Weekly Flylady Thread 23rd July 2018

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Found one of Himself's little ideas at about 2.30am.

A Cold Water Bottle.

Yep, he'd put a hot water bottle in the freezer.

Wrapped in a towel, after initially holding it, I went to sleep with the thing on my head.


He does have some interesting ideas at times.



There are no kids playing out round - the playgrounds attached to the social housing are deserted.

I am wondering if the kid from work has finally got around to taking his parka off, though. There was one who insisted upon wearing a heavy coat right up to the last day of term. Had the kid a medical condition or had recently come here from somewhere very hot, we would have been able to understand it, but his family came here when he was six. Maybe he's just making do with a thick jumper today?


I am going to finish my tea, have some toast made with freshly baked bread, as I experimented with the timer setting on the new BM last night - it's like magic/Christmas Day opening it up to find a fresh loaf in there! - sticking some of the last bits of my homemade blackberry, lemon and elderflower jam I made last year on it - possibly share some with Himself as he's stirring upstairs - and then think about maybe doing something about the next cupboard.

Or I might make a start on the picking the new crop of blackberries out the back.


I've sort of volunteered to help a friend on her allotment late this evening. She's offered veggie food as a thank you - if that includes any spare veg or fruit for my trouble, it'll be worth it, along with actually seeing another human being that I like(!). I'll see whether Himself is prepared to come along as well; the allotments are on higher ground, so should be a little cooler than round here, too, but if not, it'll just be a nice evening out around greenery, talking rubbish and pottering about. And her kitchen has stone flags, which are a lot nicer than lino in this weather

I won't be trying any weird varieties of fruit she grows, though. She got me to try Goji berries last year and whilst some were pleasant, some just turned my face inside out with the sourness .


Oh, yuk. The builders are not working because it's too hot. So one is 'singing'. Paul McCartney 'Someone's Knocking on My Door'. Please, somebody shove him off the top floor.

Valli

drive/front step swept.
Then I went for my morning shower - good decision.
It rained. Great big fat raindrops. I have two lines of washing out. And a lounger. Got lounger in. It stopped. Must have been the two minute rain that Fayolle (? might not have that right) experienced.

DW emptied.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Found another 'idea' in the freezer when I was putting the tray of blackberries in there to freeze- a plastic bottle of water.

The cats are currently laying underneath the coffee table worshipping it as their new God as it chills the dark patch of laminate under there and the breeze of the fan carries the cooling wafts over their little melted fluffy bodies,

As the wretched sun has come out now, the temperature gauge is going to start moving from the 32 in the darkest recesses of the house to something even more foul. I can't remember the last time I actually allowed sunlight to pervade the house, but it's not happening any time soon with temperatures like that.


Himself has been down and gone back upstairs. Looks like he's not doing anything today if he can avoid it.

LameWolf

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

I know I am not supposed to say it but I am tiny bit sick of this heat. Does it not just feel a bit strange to be this hot all the time?

Why shouldn't you say it? I am more than a bit sick of it, I spent a portion of yesterday attached to the Big White Telephone purely due to being overheated.
H-U-G-E congratulations on the promotion, too. :T:T:T

Jazee

Congratulations ysl.

Only the dailies being done here at the moment. We currently have a storm, yay.

froddington

Jazee wrote: »

Only the dailies being done here at the moment. We currently have a storm, yay.

Please send it this way - I'm melting even with the fan on. It's over 30 here and I've got to get in the car to go to Mum's

I have managed one load of washing, washed up and wiped kitchen surfaces. That was enough in this!

YL - huge congrats :T xx

LW - hope you're feeling better today xx

Honey_Bear

Glad the breadmaker's in working order, Jojo.

klew356 wrote: »

how does everyone deal with mould/mildew on and around the shower?

I put bleach on a wodge of paper towel and leave it to soak for a good 12 hours. If there's a marked improvement I rinse it down and do it again. If you can't shift it, you have to scrape out the silicone sealant with a scalpel-type tool and reseal it. It's not a difficult job but if you haven't done it before it's a bit fiddly and time consuming. I thorougly recommend watching a few Youtube videos, buying some masking tape and having a go. It won't cost you more than £10 and youll be so proud of yourself! When you buy the silicone sealant make sure you get the colour you want and not black or grey or cream if you're after white. (Ask me how I know, as they say elsethread.) IIf the mould has got under the sealant it will definitely need stripping out and resealing.

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

However, I have got the promotion that I have hoped and dreamed of for the past 3 years. It hasnt sunk in yet.

Huge congratulations. It sounds as though you've earned it.



I love sun and am never going to complain about warm or hot weather but we really, really do need some rain in the southwest. I never thought I'd need to say that!


Kelpie's got very dry eyes and an infection in one of them. Has anyone got any tips about giving eye drops to a very squrimy dog?



Flying has been minimal because I've been frantically busy and not that happy about it. I've stayed on top of the washing up but the rest has gone to pot. However, the yard has now had two coats, the first of which took four hours, and the second 30 minutes - I was in a bit of a hurry.



Today is my four year anniversary of being alcohol-free. Rather pleased with that.

Valli

painting aprons clean, dry and folded ready to go back to work, as is drape.
other washing brough in. Mr M's visited. Got YS beef joint half price; DD has been informed it will be served when it's cooler and I can bear the heat in the kitchen, so not in the near future. Spend came to 56p less than the £30 I needed to claim 3000 points; DD despatched into shop to spend a bit more. She picked up the own brand magnum style ices I had offered to buy two minutes previously. Ice cream is a safe bet, I'm not a fan and rarely eat it. We had taken a cool bag as other ices have been bought. We *might* be getting rain; no sign as yet. I will be having another shower later...

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Two more cupboards bottomed. The SC has been shoved into the dried foods cupboard, as there's nowhere else it would fit, and the two of gibble are now one of baking/mixing/storage (before applying heat) by the main counter and powerpoints and one of cooking/baking next to the oven (ie, ones suitable for the application of heat).

Himself is pulling faces at the mountains of things from the cupboards stacked on every surface and muttering darkly about how it's impossible to cook when every surface is covered. I've suggested that washing some of them up would help.

(And thoughtfully not added if he washed things up properly in the first place, they would have been clean enough to put straight back inside the clean cupboards. Or shoved a grease encrusted Yorkshire Pudding tin where the sun isn't getting to shine.)


He has, however, brought back two bunches of flowers from the supermarket and put them in vases, even remembering to chop the bottom of the roses off first.


Should have paid somebody else to do this. It's going to be an entire week working on one room at this rate.

*************

I use similar techniques on cats and dogs as I used to upon children, HB.

Put large towel over the head and quickly wrap it around the wriggliest bits (2 arms + 2 legs is the same as 4 legs), pick up angry burrito and lean it backwards, allow angry burrito to turn its head into your body to try and hide and then drip said drops into the corner, allowing gravity to carry the liquid over the eye surface. Flip onto other side, then release.

The risk of being bitten is about the same, no matter how many legs are involved.



[Context: I became official pill giver to animals from the age of 5 as I could get furry balls of venom to swallow the things without even needing the towel before they'd even realised I'd done more than picked them up. The only wound I ever sustained was when my best cat sank her teeth into my thumb about ten years ago when she was actually choking on some plastic I was retrieving from the back of her throat before she died in my arms. Ungrateful madam.]


Oh, good grief. He's dozed off on the settee. What has he done to be tired?

Narc0lepsy

yl congratulations.
Envious of receivers of rain.
Got in car 8.30am 25 degrees. Drove to gym. Session with injury specialist trainer. Got back in car 10am 35 degrees. Pub lunch with friend. Got in car 38 degrees.
Got home, saw smoke in distance. 4 fire engines, police helicopter and tractors sped through village. After phone call from a friend, currently away, rushed 5 doors down the road to check her horses. 5 of us stood prepared to evacuate the 2 horses to the other end of the village, thankfully the fire was put out. Scary, at one stage we could see flames and smoke just one field away.
Sorry, only thing resembling flying has been watering plants - I've never had to water my pond plants before, hardly any water left. Oh, and filled bird feeders.