Weekly Flylady Thread 25th June 2018

Valli

Despite the fact that the house looks like a midden I'm off out this morning as my sister and friends are muddy running again in memory of our little sister; this year Mum is able to come. Have kept up with the washing though so have an ironing mountain. Hope you all have a good weekend

roundtuit

:eek: Twot for teeny tiny steps even ... drip...melt...

Round 1 done + WM x1 hung out and WM x 2nd load swishing; watered hanging basket and bedding plants whilst they are in the shade; and sorted Mount Washmore into hillocks.

Going for petrol now before it gets any hotter :cool:

Rxx

juliejim

Garden watered
DD's bed stripped
WM x 2
1st lot on the line
LR floor is slowly being cleared - mainly of puppy debris and then she is attempting to leave another trail behind me!
DD's revision stuff moved upstairs

kazwookie

Whole house hoovered
Shopping done

Off out with OH to an Armed Forces Day nad then a bike meet!

LameWolf

Piggers words totally fail me. 'Nuff said.

Mademoiselle wrote: »

Lamewolf well done on you both for getting on and sorting the loft, if you're not able to get up there easily it's not really a viable storage space so best sort it out now. I cleared part of my wardrobe this morning, 2 shelves done 2 to go.

Trouble is, I don't actually know what's up there - yes I do know there are some collectible plates of mine that I'd love to have on display but we have nowhere to put them, and the boxes to my pewter & crystal dragons (more valuable if you also have the box) but that's just a fraction of it - most of the rest is all Mr LW's gibble from before I moved in here in 2002. :eek:

atypicalblonde wrote: »

Since the start of the year, whenever we have received some marketing post (catalogues, brochures etc) I have been calling or emailing the company to ask to be taken off the mail list. Sounds really sad but I was sick of basically putting most of the post straight in the recycling! We hardly ever get post now which makes me happier, I know that sounds odd!

Not at all odd - I've been systematically getting us off various mail/email lists. We used to get at least four pieces of junk from the cruise company every week, just because we went on a cruise in March 2015, for instance. My recycling bag is consequently a lot easier to manage these days!

Deferring Lacey Spaniel's walk til it's a bit cooler. She's having regular comfort breaks in the garden, and I'll take her round the park when the sun's gone a bit further round.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

pigpen wrote: »

Look!!! I'm sitting down!!!

Shopping done to buy Mooms undies, pjs and 1 pair of school trousers.. she is so underfed her pelvis is visible through her clothes.. I am weighing her in the morning. Apparently she is allowed bran flakes with skimmed milk for breakfast, a single wrap with a single slice of ham and an apple for lunch and a ready meal for dinner (approx 850 calories).. that is a 'healthy diet' for a growing teenager apparently... She has put away so much food today she is going to be the size of a house by Monday!! I think once she realises nothing is 'forbidden' in this house she will reel it in a bit and moderate her food intake to a normal level.. CF has lied already to social services (I reported him).. the man is a total fruit loop!!! He has been asked by them to box up her necessities.. underwear, school clothes, phone, and other bits etc.. and has refused to get them for her.. I'm giving her and Mimi some money each to go shopping next weekend.. I'm pretty sure they will manage to find things they like then.. Tesco is either babies or older females, not young women!

I might be misremembering, but wasn't Moomin the one who CF didn't want taking medication because he wanted her to stay little?

If I'm right, it would make sense (in a Fd up way) for him to restrict her food intake to keep her looking childlike. Definitely creepy and abusive in the extreme, even if I'm wrong - but you might need to see a doctor to make sure that she doesn't experience problems with refeeding (including stomach issues) and addressing what must be almost guaranteed nutritional deficiencies - there's sod all vitamins in that diet. And take some photos/record her weight, as the odds are that SS will assume that because she's back with you now, there's no need to take any further action.

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I have scrubbed the kitchen surfaces, tiles, appliance tops and hob, completely forgotten about the cleaning spray I left squirted over the bathroom when I got up and been mildly amused (and miffed because it's cost money to get there and in getting equipment for it) by Himself messaging to say they're on their way back now instead of tomorrow night - in a hire car because they missed their ferry and the van promptly broke down ten minutes later.

When he gets back, he can get a takeaway for tonight and cook a proper dinner tomorrow.


I'm going to zip upstairs to get the spray off the bathroom, chuck a washload on and then vegetate for the rest of the day, other than chucking some water over the windowboxes once it's a bit cooler - I had to wake him up at 5.30am to leave, as he had been summoned to a rehearsal until late Friday and might not have woken up otherwise, and then I actually went back to sleep until midday :eek:


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I have been pondering whether to fork out for a Deep Clean in the summer when he's next away, as a friend has been using a local service for other things and seems to rate the company highly. It's not particularly untidy here (and there are drawers and cupboards to dump things in if necessary - like the extra books he prefers out rather than in the bookcases for some reason), but where Himself is blind to things that need doing, there is a level of grime that I cannot shift or won't even attempt, such as the tops of cupboards and the skirting boards. And whilst I don't mind eight legged lodgers that much when they pay rent, the new tenant in the tiny gap between the kitchen cupboard and the wall seems to be a little territorial for an indoor resident, so I could theoretically evict my favourite resident harmlessly into her natural environment whilst a company does all the scrubbing and polishing I CBA to do.

As he doesn't quite understand why I pay a window cleaner to do the outside of the front windows each fortnight (like he'd really be able to do them himself and he's never done the back ones in five years to prove me wrong), he'd be baffled by the suggestion - and probably a bit offended - that it's Just Not Good Enough in here. So it would have to be arranged for when he's away. But it would have to be a big enough improvement to make it worthwhile in cost and the secrecy.


Oooh, I've just remembered that there are some DIY jobs that need doing before that - the shower screen and the sodding CFL fittings he broke, as I couldn't expect them to clean the landing in the dark. And the broken blind. Hmmmph. I'll have to get them sorted beforehand.

Honey_Bear

It's a good thing Moomin's back with you, Piggers. She wouldn't have been able to keep going for much longer on that regime.

Fayolle wrote: »

Big hugs, you are all fab. X

^ ^ ^ Wot she said.


Forgot to say - tip run first thing yesterday as well. We're getting there. OH has put two coats on the new backgate (timber) frame, one more to go. Lovely paint to work with - just as well, I'm going to do the front door and frame with the same stuff.



All the washing has been done and the last few loads are drying. Everything has been photographed that needs to be to get it all listed by tomorrow evening. I'm too tired to sort out the mess in virtually every room in the house today; it'll just have to wait until tomorrow. We've now been invited to a barbeque this evening, so I'm saving what little energy I have left for that.



Gumtwig breadmaker sourced for a young couple with a one month old baby, together with a couple of boxes of instant breadmixes, flours and flavourings to get them going. An unusual type of christening present, but I reckon we spend about one third of what buying loaves used to cost us and they are both foodies so it should set them up.


We met Wera Hobhouse this morning, the MP whose Private Member's Bill created all the fuss around Upskirting. Very, very interesting how it came about. I liked her enormously. (She was a secondary school teacher in her pre-politics life.)

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Honey_Bear wrote: »

Gumtwig breadmaker sourced for a young couple with a one month old baby, together with a couple of boxes of instant breadmixes, flours and flavourings to get them going. An unusual type of christening present, but I reckon we spend about one third of what buying loaves used to cost us and they are both foodies so it should set them up.


We met Wera Hobhouse this morning, the MP whose Private Member's Bill created all the fuss around Upskirting. Very, very interesting how it came about. I liked her enormously. (She was a secondary school teacher in her pre-politics life.)

Sounds like a perfect present, HB - I'd love it if such things came up round here, as I a) hate sliced bread and b) the oven thermostat is borked.

Teenage boys and camera phones? - It started happening almost instantly that phones with cameras became cheap, usually by force or by 'steaming' into changing rooms as a group. And because it wasn't an 'offence', they didn't get more than a detention issued by the old men who were mostly in the senior positions in schools, if anything. :mad:


I am back on the sofa and will not be moving again. I did the bathroom, stuck the washload on, moved the bedroom fan to make the air at bed height move more than the air underneath the bed (as the cats are quite capable of sleeping on top of the wardrobe and are, in any case, snoring downstairs on the furry throw). And then I went to take a bucket of water out the front as the sun has moved around.

A bit of water sloshed out as I was walking and I promptly slid across the floor, only saving myself from ending up flat on my back with an entire bucket of water landing on my face by dropping onto my left knee to do some sort of wobbly yoga pose. My left hip yelled for mercy as I tried to stop before doing front splits and really hurts now. No clicks, cracks or other suggestions that a blue light taxi would be in order, though.

In any case, I chucked the remainder from the bucket over the plants, tiptoed back in, scooted a towel over the floor (so it now has a suspiciously cleaner patch) and decided I am NOT MOVING AGAIN.

I have, however, messaged Himself to see if he can get dropped off at a station to come straight back rather than going via North London first.

pigpen

Jojo.. yes that one is Moomin.

Anyway he brought her school shoes :eek: and trainers.. :eek: again.. 5 polo shirts (dirty) a school skirt (she wont wear because she hates it) a pair of BOYS school trousers (dirty) a carrier bag of knickers (again dirty) and some crop top underwear she had when she was 10, nothing else! We have been given back my phone though!!... The footwear is bagged ready to bin after showing SS. the skirt is being sent back and I am replacing the trousers asap. I've spent £89 on shoes and trainers and £80 on glasses which fit her face (he made her get childrens ones which were too small and had to be free so of course she refused to wear) and £100 on clothes, mainly underwear... Tiddles however.. is going to school in boots I bought 2 years ago and having to change them in the medical room to ones they have because they arent allowed boots at school because he is refusing to buy her new shoes.... how embarassing must that be for a 13 year old... I'm so incredibly ashamed!!!!!!!!!!! I wouldn't mind but he works and they brag how much money they have... wonder why!!!

The girls did the majority of the housework.. some is fine I agree.. but all?? I am so utterly terrified for Tiddles safety and wellbeing... but the decision to leave has to be hers.. They both have sore skin conditions I can only think are due to malnutrition and not being allowed to wash adequately.

but.. there is nothing I can do TODAY so I'm getting on with the things I need to do and we will do what we can when we can.

DD2 is moving back in.. today, not Thursday... I have nowhere left for her to sleep.. I don't know what we will do!


I have however, cleaned the kitchen, folded 11 loads of laundry, washed and hung out 3 more, watered all the garden, cleaned the worksurfaces, reorganised DD3's room for a second bed space and emptied everything for decorating next week, swept the kitchen, had a massive allergic reaction to a pair of tesco rubber gloves (Latex allergies ftw!!) taken the girls to their swimming lessons, been shopping and done 5 opticians appointments.. and picked my first pair of reading glasses.... I'm so old!!! pmsl...



If I can survive the next 2 weeks, I can survive ANYTHING!!!

pigpen

oh.. he brought her toothbrush too.. she put it in the bin because she wasn't sure if it had been used to clean the toilet or not.. wise girl!

She seems so light and free and happy.. all I've heard is laughing and chatting and 'I love you' for 3 days..