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taxi73 wrote: »

Am all for bumpy lumpy fruit..it's a shame when farmers are left with it all jusyt because the consumer wants perfect looking fruit,

Indeed! If I were a fruit I'd be left on the shelf, thankfully, mr me doesn't mind lumpy bumpy girlfriend:D

Morning KC

Yuk to weather. Hope you find something fun to do.

I did look at our blackberry on the way home, only flowering.....

Karmacat

Sorry to go on about the blackberries, Pippi I've never lived anywhere with access to them like this, even tho when I lived in the previous house we had cows so near, there were no blackberries (that I ever saw, anyway maybe there were!)

This is the list I posted on the 1st August, to prepare for my mum's visit: first updated in black on the 3rd and in blue on the 5th, now updated in red :

Sunday 1st:
- vacuum the stairs.Monday. Needs doing again, of course.
- clean the washbasin and loo.Sunday.
- saw up shrub thats been cut down, for disposal.Sunday.
- download photos.Found camera & downloaded, but need to check what some of them are.
- cook beans - already a no-no on this one, I'll do a few portions of lentils instead.Sunday. Another set will be soaking tonight.
- finish off using the woodfiller - need to do this in the living room as well.Sunday.
- I did have a trip to Sainsbo on the list, but b&ggr that As I say, b&ggr that done on Wednesday

- sweep the paved area at the front of the house Not done yet
And this is the only one not done from Sunday's list, so it can sit in glory on its own and its still not done!!! done


Monday
- sort bin for grass clods in garden (this breaks down to about an hour's work).done

Tuesday
- finish sorting bin for grass clods - not quite finished tonight.done
- pack away cut grass for disposal.done

Wednesday
- clean patio chairs and table.table and one and a half chairs done.

Thursday
- vacuum bedroom floor *thoroughly*. half done; cutout on vacuum came in, it was so hot, really!
- washing machine on - several times - secondary sheets, sofa throw. done

Friday
- tidy living room and kitchen done
- scanning. done loads throughout the week.
- pack cut grass away, weeding. pulled weeds up!!! and have just filled two bin bags full of grass clippings

Saturday 6th
Nothing! I'll go nuts if I don't allow one day off Adventurised in London.

Sunday.
- not much, probably scanning and weeding, maybe even planting Yep, scanning.

Monday
- clean living room window, dust living room. I did the window! Which also entailed cleaning the venetian blind, honest. I've gone off Venetian blinds again :rotfl:

Tuesday
- wash bedding, make bed. This was staggered over a few days, but is now done.

Wednesday
- not much, I have a rheumatology appointment as well as work - but I will clean the living room rug -
experiment with a proprietary cleaner on it too. Nothing at all of these, tho I did a bit of paperwork cleaning, arthritis playing up.

Thursday
- use proprietary cleaner? Nope, arthritis still playing up. Started working on all my paperwork a la GTD that Cheery described - its the best form of clearing up I can do at the moment.

Friday
- washing machine on - Ikea Poang chair and door curtain.
- clean counselling room.
Uh oh, I didn't check the list yesterday, but I have done the door curtain. Carried on with GTD paperwork organisation, vacuumed the living room rug, and started using carpet cleaner spots.

Saturday
- nothing!

Sunday
- tidy living room and kitchen.
- bath and basins to sparkle

Okay, this is the plan now:
- SATURDAY clean the Poang chair cover, and the curtains.
- SATURDAY tidy living room and kitchen.
- SUNDAY bath and basins to sparkle.
- SATURDAY AND SUNDAY soak then cook beans.
- SUNDAY AND MONDAY sweep the floors, vacuum what floors I can, use spot cleaner on the rug.

gilligansyle

Hope you manage to get out somewhere.

I must have missed something but whats GTD? I've looked around and can't find it.

Karmacat

Hi Gill! Okay, this is a post by Cheery on her thread originally, and after a later convo about it, DedicatedDFW reposted it there from the Word document she'd made of it :D:D:




This is what I copied and pasted from Cheery - Cheery i hope you don't mind Oh and i will have edited the final paragraph - Cheery has put the titles of her folders - and the next actions are probably a blend of cheery things (newletter) and just mine (windows) What i have also done because i rush around lots and lots is got a shoe box (actually a boots box as its a bit bigger - fits A4 papers in ) and then any paperwork coming into the house goes in there so everything is already collected together - as per action 1 I also have a pretty paper bag - i always keep the nice bags i get and i've actually got a use for one now I put all my project folders in here so when i move along with a project i know exactly where the folder is

So, there's 5 stages to mastering your workflow (apparently):

1. collecting EVERYTHING you need to do in one place. Don't do anything with it yet - just put in a giant pile.

2. processing. Start with the thing on the top, and don't miss anything out! All you're doing at this stage is deciding what to do with each thing - what is the 'next action'?

* if no action needed now either (a) put in the bin (b) file for reference or (c) put in your 'someday/maybe' file (for projects you'd like to get round to but not right now)

* if action needed either (a) do it (if it takes less than 2 mins), (b) delegate it (and stick a note on your 'waiting for...' list) or (c) defer it (and put a note on calendar, or onto 'next actions' list).

3. Organise - you'd have:

* list of projects (anything that will take more than one action) - every project MUST have a next action on the list - otherwise obviously it'll never happen!
* next actions lists (split by context - so I've got 'office', 'home - computer', 'anywhere - not computer', 'calls' etc)
* calendar (with only actual appointments on)
* 'waiting for' list

4. Review - you HAVE to do this every week or the whole thing falls apart (I can easily imagine! ) Start at 1 again and make sure everything new is included

5. DO! You don't have a daily to do list, but rather use your 'next actions' to choose what to do at any given time - based on time/energy available, priority and context.

Get a collection of folders together ready for each project. Every project has to have its own folder and has to have a ‘next action’ to move it forwards. Gather all next actions onto a list: home, not home, garden, errands, waiting for,... Next actions could therefore range from ‘ring window man re. New windows’ to ‘read newsletter and add dates to diary’

Karmacat

I've collected *almost* everything and honestly most of it was in my to-do list anyway - but lots of it is for info only, like a description of a walk I've torn out of a mag, complete with OS references.

I'm sorting into bundles - info, financial, health, green website, trading, that sort of thing. I'm *not* writing down the next action tho I have already done quite a few things that take less than 5 minutes - as you can see from that, I'm already adapting it to my situation, and frankly to what I feel like doing at the time but its great to have a system worked out ready, and then to tweak it to suit me. Never sorted my in-pile into categories before, its brilliant!

taxi73

sounds like a good idea as paper work soon mounts up so will pinch some of those ideas...
I've sort of started on stuff....

when my post arrives I sort it in to what wants filing,shredding recycling straight away...need to sort stuff from filing cabinet
my accounts are done daily now but still have to catch up on a few previous months
eventually it'll just be a few minutes a day to keep organised instead of a mammoth job.

gilligansyle

GTD - I remember the whole thing now! And in fact I've saved it as a word document.

Slinks back off....

embarrassed at lack of memory.

P.S I think I even posted about it too!

Karmacat

Taxi, glad it rang some bells for you. Gill, I dare you to repost your word document on here - or even pm it to me, gwan, gwan, you know you want to!

And this is very silly o'clock .... I woke up, I got bored .... and here we are, next door at the lappie. Lovely time was had, but I just can't sleep. I'm definitely going to arrange a full day at Eastbourne next year, but I had nowhere to sit, and too much sun on my head to last as long as I wanted. And the acrobatics were amazing!

Shopping was fairly amazing too - TJ Hughes, closing down, don't often see a department store in that level of ... disarray, lets say. But still not hugely bargainous. Poundshop was there tho, and I found a silicon jar opener thingie, that you don't often see any more. Stands to reason it being Eastbourne, God's waiting room and all, but still it was a lot more, um, normal than I imagined

I still wish I could sleep.

taxi73

I'm awake as well my fault really as fell asleep from about 9pm-12.30 so awake since so going to try and sleep a couple of hours now.
glad you had a nice day out

Triciaxx

Good morning, KC & Taxi. I was up and wide awake at 5.00 If I lie in bed I sort of rehearse what I'm going to do during the day and then am quite disappointed that it's not already done.

It's so quiet and peaceful looking across the fields that I could believe I'm the only person in the world - so long as I ignore the snores coming from the bedroom. :rotfl::rotfl:

We're travelling home tomorrow.