This blog started in Sep 2010, to capture stories from my home village Höfen in Southern Germany, where I was going to live again for one year. I’m now living back in London, and I keep thinking about what is rural.
Definite, definite dates to clean your windows in the village are the Village Fete, Christmas, Easter. And a few times in between. Very clean households would clean their windows once a month. But rules on properness and cleanliness seem to have relaxed a bit, and cleaning your windows has become more of a voluntary decision.
Windows here are actually quite easy to clean (you just open them inwards and clean them from both sides) – nothing in comparison to sash windows in the UK. And one of the funny rules in our house is: the window in the garage gets cleaned whenever we slaugher a pig. That’s this week.