My childhood memories of spring are filled with the smell of furniture polish, ammonia and dust. It is a ritual that happens across the world – people stop seeing their world as it is, shift things, lift things, shake them up, dust them down, and set them down looking as good as new. That is the beauty of spring-cleaning.
It is looking closely at things you see every day and not taking comfort in them – but, in essence, interrogating their purpose to make them the best version