Weekly Flylady Thread 22nd November 2010

kazwookie

Valli~ with the weather as it is, stick the sleeping bag and spare knickers / other clothes in the car.

Gotno~# are there any builders yeards / skips near you, go and ask for the wood from them / take it out of skips/ woods/ look for the guys cutting the trees down on the road edges and ask if you can have the logs.

Dinner done
Stepson (1) had phone me and informed me my area is one of the coldest in the country! going pressie dropping off there tomorrow, and he has a holly tree in his garden!! so he has agreed I can snip some bits off.

lil_me

Twinmum07 I was over Witton earlier, roads didn't seem too bad, main roads were clear (the bus route) through, just need to be careful in the estates) DS1s support worker lives in Sacriston and managed it in his corsa on Saturday. My Mam lives in Aycliffe and she's getting to work at the arnison centre ok so you should be ok. I was talking to a neighbour who works in a county school and she said they have been told if they can't get to where they work to go to the nearest school to them and report in. Think that's after all the commotion last year when so many closed.

Right DSs bathed, boiler keeps going off so I'm about ready to scream! Mainly when I go to use hot water and guess what, DP gave out calor heater to his brother !!!!!!! Anyway council to call tomorrow so I best go make things look better for when they arrive optimistic maybe thinking they will send someone out the same day?

Ok first, kitchen tidy, then front hall way then boys in bed

short_bird

lil_me wrote: »

Anyway council to call tomorrow so I best go make things look better for when they arrive optimistic maybe thinking they will send someone out the same day? /QUOTE]

Do the council have a 24 hour phone service so that you can call tonight for tomorrow?

Anybody in the family need to stay warm for medical reasons? I think that can be a priority when the heating packs up. Even these days...;)

Mumto5

Another busy week coming to it's end. Looking forward to the new thread.

twinmum07

Thanks Lil - it doesn't sound as bad as we feared then. We have been told that we have to use public transort if it is running so I can get the train if the car is no good.
The Co. Durham policy is that is you are unable to get to your own school then you should report to your nearest Co. Durham school but in our cases we have to travel through a few school boroughs to get to our nearest CD school. Sadly due to CRB checks schools in other boroughs can't really accept other teachers. Having said that I have never come across anyone who has ever reported to a different school nor has anyone ever turned up at ours!!!

I have got half the bottom floor mopped but was held up as last time i mopped the kids were around so i stuck the bucket in the back garden before they could 'help' - the mop was frozen onto the drainy thingy and the old snow had melted in the bucket and then frozen so it took me ages to defrost it first!

gotnodosh

Thanks all for your suggestions. There is a forest nearby I might go and have a look if there is some wood in there. I just don't know if that is classed as stealing or not? Someone told me I could get a licence from the Forestry Commision or something which allows me to collect wood. But it costs about £20 so that is a no go anyway.

DD has the day off school tomorrow. Teacher's training day. So another day of heating the front room. Ho hum.

lil_me

Twinmum that's probably why our sons old HT would insist on anyone interviewed either lived locally or had an alternative plan to attend as it was in an area notorious for poor roads and buses being cancelled. He used to walk several miles and expected everyone to make the same effort. Was a little 'unrest' when he started there with that policy to say the least as they were used to several snow days a term before and after winter. The policy should include for out of county provision and include a registration system inc all relevant checks read for if such weather occurs. Then of course SEN heads will probably have an issue but over time and as these years get worse I think it will happen. People I know are taking work closer to home where possible etc. If we were in Russia and didn't go to work because of weather they'd sack us, if the kids didn't go to school they'd have the legal equivalent to SS round lol. Looking at the last couple of years, it's something we're all going to have to get use to.

twinmum07

Have done lots of general downstairs cleaning so will go back to the weekly list and see how much of level 1 I can get through

Monday Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level One
Clean floors in these rooms
Clean baths, toilets and sinks

Tuesday ~ Kitchen and Dining room
Level One
Declutter and mop/vacuum floor
Clear and wipe work surfaces

Wednesday - living area, hall and stairs
Level one
Declutter all these areas
Vacuum these areas

Thursday ~ master bedroom and landing
Level One
[STRIKE]
Declutter floors
Strip bedding, wash sheets and remake the bed.. BEFORE BEDTIME!!
Air the duvet!
[/STRIKE]
Friday ~ brats room.. if you have no brats do another room!
Level One
[STRIKE]
Declutter the floors

Strip the bedding get it washed dried and the beds remade!
Spend half an hour loving yourself!
[/STRIKE]

gravitytolls

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

One more tip - do you need to declutter? You can't tidy up if you have clutter - you just move it around

I do speak from bitter experience. I'm a hoarder, come from a family of hoarders and married a hoarder

Decluttering and Old Style Flylady sorted me out, and I can now keep on top of it all, bt it took me months

I do, I do, but, I'm so bad at it! I gather bags of clothes, shoes, books etc., then recheck, remove those items 'which may come in useful' and I've not got enough to give to the charity shop.

So I now have piles of stuff in need of a home, bags of stuff waiting topping up and charity shopping, then there's books, which DH and DD rummage through before they get to the charity shop, now helpfully spilling out of bags due to rummage factor.


Sigh,I will get a handle on it, but am fluey at the mo, so don't care.

Valli

Well for once I don't want a snow day because I want my plumbers here to finish off. Other than that I could use some time to get more jobs done...

*Wanders off to get more clothes to wear wondering why the heck she started HRT (and thus ended the hot flushes) JUST before the coldest few days for ages*