Oh, washday blues! I doubt anyone likes them, so I’m pleased to say my inventive colleagues have developed a new range of delicately fragranced cleaning products that includes washing up liquids as well as detergents and fabric softeners.

We even have an amusing range of tea towels designed to bring a smile to the lips of those who labour at your kitchen sink!

Those who have to toil at polishing furniture and floors will find their work made much easier when they acquaint themselves with my selection of traditional waxes and other pungent unguents for marble, wood and leather.

A click to the right will introduce you to some of the secrets on my shelves.