"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

Only just made it in time to have a little pootle at the other end yesterday .... lecturer was good, I'm really starting to get a sense of what was when, for the early bit at least, phew ....

The other thing I did, gulp, was sort out a timeline of what I need to do before my mother comes to stay, really to relieve the stress of me thinking "oh my god, its going to be awful", not really for her. Today isn't really part of that, but will help it anyway, and oh dear, this is the list I made yesterday while I was waiting for the lecture to start (it would have cluttered up my brain otherwise ):
- vacuum the stairs.
- clean the washbasin and loo.
- saw up shrub thats been cut down, for disposal.
- sweep the paved area at the front of the house (looks a mess from all this sawing and from pigeons dropping moss from the roof all over the place :eek: good for the compost bin tho )
- download photos (if I can find my camera :eek: I know its in the house, but no idea where).
- cook beans - already a no-no on this one, I didn't put any on to soak, so I'll do a few portions of lentils instead.
- finish off using the woodfiller - need to do this in the living room as well, and I *have* managed to clean up the place I intend to use it, so thats good.
- I did have a trip to Sainsbo on the list, but b&ggr that

That isn't *really* as bad as it looks - its maybe 1.5 hours of the physical stuff, and downloading photos is hardly the worst work in the world ....

I only switched the computer on when I'd finished watching the C4 repeat of the HP7 premiere, and there's a much more important question on my mind than all this stuff, tho it is *sparked* by this stuff. Where do wizards buy their food? They don't understand muggle money, but there are no veg shops or butchers shops in Hogsmeade - or Diagon Alley as far as I can tell. I think we should be told

rtandon27

mmm - just in from OH...

"they make it out of the ether with a wave of their magic wands...

Hagred grows veggies...

if i remember correctly, they go down to the local village and buy it..."



(i shall leave you two to discuss this more in depth while i slink off and do the laundry...)

Karmacat

rtandon27 wrote: »

mmm - just in from OH...

"they make it out of the ether with a wave of their magic wands...

Hagred grows veggies...

if i remember correctly, they go down to the local village and buy it..."



(i shall leave you two to discuss this more in depth while i slink off and do the laundry...)

Oh yes! Food is one of the five exceptions to something or other. You have to have some of it before you can make more. And Molly Weasley is forever using magic to stir her cooking

And Hagrid does charms to make his veggies grow bigger, doesn't he?

Your OH and I are beyond help, aren't we :o:o

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:inside people's heads is a lot of funny stuff. Its all JK Rowling's fault, but I'd still rather have the funny stuff in my head than do the laundry

Triciaxx

If you had enough of the 'funny stuff' in your head, you might find the laundry spell? Now that WOULD be a result. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Karmacat

Oh Please! Please please pleez plleeeezzzeeeeeeeeeee :j:j:j

Karmacat

In between living my life, I have actually cleaned the upstairs loo and finished using the woodfiller now to chop those branches up roughly, and go pick some more blackberries (oh! thats part of "living my life", not on the list ) as well as sneakily stick some of the mahoosive amount of seedy grass cuttings in a bin ..... I may have to confess this on my blog.

How you doing, Tricia?

Triciaxx

Doing fine thanks, KC. One good thing about the caravan is that it takes about 30 minutes to clean. :j:j I've had a lazy day as it is so hot. Watched the Hungarian Grand Prix, had a couple of pootles round the web, sat outside with a book and will go for a walk with the camera when it cools off a bit.

You sound really busy. Don't overdo it or you will be stressed when your mother is with you.

PS the book is Book 2 of The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson - I go back to it at least every couple of years and find something new.

Karmacat

That sounds good .... you're right about watching the overdoing-ness ... its why I'm not doing anything solidly today, for instance - and I'm going to be really careful in this fortnight, so I don't exhaust myself. These are the jobs I listed yesterday, to be completed when she arrives on the evening of the 15th:
- sort bin for grass clods in garden (this breaks down to about an hour's work).
- clean patio chairs and table.
- vacuum and clean living room rug.
- wash a door curtain.
- vacuum bedroom floor *thoroughly*.
- bath and basins to sparkle
- material on the Ikea Poang chair to be dry cleaned.
- clean living room window, dust living room.
- wash bedding, make bed.
- get rid of cut grass, more weeding.
- scanning (thats not for her, thats for me!)
- clean counselling room.
- tidy living room and kitchen.

Thats 13 jobs to be done over 15 days, and some of them aren't very long (washing a door curtain! especially). But thank you for the reminder :kisses3:

Cheery_Daff

Isn't food one of the five exceptions to Gamp's law of transfiguration?? Or something??

Good list of jobs! :T

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

- material on the Ikea Poang chair to be dry cleaned

Karma - is this the material cover or leather one? - the website says they are machine washable - OH says in his previous life the ex just put them in the washing machine - not too warm - XO RT

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/10119876

Care instructions
Removable cover
Machine wash, warm 40°C.
To be washed separately.
Do not bleach.
Do not tumble dry.
Iron, high temperature.
Dryclean, normal cycle.