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redofromstart

Sun_Addict wrote: »

Argos customer service is brilliant but hopefully you won't need it.

yes, they were great with the trampoline, collected and refunded without quibble even though it was 11 months old.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

I got on OK with FlyLady once I had done the decluttering, which to be fair she does tell you to do first. It doesn't work quite so well if you are reshuffling things or feeling guilty every time a room comes round.

yes, it was brilliant at the old house once I had got on top of everything. Think its the sheer volume here, and the resident hoarders

Storm89 wrote: »

That's really annoying how Amazon have dealt with it. Can they not give you the refund in actual cash into your account of you ask ? .

I don't mind a gift card refund, as thats how I paid for it (Swagbucks) but I did mind account credit for the postage which just ties me in again.

redofromstart

doingitanyway wrote: »

Love the peanut butter cookies. Looking forward to making these as they are naturally GF and they will be a lovely treat. (When I get a kitchen and an oven!)

I like them, bit more interesting with the whole nuts in too. Just rinse the salt off first, I know you don't like too much either.

Food shopping this morning, the week rolls round so quickly. Flour and cocoa replaced. I was quite looking forward to the Aldee Super 6 as it is all nice fruit, but it was tiny or over -ripe so I din't bother. There was a 50% off pack of strawberries that was mushy liquid which really put me off buying any of the F&V sadly.

I have two baby courgettes so very nearly ready, give it another few days.

The rest of the school day was spent scrubbing and sorting the stairs area. The paint is ancient and has that nasty yellow tinge of old age, and many,many coats of paint. I must ban everyone from carrying anything liquid upstairs, v fed up of scrubbing coffee spots etc. If you scrub too hard the paint flakes and it looks worse. The door is even worse, but at some point we want to expose the stone work on the exterior wall, replace the bottom of the stairs door with one of the nice reclaim ones that lives in our bedroom, and OH will blacksmith a panel to replace the current 70s style glass bit to the side so it isn't worth doing anything much beyond cleaning. I did realise that the Miele handle extends and you can hoover the wall up to the ceiling, much to the disgust of many spiders .

HairyHandofDartmoor

Our stairs and understairs cupboards are covered in yellowing chipped paint. I'd prefer them stripped really as I hate chips, but we'll never have time for that! Thank goodness the spindles and bannister is stripped. Why are houses so time consuming?

redofromstart

HHOD Most of the original woodwork in this house is yellowing and chipped, encrusted with many coats of ancient paint. I've stripped some of it but its a slow, boring and expensive job. I'm not sure why I bother when it isn't nice/original/or odd sizes actually. It doesn't even look much better for being cleaner. Sometimes I just wish we had bought a new build actually.

Rare visit to MrT this morning, and I was impressed with the 49p fruit. Nectarines, doughnut peaches, apricots and a pineapple purchased for £1.96, and I used my £1.50 of vouchers. Also the big wilkos for cleaning bits, sugar soap, and a wire brush.

£4 personal spend in Matalan on a long line vest in fuschia pink. I'm blaming Storm who made me look. They had these really lovely embroidered bird cushions which I may yet crack and buy, but I am telling myself that there is no point while the house is so horrid, that the cats would love them and kiss them and pull threads out of them, and the blasted moths would probably just eat them. Pretty though, and a lovely theme to decorate a room from. The picture isn't great on the website but they are a pretty muted pale green and pinky/mauve colourway.

sashybo

Hi redo,

Think I'll steal the Thai green curry recipe for dinner later & the peanut butter cookies sound good too (although I'm trying to stay away from biscuits - another one looking to lose some weight).

What is it with cats & cushions? All the pretty ones I buy get wrecked by the cats padding on them & claws catching and then they sit their big fat cat butts on them! :rotfl:

Storm89

At least you only spent £4 in Matalan not £50 odd lol. I might sneak a peak at the cushions myself online ! I'm the opposite to you & often think I would like a house with a bit more character. We are hoping to move once the debt is gone and I'm constantly back and forth over another new build vs a nice Victorian terrace.

EssexHebridean

Watch out for the Nectarines Redo - 4 of the 5 in my pack mouldy inside two days and the last one isn't ripe yet - but I suspect will go mouldy before it is! I have complained to Tesco and got an apology - still vaguely hoping for a gift card in the post again but they usually say if they're going to send one so I guess that's not happening. Annoying and will definitely put me off buying their nectarines again.

I had a look at the Bowl Full of Lemons site - looks like some interesting stuff on there but once I clocked that her "daily cleaning routine" ran to 75 minutes (And that's without all the stuff like cooking meals, and includes phrases like "begin as soon as you wake up") I decided that it wasn't for someone who actually goes out to work, but more for someone who has the luxury of being a full time blogger! :rotfl: I guess like everything else there is value in taking away the stuff that suits you and ignoring the stuff that doesn't, though.

I'm trying to get back to my 15 minute tidies on a daily basis - I know it works, and as we all know "You can do anything for 15 minutes" so that is the way formwards for me, combined with the routines like sorting clothes out the night before, and leaving the kitchen clean & tidy at night.

I'm trying to ignore the Peanut cookie recipe - they do sound dangerously nice!

redofromstart

EssexHebridean wrote: »

I'm trying to ignore the Peanut cookie recipe - they do sound dangerously nice!

I'd qualify that with 'nice for a gluten free recipe'. There are much nicer nut biscuit recipes if you are going to indulge (florentines or biscotti, yum) but this is the best one I have found that I can have regularly.

Thanks - I checked the nectarines and one was very ripe so I ate it, two that will be ripe tomorrow hopefully. Most of the boxes were rock solid, I searched for these. Same with the apricots, I have eaten the one very ripe one and it actually tasted of something happily. I find that with plums too, half the time they never ripen - rock solid to mouldy overnight. I happily eat soft fruit though, its one of the few things that I do like so it its cheap enough I take my chances.


sashybo - I pad the curry out with a lot of green veg which helps keep the calories down. Cats and cushions are not a good combination sadly.

storm I generally try not to look, but its rare to find the longline vests in nice colours so I had to go in to get one. I tried not to look at anything else though, the cushions are strategically placed at the till.

I just remembered my sisters birthday, and fathers day, but luckily the Azn credit is back on the account so I used that for both.

DW on, need to do an hour on the kitchen clean or nothing at all will have been achieved in the great clean up today.

Seasidegal58

Hi there redo - you reminded me how quick and easy Waldorf salad is to knock up so I made it for my lunch. Delish! Was thinking of going through your diary and copying all your foodie bits for future reference!:)

Agree on the cats and embroidery type cushions - definitely not a good mix!:eek:

Re cleaning - how about trying the flylady crisis cleaning once in a while - you know - quarter of an hour in kitchen then living room then kitchen then quarter of an hour's rest. Start again and go onto another room when one is finished - no deep cleaning just clearing the clutter, dusting, mopping and hoovering floors - just the bits that show!:D

redofromstart

Seasidegal58 wrote: »

Re cleaning - how about trying the flylady crisis cleaning once in a while - you know - quarter of an hour in kitchen then living room then kitchen then quarter of an hour's rest. Start again and go onto another room when one is finished - no deep cleaning just clearing the clutter, dusting, mopping and hoovering floors - just the bits that show!:D

That's all I usually do tbh, it works up to a point but after a few [STRIKE]months[/STRIKE] years it starts looking rather grubby round the edges. I blame the dogs

I did some sugar soaping of the kitchen walls and scrubbed some bits of skirting boards before I did school run.

I have just been and distributed moth deterrents round the upstairs and realised that DS2s resident spiders have made a web canopy over his bed. He isn't keen on spiders and I feel really guilty Anyway, I've taken the extending fluffy duster up and we have established if you catch one end and keep twisting you can make cobweb candy floss. He was impressed.