"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Kittikins

Fabulous idea, I'll get the house on the market straightaway, but I'm sure I could find plenty of other housework to avoid there

ZTD

youareallhelpingme wrote: »

New stair cleaning idea - live in a bungalow

I'm pretty good at the stare cleaning - that's when I just look at it...

But you have to avoid giving it a dirty look - that just makes it worse.

redsquirrel80

Dearie me there's been a lot of housework talk on this thread! Last time I tried to hoover the stairs I nearly fell down them (hoover is too heavy!) so I'm not doing that again - ha!

Karmacat

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

Oh dear, Dyson's are the easiest of hoovers to clean:D

You can even pay for them to come out and service them and they give you freebies as well..may time to dust off the old Dyson( after repair) and see if you can then be a two hoover girl..leave one upstairs and one downstairs, then there is no humping of heavy hoovers;) The stairs well i prefer to get a damp cloth and use that, gets up far more dirt than the hoover and the carpet comes up lovely..i am just sad i know:o:rotfl:

Oops. I confess - when it stopped working (and by working, I mean having to scrub the nozzle along the floor on my hands and knees) I decided to "let it go", and stuck it out in the front yard. One day when my sister was loading my stuff to go to the tip into her car, we noticed (okay, she noticed) that someone had walked off with the Dyson :o:o I have her bagless Hoover instead. Don't hit me :rotfl:

gilligansyle wrote: »

KC - made me laugh about the hoover. We have a Miele (I can't get on with Dyson's, don't like seeing the stuff inside) and its really good, has lasted me for years, but I went on holiday and forgot to check bag before I went. DS was being good and hoovering, especially as I went at New Year and he had to take the xmas tree down, and he kept on hoovering even when it screamed at him, until eventually the bag exploded!

Brilliant! Well, not for you, but even I've never made a hoover explode :rotfl:

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

Dearie me there's been a lot of housework talk on this thread! Last time I tried to hoover the stairs I nearly fell down them (hoover is too heavy!) so I'm not doing that again - ha!

Yep, its making me a little uneasy I don't really do housework. I do have to keep the bits of the house that people see regularly fairly clean however - and in emergencies that can mean what my mum does, picking up the visible bits from the carpet and not seeing the rest

Karmacat

My gardening yesterday was a bit sad - I have 2 buddleias in this garden, both of them quite big - the furthest from the house (like, 20 feet away ) has just split in two at the root - I gave it a bit of a pull, and loads of it just broke off at the root, and the rest of it is draped over all sorts of plants I think I'm going to have to cut it right down to the stump, which will mean I can do very little else - the pain is coming back in that shoulder, so I'm quite wary. But I have to do something, it looks awful, there's ex-tree all over the garden....

redsquirrel80

Ooh be careful. Sounds like it would be the best thing for the buddleia though. The one I hacked down to a stump a few weeks ago is already sprouting again!

Karmacat

Thats good to know - I do love buddleia. I'll be careful, tho its not dangerous - it was probably well-pruned about 6 or 7 years ago last time, so the top is actually pretty skimpy. Both buddleias were also overgrowing into next door's garden, and just after I moved in, their son cut them back, bless him, so there isn't as much branch-and-foliage as you might think.

I *am* prepared to trade today, but the markets are practically stationery. Erm, I think I just missed a 9am trade - not sure yet, have to analyse it, but I think so - oops, this is the problem :o:o

Karmacat

Yep - after being on here since 7am, I missed the 10am trade it would've made 8 points .... two things I did wrong:

- I didn't keep setting my watch alarm to tell me when to stop doing whatever it is I'm doing.
- I didn't take all my breaks away from the computer.

"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" springs to mind

And I'm hungry again

Karmacat

I'm a bad person :j:j:j

You know I adore Michael Shanks, who plays Daniel Jackson in Stargate SG1, right? Well, he got a bit part in a film starring Amanda Seyfried (I'm sure thats not spelt right) and the premiere was yesterday evening....

http://www.wireimage.com/SearchResults.aspx?igi=486823&s=michael%20shanks&s

this is him at the premiere, and he's not with his wife, its another leggy brunette.... its his daughter Tatiana, who he had with the woman who played Shau're, Daniel's partner (she's 10 years or so older than him, my guess is she snaffled him, but it didn't take)... so sweet

redsquirrel80

Karmacat wrote: »

Yep - after being on here since 7am, I missed the 10am trade it would've made 8 points .... two things I did wrong:

- I didn't keep setting my watch alarm to tell me when to stop doing whatever it is I'm doing.
- I didn't take all my breaks away from the computer.

"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" springs to mind

And I'm hungry again

Tut tut

So.. tomorrow, are you going to set your alarm, and take breaks away from the computer?