Daffy's 'a nice cup of tea cheers you up' diary

Karmacat

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

That is really interesting Cheery. I forgot to add to my post about charities that even when I was on a tight budget, I did do charity shop shopping and buy things like charity cards and 'give a cow' presents..
Thats a good point! I'd forgotten about that, but of course donating to charity shops is useless if people don't buy the stuff In the year after the tsunami, I only bought cards from charity shops, and I'd put a little note in about it, especially as the previous year a rellie and a close friend had got married/honeymooned in areas that were devastated.
and try to do one fundraising event (usually a run) a year. I'd love to be able to do some volunteering but the opportunities that I'm really interested in all seem to be on weekdays.. another problem of working full time!
I must get my act together on that - in the summer, when I've energy to spare, I think.

Hope you had a nice hot cup of tea

Definitely!

Cheery_Daff

Yes thanks Now under my hand made (not by me) quilt on the sofa with a hot water bottle and the sun streaming through the window - doing some work :j :j

Hmm, I too was forgetting about charity shops - I haven't bought clothes from anywhere else for donkeys years, and I buy lots of presents etc from them too :j :j So they get a pretty good deal out of me There's about 10 within 10 minutes walk of my house, and we tend to pop in all of them pretty much every week (although don't always buy things, obviously!)

EssexHebridean

Lucky you with that many charity shops Daffs - wish we had so many! Ours aren't bad, but I have only rarely found anything worth having clothes-wise. Having said that, the full length deep red silk-velvet beaded Austin Reed dress for £6.75 was probably my find of a lifetime so I'm not entitled to get any more!

Cheery_Daff

You're always entitled to charity shop bargains EH! :j :j :j

I've lost my enthusiasm for this work I've been doing this afternoon I did alright this morning, had a lovely productive morning, and got out in the garden for a bit early this afternoon. But what I've been doing this afternoon is rather tedious, although also rather important, and I've just not concentrated at all! Oh dear!

Never mind, I'm going to carry on for another hour or so, and then stop (I'm not working overtime, just compensating for the amount of time I spent in the garden and reading this afternoon :rotfl:). So even I can concentrate for an hour

This evening I need to pull my finger out! We're having a party on Saturday (the post-PhD celebration :T :T), and obviously the house is still in the middle of palace renovations, and so is a complete tip. So a fair bit of moving things from one place to another, hoovering, and a tiny smidgeon of cleaning (not tooooo much, of course, as everyone will be rather tipsy and won't notice anyway )

I also need to make my fancy dress outfit

And have a bath

And I'm unexpectedly going on a work trip to Manchester tomorrow :T So might see if I can combine it with a little cuppa with a friend or two :T :T

vl2588

Fancy dress for the win :j:T:j:T

MrsMoo2U

Oh I love fancy dress, what is your outfit going to be? What a great way to celebrate the end of the phd too.

EssexHebridean

Fancy dress is always good fun! A friend of ours had a "Come as a Chav" birthday party a couple of weeks ago, and all the better as we only had to pop up three flights of stairs for it - she's our upstairs neighbour too!

Cheery_Daff

Ours is a 'give yourself an honorary title' party - in honour of my new title :rotfl: Otherwise known as 'Who is the best Lord??' (in honour of an Alan Partridge episode I'd been watching the day before :rotfl:)

I'm going as Queen of the Universe :rotfl: :rotfl: (Dr would have been just too predictable, and I felt I needed something that would reflect my new position of power and influence :rotfl: :rotfl:) So need to make some little mini worlds to hang around my dress :rotfl: :rotfl:

(also need to try on my dress to make sure it still fits :rotfl:)



Pancakes for tea :j :j

beanielou

Im going to a fancy dress at the weekend as well.

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, what are you going as Beanielou? :T :T I love fancy dress Must do more of that this year

Very much need to get my backside in gear this evening, I stopped work at 7.30, had some tea, and have done nothing since! :eek: :eek:

Time to set the timer I think - and put the flylady podcast on. I'd like a bath too...

So - flylady podcast lasts for 45 minutes, and she takes you round kitchen/living room/bathroom (it's called 'crisis cleaning' :rotfl:). I find in that time I can usually get all three rooms, plus the bedroom/landings etc done from a pretty poor state into a pretty presentable state :T :T

She does another one, which lasts just over an hour, which is a weekly home blessing one - it's great actually (10 mins each of clearing surfaces, dusting, hoovering, mopping, changing sheets, and cleaning mirrors and emptying bins - and I usually manage to do all that plus other bits of tidying too).

However, right now I think we're in crisis cleaning territory, and changing the beds and mopping the floor and wiping the mirrors isn't making it onto my list of priorities :rotfl:

I'm also in desperate need of a bath as off to Manchester tomorrow to do some interviews. So, 45 mins of crisis cleaning, then making sure bag is packed and clothes are ready for tomorrow, then a nice bath, and by that point it'll be about 11 and time to curl up on the sofa and doze off waiting for Mr Daffs to come back :j :j