My home is a mess

Emm-in-a-pickle

Hi Frugal, welcome back!xx

I`ve had a great evening - pub with OH, fun & laughter, we sat there neglecting the beer ...PLAYING SCRABBLE!!! Not sure who won, haven`t added up yet, got home and as it was dry outside we quickly earthed up the potato grow-bag, and put up more canes for the runner bean tubs. . That`s 2 `urgent` items off my tomorrow list. The only 2, actually.

Fuddle, I just don`t believe in ironing, it`s against my deepest principles, ecologically & personally... It grieves me to think of busy folks doing it, and the electricity wasted....

Had Deep Speech with OH about wild garden, it`s about usual time we get Strimmer Man in for the annual mega-strim, but I`m not sure I want to...It makes a complete change in the garden habitat, and I wonder what we`re wrecking, and if we should...OH has volunteered to participate in `necessary` patches with scythe or grass-hook. I`m thinking this is the way to go, and will do it even if he backs out.
Off to do duck & black bean thing now, while OH calculates the scrabble score.

jpscloud

What is this ironing you speak of? I only know my iron via my patchwork hobby!

Still doing my rag rug crochet - had to take it apart and redo it, as the width wasn't right.

Glad you had a good night in the pub Emm... and hope everyone is having a good night whatever you're up to.

mcculloch29

Little baby steps of de-messing today - some old paperwork, litter bins.. I really should get to grips with my bedroom.
The chief problem is too many clothes... winter clothes are waiting to go in to storage, high summer clothes haven't made it out yet but neither has the high summer sun, so that's not too much of a problem. I do have regular CS clear-outs but I do have a bit of a hook-up on clothes, I'm sure I mentioned it before, I know it's because I had so little when I was younger and first married. I don't think I'll need to buy knickers again for some twenty years, having discovered a brand that refuse to wear out.
It's the 'Sloggi' stretch type, but Primark's own make, which are absolutely fantastic. The bras of similar fabric are the same, still look great after dozens of washings.
Tomorrow or the day after I have to refit a router cord so that I can use a corded phone via an ADSL filter as well as the router. It runs halfway round the perimeter of the bedroom and there is so much carp blocking access. Still, it has to be done....erk.

bearcub

So pleased you had a really good relaxing evening, Emms. If anyone deserves it, you do! I hate strimmers with a passion. They should never be used at this time of year, as there's too high a chance of doing a lot of damage to wildlife, and destroying flowers before they've set seed - but you know that, anyway. I help out in the local churchyard, keeping the borders clear (the first area that visitors see coming in, and coming out of the church), and keeping brambles and the like under reasonable control. The rest, though, is a wonderful wonderland of wild flowers atm, with wildlife to match - birds galore, badgers, foxes, grass snakes and, joy of joys, red squirrels. No, wildlife needs all the help it can get. Sorry, hobby horse time.

I've done no de-messying today, but managed to make some bread, and did two lots of washing. Sadly, just as I'd hung out the first lot, it started to rain, and didn't really stop until late afternoon. Ho hum. Also picked up Mum from the hairdressers, took her to the Co-op, then spent an hour and a cuppa with her. End of afternoon. Been catching up with the programme on the Queen's horse pageant.

I quite enjoy ironing, but I limit exactly what I iron.

laurel7172

Tidying up for plasterer.

Getting snappy with kids, although they're helping.

Lips getting sore (a sure sign my immune system is weakening).

Time to go to bed, I think. It won't be the worst house he's ever seen. And if it is, he already saw it when he measured up

Achieved: toys shifted. Wardrobe now empty for removal to Garage of Doom tomorrow (and measured and photographed for Ebay, so hopefully it won't be there too long). Wallpaper steamers etc packed away and awaiting transfer to loft.

Wash done and hanging over bannister to dry.

Assorted things picked up and put away. Er...just not enough.

DD hoovering. DS reloading the dishwasher.

I'm very lucky really

snookey

People have been busy well done. Iv been to get a new fan fo my computer and looked around some charity shops and thats it.
Dog was not booked in for snip today but for Friday. Id been given the wrong date. Id been up since 5.30 this morning as I was worried Id miss them. I always have a fear of missing appointments.
DD is going to Town with my dad tomorrow so may get some housework done. Outlaws are coming tomorrow afternoon.
Talking about gardens my back yard looks like a building site. Daft dog has dug a crater out there.
Take care everyone.

kittywight

youve all been doing so good

ive done 2 loads of washing and put on on airers.

ds is still ill so im sorry i havent been around, had to go back to a+e on tuesday as he took a turn for the worse. he has chicken pox and an infected lip

hes ok eating and drinking and demanding to watch spongebob so he must be ok

so yeh not much cleaning done place looking clean enough, just a bit like a chinese laundry lol, have been putting all my washing into black bags, not going to bother getting another wardrobe as i am hoping to move homes soon fingers crossed!!!

xxxx

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p.s i did 2 loads of dishes yesterday

YORKSHIRELASS

I have just picked up 21 items of clothing belonging to my husband off the bedroom floor. I have left the growing pile there thinking at some point he might move some of it or the pile will grow so big he cant get into bed, but its a waste of time. My options are to have a massive row with him which makes no difference long term or do it myself.

Sigh. He is a great husband he really is but so bl**dy untidy. There are things on the landing that need putting in the loft but it never bothers him that the landing looks like a car boot sale.

OK rant over. Loads of washing to do and its raining. I really need to go into town to get bread and milk/order prescriptions/go to the library/take recycling/buy hamster and budgie food/call and see MIL. I cant be bothered to do any of this!

Will return when I am in a better frame of mind I think! At least I can hoover the bedroom floor now.

bearcub

Afternoon Messies.

Sorry to hear that your DS has been so poorly, Kitty, but at least you know what it is now. I know what you mean about a Chinese laundry, as I did two lots of washing yesterday and then the heavens opened.

Yorkshirelass, I do sympathise about the mess. My OH isn't great about putting things away, but not that bad. And you've so many other things on your plate! <hugs>

laurel7172

:j

Well, the plasterer has been.

It looks great

And I finished weeding the left hand side border, and did most of the back one before the rain started.

I've also managed to refit the shelves in the tall kitchen cupboard so my new ironing board will fit in. It's six inches longer than the old one, and since my parents arrived with it a couple of months back, it hasn't had a home. There was nowhere to put it away.

This bothered me, because although I am definitely not a tidy person, I like to know I *could* tidy up if I wanted to. A place for everything, even if everything isn't in its place. I suppose I like to think of the mess as optional...sort of a lifestyle choice

I've also "fixed" (that is, removed the broken mudguard that was jamming the wheel of) my daughter's friend's bike. She was clipped by a car bumping up onto the pavement *to avoid a puddle* :eek:. The driver asked whether she was all right, then drove off quickly, leaving her in tears and with an unusable bike by the side of the road :mad: BUT, she isn't hurt, and we must be grateful for that.

And...my mum has asked me why I'm getting rid of a wardrobe when my daughter so clearly needs another one. She has a point. The problem is that it involves giving up all pretence that we have a spare room. There isn't room in the tiny fourth bedroom for a chest of drawers, TWO wardrobes *and* a bed. But it isn't as if it can be used without a month's notice and tears on both sides anyway...DD clearly looks to her mother for her lifestyle choices (:rotfl:), and part of the problem is that she genuinely doesn't have enough wardrobe space.

Hmmmmm.

But anyway, I am now awarding myself the rest of the day OFF