Weekly Flylady Thread 3rd August 2009

greenbee

BlimusOreilly wrote: »

Yep - I live in Trimingham - it's a very small coastal village near Cromer. I just read that you went to school in Holt. I'm not originally from Norfolk but we moved here because it's my favourite place (despite all the normal-for-Norfolk jokes!!).

Have you read any Raffaella Barker? She writes beautifully about your part of Norfolk. Try Hens Dancing, Green Grass, Poppyland - but they're all good!

mrsmortenharket wrote: »

Greenbee, I shall certainly NOT iron the underwear, I have a 16 week old baby

with a 16 week old baby I'm not clear why you'd iron ANYTHING!!! Get MIL to do it if she thinks it matters... they're just going to make everything dirty and crumpled anyway

soappie

Talking of good books, whilst I've been ill, the book I plucked off the bookshelf to re-read was one I've not read for a few years and is called "Victorian London - the Life of a City 1840-1870" by Liza Picard. It's a fact rather than fictional book but is really easy to read and gives a great insight into the way our forbears lived in the metropolis in Victorian times from the lowest of the low to the highest of the high.

If anyone sees it in their library, I'd recommend it, even if you don't like history.

And the toxic wastefulness of that generation really is far worse then my putting my laptop in the bin At least I don't have arsenic in the house to remove my facial hair or dump my night soil in open drains so it pollutes the Thames

Have cleared up after dinner and am contemplating bed

mrsmortenharket

greenbee, I'll iron their clothes, but not anything not seen iyswim!

soappie, I love books from that era, I have written it down & will look out for it. TY. I did history a-level Britain from 1815-1914 & I still love to read about those times gone by.

Lisa x

BlimusOreilly

greenbee wrote: »

Have you read any Raffaella Barker? She writes beautifully about your part of Norfolk. Try Hens Dancing, Green Grass, Poppyland - but they're all good!

Not heard of her. Thanks for that - I'll go and look her up on the library site now.

soappie

mrsmortenharket wrote: »

Soappie, just realised we get stars! I completed the whole bathroom list today, please may I have a star?!

Mrsmortenharket my dear - have you not checked post 3? I have already given you TWO stars - one for yesterday (kitchen) and one for today (bathroom). Go bask in the glow!

pigpen wrote: »

GO SOAPPIE!!! GO SOAPPIE!!!

*stirs the anarchy with a battery from the landfill*

I've thrown more pc /laptop bits/cans of paint/dead batteries in the landfill than I have in the house.. and the toxic green sludge ain't got me yet!!

Yay! I have the support of the Supreme Pigpen! I bow to the honour of your recognition oh Great One!

mrsmortenharket

soappie wrote: »

Mrsmortenharket my dear - have you not checked post 3? I have already given you TWO stars - one for yesterday (kitchen) and one for today (bathroom). Go bask in the glow!

I didn't know to check that! :rotfl:

basks in glory!!! :j

Lisa x

greenbee

soappie wrote: »

And the toxic wastefulness of that generation really is far worse then my putting my laptop in the bin At least I don't have arsenic in the house to remove my facial hair or dump my night soil in open drains so it pollutes the Thames

Yes... but hopefully we've learnt since then (incidentally, the site I work on is contaminated with arsenic... extremely difficult to deal with ). Just because something was acceptable in the past doesn't mean we should continue to do it... and you and pigpen have children to consider, so should be MORE concerned than me, not less!!!

It's not just about the toxic waste, it's about limited resources. The stuff you're chucking out could be reused, re-engineered or in the worst cases, the materials could be reprocessed and recovered.

Triker

I managed to put some washing in the dryer and burnt some stew beyond repair..

Come back to bed as can't stand up or really walk.......eeeee this is hard to deal with.

Luckily my lovely family are rallying round, both DDs cleaned up downstairs and eldest just made me tea...curry and rice...bless them.

Wierdly everything feels sticky in the house, all wood, the banister, the table, the door, must be really humid.

soappie

greenbee wrote: »

It's not just about the toxic waste, it's about limited resources. The stuff you're chucking out could be reused, re-engineered or in the worst cases, the materials could be reprocessed and recovered.

My last word on the subject. When a smoke detector died a couple of months ago, I checked and checked the disposal instructions. It said that in household situations, it was perfectly OK environmentally to dispose of one dead smoke detector in one household rubbish bin full of other rubbish. I have applied the same principle to the laptop.

If I could have put it in my recycling bin, I would have but

(a) it's not permitted and
(b) the bin is too full of gin bottles waiting to be collected

soappie

Triker, big hugs to you. Hope your consultation with the Doctor tomorrow gives a positive way forward and they can do something to make you better xx