lethargic_man | Bah, wind(ows) humbug

It's a fine, bright, sunny day today, and given that the days are getting longer, and I'm going to be able to look through my windows in the early part of the evening, I thought I'd take the opportunity to try and clean my lounge window. Theoretically the windows are supposed to be cleaned for me twice a year, but I've set to see it happen, so if I want them clean, it's going to have to be up to me to do it. I had the idea using my mop and reaching out the opening panes I could reach the whole of the big non-opening pane.

Unfortunately, I didn't have much leverage, and the equinoctial gales are out in force, and the wind kept pushing the window shut on me; after a couple of passes, the window actually looked dirtier than beforehand. There was another pane on top that might have been useful to put the mop through, but it's been painted well and truly shut; there's no way I'm going to easily get that open again.

So I went downstairs, and tried mopping from below. Unfortunately, (a) there was a car parked in the way of where I wanted to put a chair to stand on, and (b) I could only reach the bottom foot of the window, and the rightmost couple of feet from where I could get my chair.

Then I went back upstairs, and saw the window was not only not any cleaner, but not even wet. Yes, your muppet of a narrator had just cleaned the bottom-right two square feet of the neighbour's window!

I then went back upstairs, and tried again through the window; and a gust of wind grabbed the open pane and slammed it shut on my arm. Consequently, I now have a large bruise on my upper arm. Ouch.

I then went back downstairs, and tried throwing a bucket of water up at my window. This hit a very small area at the bottom.

Next plan is to try and get hold of