Lily of the Alley

Lovely Lily lives in a small house in an alley! She has been doing my laundry (by hand, of course) every week since I arrived, and she has just started cleaning my house twice a week. Why oh why didn't I get a cleaner before?? It makes such a difference to me to come back to shiny floors, rather than floors piled high with dust. I know it's incongruous for a volunteer to have a "servant", but I can justify it by saying that I'm investing in the local economy!!