The Last Thing I'll Let Go Will Be My Cleaner
Evening Standard - London › November 20, 2008
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WORRYING news via a text. My cleaner, Agnes, is taking an impromptu trip home to Poland. She'll be back in a fortnight, she assures me, but I can't help feeling a surge of anxiety. What if this confounded credit crunch has seen her off? My fears have foundation. This week directory enquiries produced an inadvertent snapshot of how Britain has changed this last year. Requests have fallen sharply for cleaners' numbers, down 65 per cent in 12 months. Everyone is spending their spare cash on pizza (up 97 per cent) instead.
Have they lost their marbles? I'd happily never eat takeaway again if it meant I could keep my cleaner. As well as polishing the bread-bin and vacuuming up the cat-hair, Agnes is the reason my relationship endures.See the full content of this document
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The Last Thing I'll Let Go Will Be My Cleaner
Working long hours in London, where a daily commute and a few late nights ...
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