KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

greenbee wrote: »

I think you'll find it was you

Lol, could be, although I've been trying for decades, with limited success thus far.

Just went for a family walk. River's still there, with ducks, moorhen, canada geese and egyptian geese. We saw a bumblebee go down a mouse hole and a couple of deer.

Ahem, the deer were grazing on the common, not down the mouse hole with the bee. We also nearly acquired someone's Rottweiler. Dogs seem to really like my Dad and often want to come home with him; I think the recognise a keen walker when they see one.

Ach, there's nothing to changing plugs once you've been shown how it's done. Useful to know how to crack 'em open with a screwdriver to change the fuses, too. Relllie of mine had a side-gig buying small electricals inc lamps from bootsales often sold as non-working for pennies or even picked out of rubbish piles..

They usually needed nothing more than a new fuse, sometimes needed a descaling treatment for things which had water inside them, this is classified as a very hard water area and there's a high rate of attrition on kettles and coffee-makers etc. TBH, the isn't an awful lot to go wrong with a lamp so they're pretty easy to fix.

Will be heading out of town in a couple of hours or so, back to the big city. Feeling a bit poorly with the cold, going to be joyous tomorrow - work and emergency dental appt, I reckon I need to kondo a toof.

Just discussing with Kid Bruv that I've a few more books and some DVDs which I want to watch and then turf out for the Easter weekend bootsale we're intending to do, so will have to get cracking on them.

So on with the kondoing after a lazy day yesterday.

Reduced an IKEA blue bag of cleaning supplies & lightbulbs to fit in my under sink cupboard by kondoing the contents of the cupboard, organised the bit of my kitchen under the breakfast bar (got rid of excess reusable shopping bags), two more bags of charity shop stuff to go from the junk cupboard & dusting, vacuuming & cleaning of the kitchen/hallway/stairs/living room done.

I have worked in the garden for two full days in bright sunshine (but with a very chilly wind, brrrr). DH bought me four bags of compost; I told him to not buy the cheapest, so he bought the bags of €6,40 (£5.50) each! Especially suitable for seeds and seedlings, which is perfect. Quite a few trays started already, some with old seeds, and I will just see if they germinate. If they do, perfect, if they don't, nothing lost. I have enlarged two of the flowerbeds, and kondoed the nasty weeds and as many of the roots as I could. All of this with lots of breaks reading Harry Potter and instructing my dds to play with the neighbours' children

As they came from the line: one wintercoat for ragging, seven longsleeves and T-shirts to the attic.

No kondoing at all from me today, I've been visiting rellies too.

GreyQueen wrote: »

Will be heading out of town in a couple of hours or so, back to the big city. Feeling a bit poorly with the cold, going to be joyous tomorrow - work and emergency dental appt, I reckon I need to kondo a toof.

GQ, thank you for the updates! But you really don't sound well - sorry you've got all the travel, and work **and** a dental appointment. I know you're good at self care, but please look after yourself

maryb wrote: »

I'm old enough to remember when all the wiring colours for plugs changed. There was a Labour politician at the time called George Brown who was known to get a bit tired and emotional at times. So the way to remember the colour was George Brown is a live wire

I remember all that too the rhyme I was taught was this:
Brown is live
Blue is not
Yellow and Green
Earth the lot