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boredofbeingathome

ZTD wrote: »

What? It's only a photo of a woman with her top off and a tool in her hand. What's so worrisome about that?



Google is your friend.

Except if you're a primary school teacher talking about Queen Victoria's consort, and you type "Prince Albert" into google in front of the whole class.

At that point, Google is not your friend.

But that's primary school teachers for you... :doh:

Weirdly enough when i introduced a topic on Victorians,one of my pupils found that out as an extra curricular activity...or rather i should say their parent's did:eek: Still, they shouldn't have been looking!
:rotfl::rotfl: I was glad they didn't practise what the saw though, as the child also confessed that mum had her belly button pierced but had taken other ones out..i certainly didn't ask:lipsrseal

EssexHebridean

ZTD wrote: »

Why? What have I done now?

Nothing more than you usually do Zed!

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

such norty folk on here! you're all terrible lol

Why thank you!

ZTD wrote: »

Not me. I is a :A

*snorts* Nice dream you were having there Zed?!


*waves at KC* - see, told you this one was just a cold didn't I?!

Karmacat

It was! Even now, I tend to use time off as "work" - I really think I need to schedule in one day to just potter, no matter what else is going on - no big projects, nothing - otherwise I lose all the ground that I've gained. Also, I've tended to think of time I'm not working on the house as time when I *should* be going out, to make up for all the time I've not been able to, and thats put an added pressure on me - not only do I not have the energy, I don't want to!

And of course, its helped immensely that I've gone back to healthy eating, a lot of which is organic - the effects are cumulative, but they're undoubtedly there, for me at any rate. So this is very nearly just a cold - hurray!

Erm, I'm considering not going to London on Friday, tho, which will be complex because of work things, and create a lot of extra admin. It might be worth it tho, to stay away from more germs, and to not overtire/get a reasonable sleep. Decision later today.

redsquirrel80

A pottery day sounds good, you've still got a lot on with the house, and I guess when you work mainly from home it's easy for work to escape from its fixed times. You sound a bit better today

Karmacat

One thing about my work, even working from home - because its exclusively about seeing clients, the actual work can't spill over - but thoughts about it can, files, phone calls, letters, ordinary admin, yes, you're right, that spills over just like anybody else's home-work. Though apart from the accounts, I'm actually pretty good at not letting it. The work I'm thinking of is working on the house - even tho this house is so much better than my old one, there's a lot of settling in work to do, and a lot of improvements (some necessary, some optional) to do - necessary is things like, checking the loft and underfloor ventilation, getting rid of a step at the back door that obstructs the damp proof course, chopping down that tree that will endanger the foundations if left, that sort of thing. I have to find a way of doing upkeep that fits in with how I like to work and still gives me lots of time to relax.

MrsMoo2U

KC, it is very hard to adjust your thinking when you have spent so long having to do something a certain way. By that I mean, if your old house needed lots of work doing on it then your mindset will still be programmed to just carrying on one job after the other. That saying, do what you have always done, get what you always got, has to have come from somewhere. So why not (on a pottery day) sit down with a notebook and have a page for each room and outside space in the house. List all of the things that you "think" needs doing. Then go over the page when you are having a cup of tea or a little break and make notes, ie Priority, would like, not essential, etc against each job. You could then break the pages down into "pottery" type jobs and "work" type jobs which are categorised into do yourself/need tradesperson (wont say get a man) etc. Set yourself a schedule for "work" type jobs such as a certain time or day of the week. Treat it like your job then you could use the "work schedule" to book trades, make phone calls, organise buying things etc.
That way you will feel like you are moving forward but in chunks that suit you.

Sorry dont mean that to sound as a lecture just an idea that seems to work for me.

Karmacat

Hi cheri! How very sensible about the mindset in relation to the house! I'd never have thought of that - the other one, I could never really start the renovation, because I had clients in all the time, and it was a rewire replumb job - this one, there's nothing that big (well, there was a half rewire because of the mice, but thats done now).

Great minds and all that on the list - I already have that list tho thats not what I mean by a pottery sort of day :rotfl: checking it might be pottery, actually I'm quite a princess on the sly, you know

Actually, reading your post again, I don't have that list, I only have the basics - I listed the jobs in each room when I first moved in, and I haven't wanted to chuck those lists and start again because they're also a chart of my progress, which is really important. But maybe the bits I've done can be the prologue, so to speak, and a new list can be written out on the lines you suggest ... that would work, actually, I wouldn't mind that at all.

Not a lecture at all - very helpful, actually, thank you - because I haven't lived in a liveable house for so long, and never one where I was still wanting to do jobs, I'd actually no idea of how to best go about it. Thank you :kisses3:

MatyMoo

I recently found the list of things I wanted to do when I moved in to my house 11 years ago.

The important things had all been done and some of the others changed along the way as I had managed to do some others that I never thought I would be able to, such as adding a conservatory and changing the layout of the bathroom.

So I found that the had to do's got done without referring to the list, the nice to do's got there eventually and other things completely changed priority as the house evolved with me

Whatever works for you is going to be OK.

But I think I am going to use Cheri's idea to see what things I can put on my new list :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

I may need to adopt this list strategy of genius

Nearly one year into this new house and I've still not properly unpacked - half the rooms aren't properly sorted with lamps etc and there are still ALOT of boxes in cupboards. Can't put the xmas decorations away properly as they don't have a 'home' yet.



Hope you're good me dear! Hello all on here

Working at home for next wee while, be able to pop over a bit more

Lemon_Tree

i keep making lists about my place but i keep adding more things on as i tick other things off. I also have a habit of putting lots of awkward things onto it much to my hubby's despair.