Spring sun heralds a new era of cleanliness

There can be little in this world that is as unrelenting and unforgiving as late winter/early spring sunshine. It seems to highlight any shortfalls in your housekeeping with a stern precision.

Windows that had seemed more or less ok are suddenly revealed as smeared, leaving you wondering how you could have seen anything through them.

Those blasted rays seem to highlight every greasy fingerprint. On the kitchen cabinets, every rogue dust ball of dog hair that has evaded the Hoover, while bringing into sharp relief the formerly invisible muddy footprints on the living room floor.