Sloblady thread

sillyvixen

JIL wrote: »

Are you sure they are wasps? Just that there's been loads on the news about swarms of bees and its early for wasps? If they are bees you can usually get a beekeeper to come and remove them. Google bee images and have a look. They are very similar to wasps. Hard to tell the difference.

they were wasps, proper waspy wasps - and not in a good mood. the pest man came and killed them yesterday, OH's boss let him take a couple of hours off yesterday to get it sorted (thankfully). i have just spoken to my neighbor who saw them come in on mass, she was sat in the garden and thought someone has started a lawnmower until she looked up and saw them arriving.

by the time i got home yesterday i had them dead all over the bathroom and for the 5th time in 3 days hoovered the bathroom including bath and sink to get rid (that is something i never thought i would do - hoover bath and sink)

Actually OH has just said pest man said that they were probably bees, but oh was insistent they were wasps - he had to agree when he got here.

JIL

sillyvixen wrote: »

they were wasps, proper waspy wasps - and not in a good mood. the pest man came and killed them yesterday, OH's boss let him take a couple of hours off yesterday to get it sorted (thankfully). i have just spoken to my neighbor who saw them come in on mass, she was sat in the garden and thought someone has started a lawnmower until she looked up and saw them arriving.

by the time i got home yesterday i had them dead all over the bathroom and for the 5th time in 3 days hoovered the bathroom including bath and sink to get rid (that is something i never thought i would do - hoover bath and sink)

Actually OH has just said pest man said that they were probably bees, but oh was insistent they were wasps - he had to agree when he got here.

Glad you have got it sorted. I was stung by a wasp last October. I was just sitting on the sofa in the lounge and I suddenly felt a sharp sting through my jumper. I looked down on my arm and there was a wasp. No idea where it came from. Horrible things.

Igamogam

Wasps - much maligned creature Poor bees - worth getting a bee keeper in to take care of swarms as bee colonies are in decline

Sally_A

Confession time, I still have a Christmas table cloth on one of the tables - in my defence it has my printer/scanner on it and seeds and stuff (Ok - that is no defence whatsoever - I am a slob ) This is deja vue from a year ago.


My dining room is a mess and junk pit...I'm so embarrassed, here are some pics...


Well I would post, but can't do pics or smilies at the mo :-(

richardw

Sally_A wrote: »

Confession time, I still have a Christmas table cloth on one of the tables - in my defence it has my printer/scanner on it and seeds and stuff ...

Tis the season soon, give it a dust and it'll be Ok.

moneyistooshorttomention

I'd forgotten this old thread.

Well I've figured out a housework rota in theory. It's getting it into practice that is still proving a mite difficult:rotfl:. Having to have tradespeople in (yet again....and when I thought the house was "finished") is throwing me rather (as in into cba mode and trying to "supervise" their work).

Still - the theory is. As I had "got on track" and intend to resume track when "the unexpected" has been sorted/I've recovered from cba mode is (on my little house) with 1 kitchen/1 bathroom/2 bedrooms:

MONDAY - bathroom (except my large walk-in shower cubicle)
TUESDAY - shower cubicle
WEDNESDAY - hoover sitting room and bedroom (followed by being lazy and leaving hoover in bedroom ready to go across passageway to study the next day)
THURSDAY - hoover study and hall
FRIDAY - kitchen sink and outside of units
SATURDAY - fridge clean-out and do kitchen floor
SUNDAY - owt else (any washing I've not done/ironing/change bed etc).

I've figured that means weekly housework type tasks shouldnt take more than 45 minutes on any given day and I should be able to "force myself" to stick at it for that length of time. I've definitely found I can't manage to make myself stick to doing the lot at once and that's probably around 3 hours solid of "making myself" do it.

I don't iron bedding/towels/teatowels - and it doesnt seem to make much difference anyway to them.

The supermarket shopping still tends to mean a weekly walk specially to the supermarket - but I've figured out managing to slot in the rest of the shopping when I'm "in town" at something social in the daytime anyway (so I'm not going in specially unless I want to).

Grumpysally

Yay! I think this thread is overdue for resurrection. : )

Knit_Witch

Indeed! I had forgotten about it (and my somewhat slobbish tendency has resurfaced )

Grumpysally

Resurfaced? Mine never left me : )
Though I have recently been shamed into organising my freezer, so now I can actually identify food and use it before it finds it's way to the darkest recesses only to see the light of day at the next defrosting session.
*shamed by a 'bargain' piece of haddock, that had been there a year ( so I'd obviously chucked it back in after defrosting the time before ). A least he dog had three good meals out of it.

Knit_Witch

This thread surfacing prompted me to do a small (really small :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:) amount of clearing