'Was this the first impression I wished to give my visitor?'

Last week I pressed ‘send’ to an email, before immediately regretting it as I walked into my kitchen. I’d just arranged a meeting with someone who’d never been to my house and my messy kitchen didn’t strike me as visitor friendly, writes Tric Kearney

With 24 hours to go, I made a half-hearted attempt at remedying the situation, clearing away the two weeks of newspapers lying around and moving to new locations various items littering the dresser.