My home is a mess

Emm-in-a-pickle

Hi Mesdsies!
Just caught up with you all, and a very quick post to say -
Hello & Welcome Mummybobbles, it`s good to have you `on board`. I do heartily sympathise with your boiler troubles & hope it`s fixable. I was quite traumatised by having to clear a path for the fixer to get to mine (upstairs!) but glad afterwards.
JPS - You sound SO much better already, I`m so glad you went back to Dr. Just don`t overdo it now!! Thanks for the name explanation.
Buffy - I`ve well passed the 3pm feeling today - did an early shift again, then went to Mr T`s - am now pooped, but day off tomorrow.
Alec E - I could do with something to hide my washing mahine - or just a good clean of whatever has dripped down the front of it....
Sonastin - love the idea of a desk Henrietta but would lose it under the clutter!
I`ll catch up a bit more tomorrow, just too tired to type coherently anymore. x

jpscloud

Emm I can hardly believe how much difference it's made. I know you were telling me but I'm so stubborn - I wish I'd kept that earlier appointment and maybe I would have been better last week.

Ah well, I'll just make the most of the improvement. I've made a start and keep bringing a bit of carp back down every time I go upstairs. I'm thinking if I get the box room back in complete order, I will have somewhere to put all the stuff I want to keep from the spare room of doom, then can paint said spare room of doom and do it up. Sorta.

Then I can sleep in there, and do up the main bedroom properly. It got a lick of paint last summer but I was very half-hearted.

Hope you enjoy a relaxing evening Emm and enjoy your day off tomorrow!

Nearly forgot - first comma of the season (I mean the first I've seen) today! Beautiful.

greengoblin

jpscloud wrote: »

Nearly forgot - first comma of the season (I mean the first I've seen) today! Beautiful.

I accidently read that as coma! Thought 'Happen alot up your way does it? Get towards the end of August and everyone starts dropping down?!!? ':rotfl:
Incidently we have a ton of peacocks and small tortoiseshells on our buddleias at work, but no 2nd brood of Red Admirals yet . . .

jpscloud

greengoblin wrote: »

I accidently read that as coma! Thought 'Happen alot up your way does it? Get towards the end of August and everyone starts dropping down?!!? ':rotfl:
Incidently we have a ton of peacocks and small tortoiseshells on our buddleias at work, but no 2nd brood of Red Admirals yet . . .

:rotfl: It usually happens to me at the end of term!

I haven't seen any red admirals yet either but did have a speckled wood pacing out a territory yesterday - haven't had time to look for it today - didn't see any of them in the spring when I usually do, so I was worried.

MummyBobble

Good/bad news: the boiler is working but on it's last legs :-( Better news: because of my low income I may qualify for a new boiler under the government's ECO grant scheme :-)

Unfortunately this involved the very nice man carrying out a survey for an Energy Performance Certificate, as in a survey of my entire house, oh my life :eek: At least the loft is tidy Yes, he even checked out the loft (and the airing cupboard!) Very embarrassed by the state of just about every room (carp everywhere, knickers drying on the bedroom radiator etc) Could have been worse I suppose, at least the dirty washing was in the washing basket and not on the floor around it (as is frequently the case when the children are home, they seem to find it easier to put it next to the washing basket than in it...).

So now waiting to see if I qualify and hopefully may have a new boiler before the winter :j

How on earth do one adult and two children amass so much stuff? I really need to get to grips, if I get a new boiler they'll have to check all the radiators afterwards (which means they will have to be able to get to the radiators...)

Off to pick up DD's GCSE results later (Year 10 so only RE and science at our school).

Hope everyone has a good day :-) x

jpscloud

I hope you get the grant MummyBobble! I am so with you on embarrassment at the state of the house - I hate it when electricity meter readers come round, I'm always in my scruffy clothes (and I look a proper fright!) and the house is always a tip.

I feel soooo much better this morning! My chest is still a little tight, but the awful wheezing is gone and the inflammation seems to be much improved. I had a full night's sleep for the first time in weeks last night.

Today I will be:

Carrying on with de-messying upstairs

Mowing a bit of the lawn, weather permitting (good so far)

Sitting in the garden watching butterflies

Sitting at the computer reading forums, drinking tea and coffee and eating cake

Just going to put some washing out... hope everyone has a lovely day!

Edit: Hope DD's results are great MummyBobble, wish her luck from me!

alec_eiffel

Ha! I am wearing clothes that could pass as an outfit and have plastered by spiky head down a bit today as I know a delivery man is coming!

When I'd decluttered the old house and got it to a basic state of organisation (still with a bit of stash and dash) we had new heating put in. When the guy removed the kitchen radiator a huuuuuge pair of lady underwear appeared from down the back. Clearly not mine but also clearly a sign I hadn't cleaned down the back of the radiator in the 3 years we'd lived in the house!

I've cleaned out the buns, cleaned the worktops, put laundry away, done the washing up and put some laundry on. I'm going to sort out some cupboards upstairs this afternoon. Have a good day.

Emm-in-a-pickle

Hi Messies!
Mummybobbles - fingers crossed for your DD`s results and for you getting the boiler grant. I`m sure the folks who do those surveys are quite used to messy homes, they must see all sorts from one extreme to the other in the course of their job, and the chaps who get called to various household emergencies, or call at houses un-announced to read meters etc. likewise! I try to believe that they`ll all have seen something a lot worse than mine....
Re Radiators, I was very glad the chap who came here to sort the boiler out didn`t have top go round all the radiators as my DS`s room is a True Pit, it only gets done (by him) when he`s expecting his GF down for a visit.

Greengoblin, your `coma` mistake made me chuckle! (We DO have them a fair bit round our way actually, but none on my ward at the moment!!

I`ve done nothing this morning apart from have a lie-in and a quick wipe round in the kitchen (cos I slopped my coffee!) and drinking coffee and catching up with the Archers on I-player!
Last night after posting here I ended up doing a WM load of towels, and making a rather faffy chicken stir-fry thing (just for the sake of using up some radishes & spring onions!)
I have some slow-cooked silverside that I was going to use for last night, so that will do for tonight`s meal now.
I still feel quite tired, and I`ve got another early shift tomorrow, so not planning on doing much today. Funny, I`m fine while I`m actually AT work, but it does catch up with me!

Indoors - not yet deteriorated since my weekend cleaning binge, so I`m sitting on my laurels (ha! wearing them in the wrong place!) DS & DGD aren`t here this week, so there`s fewer Messies at home. It`ll soon change...

Outdoors - getting a bit jungly again, which I don`t mind apart from the bindweed creeping round bay tree & herb pots, and the nettles threatening access to washing line. Not reached the need for machete yet, but I might go out there and pull up some nettles & snip some bindweed. Not what you`d call gardening, more damage limitation...
Have a good day all. x

MummyBobble

DD certainly did well! Only two GCES sat in year 10 but she got an A* and an A :j Even if my house is a mess, I guess I might be doing something right :dance:
Sooooo proud of her, she worked so hard and deserved those results (and she's Deputy Head Girl when they go back!) x

Emm-in-a-pickle

Progress report-
I finally dug out some gardening gloves then set the timer for twenty minutes. In that time I`ve pulled up all the nettles that were creeping round door of caravan of Doom (front garden)
then all the nettles that were on or near one washing line path. (Loosest definition of path, please!) I`ve left a really big nettle patch near the shed, and there`s loads more down in the bottom end of the garden, so not going to feel guilty about it...
It is SO encouraging using the timer.
Probably the best housework/gardening tool there is, because it makes you realise how much CAN be done in a very short time, especially when you think it`s going to take ages to do something that you can see any difference in.
I must remember this.

Now having a cuppa and then going to set timer again to help me deal with the bindweed. I don`t want to get rid of it all, like the nettles it is welcome in its places, just not all over everywhere! Loads of white butterflies and bumbles around, also quite a few wasps which I`d heard aren`t doing so well this year.
Drags self back to another spurt of `gardening`....