Weekly Flylady Thread 11th April 2011

Triker

Bin bag of rubbish filled and dumped, my clothes seem to have bred...so I need to get some adopted off.

New shower head working well as other was too manky to clean....limescale horrendous here.

Clothes put away and more suitcases unpacked.

Huge chest of drawers brought downstairs for ebaying.

paulies_nixie

progress:
Wednesday ~ Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
Check smoke alarms are working - need pokey thing.
[STRIKE]Remove bed linen and replace with fresh linen[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Declutter the floordrobe[/STRIKE]
Level 2
[STRIKE]Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs[/STRIKE][STRIKE][/STRIKE]..
Vacuum mattress before replacing fresh linen need new duvet
[STRIKE]15 minutes grotspot clearance [/STRIKE]
Level 3
[STRIKE]Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Sort one area of clothes or linen storage making sure only what should be in there is, anything that's had it's day or doesn't belong there is removed [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Defluff and demuck woodwork... skirtings, window frames, door frames dados, picture rails etc[/STRIKE]
Extras

1. 27 fling boogie time, time for that midweek fling, go grab a bag and clear that clutterNone
   
2. Air the duvet.. fling it over the line for half an hour if you can.. fly away bugs!Waiting for new one out the loft
   
3. Clean windows in these rooms
4. Binbag dance to go to charity shop! Or just general rehoming!

Not toooo much to do.

JennyJewell

Evening all
Dorastar - you just made me laugh out loud,lol!
Here's my list for this evening
WM on
TD on
Iron clothes
Dishes
Cook tea
Clear work surfaces
Clear piano
Help DS1 revise for welsh assessment
Have a look at lists on first page
Early night

Hope everyone is healthy and happy
Jen x

vanilla

Homeworks done, dinner done and hubby has been sleeping since 2.30.:mad:

DD been running to the toliet so she's off tomorrow and i'll make a doctors appointment in the morning. I'm not sure whats wrong but it's been going from sunday and seems to be getting worse...no sore tummy but is off her food abit so better to be safe than sorry.

Boys clothes all sorted for tomorrow (non uniform day). So plan now is wake hubby, go to the shop, get kids sorted for bed and then a very early night.

skintscotslass

Evening all

Very little flying going on here today. I was volunteering this afternoon and this morning I was doing preparation for an interview I've got tomorrow at 11.30. May I have best flylady vibes for that please? So long since I've had an interview and my brain is fairly mushy!!

Greenbee - why dont you pop in with some of your lovely cakes? Although as Serena said, it may be best if they see it from your garden.

OH is sorting out dinner, so I'd best get back to my prep.

SSL xx

MrsChaos

Sending you best 'successful interview' vibes, SSL.

In the process of hunting for a jar of choc spread and a small bag of sea salt for the grinder I tidied up the entire bottom section of the dresser in the DR. Not much to fling, but the biscuit jar is washed and topped up with the treasures I found. DS2 is pleased that we have more choc spread and the salt grinder is topped up, too.

DS1 and DH have both had their tea, leaving me and DS2, although DS1 will probably need a top up later. Locust!

I've still not braved out bedroom, though.

Dustykitten

Mrs Chaos - funny I've just this minute filled the pepper grinder

Fire lit as it is chilly
LR and FR hooverd, will quickly dust in a minute
Made a start on the paperwork but it's not looking much better yet

kazwookie

Greenbee~ I had an isssue with tree in neighbours gardens, at the bottom of my garden, so I wandered round there, had a chat with the couple, explained the problem, I wanted them cut from 25' to about 15', it turned out the wife agreed with me and had been on at hubby to go something, now I had been round, he and a mate set too and took them down to 7', the wife didn't like that either so a week later they are out for good!!! Now 6 years on the other neighbours on the other side of the bottom garden need a visit, think I' ll pop round at the weekend.

I have no ironing either, mainly because I have not done any washing!!
Dinenr doen
Hoovering done
Bins back in

hi to any newbies

greenbee

AnW'sMum wrote: »

greenbee as the dragon says the best way forward initially is to talk to the owners, it may be that they are already considering this. Now is the ideal time to act before much more new growth appears.

I spoke to our neighbours only last summer and they said they liked the trees and that they offered some privacy, which I agree with but seeing as they look slightly down onto our house the privacy issue (or lack of) will be more a problem for us. We have pruned back on our side most years, which you can do legally IIRC so long as you offer the clippigns back! They have never had a problem with me doing this.

It may be that your neighbours have not considered the impact on your garden, it might just be the nudge they need to sort it.

I think the new neighbours haven't realised - they've only just moved in and have never had a garden before so are thrilled with it (BTW Jojo, I wouldn't expect them to take the trees down, just prune them to a sensible height - although the conifer is a 30-year-old christmas tree!). There are no branches overhanging my garden as they've taken them off (at least those within reach), and I've pruned my apple tree so it doesn't overhang my boundaries. The vast leylandii are on the far side of next door's garden, and she likes them...

pigpen wrote: »

Actually our next door but one neighbour has 2 conifers a huge elder and next door has a huuuuuuuuge ancient apple tree which all cast shade over my garden from about 10am .. so moss grows and my grass dies... If the conifers fall they will take out thee boys bedroom.. I hate conifers..

I do wonder if I should sneakify myself out there and saw through the trunks and push them to fall in the opposite direction to my house. The apple tree gives me chronic hayfever when in blossom, sheds petals and dead flowers all over my garden and in autumn drops mushy inedible fruit in my garden.. littering me with its rubbish.. and to add insult it then sheds leaves all over my garden.. it pees me off sometimes.. I just sweep it all up and dump it all back over the fence.

Cut off any branches that overhang your garden and at least you won't get the mess. Give it to OH as something to do to get him off the sofa

serena wrote: »

Slightly recovering from cold today, so I've done the kitchen!! I'll run the vacuum round the ground floor in a minute, as otherwise, it's not too awful.

greenbee -I've had the same problem in the past. I gathered up all my courage, and went to speak to the neighbours - it was the garden that runs along the end of mine, so they weren't even next door! I smiled very nicely, and invited them to come over for tea in the garden, so they could see the problem - the leylandii hung over my garden by about ten foot (my garden is only 40ft, so you can see it was a biggish problem!) They popped over, took one look, and said, Oh I wouldn't like that at all!! We had to wait for the nesting birds to leave, then the conifers came down. I really didn't realise how much they were oppressing me until they'd actually gone - wow! I .

I'll give it a try... just not feeling very brave

Dusty - its the dispute thing that has put me off in the past. I guess that if I just ask and they say no it doesn't have to become a dispute.

I've done NOTHING today. I didn't even get dressed until I finished work at 6ish. I've been feeling sorry for myself so took a working duvet day - worked, from under the duvet!

mamaninie

had a major blitz of the bedroom - I've been putting it off for weeks - hopefully I can just stay on top of it now its been deep cleaned and tidied! the dust under the bed was scarily thick Everything wooden has been beeswaxed and polished, everything glass is now shining - all the picture rails and skirting are dusted and both underbed drawers are sorted out. As a knock on I've also been able to put away a 3ft pile of linen that had accumulated in J's room - yay!

Just need to put beeswax cream on the leather sofa, clean the windows and fireplace and finish the hoovering. NAK and Emmy asleep now so hoovering will have to wait till tomorrow.

I've also made one of little sis' wedding cakes and started cutting out 2.5in strips for the quilt I'm making as a pressie for her