掃除機ロボットのルンバくんに続いて、床の拭き掃除をしてくれるモップちゃん（Brava）が我が家に仲間入りしました。イギリスでは玄関というものがないので、ドアの中で靴をスリッパに履き替えてはいますが、ドアを開けることで外から風が入り土埃がどうしても中に入ってきますし、靴を脱ぐところとスリッパを履くところは同じなので床を清潔に保てているとは思えず、ずっと気になっていました。床掃除は手首に負担が大きくて手首が痛くなるし、そうそう床掃除は出来ないし。ということで、拭き掃除をしてくれるロボットも購入。これで、少しは気持ちよく過ごせます。

As well as the Hoovering robot, Roomba, we now have a mopping robot, Brava. I hate that English houses (or flats) don’t have a specific area inside the front door where you can take your shoes off and keep the dirt out of the house. We do take our shoes off but the dirt isn’t contained near the door because there is no barrier like in a Japanese home and when you open the door the wind carries the dirt further in.  We also take our shoes off and put slippers on at the same place, so naturally the slippers are contaminated, too.  (In Japan, where you take shoes off is one step lower, so you take your shoes off, then go up one step to the rest of the house / apartment.  This has been bothering me a lot because I find it so unhygienic but I cannot clean the floor all the time because it is too much for my wrist.  So, I asked my husband to get this mopping robot.  Now I feel much safer!