KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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Happy Birthday MMF

MMF007

Thanks for the birthday wishes!

Siebrie - I know what you mean but I like a challenge and I am happy to wait for the exact item

Ooh GQ, I Iove a good bonnie!* No room in our mini-garden but dad indulges ne!(* Mila, that's a bonfire)

M

GreyQueen

I revert to my metalhead roots (wot? you thought I was always middle-aged?!) and singalonga Def Leppard's track Pyromania whilst bonfiring.:rotfl:

Floss

GQ am very jealous - we are only allowed bonnies the weekend before & weekend after 5th November...allotment rools which are really pants

MMF007

GreyQueen wrote: »

I revert to my metalhead roots (wot? you thought I was always middle-aged?!) and singalonga Def Leppard's track Pyromania whilst bonfiring.:rotfl:

Oh, I love a new verb -' bonfiring' is fab :rotfl:

mrs-moneypenny

Mmf007 happy birthday sounds like you got just the right gifts.

Enjoy your pyrotechnics GQ there's nothing quite like a good bonnie is there

Just back from cinema saw deep water horizon. Excellent film but very poignant at the end when it showed actual photos of the 11 real people who lost their lives in the disaster

greent

Happy birthday MMF!

Welcome back, Kc xx

GQ - I always hum the Prodigy's 'Firestarter'

2 more items sold on fleabay today

x

greenbee

Enjoy the flames GQ

The garden has gone wild in the last three weeks while I've been away/in bed feeling sorry for myself with some foreign lurgy, so I'm hoping I can get the mower through the hayfield a couple of times over the weekend. I also need to cut the hedge at some point. I can see my lunchbreaks this week being interesting!

I've was given some bits of carpet a couple of months ago, so over the next week or so want to use them to replace a badly patchworked piece in the hall, and possibly put a layer of carpet where there is currently only rug. I've got some odds and ends of underlay to use up to, so I may be able to fill in all the gaps.

I do need to speak to the builder and decide more is being done this year and when. And then I can start getting settled in for the winter.

I've spent a lot of time looking at wardrobes online - it appears that they are either MDF flat-pack or wildly expensive (or both). But I want to get the right thing - my big wardrobe cost me about a month's salary 20 years ago (I bought it with my first ever bonus) and has been well-travelled and well-used since. It may be going to my niece at some point. I do realise that the junk-shop 'gentleman's wardrobe' was a fluke, but it makes it hard to part with hundreds when I got such a bargain last time!

GreyQueen

Floss wrote: »

GQ am very jealous - we are only allowed bonnies the weekend before & weekend after 5th November...allotment rools which are really pants

That's a b*mmer. We have a 6 month bonfire season starting today. Because materials are best as dry as possible, I like to burn asap the 'season' opens, so they will burn fast and with minimal smoke. I find if I wait a few weeks things will be wetter rather than drier and burn smokily. Ideal time for bonfires would be in the heat of the summer, but that's verboten.

I use the bonfire to dispose of the dried out broad bean stalks, various other woody, stalky bits and bobs, broken canes and the odd rotted-out row marker stake. Plus the sliced & diced avocado pits and lolly sticks from the parental home.

Once cooled - 2 days typically - I turn the ashes underground with a fork and the plants which grow on that spot in subsequent years are noticably improved by it.

I mostly have two bonfires per year, the main one in early October, and a later one in March. I have a small plantation of self-sown sunflowers at the foot of the plot which re-seeds itself naturally each year. About this time, some have gone over and the birds are eating the seeds, some are still flowering.

Once they've totally finished, I'll uproot them, bundle them up and let them dry out for a few months before they'll be burned, also.

I lurve this time of year!

Karmacat

MMF007 wrote: »

Today I kondo'd another year! Been out all day having birthday treats!!

Happy Birthday! Have another cake :bdaycake:

PPS - Welcome back Karmacat :hello:

Thank you!

GreyQueen wrote: »

Happy Birthday, MMF007 and congratulation to Speky for becoming debt-free.

Absolutely - getting debt free is such a life-enhancing, freedom-inspiring moment :j

Nice to see you again, Karmakat. Hope retirement is suiting you nicely.

It *so* is thanks GQ. If I'd realised how easily the fatigue problem (not the syndrome) would be solved, I'd have tried for it before.

greent wrote: »

Welcome back, Kc xx

Thanks greent it's good to be back!

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