We moved to our new home in late December 2021 and since then we have dealt with the usual challenges of moving to a smaller space. We would comment occasionally on the fact the windows were in dire need of a clean but the weather has been pretty grim so we let it slide.

Today, the sun is streaming in through the window in my ‘office’ at home and boy can I see the layers of dirt now! The sun is out and if I focus my eyes in the right way I can look past the dirt and smears and see the sunlight and the hills in the background.

Blur the foreground, it’s a photographers trick, but accept you will inevitably need to clean the windows because sometimes the foreground is the important part of the view.