums did it, back in the ‘olden days’ (maybe not the toilet bowl bit, ’cause that was usually out the back). But that was their life, often with hair in rollers and a hairnet, down on their knees scrubbing floors til they were clean enough to eat off….at LEAST once each week…. every week.
Well, we’ve come along way with all our mod-con products and gadgets, BUT the question is …’is my bathroom actually any cleaner today, than if I had just used the steam mop’ ?…. well I’m not about to eat off it, but I reckon I might be.
That said…. the experiment is now over and I think I’ll happily return to 21st century. I rest my case (and my scourer), and take my hat off to Mum and all those great scrubbers before her.
Wonder Years 
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