Autolycus Blog: Thoughts on Things 'Undone' Before a Home Swap

As with most good things, I came across Autolycus blog (...a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles...) by chance. In this post, written at Easter before a home exchange to Paris, the author ponders what most home exchangers must - what will these people think of my home and will they look at those 'undone' things (that most homes surely have) with a critical eye?

'Not, I suspect, that many actually would bother most exchange partners. I don't go round their places running a finger along for dust (though there can be the odd pleasurable moment of working out how I might have chosen to organise and decorate it if I lived there), and I would hope they would mostly be out and about rather than rootling through my drawers (so to speak).'

And the follow-on sentence encapsulates the right attitude to be a good home exchanger:

'Though, to be fair, I did find on my return from Paris last August that what I had taken to be scratches in the enamel of my hob had been replaced by gleaming, pristine whiteness: and I was rather proud of having left their shower screen distinctly less limescaled than I found it.'

That's it then - no need for grumbles, just quietly fix a minor problem!

Comments

[Kathie]

LOL my OH laughed when he read this! I'm a terror for stripping and cleaning cookers when I'm at exchange homes!! Now when we arrive at a new swap home, OH sees me eyeing up the cooker and the cleaning stuff and just sighs....

[Autolycus]

I'm blushing (as I dust)...