My home is a mess

bearcub

Afternoon Messies.

I can understand why you'd not want to do any de-messying, Cat, when you're not sleeping well, never mind having had a bottle of red wine. I'm glad you had a good try today, though, if Wimbledon's going to be keeping you occupied.

Oh, sonastin, what a mess to have to clear away. Hope you had a really good night's sleep to prepare you for battle.

farmerswife75 wrote: »

Stables?? You have horses?? What breed etc??
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Yes, we have two, both oldies and both rescues. Boysie (nicknamed Bear) is a dark bay Welsh cob gelding, 15.2hh, 26 years going on 26 months. We bought him 8 years ago from a riding school in Surrey, where our 2 DDs, OH and I all learned to ride. Bear had previously been rescued by the RSPCA, after being found tied up next to his mother in a barn, with a very undersized headcollar 'eating' into his skull. Mickey is a bay New Forest gelding, 13hh, in his 20s. We don't actually own him; he's on permanent loan to us from a local animal charity. His background is mostly unknown, although we're pretty certain he's never been ridden. He's an absolute sweetie, and we got him when the yard manager left very suddenly, taking her 5 equines which had the paddocks next to Bear. It left Bear totally without company during the day which, given his early history, wasn't good. Through some friends, we found the charity and Mickey! :)

Faith177 wrote: »

Hi all
Then we went to a festival for a week. Howevere when I got back for the first time EVER I unpacked and washed everything straight away. It was a proud day :T:j:beer:

You weren't at the IOW festie, were you? Our mudbath? Hope your cat is on the way to full health, and that your mum doesn't give you grief!

Faith177

Hi bearcub!

No we were at Download at Donnington park muddy but not as bad as IOW (thankfully)

Cat is doing great she just wants her fur to grow back now as she looks a little odd (two shaved front paws, shaved belly & shaved right side of neck). I'm sure the others laughing at her isn't helping her confidence lol

She won't give me too much grief as she knows I'm still recovering from being ill and things have been a bit yucky (the only word i can use tbh) for me & OH work stress ect. We'll be away for most of the time she is down so that's a little bit of a blessing

Cat501

Faith177 wrote: »

Hi bearcub!

No we were at Download at Donnington park muddy but not as bad as IOW (thankfully)

Soooo jealous!!:D Two of my favourite bands were there this year, would have killed to go!!

Faith177

Sorry to make you jealous Cat

What bands were they?

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Cat501

Faith177 wrote: »

Sorry to make you jealous Cat

What bands were they?

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lol no need to be sorry!!

Billy Talent and NOFX...although there were loads I would have liked to see x My DDs were there last year, there's still a pair of mud encrusted New Rocks out on the veranda, think they're meant to be some kind of memento:cool:

Faith177

Omg love Billy Talent I missed them this year because Breed77 were on the acoustic and I love them more lol

I still haven't washed my walking boots or wellies yet but plan on doing that Saturday if my hangover from works do Friday night isn't too bad

bearcub

Ooooh, Download, Faith! I'm I'm too old for that now, but Metallica and Black Sabbath! Just love James Hetfield's voice - in fact, I love all of them, and Ozzy makes me laugh, bless him.

Isn't it odd how some cats can be so sensitive to your feelings? One of our first cats (shortly after we married years ago) used to know when I was feeling very down. I'm glad yours is picking up.

Hi Cat!

mcculloch29

Greetings, fellow Messies. Hope some of you have had sunshine, we haven't but today we didn't have rain, that's as much as we can hope for lately, so washing line was full for as long as possible. A few bits are still out there.

I have convolvulus :mad: in my front flowerbed (I have a townhouse with a bed out the front) and today I used a 'kill in 3 hours' weedkiller on as much of it as I safely could without killing plants I want to keep. It worked extremely well, although I will probably need to use Roundup to get shot of all of it. It's incredible how fast that can grow. Because of my arthritis weeding by hand is very difficult now.

Gradually getting on top of ironing, I have no excuse as I have a steam generator iron. Lots of my items don't need ironing but enough do. For those that do iron, the steam generator irons are absolutely incredible. Amazon sent me mine to review for free :money: and boy, have I blessed them for this.
Mine's a Ph*lips and very, very good.

I'm self-employed and need to make my tax declaration, I've been procrastinating on this, so if I mention it on here I will be shamed into doing it. In theory.
My income has taken a big dip due to the company that 'employs' me taking on more staff during a massive rush, which rapidly ended. (I am a Maths e-tutor for adult education.) Eventually everything will even out but I will have to watch carefully to make sure I pay the right amount of tax.
For all that hassle, having work for 52 weeks of the year is so much better than when I worked for the local authority as an hourly paid English & Maths tutor. During holidays I had to sign on if I couldn't find anything else - which was most years.

Also persuading the DWP that I hadn't given up work voluntarily and the Jobcentre that I had a job to go back to, so a permanent job wasn't viable became near impossible by 2009... I noticed a lot of change in staff attitudes over the years, none of it to the good.

bearcub

Hi mcculloch. Bindweed's awful isn't it? We rarely find it our garden, but Mum, just across the road, has it in abundance in her front garden. Luckily, we've found her a gardener who deals with that, while she can spend her time making her back flower beds look pretty. She is 83, after all!

This work and tax business isn't at all easy these days, is it? A friend of mine was recently suddenly made redundant from an FE college (only just legal, the way it was done, but she did do quite well out of it), but signing on, applying for jobs (only part-time, as she has health issues), and doing the odd bit of temp work is getting very confusing.

Cat501

I've got one of those steam generators too, just an Argos own make one though. I loved it when I first got it but the novelty soon wore off:rotfl:

I sympathise with your DWP woes mcculloch I do feel though that the staff are under so much pressure to, well, treat people like carp - and it's getting worse. I saw recently that members of the PCS union were told to take down posters about how they have to deal with people threatening suicide over the phone - genuinely distressed people. It must be horrid for the staff

Faith, that was very inconsiderate of the schedulers to put them on at the same time!:D I'm holding out for the possibility Billy Talent tour their forthcoming album in the UK later this year - I saw them for my 37th birthday in Glasgow so it would be nice of them to come back for my 40th!:D Just waiting for kitty to come on and give me stick now.....:p

I'm getting there slowly with the living room I figure it doesn't matter if it takes me two weeks to get it all done (including sorting out drawers - goodness knows what I'll find!). I've nothing to rush for and I'm already seeing quite a difference One thing I'm dreading is a drawer full of cables, I have no idea what they're for but no doubt they're important to somebody so I can't risk decluttering

Nothing else done I'm afraid, I got caught up watching the tennis of course, particularly a brilliant victory for young Brit Heather Watson:T Scottish day tomorrow - Murray, Baker and Baltacha:p

I should get the iron out now really....but I'm half watching a programme about Queen Mary. I'm a staunch republican but I do like history:o