My home is a mess

Cat I didn't realise you'd been living without a washing machine - that was dim of me. My goodness you deserve a medal for that - no wonder you've been feeling low! I managed about two weeks without one once, and that was enough to make me understand how different our lives are from people who lived the real OS first time round. I'm really glad you've got a machine now!

Well I've been playing with my patchwork and made a nice cushion cover out of old t-shirt pieces - it looks really nice and I'll try and take a photo when I can. I just need to finish making it into a cushion cover now.

Wow kitty! Well done there! You're right, there's nothing like a bit of romance to get you cleaning up the house

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Thanks bearcub... yes it has worn me out, I feel a bit crap again now but glad I did it, as it's now drizzling and horrible.

Cat, I bought this house because of the garden... I tried living without one, once... it nearly finished me off. I'm a pathalogical gardener but true to my messy gene, I'm a wildlife gardener, and that's "wildlife" as in "can't be bothered to clear all that scruffy stuff up, hope something makes use of it for a home for the winter", not as in "not a blade of grass out of place"!

I'm yawning for England now.

Hello Messies :wave:

I am back from a lovely holiday where my apartment was nice and tidy! Walked back into this dump and despair at myself.

We have tooooooo much stuff for this little house :cool:

Needless to say, nothing got done yesterday and nothing is likely to get done today because I have caught the aircraft virus - I hate that. Everytime we fly, I come back with a nasty cold or something - this time its my sinuses - it feels horrible so I am relaxing in my pit of a living room instead of getting laundry done

I am a wildlife gardener too I try to make the garden lovely, and it IS lovely to me but it is a messy garden of lots of lovely flowers, a few weeds and too many empty pots that I hoard :rotfl:

Would love to see my garden looking how it does in my head! Going to grow veggies again this year and want to put in a few nut bushes too. I have a cherry tree but the blossom is pitiful and the birds get any cherries before they ripen.

I will try to sort the living room tomorrow but if not, the kids are back to school on Monday and I will do it then. Probably

Hello Frugal. Where did you go on holiday? Was it somewhere warm? I really dislike flying anyway, but the bugs are just awful, aren't they?

Laurel, are you now able to stand back, and apprecaite the difference the decorating etc is making?

Hello again - been to pub with OH (who is now disco-napping), got home & made a fire, took Daftie-dog out for `shufflies` (she doesn`t do `walkies` these days poor old thing. She barked at a couple of lamp-posts as they loomed into her field of vision, then sort of growled under her breath as if to warn them not to follow as we went by...sniffed and grunted at every gatepost there & back, and then pood & piddled as soon as we got back inside our own gate!), also I`ve put a wash on, and am smelling the lump of pork shoulder I stuffed in the oven just before we went out....
Had a lovely afternoon, it`s getting really cold here now so fire doing nicely, but the lovely thing is it`s gone 5pm and still light! Definite feel-good factor, and that`s NOT cos I`ve just rolled in from the pub!
DS`s mate has just turned up, probably smelled the pork roasting - well, it`s HUGE (3.7Kilos -£9.25, so couldn`t leave it there!) so will do them pork & stuffing sarnies later, have bread that needs using and they aren`t into veg! Got some cold steaqmed baby potatoes, red & green peppers & courgettes & mushrooms to use up, so will do a sort of veggie-bake with them when I take the pork out of oven soon.
I`m just enjoying a cup of tea, and catching up on Iplayer with the Archers!

Kitty- well done you! Eight hours is a full normal working day, (mine are normally 13 & a half) and at work we all just HAVE to keep at it - the work gets done and we mostly get on and just DO it, motivated or not, tired or not. At home it`s so different because we have the option to STOP, get distracted, etc...
Anyway, well done you, and all FlyMessies who have been busy doing stuff.
Cat - you`ve been a hero managing without a WM, Bless you, I remember times without one, it was grim! And when DD`s WM was out of action, that was grim too! Enjoy your laundrying hun, but don`t over-fill the thing in your eagerness, it`s easy to get carried away! I don`t have a `tumbly-drier` either,
never bothered with one so never missed it.

Adela - thanks for the PM, that was really sweet. Hope you enjoyed your day too.

Re gardens again - we`ve watched the `Bees, Butterflies & Blooms` progs on Beeb I-player. Just feeling a bit inspired but thinking that merely having a wild messy garden is not enough, so thinking of getting a bit more pro-active out there and actually PLANTING nectar-rich plants, `weeds` is such a silly word, IMO!
I`m not a gardener, nor are the menfolk, and time is another issue...takes me all my time to just keep up (or not!) with the indoors, plus work, but the idea of `selective weed-growing` appeals to all of us, so I might just get some help!