MG - The Matrix Re-wired

Memory_Girl

Morning hope everyone is wearing something green today - well any excuse for a celebration:rotfl:

I woke this morning to a blue sky and a funny yellow thing in the sky - so the washing machine is off and rolling already.

My Dad has wombled some fence panels - so have had the call that he is going to be putting in posts today so I have to arm myself with a brush and bucket of preservative and give them a lick on one side when he arrives (they are going on a wall in my new veggie garden - the other side is a 20ft drop into a beer garden)

Mind you this has all got to be fitted in around the golf and the rugby :rotfl:

Should make life a lot safer for DS2 in the garden this year. Massive Frog chomped:j:j

Have a great day

MG

Dorastar

Up and sun is shining so one load already out on the line -woohoo. Is not earth shattering but decided to wash all ds's stuff, then everyone else's in turn so it is easier to put away - so far it seems a good way to do it - How have I washed for all these years and not tried to do it this way?

Off for a long walk to keep up the weight loss and then off to see friends while dh makes cakes and gets mums day stuff hopefully.

Tescodealqueen

Morning all. Up early to get all the chores like washing etc done before the rugby fest this afternoon.


Happy St Patricks day everyone.

Memory_Girl

Keeping busy - third load in the washing machine and already been out to the Farmers market to buy some beetroot. It has been quickly roasted and already jarred up in a sweet raspberry vinegar.

Put a note in my diary to make some sourdough this week, then next weekend I can have sourdough, Camembert and sweet pickled beetroot for lunch next Saturday.............. hopefully out in the garden, the first spring lunch of the season.

Small things LOL

Igamogam

Fab sunny day here too - unexpected as forecast was meh! So washing done DW on vacuuming done to make use of the solar energy - getting use to this now - quick breather and a promise not to lurk around here for too long - then its out to the garden and more chipped wood shifting Better OH involved as he will be off to watch the rugby soon.

Horace

Morning peeps - am playing catch up today as I spent the day with my parents yesterday. I must take time out to watch the rugby too as Wales needs to win the 6 Nations.

Sat with mum whilst she took dad's car out yesterday - we went to the local garden centre for a mooch. We spotted some individual crock stewpots with lids that were on offer as 2 for a fiver plus mum would get 20% off but I already have some stewpots so even though they were cute they stayed on the shelf. We came home via Aldi (her local one is really quite smart) buying carrots, 2 tins of catfood (she doesnt have a cat but feeds one that belongs to a neighbour, she also treats the cat for a brush because his owners don't bother and his hair becomes quite matted:(), she also spotted some carpetted runners so now I have one for my lobby - a gift from mum.

After lunch, mum did some typing as she is typing something for her neighbour, dad sat in the front room with his headphones on watching the racing (dad is deaf but the headphones help him hear cutting out distractions) whilst I sat in the other room watching the racing. Mum came down for the Gold Cup - neither of us had placed a bet although now I could curse because a friend's horse came in second at 50-1, niether mum nor myself realised that he had a horse running - this guy used to be mum's jockey and after he retired (too many bad falls) he became a trainer. I would have placed a bet because the horse was called The Giant Bolster and it would have made me think of the giant door sausage that I made over the winter:rotfl:

greenbee

Work ongoing upstairs... Pipe is fixed but not yet tested. Everywhere else is being sanded and cleaned (to man standards, so will be full of dust afterwards...). They've also had the dents in the bed pointed out to them and told that they weren't there before so need to do something about them. They weren't even there yesterday morning...

Home base can match my paint, but after they'd mixed the emulsion discovered they can't do satinwood anymore in that colour. They tried to make me pay for the emulsion as it was mixed, but it's not much use to me if I don't have paint for the woodwork, so that one is back to the drawing board

My cousin has texted to say he'll assume Monday is a clearing up day, which gives me a bit of time to get stuff straight and it'll be nice to have some help. Hopefully I can find a solution to the paint issue by the time he's back on Wednesday!

Currently giving the kitchen a thorough clean as it's about all I can do. Might ask for the hot water back as I have mountains of washing to do... And maybe we should run the heating to test the pipe at some point!

Lara44

It sounds like you're all having very productive days! It seems I am the only one in the rain today - it is miserable here. Plus I left the bin outside by accident last night, oops!

But today is a double celebration because it is OH and I's 8th anniversary plus St Paddy's Day! :j So we're going out for afternoon dim sum. Not very Irish, but hey - will save that for tomorrow

Have a great day everyone!

groatie_queen

Happy anniversary Lara!

Another item liberated via freegle... it had to be passed in pieces over the low wall in the front garden, because of debris in the driveway: a tree surgeon is working in a neighbour's back garden on a tree which overhangs my driveway. It's the largest silver birch I've ever seen, and all the neighbours are relieved it is being reduced, as we have all felt somewhat nervous that the huge canopy would be affected by high winds. So much so that on windy days I parked the car elsewhere. So far the chap has been working flat out for four hours and he's still lopping pieces off it! When finished, it will still be two full storeys high - about half the height it was. It was very beautiful, and it is rather sad to see it being mutilated.

Laundry is out on the line for the first time in ages - it's a beautiful day here.

Igamogam

My nearest Mr T extra having a refit wonder if that's anything to do with Mr A moving in?? Anyway in their wisdom they have moved everything round and I mean everything. Went late last night for the weekly shop and I was determined NOT to buy anything not on my list cos that is their aim isn't it - I mean there are some aisles I never go down but was forced to go down most last night to find where they have hidden things. They have reduced their World Food aisle to a quarter of what is was and filled up most of that aisle with p0t n00dle carp - !!!!!!. So some of my hard to find anywhere else ingredients have now gone. The salt laden fat filled snack aisle has been extended as has the booze. I give up .The only sensible change I can see is that now boxes of tissues are located in the paper products aisle and not at the fare end of the baby items aisle. They are asking for feedback on the changes - and boy will they get them with both barrels . Hmmm OH has settles down early for rugby so I am back outside now the down pour has passed for some more gardening