My home is a mess

laurel7172

Right...slides legs from under disgruntled cat...going to do..something.

But I may put the kettle on in passing....

nearlyrich

Are you fellow kindle reading messies aware of this site?

http://www.ereaderiq.co.uk/free/

You can sign up to a daily free book email based on what you like.

Be quick when you get it though I missed checking yesterday and a book I fancied had gone up to £1.95 already this morning...

Love my kindle too.

MessyMare

Thanks Rich, that looks pretty good I've got a bundle of classics on mine but I'm switching between them and bought ones, like On the Beach. Last ones I read were Little Women (read it when I was little but still love it), Sons and Lovers (can't remember if that was free but it was ultimately quite disappointing), and I'm gradually building up my Discworld collection on there. I've got a lot of them in paperback but it's nice to be able to read when when I'm out and about, they're the sort of books that I'm always re-reading so it's nice to have them in both formats.

Shampoo'd the carpet and just waiting for it to dry (it wont look any better but just smelling less like wet dog would be a nice improvement!). I've finally hit on sorting doglet's house training issues out, even though it means me getting up at 5.30am. But we're getting there! He's so good all day but he's getting old, bless him so I shouldn't grumble. Just done the washing up, wiped down in the kitchen and sorted the gumph out in doglet's file, updated his record book and chucked out redundant paperwork. Just got to decide what to do next...

wilf55

ok
been to the shop
need to make a couple of phone calls
and get cleared up ds who drains most of my time is away til 11th so want to make a dent by the time he gets back

today going to clear kitchen and living room not declutter as such just tidy and clean so it at least looks the part

first late breakfast/dinner

laurel7172

Thanks nearly rich-will look into that

MessyMare-I also found DH Lawrence very disappointing. His style is far too overblown for me, and his attitudes to women are, well...pants, actually. (Here endeth the attempt to have a highbrow literary discussion :rotfl:). Seriously, I read a few of his books (because I *ought* to like them), and I found myself more and more repelled. Somewhere beyond misogynistic and well onto the path of pathological disdain, I thought. Yuck.

Anyway, I have emptied all the bins, discovered another binbag of stuff in DD's bedroom, brought back an armful of oddments from the Garage of Doom and spent long enough to get soaked in a very wet honeysuckle, sorting out why, despite the downpour, the water butt was resolutely refusing to fill. The washing machine is running (full of my painting sheets-I was using them to..er...hide twelve boxes of parquet in the garage-a bit optimistic, I think) and I'm about to set the recorder for the Jubilee flotilla thingy, because it matters to my mum that we see it. (And if it's recorded, we can fast forward through the bits where nothing is happening so the BBC announcer tells us how marvellous HMQ is. Again.)

So...now is probably an excellent time to visit the tip

fuddle

I used to use the kindle app on my iphone but it was so small and so heavy (you wouldn't think it but holding that phone up while lying in bed made my wrist ache) so I have given up. I do fancy a kindle but afraid it'll be a waste of money because I do like a book.

I have always wanted to read Little Women though so off to hunt that out for the little phone.

MessyMare

I think you'd be surprised about the Kindle, Fuddle - I tend to only have the free stuff and the odd one that takes my fancy, but books were absolutely taking over my house so I've cs'd lots, the trashy supermarket ones mostly, and only kept books that were gifts, or that I absolutely love. I love it now, barely ever without it.

Laurel - I will admit I did enjoy Lady Chatterly's Lover (haha my dirty secret :P), but Sons and Lovers just annoyed me, I kept waiting and waiting for something to happen and it never flippin did! I'm getting really into post apocalyptic world stuff, The Death of Grass, although it petrified me for weeks had me clinging onto the Kindle, completely unable to put it down!

jpscloud

Well it was so cold and wet we gave up on the craft fair (nothing really exciting there anyway, but it would have been nice to sit and have lunch with the elderly parents outside... haha) and we didn't bother going to car boot either. I remember nicer days than this in February!

On the plus side, I picked up some nice fuchsias and blue petunia surfinias on the way home, and I'm now snuggled in with plans to make stuffed peppers. The house is SUCH a mess but hey... I'm going to work on my rag rug and ignore it at least for now.

Emm-in-a-pickle

Hi Mesies! I`ve been here for a quick read before work but not time to post... got a `half-day today so now catching up.
Rosie, I`m so sorry about your dad, bad enough without the stress you`ve had to deal with.
Bearcub - I ALWAYS drive in flip-flops, I LIVE in them unless I`m `proper-shod`by necessity! Am also happy driving bare-footed.
Laurel - I loathe any sort of form-filling too, and the more it matters the more crappily designed the forms are!
Yorkshirelass- hospital visits are very draining...I think it`s a combination of pre-visit stress, parking hassle, miles of corridor to get where you`re going, waiting around, then relief just to get the heck outta there afterwards! If your DS is doing ok I`m sure it`s worth it, but it`s still a naturally draining thing. Hospitals are so BIG now, it doesn`t help!
Thanks, for your kind words too. I read the morning after you`d posted before I went to work, I wasn`t feeling positive at all then - after a particularly !!!!! day on the ward the day before...you really cheered me up.xxx
Kitty - hope your DS is ok now. When I was a child I frequently had a visibly lumpy neck (and even recently with throat & ear infection actually) but I recall my friends would look `pale` when they weren`t well, while I was never pale or flushed, I just looked like I was turning into a hamster!
MessyMare - Congratulations!! Hope you enjoy the jobxxx
Wilf55 - welcome, come on in and be a FlyMessy!
Buffy - welcome back, hope you enjoy the party.
Well done all who`ve been getting something done, and `raising the standards of Messyville a bit....And those who haven`t, those who`ve chilled or CBA - I`m with you!
Messy Status?
I haven`t done a THING here for days (only cook, wash up, and bin the rubbish) and just going to chill out this pm, make a curry, and get an early night - I`ve got another long-day tomorrow.
Then 3 days off.. by which time I will be more than ready for it!
Place isn`t TOO bad (I had a Rant last week, must have got through a bit then!) just kitchen floor (feet & paws...) sofa/windowsill clutter. Could be worse, but will just have to do for now!

Enjoy the rest of the holiday folks!..

YORKSHIRELASS

Congratulations MM on the new job, thanks for the kind words everyone.

Well nothing much done at all this weekend. Went out yesterday and spent far too much money on clothes for DS1 but he badly needed them. Have been pottering around watching a bit of the Jubilee stuff on the telly today. Actually I cant believe its 4pm already.

Oh I have managed to do a couple of loads of washing and I really should get the iron out but dont feel very motivated.

As Laurel says sometimes a duvet day is just very very necessary. Enjoy the rest of the weekend everyone!