My home is a mess

Cat501

bearcub, hugs for today, so terribly sad, but I'm sure your friend will have a lovely send off xxxx

Lovely story about you and your OHs Emm xxx

Docs today, going to ask him for something to help me sleep just for the next two nights, then making a lentil and mushroom "cottage" pie with swede topping from a recipe in Mr T magazine. Got half a butternut squash so I'll mash that on top too. Planned to do it yesterday but by the time I got from DS's gran's I CBA. As I've done nothing since Saturday the kitchen is an absolute bombsite.

I am against the honours system on principal but I'd give one to whoever posted the swede/microwave tip on here first!:rotfl:

lol @comment about neighbours Adela, glad your mice problem is improving

Oh aren't deaths difficult? I know DS is a beneficiary of the will, and there isn't going to be a formal reading of it, but as his legal guardian, do I have a right to see it? I'd think I do, but I've a feeling I'd have to ask which obviously I don't really want to do

lori64

Emm-in-a-pickle wrote: »

Adela - you made me chuckle, too. But seriously, why not Bargain to deal with the infestation? Suggest keeping a couple of pet mice if your OH is so keen? They make lovely pets, if they`re tame, whereas the wild ones breeding & running amok can be a serious health hazard.
Jacci - well done on the roots. That`s a job I HATE!!!
Lori - welcome. I have found OFF- white washable rugs brilliant for camouflaging the prodigious hair loss of my Daftie-dog who is also mostly OFF-white (very OFF at present) They look clean for ages, it`s the cheesy niff that gives the game away!
I`m about to ferry OH to work, back later Messies!

Thanks for the welcome messies:)

Oh, those OFF white thingies might be just the thing!
Yesterday i said it was just laziness with me....I want to add, its the cold to...just cant move when its cold!
I know that once I got moving, then I would heat up a bit...maybe try that theory out tomorrow....notice I didnt say in about 10mins time!

As others have mentioned, i wont let anyone in the house as I feel so bad about the mess! Ironically my mum is so houseproud and would be mortified if she saw the place :eek:

Cat501

lori, so sorry, meant to say "welcome aboard" to you! Memory like a sieve....:o

Emm-in-a-pickle

Just got home, been out since 10.30 trying to get a fire-grate bottom. Back later, now making soup & cooking a whoopsied chicken, (Legs for snappins with flask of soup) got broccoli from farmshop and some whoopsied stilton...and mucking out the fireplace to put the new bottom in...got to finish making the mess before I can start cleaning it up, right?

Cat501

Oh lordy - down to one working burner on the cooker, done DS and DD2's tea, now mine and DD1's is going to take a lot longer than expected....aaargh.....one thing after another!

This place is a pigsty. Got 2 nights supply of sleeping pills from doc so hopefully they'll work and I'll get into a more normal sleeping pattern, and after Friday I'll be able to get my flipping act together:o

eta this meal has disaster written all over it - not enough topping, the rest of it just an appetising mush - oh dear

Emm-in-a-pickle

Kitty - I can`t even do `cut & paste` without a refresher lesson from DS.. in fact, since DS has done his magic getting my computer working even better than when it was new, but as the new set-up is different, I felt rather clever just being able to turn it off & on again!
Adela - glad your OH decided to try the sonic devices for the mices!
Bearcub - I hope the weather held up for you there today. ((HUGS)) to you.
Cat - I agree about the person who told us to cook swede in the microwave! Many Blessings on her dear head, whoever she is!!! I understand your hesitance in `asking to see the will`, but if you know who the executors are, couldn`t you at least ask about the part relevant to your son?
And my gas cooker is down to 2 working burners now! Not usually TOO much of a problem as I use the steamer quite a lot.

Snappins done. OH getting ready for work, I`m so glad he`s nearly finished these nightshifts.( After tonight, and his days off, he`s only got 3 more to do (next week) then back on normal days pattern. Phew!)
Firegrate sorted, my day-long trek (tell you about that later, as thereby hangs a tale!) was worthwhile, lovely log fire crackling away now. Hearth & mantlepeice sparkling clean....but the rest of the room is grim! So glad I didn`t put the clean rugs down yet!
Off to do a bit more till I take OH to work...

bearcub

Evening Messies.

Cat, I'm pleased for you that your GP was sympathetic. I've don't know what the regs are for guardians of beneficiaries, but I would have thought that you'd have the right to at least be given a general idea of what your son will be inheriting.

Did you find the part of the grate you needed, Emms?

Thanks for your kind thoughts. The weather today was sort of mizzly drizzly, but it didn't stop people coming to the thanksgiving service. In fact, they came in droves, so that our little rural church was packed. We had people sitting on stools in the aisle, and others packed at the back against the door. At the same time, we had others (including me) sitting and standing in the vestry. Our friend was one very loved lady.

I managed to get one load of washing done and hung up, but we went out for a meal at the local tonight. Actually, I think it's the first evening we've been out on our own since Mum moved over here in Sept, so maybe we were due one. The carpet is covered in wood shavings and hay - amazing how much gets trapped inside boots! Must get the hoover out tomorrow.

Emm-in-a-pickle

Hello again all. (Nobody here since my last post...must be something good on telly or you`re all turning into FlyMessies, or enjoying your non-nightshift OH`s company. Fair do`s, I shall do likewise tomorrow!)
Since last post I`ve:-
1) shaken the OFF-white, cheesy-smelling, Daftie-dog-hair festooned, ash impregnated wool rugs outside, (I did this in the dark, as it takes 2 hands to shake rugs, and one to hold torch. I only have the two. As I often remind folks at home...) Rugs - one now in WM, other still cheesily waiting it`s turn behind kitchen door.
2) took OH to work
3) called in DD`s on way home to deliver her some whoopsied stilton and 2 heads of broccoli, stayed nattering a bit and had a cuddle with eldest DGS (9) who was still up and fresh out of bath in cuddly dressing gown.He informed me his 2 little sisters are turning into monkeys, he can tell by the way they eat bananas...
4) by the time I got home the fire was getting low, as I`d lit it a bit earlier than usual today....SO, went outside to log-shelter to bring in more logs to replace what I`d used...this time, took a torch.
Discovered by torchlight that my earlier rug-shaking had resulted in rather hairy-looking bay tree and lavender pots. It might blow off overnight, if not I`ll deal with it in daylight tomorrow!
Relaxing now, first time today really, listening to radio play on iplayer while I type. (Posting now in case I get timed out. It happens)

Emm-in-a-pickle

Bearcub - I`m really glad your friends` funeral was so well-attended, it was obviously a Thanksgiving service. I`ve attended more than my fair share - 7 years working in a nursing home which I still visit, then 12 on a ward where we have a high proportion of very elderly patients...at one point I was worried the Vicar thought I fancied him - HE quipped `we must stop meeting like this!` I`ts SO desperately sad when there`s just a handful of folks there, it doesn`t mean they weren`t loved by many, once, it means they must have become lonely, having survived all their friends & loved ones. And it`s so lovely when they`ve still had lots of descendants/neighbours and friends who`ve kept contact and remember. Heart-warming, too, to see a little church or chapel packed these days.
Glad you took yourselves out for a meal too. x
(posting now, just in case...)

laurel7172

Cat-under English law a will is a public document, so you'd be able to get a copy (without having to ask surviving relatives) in a few months. I don't know about Scottish law, unfortunately...a quick Google suggests there are public records, and that the court gets involved at an earlier stage (therefore the copy of the will *might* be available earlier-I bet somebody on one of the other forums would know...)