Travelling On

Karmacat

We worked hard yesterday on cleaning bits that I've left completely undone - the porch behind a set of shelves, that sort of thing - and my sister has taken a load of plantpots plus a big box of vintage clothes and material to store in her office, she'll take another similar one on Saturday.  I'm chucking out easy stuff: bits of soap and candle I was going to melt down, very, very old loose tea.  I've soaked some beans and I'll do them today: all about cutting down what's here, in as many ways as possible.  I wear my clothes to destruction, for instance 😁 and I just threw out a t shirt I bought in 1997        It's useful for grubby work in the house - why not? - but it has a hole in it now, where its worn thin, and even I have my limits 🤣 but I've kept a good piece for if I ever want to do a t shirt fabric piece of patchwork, some time in the distant future 🤣

I've also been admiring the *two* foxes sleeping in my garden, including one that jumped into the wheelbarrow briefly (I'm going to offer the wheelbarrow to my neighbour who has an allotment, it was a freebie to me, needs passing on) and I might go a walk pretty soon because the forecast for the rest of the day is **dire**.  

Bit more cleaning today, I'll do as much as I can in a balanced way.  Really need to join a few more baby HWs, though, the ones I have have ground to a halt.

themadvix

It sounds like you had a super productive day yesterday! And are very focused on the move.

Two foxes - lucky you!

beanielou

I will stick to 2 cats!

Karmacat

I happened to see the neighbour to offer the wheelbarrow to, but she didn't want it - she's super organised on their allotment, and already has one.  She didn't respond to my suggestion of "anyone in the allotment who wants it", and I'll leave it there with her, she didn't look too well, actually  

So I'll offer it to my lovely neighbour over the road, and if he doesn't want it either, or anyone else he knows, I'll stick it in the front yard with a "free, please take" sign.  What will be will be.

Going to check the back garden for sleeping foxes (don't want to disturb them!) and if there's none there, I might do half an hour out there, I need to get myself in gear.

themadvix

That's a pity she didn't want it. But I'm sure someone will have it. At our allotments we have communal barrows, which I think is quite a good idea - they take up quite a bit of space to store, so having a few we can access is much easier than having our own.

Good luck in the garden. Despite the forecast being for rainy showers from 10ish, the heavens have only just opened - just as I'm coming to the end of my work and was hoping for a quick trip to the allotment! 🙄 Still, I have plenty of other jobs to be doing (just none as enjoyable as a potter at the allotment!).

Karmacat

Thanks madvix, I'm sure you're right about someone wanting the wheelbarrow - communal at the allotments is *such* a good idea, for so many reasons, I really like that.  Though I'm sorry to deprive my fox of a bed 🤣🦊

I had a very short walk - clouds were a bit too threatening for the ordinary clothes I was wearing! - and I did get my quick half hour in the garden - laid out some of the cardboard from the sofa that I kept to act as mulch, it helps on a path to the compost bin.  Just by there is one of the anthills 😮 so I dealt with the bump - I was assuming there were ants in the top of the "hill", but there weren't, it must be a bleeping big space they've cleared underground for their nest 😮

Might be a domestic day today: washing is on the line, and I have a supermarket delivery at lunchtime.  That will mean traipsing in and out of the kitchen with cleaned goods, so I'll get a piece of spare vinyl down to cover the bit I scrubbed clean on Monday.  Not going to do that again!  Ordinary cleaning with a brush will do after that.  

84p on the 2nd baby HW 🤣 I'm just waiting for the million pound premium bond really 🤣

There are a million potential jobs to do - I might focus upstairs, I hate to say it but I'm kind of ashamed to let my sister upstairs to help me, because of how bad it is    That would enable me to find the fabric to cover the underside of the new sofa, as far as she and I are concerned, it might as well label itself "spider's nests available, undisturbed" 🙄

Baileys_Babe

Would you overtime be able to clean upstairs to a point you would then be happy to let your sister go upstairs and help you?

Karmacat

I would, BB - it's not really about the cleaning for the upstairs, its the untidiness, and the way everything is piled up on top of each other.  That's been helped tremendously over the last 24 hours - chucking badly OOD stuff out of the kitchen meant I can bring stored tins etc (from an Approved Food similar-type website) down into the kitchen, and the seedlings have mostly been turfed - I'm trying to keep a few chard going, and the single courgette that grew seems very sturdy.  

Plus I'm going to have to go to the shops in person to buy my interdens brushes, Asda can't get hold of what they say they have 🤣 so the charity shop stuff can go as well.  Once I put my mind to the task, it doesn't take long.  I don't mind describing it on here, but in person I'm horrified I've let it get like this 🙄

Baileys_Babe

@Karmacat your upstairs sounds like mine, the biggest problem is stuff and it not being very tidy. 

Our smallest bedroom was turned into an organised storeroom which was helping a lot until OH started reorganizing the tool cupboard a few weeks ago. The tools and equipment were dumped in the storeroom, he sorted out some things and returned them to the tools cupboard, then his fatigue kicked in which has since been joined by a flare-up of one of his other chronic conditions. I am willing to deal with this but he is hoping he will soon be able to do it himself. In the meantime it is difficult to get into the bed/store room let alone put away what should be in there, which is then impacting elsewhere in the house 😞

Karmacat

Exactly!  To re-organise anything, when you're at peak storage, is to make *everything* unuseable, let alone untidy.  And when you add in chronic fatigue, it becomes a nightmare.  And as a couple, you're dancing round one another - at least I've only got my own mess to contend with   

I'm sure I've had this conversation with you before, BB, but you don't seem to have a diary?  I can't find one anywhere ... and you seem to have a lot of the same issues as me 😁

Right, I'm going to actually walk up and down the road for a bit - can't go for a proper walk with the clouds looming like this, I need to be able to run for cover 🤣