Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

MatyMoo

Temporary bookshelves can me made out of bricks and planks and would fit nicely in to alcoves or between bits of furniture IYSWIM.

lucielle

I feel your pain regarding the weight. I've a big birthday next year and I probably won't be the skinny minnie I dream of being, I'm sure I have a Kylie Minogue ajnd a Sandra Bullock fighting to get out of me at the moment I'm a huge heifer! As for looking like your mum........I just hope I don't end up thinking like her.
L

troglodyte

Pippi, I think we can all sympathise with the mess/ clutter. Our place is a constant battle against encroaching mess, it can't be helped, it's just the nature of the universe - life is a constant battle against entropy [entropy = the opposite of order, if that's too obscure]

LT sorry to hear about your Dad, hope he's OK.

Mouse bites remember, let's all just take things a bit at a time.

MatyMoo

More ideas here:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Bookshelves/

Karmacat

Pippi, thats a fantastic start! See, all you had to do was pay attention to what you wanted - youre ingenious, we and the cellist come in with different viewpoints, and voila, sorted... have a great time this afternoon.

Lucielle's tip about the planks and bricks is great too, I did that when I rented ...

Have a lovely time this afternoon. My word, its easy to stay on the laptop for too long when you've got comfortably settled.... I'm going to shut it down now, and *get* on. I may make another cup of coffee first. And I'm hungry now. Again :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

lucielle

KC it was MAty MOO's idea but I think she'll understand.
L

Karmacat

So twas. Sorry Maty!

MatyMoo

Karmacat wrote: »

So twas. Sorry Maty!

No apology neeeded

Pippilongstocking

Lost a post rats!

Thank you all was the gist of it - need get dressed and dash - catch you all later

Trog - entropy big in this house - OH always quoting it - lifes natural order is disorder? 2nd law of physics ?
post made me smile - I hope you're OK today - and lifes getting a bit mouse bitish easier (()).

L - we've similar mohter experiences - so I hear you - atm - I look like I've eaten both kyle and sandra

We'll get there - and we'll never think like them - honest injun.

x

Greying_Pilgrim

Pippi - don't be to hard on yourself - with no legitimate reason, we down in Greying Towers have got muddles (good word Keiss!) on top of our bourach! It's one heck of a bourach state at the best of times and to make matters worse, we're trying to insulate the loft. Of course, the loft hatch opens out into the (biggest) bedroom and the removal of the old fibreglass nasty thin insulation, along side 100+ years of dust (or so it seemed to DP!) meant leaving bedding, beds etc in that room was not an option. Hence we're up to our eyeballs in bourach and muddles!

Naturally, it's not just a case of stuffing fresh insulation in the neatly cleared loft, as we've now discovered a problem with at least one of the ceiling joists that will need repairing.....sigh. Plus of course, we have brought more 'stuff' into the house as some insulation was on special offer at h*mebase, so we grabbed it ...............sigh. I suppose it is just as well the salesperson refused to sell us as much as we needed, due to it being 'not accessible at this moment in time' (?) otherwise we'd have to move out into the tent on the local playing field!!!!! (shed already fit to bursting).

Now, have I sensibly stayed in this morning, cleaning, tidying, polishing and organising? Have I 'eck, I've swanned off with DP and gathered 10 blooming big bags of horses 'leavings' for the garden!:rotfl:

At least the tomatoes will love me!

Hope you have a great time at the garden event.

Greying

ps - am I niggled with the h*mebase chap - too right, the pooter said they had 134 rolls in store (we didn't need that many) and we'd gone to the trouble of borrowing (at no cost, but still...) a van to move as much as we needed in one go!