MG - The Matrix Re-wired

Dorastar

With you on that Crickett - Had a not so good week this week but the big run/walk on Monday managed to help me lose an ickle 1/4 pound but all in the right direction and kind of spurring me on to keep going atm.

Nice sunny day today and going to get tootling on the hosue and garden and then shoe shopping with dd (a majorly frustrating task on the best of days) please send calm mummy vibes.

Memory_Girl

greenbee wrote: »

MG... should I be applying knotting solution to the floorboard before colourwashing or doesn't it matter?

If the floor is new, or if you have sanded old boards back hard, then yes I would slap on some knotting solution (a little goes a long way BTW)

If not then when the knots start letting down their sap you will find the white paint will yellow quite a bit.

Sounds like a busy weekend - be kind to yourself

MG

ETA. Groatie I can't even remember who taught me the "Mayo trick" - one of those random bits of rubbish that lurks in the wild recesses of my brain. I think if I went on Mastermind I would have to have my specialist category as "Random Stuff" LOL

groatie_queen

I must admit I was a bit nervous about applying heat to the table, but the advice online that it would work was true. It might depend on the finish, whether it's varnish or shellac - in this case I suspect it is varnish. Then I reckoned that your mayo idea would allow the wood to be fed and fill up the gaps left by the displaced moisture.

Cuppa with pal this morning - the one who is tall enough to empty the water out of my bedroom light fitting following on from last week's leak. This shortie got rid of rickety old step ladders a tad too soon! Or maybe not - they were very unsteady.

Then I have a date with books and boxes this afternoon. Getting there!

greenbee

Hand washing on line, essential washing in machine, orchids watered, just draining then I can spray them. Meters read so waiting for laptop to start up (good old windows :cool:) so I can submit them. Recycling done, some of the last AF order put away. DO NOT LET ME BUY ANY MORE FOOD!!! I have run out of space junk from sorting out the heating put away, suitcase located and put on bed ready for sorting clothes, soup shoved in freezer. Should be able to do a little gentle filing, have a shower and get myself to the station without too much rushing.

Thanks for the advice on the knotting MG... I will pass it on to the person who is doing... I am only supervising in this case

ETA - that's confused BG... I had two estimated reads while I was ill, and my actual read for both gas and electricity is considerably lower than their last estimate for both . Obviously even submitting monthly reads doesn't make them completely accurate as it doesn't take the weather into account...

Horace

Morning all - the sun is now piercing the gloom and it looks like it is going to be a glorious day. I am pleased the fog is lifting as it was quite bad and it would seem that the M5 motorway is closed in both directions near me because of a huge accident between a coach and a lorry which has left over 30 people injured and one person dead:(

My head is clearer than it has been for a long time so my frog today is to finish my application form (I have had a tendency to overthink things and now I am clear). I am sitting here in my jammies and dressing gown with a towel wrapped around my hair - hair washed using cheapie Aldi shampoo (it is lovely shampoo though).

When I have done my chores - of which there are many, I might just go for a walk.

Memory_Girl

So I am in the kitchen - defrosting a teeny packet of whoopsied blackberries to make into jam, when the door goes.

One of the Grandchildren of an Old Dear around the corner - his allotment has produced a handful of forced rhubarb pretty early this year. Gran has had her pick, his kids don't like - so I have a handful.

Now I could eat it raw dipped in a poke of sugar LOL but seeing as I am in a jam making mood, maybe I should make a single pot of jam with it to for our holiday.

Love free food - especially when it is the early seasonal stuff that you would never buy for yourself (£5.99 per kilo for rhubarb up here at the mo)

Off to play in the kitchen

MG

Firewalker

It is a brilliantly sunny day here and I probably should go out for a bit. But have been writing a birthday post - yep, I can't believe it myself but my blog is one year old and getting into toddlerhood. Was thinking that writing a blog is a bit like raising a child - I still remember the first four-five weeks when there is absolutely nothing coming back. Only with blogs this stage lasts longer!

Time for some exercise.

Firewalker

gallygirl

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Now I could eat it raw dipped in a poke of sugar LOL

Oh, sitting here dewy eyed remembering a wee poke of sugar, ripped off the corner of a paper bag :)

Not paying £5.99 for rhubarb so will have some fat free rhubarb yog instead

Marru

Horace wrote: »

Morning all - the sun is now piercing the gloom and it looks like it is going to be a glorious day. I am pleased the fog is lifting as it was quite bad and it would seem that the M5 motorway is closed in both directions near me because of a huge accident between a coach and a lorry which has left over 30 people injured and one person dead:(

Thanks for the warning, BF is heading up M5 shortly so will warn him.

DD planted in birthday party. I am sitting here about to start watching online lectures but to be honest I would prefer to climb back to bed. So tired

clairewop

Good afternoon

Lovely day here, 2 loads of washing on the line, kitchen cleaned and thats all I am doing lol.

A draw of tshirts have been decluttered and I'm off for a walk in a bit so will pop the bag into the second hand shop in the market while I am out.