My home is a mess

Buffythedebtslayer

Wow laurel total inspiration.

laurel7172

Buffythedebtslayer wrote: »

Wow laurel total inspiration.

Awww...blush...thanks...:)

bearcub

Laurel, your garden looks SO good. Well done to you AND your dad. Is it a new house, or did you have replace all the fencing?

Kitty, don't get paranoid. Despite what some people believe the police aren't out to catch people living normal lives. It would be so lovely for you DS to have his photo in the magazine. Hope it happens.

Sorry to hear things aren't going at all well for you, Cat. <HUGS>

I do pity you, farmerswife, and I'd have been irritated in your situation, too. Sorry, it did make me smile, though.

laurel7172

Bearcub-the house is 25 years old this year, so all the fencing in that first picture is sort of new by virtue of having been recently replaced, IYSWIM.

We replaced the bottom fence this winter. The one on the left was replaced by the neighbour on that side a couple of years ago. The one on the other side, I replaced some years ago, but the neighbours on that side piled soil against it , so it needed some major repairs two years ago (and I made a rather unfortunate choice of an astonishingly bright orange preservative (I was aiming for new fence colour) that I haven't yet painted over). You can see just HOW bright in the greenhouse shot :cool:

Cat501

jpscloud wrote: »

Hugs Cat - be good to yourself, remember you deserve good things

thanks jps - but that's where you're wrong - I know you will argue but I really know what I'm talking about xx

thanks bearcub xx

anyway what with all the sport on tv - and being confrontational elsewhere on here - I haven't got round to catching up on the thread so I'll try and do that tomorrow, the remainder of the rain-delayed tennis final shouldn't take too long tomorrow so no excuses

mcculloch29

Cat, hugs. Everything passes, good or bad, and this too will pass. I'm with JPS.
Laurel, even favourable angles can't totally lie - that is truly a lovely garden. My first thought was literally 'What's THAT doing on THIS thread?' Then I saw the 'before' picture of the toyroom and felt a bit better.

I have discovered that having a massive recycling wheelie bin just outside the back door is very helpful. I am challenging myself to have it full every fortnight for collecting.

So far (since the start of May) it has been full , so lots of paper, tin and plastic based clutter has left the premises. I put things in a dozen times a day and it is so satisfying to see the house less cluttered as a result.

A bag with my old cordless phone system in that was sat on the settee for the last three days has gone today, taken by a friend to be car booted for charity, along with some books and software.
For my friend to keep, (and transport my ex-possessions to hers), a shopping trolley that has been cluttering up the hallway since it became surplus to requirements has also left today.

farmerswife75

Afternoon Messies!!

Hope you are all well today. Not much to report from the farm today, new washing line is up but i now have to wait for the concrete to set so i can't use it till tomorrow! Bloody Goose!!!

Jx

bearcub

Afternoon Messies.

Cat, to believe that you really don't deserve good things to happen, you've either done something really, really awful, or you're feeling really, really down. Not sure I believe the first, but the second is fairly obvious. It's awful when you can't see an end of the misery, so I'm sure everyone here sends hugs. :grouphug:

McCulloch, that sounds like a pretty impressive clear-out. We also have a huge recycling bin, that usually lives in our garage, and we keep a large bucket in the conservatory near the door, so we can drop stuff in. Every so often one of us tips it all in the bin.

Utterly miserable day here, but not nearly as bad as a lot of people have on the south coast. I cleaned the btahroom this morning, and decided that the drain/trap in the shower needed a clean. Yuk! HOW can so much hair collect in a week? Anyway, it's all clean now, and I'm just off to clean the skirting boards in this room and our bedroom. They're disgustingly dirty - and I ain't a fussy housewife at all!

kittywight

hugs for everyone

well ive done lots today, place still looks rubbish, but at least ive done something ........ feel dreadful now, wish i hadnt

done dishes (all of them!! even the ones i used today )
tidied livingroom floor
hoovered livingroom floor, and in kitchen around cats tray.
did 2 loads of washing and tumble drying.
washed bath mats, washed sofa throw and dried and put back on sofa
tidied the bathroom a bit.
made dinner and sat at table with ds
bathed ds and ds cleaned his room i just did the bed

also went food shopping and my mum came over to visit
xx

bearcub

That's quite a lot you've done, Kitty. Do you mean that you're tired now? If so, I'm not surprised with that lot, and a little 'un around. I think I've cleaned up the kitchen floor three times today, after the cat's used her litter tray. I try to be patient, as she's an old girl now, but even so!

In weather like this, I wish we had a tumbly drier. OH washed two pairs of his jeans and a pair of mine yesterday, in the hope that we'd be able to hang them out to dry. We've only had drizzle most of the day, but the jeans haven't dried in the conservatory. Have moved them into the spare room, and hope that the heating will come on occasionally to help dry them, otherwise they're going to end up smelling very stale.

I cleaned the skirting boards and window sills amd frames in both bedrooms. Odd how it takes ages to notice just how dirty they get, but such a difference when they've been washed.