My home is a mess

bearcub

Hi Kitty. How you doing? I'm glad the freecycle people turned up - it's so annoying when they don't! I know what you mean about the washing. I've been so keen to get everything washed while the weather's good, that the drawers and wardrobes are full, instead of the washing basket.

MM, is the man behaving himself a bit better today? I hope so, otherwise, forget to wash his favourite clothes or similar.

Got some ironing done this evening, while watching springwatch, and throwing insulting comments at the arrogant Chris Packham. He can't hear me, of course, more's the pity, but it makes me feel better.

Off to Pompey tomorrow to see our DD1. She desperately needs some help in her garden. Working fulltime, it's getting a bit out of hand. Mum and Dad to the rescue!

snookey

Hi everyone. I got motivated and cleaned up the kitchen,hall and family room. Four loads of washing done.
Dog may be short haired but he seems to be shedding heaps. That along with the cats means a mountain of hair to clean up daily. Oh well thats what I get for having all thease animals. I dont regret having them though.
Tommorrow off to charity shops for a nose with oh and maybe dad.
Bearcub glad to see you back and I bet your bathroom is fab.

Emm-in-a-pickle

Dear Wonderful Messies! You lot keep me sane. (well, as sane as can be expected in the circs). Thankyou ALL. Really.

New Messies, regulars & returnees (Bearcub- ((HUGS)) ) I can`t catch up & respond to all the posts that I1`ve read & appreciated now, but have to post anyway...still winding down after a long-day shift, hectic, & WAY too much plumbing (drips/catheters etc), good though, positive feeling by end of shift - now off for 2.
Then working all the `holiday` weekend stretch. Head still full of today, but my feet have recovered (drove home 9pm in my flip-flops, bliss after 13 hours!)

Got home & watered my runner bean tubs - burgeoning.! Fed OH & DS.
All I wanted was tea. Gallons of tea.
Fed Daftie-dog, took her out for a little play & wander while I watered etc., just barely prevented her squashing little asparagus patch. Had a peep at `bee-hotels`, thrilled to BITZ with this! Fully occupied. Wow. I am SO delighted about the bees. Told folks at work, most think I`m barmy, a few know what I`m on about and that bit of sharing was nice. NETTLES are now almost waist-high in some areas, buttercup patches are spreading, fighting the nettles. I`ve had no time to interfere.

Messy status - well, imagine? Do I give fluff? Not at all! Just relieved that I got through today & off tomorrow, lie-in then catch up. I swopped LR cotton rugs yesterday, & Henry`d the dust buffaloes,rugs for launderette shaken & in bag ready for tomorrow after a lie-in.
Kitchen - could do better...could be worse!
Nothing urgent on the laundry front., so will concentrate on FOOD, and the Great Outdoors. Buggritt, I could spend the day just observing the bee-hotels, it`s MY Day Off after all!

farmerswife75

Hi Messies!

Just having a quick coffee & 5 mins on my laptop before i start preparing tonights supper!
I've mopped the floors & hoovered downstairs so obviously i deserve a coffee??!! Haha!!

Emm-in-a-pickle - You sound soo busy, i wouldn't bother with the housework, you should be resting!! Bee hotels???

Well, i'd better get off the chair before i spend the rest of the morning sitting around. I'm off upstairs with the hoover to find the bathroom carpet...........................................................................................

Jxx

Emm-in-a-pickle

FarmersWife - re BEE HOTELS...they are for the solitary bees, like Mason Bees, that nest in little holes. Saw some stuff last year about our pollinators needing help, not just the honey bees & bumbles. Bee Hotels can be any size, home-made (except my menfolk aren`t that handy!) and nothing like a `bee-hive`... my `lodgers` seem to get along ok side by side, but they aren`t a `colony`, I`m not that brave!
Mine look like bird-nestboxes, only the box is full of bits of hollow bamboo tubes. Most of the holes are now occupied, and have the front closed off with what looks like mucky bits of dried leaves, that means they`ve laid eggs and are doing ok. I am so THRILLED about it.
I`ve looked it all up online, and apparently Mason Bees are immune to the Verroa virus.

Housework...? Not a lot.
Had a LOOOONG lie-in, then trawled DS & DGD`s rooms for pots, & washed up, (plus last nights` pots), wiped worktops. Then I ground to a halt, and am still there.
I have decided to procrastinate - shopping tomorrow, anything else tomorrow.
All I`m going to consider for the rest of today...
Evening meal (dunno what yet...)
Shopping list for Thursday
Water plants this evening.
Have a nice evening, Messiesxx

laurel7172

Today is looking up!!!:j

Yesterday, I wasted yet another evening-this time by locking my keys in the garage. Just the garage keys, fortunately, but my only set.

Anyway-tonight, after some subconscious analysis as to why the burglars' tips on Youtube hadn't worked, I came home, adapted one of them and...bingo. I'm in :T

I think I might have to invest in some better locks now, though :eek:

MessyMare

Emm- you deserve your halt after work, relaaaax

Messy status is that the house isn't quite a sty, but it's getting there. B keeps doing DIY so it can't be helped. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

Work is almost done and I'm now so glad. Turns out someone who works there embellished some big falsehoods onto a small issue that was true, and that's why I'm not being kept on. Oh well, I can't afford to work there anyway! Will learn from my mistakes and be much more guarded in the future. I do have a terminal case of foot in mouth disease I think!

Feeling a little more positive after going for a run, must have some endorphins wooshing around. Got an interview for a home care job tomorrow, which I'm pretty excited about (I much prefer cleaning and doing jobs for other people!)

Hope everyone has a good evening, hopefully I'll manage to spend some time clearing up tomorrow x

jpscloud

MM thanks for thinking of me, feel much better now and was back at work today. Of course now I feel pretty tired but at least I'm over that awful exhausted feeling.

Emm I feel exactly the same, this thread and MSE forums in general keep me sane too. You just enjoy watching your bee hotels, leave the nettles and you may get some peacock butterflies using them as nurseries.

I absolutely love my garden but it's nothing like what most proud gardeners would want anyone to see! I can often be found sitting and staring at a patch of innocuous undergrowth and just loving watching an insect or something! This year I'm going to build a large grass clippings heap and see if I can encourage grass snakes in future years.

Hope all messies are doing well, good to see you back bearcub, hugs all round!

ETA best of luck with the interview MM!

MessyMare

Mine is the same JPS- our lawn is fit for a motorcross track, the flower beds are full of weeds and my raised beds aren't exactly well planned! It is usually peaceful though, and I do like to sit and look at it from certain angles (you can't see how much of a mess it is from some angles!)

Emm-in-a-pickle

JPS - I`m glad you feel better hun - & there`s enough nettles here for a lot of actual Peacocks to colonise, let alone peacock butterflies!!
MessyMare - you`re well out of those workplace `politics`. The more I work with People, the more I respect Bees! (they either get along in a colony, or get along as individuals but `side by side`(...OK, I`ve got Bees in my Bonnet at the moment!) MessyMare, you still have flowerbeds? We`ve not had such things here for about 20 years! My one raised bed, built last year, almost hidden now by a sea of nettles & buttercups, is only reachable because I put a discarded jute runner mat down as a `path` after Daftie-dog got taken short on it....
This raised bed is doing well - I put in seeds taken from old Marigolds (were `French` once but went feral & kept going) a packet of `meadow flower` seeds,( no idea what exactly now as I was silly enough to sling the packet), and some Nasturtuim seeds that we brought back from Ireland last September. I can recognise some tiny Nasturtium leaves coming up, and there seem to be leaves that look like being Marigolds.
Whatever else thrives there is a bonus. Marigolds & Nasturtiums will do nicely for me, I`ll gather the seeds & try to get more going next year.

Anything I want to try to look after has to go in planters or pots now, otherwise the wilderness submerges all my efforts...
Lavender (2 lots French, 2 lots English) were both looking poorly a few days ago, but now look better. Phew!
Rosemary - 2 plants, one flowering like crazy, the other wondering why it`s there...
Marjoram - bought 2 pots from Wilkos ages ago, & STILL doing great.
Thyme - I bought a lovely Yellow Thyme (Wilko`s) months ago, it did well for ages, but now looks critically poorly - while the other Thyme (supermarket `rescue` pot of `growing herb` with a yellow sticker sell-by date) is thriving beyond expectations! I may have over-compensated for the hot dry weather when watering stuff...?
I am NOT a Gardener! I love my wild garden, the stuff that thrives on neglect, but I feel so BAD when something I`m trying to look after goes all brown & wilty before its time, especially as I don`t know why!
I don`t like cut flowers indoors, because I feel so shifty when they die. Don`t `do` houseplants, (except supermarket Basil to keep houseflies at bay in summer) for the same reason. And I`m not even a vegetarian!

Runner bean tubs, only planted for the flowers, beside the `Bee-Hotels`, doing well...One `potato-bag`with Charlotte spuds that are now doing big leafy sprouts, I`ll have to put more soil in that bag tomorrow, at least I know about that...

This evening I took next doors` 2 youngest (one in top infants, the other top juniors) round the back to show them the bee-hotels and explain, & showed them the thing I found online about Mason Bees, showing a cross-section of what the inside of a full bamboo tube looks like. Kyle, the older one, came back with his mobile phone & took a picture to show his teacher. Both really interested and THEY don`t think I`m barmy!

Messy status? Do I sound like I did any housework today?
MY life, MY house, MY day OFF, right?
I`ve watered the aforementioned dependants - a little less water-carrying this evening though, as we`re forecast rain, and some pots didn`t look dry and needy. (Hope I got that right)

Supper - Dug some salmon steaks out of freezer, pan-fried in butter, hunted in fridge & made a potato salad (last night`s leftover new potatoes)with runner beans/spring onions/olives/2 chopped hardboiled eggs/some capers I happily found while looking for jar of garlic/garlic mayo. and a handful of halved cherry tomatoes.
OH DIDN`T lick his plate. He said he only refrained this evening because he`s `English`, or he would have done so...
(We`re in Wales, plus I`m half Greek, & we quite often have this absurd but fun banter about national traits - he does a great Basil Fawlty or a Churchill to a `T`, whereas I either get very heated Welsh-rural about something, or start waving my arms about & get told I`m `being Mediterranean` again!) Anyway, his plate LOOKED as if he`d licked it, and the compliment was understood.
Tomorrow I`ll have to be busy.
Today I`ve chilled, and enjoyed. Goodnight all Messies, God Bless all.xx