Hoarding...not just on TV

whitewing

DS and I have just done loads this morning. I fee great, like we have really got a head start on next week.

More houseworky stuff now for 90 minutes, then DH will be home and we can all chill.

Byatt

Thanks GQ and Kate, I did say "may" though , I still have a way to go, but hopeful that if I can keep it up, middle of November may be doable. I won't be showing her the bedroom however. :eek:

I just bought back my mixing bowl £1.50. It's for a good cause being Hospice Care.

katep23

Byatt wrote: »

Thanks GQ and Kate, I did say "may" though , I still have a way to go, but hopeful that if I can keep it up, middle of November may be doable. I won't be showing her the bedroom however. :eek:

I just bought back my mixing bowl £1.50. It's for a good cause being Hospice Care.

At least you know it's "the one" and not Richard

And considering it is definite progress

Ooh Lakeland is dangerous bought the over the door shelves for the larder I went in there for, some easiyo yoghurt sachets on special (wouldn't pay full price for them but they worked out about £1.50 per sachet) a hot smoker kettle and a small stove / braii thing which were both on offer.

All things I will use (I have been after a smoker for ages and it was £20 less in the shop than the website, plus it's my Christmas present from my mum) but things I now need to find homes for :cool: Ooh that sounds like I was trying to justify myself.

Could have bought a lot more but had a long walk to the car, as it was I ended up buying a wally trolley (not in Lakeland :eek: £60!) to help me lug my booty back.

New coat purchased, old one going into the charity shop bag, might try and drop that off tomorrow.

Off for a shower as got caught outside in the rain then dinner (out of the freezer), a glass of wine and a night in front of the fire :T

Byatt

Oh I forgot, I did take the fish tank and accessories, a coat rack and a wine rack to the CS, hence my being there in the first place! :rotfl:

I have made tomato chutney for the first time, and some turkey meat cakes (like burgers) because I now have room and work space to well, work! It's lovely.

Sounds like you had a lovely time Kate, what's the small stove/braii thing?

lostinrates

Not one bit of de richarding, but I did manage to stop an almighty mess. We had to lay some weed membrane today and I caught the other two 'people' here tyring to hold it down with a collection of broken crockery. They were soon made aware that this was not acceptable ion the highly viable location they were working in and given a couple of better solutions.

This hedge/fence line we were working on is actually an example of dericharding though. It was a lumpy privet hedge and we have been scared to let go of it because it was beautifully private, but it also was well over six foot thick, eating the garden up, and needed trimming several times a year. (this year I only trimmed it once or twice and so it grew over four feet in places.)

In other patches there was no hedgeing at all, just nettles. It had some lovely things, a beautiful honey suckle, for example. And we were just hanging on to it enjoying the privet flowers and honey suckle, when really it was a mess.

It's gone now, and the temp solution IS ugly and exposed, but we will be planting bare root hedgeing very shortly, for a smarter, slower growing hedge which will take a whole but be more suitable.

katep23

It's like a small grill which runs on gas cartridges - useful for power cuts and camping.

I'm really torn between wanting to de-Richard and wanting to prepare/stock up in case the SHTF

valk_scot

Blooomin' freezing here too, it was 5'C outside according to the garden wall thermometer but there was a strong wind hitting the house and that always makes a difference, we're really exposed here and I can usually tell if the wind is at the back or front of the house from the temperature difference. We've got plenty of insullation and double glazing but big rooms and high ceilings don't warm up easily. The older two cats went through to my son's room at the front and got under his duvet. I was very tempted to join them!

In more decluttering mode I've been sorting out DD's clothes for an outward bound trip and found she's grown out of even more things so that's another heap for the CS. And I've been sorting out some of my craft stash with the idea of getting rid of some of the materials I'll never use. This last bit is quite hard, really! Most if not all of this stuff was bought on the back of A Really Good Idea, and it's hard to admit that if the idea had really been that good the raw material wouldn't still be sitting in the stash five years later. That's if I can remember the Idea at all, of course.

Patchwork_Quilt

Managed to declutter a sleeping bag, since I bought one recently. Put it by the front door and DS told me that I'd chosen the wrong one. Bravely went back to the upstairs cupboard, with a chair, had them all out and found one had a broken zip. Well, he doesn't say much, but what he does say is right. Anyway, a charity bag came through the door almost at that moment, so I labelled the sleeping bag as rags and stuffed that, with all the other stuff in the cs drawer, into the bag. Straight to 0xfam. Brilliant!

Have also decluttered my Mum's front garden of some major weeds. Yes, it's still going on over there. It made me smile to hear Mum say quite innocently that all her clothes fit in her wardrobes in the new house. But then she remembered the wardrobe full in her old house and I remembered the wardrobe full of jackets there too. It's going to be interesting when we finally manage to sell the house. It's beautiful inside, with hardly an ornament to be seen, but the loft is still full of my brother's stuff and the garage is absolutely full of Mum's.

Still, onwards and upwards eh?

Patchwork_Quilt

More news! DS was decluttering in the almost-untouched study so I thought I'd better show willing. Have managed to empty a whole stationery drawer, find a pair of 'lost' scissors, clear my Sunday School folder, get rid of some books and put a pile of MIL's books back together. She must have lent them to us a decade ago. Amazing! Have left him to it, however, as I am rapidly losing energy after the gardening extravaganza. However, I am very proud of him. He is putting a mini 1KEA chest of drawers together that we have had hanging round in there, in the box, for about three years. Have just put the cardboard wrapping in the bin!

Aren't teenage boys lovely?

katep23

Well done PQ, It's amazing what turns up when you are decluttering isn't it?