Hoarding - Springing Ahead

pigpen

Does the carvery not have a normal pub menu? All the ones here do. All the carveries I've been to there are vile so I can understand her dislike. We have some lovely ones here but the ones there I had trouble figuring out what most of the veggies were! I ended up with 2 slices of meat and a Yorkshire pud that was overcooked and cold and a couple of new potatoes.. the rest was grey inedible unidentifiable mush. I'm just wanting excuses not to do the 2+ hour drive. I do need to trot to Ikea though but the Leeds one is nearest... I have a long shopping list.

short_bird

cyclingyorkie wrote: »

If they get the illness you will miss the chance to see my extended (complete) family turn up at THAT carvery between Stockport and Manchester in a couple of weeks time - DD2 will be the one being dragged in (she hates carvery)... It's going to be 'such fun' to quote Miranda's mum (from BBC1).

Does it have a hotel attached and is round the corner from a station? Because I think I've stayed there

Anybody wants me, it's a laundry day at work and a paper sorting day at home...

cyclingyorkie

Yep - that's the one! 27 of us going on the 15th!

short_bird

Aha! the ones with the generous breakfasts

27 :eek:

Anyway, laundry is doing well.

roundtuit

I need to be realistic and accept that 'not-a-lot' will be done Monday-Friday as I work full-time. am out of the house from 8am til 5.30pm, and have very little, if any, mental energy left when I arrive home.

Today's 'not-a-lot' was binning the socks I had been wearing as one had more hole than heel.

I'm looking forward to making progress at weekends though.

Rx

GreyQueen

roundtuit wrote: »

I need to be realistic and accept that 'not-a-lot' will be done Monday-Friday as I work full-time. am out of the house from 8am til 5.30pm, and have very little, if any, mental energy left when I arrive home.

Today's 'not-a-lot' was binning the socks I had been wearing as one had more hole than heel.

I'm looking forward to making progress at weekends though.

Rx

It feels good, doesn't it? I positively enjoy finishing a bottle of summat, rinsing it and then putting it out into the recycling bins when it's dry.

Good move with the socks. Just been talking to Mum and she's decided to declutter an armchair. It's the sole survivor of a 3 piece suite from about 1980, is very shabby and uncomfortable and a spring had snapped. She could mend it, but we had a convo and decided the overall condition was so carp that it wasn't worth her time.

Existing furniture will be re-arranged to accomodate. It's a triumph in a small sitting-room.

I have delivered 2 large carrier-bagfuls of misc to the c.s. today and assembled most of another for tomorrow. Keep on trucking, my lovelies; every bit out counts, no matter how modest.

lobbyludd

3 bags of books and clothing went to the cs yesterday (I always feel like I am counting this twice, because I need to celebrate when I consign it to the CS box and when I actually get it to the cs too!)

other than that it's just been bins out and stuff dealt with as it avalanches through the letter box.

the small regular stuff does make a difference, and I like to think of it as practice for when we've dealt with all the big stuff, to be able to keep our habitats the way we want, dealing with stuff as it arrives, becomes useless, broken etc.

may attack the garden again today, plant out the foxgloves and verbena and attack the grass that grows any-where-but-the-lawn. Lovely day.

and then this eveing I've spied some elderflowers that dd and I am going to make cordial with, not de-hoarding anything, but relevant because I know where all the stuff is to do this now, my cupboards and larder are organised, and there is work surface space to work on.

previously I would have had the idea, had to search through and rummage around many cupboards and surfaces, always dropping and spilling things on the way because they were so precariously stuffed with things, in order to clean up that mess, fight with the stuff under the stairs to get the hoover out, have to empty and probably fix the hoover, search for the brush that goes with the dustpan, locate some of the things needed, wash them, fight with the cleaning products to find washing up liquid, spill more stuff, try to clean that up, some of the things would be out of date so need throwing, bin would always be full, so have to take bin out, wouldn't be able to find replacement bags for the bin, not be able to find all things I need, and after 2 hours of solid work and mess making I'd give up, not be able to do the activity and stuff in no better state than before.


(although that does remind me that the fridge needs some attention - there be dragons lurking I fear.......)

GreyQueen

Morning all. Grey and icky day here but not yet started to rain tho I am expecting it any minute.

I have pedalled off to the recycling bins at the supermarket car park for a few bits which aren't taken in the household recycling (glass jars and plastic marg tubs and ready-meal trays) and it was oh-so-satisfying to get them off the premises.

I am now going to take a short intermission and hustle around with a bag to round up paper-y carp which just seem to keep on coming.

Anyone ever contemplated sealing up their letterbox?!

pigpen

After a day off and a day of doing very little.. moved the baby's cot out of my bedroom yesterday which resulted in a pile of board games going on a shelf and a binbag of rubbish filled today I must find some floor in my room.. I need access to a chest of drawers so I can put the very large box of baby clothes away.

I have a large cardboard box from one of OH's deliveries which I am going to fill with stuff to be stored up in the loft. I don't have the mental energy to deal with it right now and it will be safe up there and should hopefully clear 2 Tesco crates of stuff from the girls room.

5th CS bag is underway and I have so far managed 29 binbags of stuff out of the house this week.. I need to crack on if I am to meet my 50 binbag goal, I really shouldn't have had those 2 days off but I just couldn't do another thing.. I am not motivated today either but I'm sure once I get started I'll be on a roll and do a decent amount of flinging.

roundtuit

I got a good feeling on Wednesday when I put out the (very full) recycling boxes with the general waste bin. The burgundy bin for cardboard and plastic goes out this week - tis nearly full :T

Slow start today - blaming AF, but could be viral I s'pose - anyway a slow start is better than no start and i have:

picked up 3 pairs of jeans which have lain forever on my bedroom floor - 1 pair binned as beyond redemption, other 2 pairs washed and now on line. When dried 1 pair will go in CS bag (DS will no longer wear what he calls 'Tesco' jeans), and 1 pair will be kept as they have never been worn, are only 1 size below what I wear now, and will serve as a motivator to lose weight. I can already feel the desire to wear them I can't remember the last time I wore jeans.

1 bird's feather - found lurking with jeans - binned

1 aerosol of Magicool rescued from bedroom floor and put to one side to return to lender

ditto 1 aerosol of Budgie Plume spray from living room floor

1 aerosol of room/linen spray (unwanted gift - although that sounds awful) put to one side to give to friend who will use it

(this place 'one side' is the worktop just inside the back door - from which said items can be picked up and taken on next visit :A)

been into DS's room - he's currently staying in student housing at Uni - and I've binned contents of his bin and put in a bin liner, plus recycled a sweet tin and a chocolate orange box from the floor.

I've also put a random sheet of A4 paper found in the kitchen into the recycling box. Oh, and three rinsed drinks cans have gone out too.

I've not found any signs of dragons lurking, but I can't help hoping they're here somewhere.

Back later to update

Rxx