I always thought this was a throwback to the 'good old days' days when spring slowly emerged from the dark,cold winter period & the dust etc gathered over the winter became apparent.
Country living with horses, cat & dog plus hay & staw brought in on our clothes, coupled with a certain ambivalance on my part regarding constant cleaning sometimes means that parts of our house can look like the old wild west with tumbleweed blowing through although these days with modern cordless vaccuum cleaners etc really dodgy dirt spots can be immediately dealt with .
Surely there's no need for any mad onslaught I hope my missus was joking about when she mentioned the dreaded 'spring cleaning'.
