thou ought be wary, the bc fairy

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Dear Audy,

It has always been a wish of mine to find out how to contact the cleaning fairies. Mothers the world over seem to know where they live...but they aren't spilling the beans. I was starting to think (horror!) that perhaps there were no cleaning fairies...

But that isn't the case...

My bathroom is feeling particularly spring cleaned today. It certainly got a visit from a cleaning fairy. A crazy cleaning fairy who thought spring cleaning was a great idea! At first.

The bathroom cleaning fairy did visit me, Audy, and this is her story:


'Twas a wintry Spring time day

When the time came for the clean

An urge beyond any reproach

To reveal a sparkly glean


I trembled inside, as I realised

I ought now to be wary

For she would come, that manic one

The bathroom cleaning fairy


She scraped, she scrubbed, she swept and wiped

From down low to up high

No ick, no muck, no mould would dare

Escape her feverish eye


For hours and hours and hours on end

She toiled, her muscles aching

Until, at last, the job was passed

A shiny bathroom for the taking


The fairy began to grumble as

Her cleaning frenzy abated

That helpful, hopeful fairy smile

Quickly disintegrated


She is firm and fair is she

But still a little scary

For it isn't any fun to be

The bathroom cleaning fairy


20080911sketch-bathroom-fai

So now, as well as a clean bathroom, I have this weird, kinda grotesque self portrait...I've never drawn a self portrait before. What do you think? It's entirely odd, I keep expecting to look in the mirror and see that my face has become the me in the sketch....creepy.

Love & Exit Mould,

Caf

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree ! Cleaning is hard work and no Fun ! I try to avoid it !

Regs,

Reflector

Karirose said...

So funny and clever! Made me smile even though bathroom cleaning is an unpleasant chore at best--especially since California doesn't seem to have any BC Fairies! :D

Distressing Delilah said...

Great post! I sometimes look like that too after turning into the cleaning fairy for a while!

rob said...

your chafing manlips scare me..

;)

The Minimalist said...

It's a cool picture, but you don't look too happy about the bc assignment!

miz katie said...

ugh! bathroom cleaning is the worse! today, it's my turn. i'm dreading it, but i also hate a dirty bathroom.

i like your drawing. :)

michelle said...

bathroom cleaning is actually my least hated of all o the house cleaning chores.
Though I have been neglecting it lately. It think it will be on my agenda tomorrow.
Your picture makes me want to start uses pencils again.