Weekly Flylady Thread 15th April 2019

wishingthemortgaheaway

Full day teaching for me today.

Dw filled
Wm filled and timer set to be ready for when I get home.
Small up and dressed.

Tonight:
Food shop (hopefully get this done between end of teaching & picking Pickle up from Childminder)
Cleaner proof the house
Hand up wet washing
Sort stuff for work day tomorrow.

roundtuit

Morning :hello:

I'm here Cheering you all on from the sidelines - waving a duster so at least I look like a flylady

Minimum flying will be done until Friday - I'm banjaxed. Fell asleep in the chair last night missing chunks of Endeavour - so the ending didn't make a lot of sense! Sum total of flying was make bed, feed birds, prepare & cook piri piri chicken for DS's tea and ermmmm that was it.

Bed is made. Seed is ready to take out to the birds. I'll change Sweetie's seed and water before I go to the paid stuff.

Hugs to all
Rxx

noendinsight

Hi,
I quite surprised myself yesterday and managed to get level 1 done in the kitchen
The utility looks presentable (spend quite a lot of time attacking the washing mountain) and I found the conservatory floor for the first time since Christmas!
I'm taking DD2 & her friend out today so won't be able to get in the bathroom until later this afternoon - not looking forward to it.
Lou x

Fayolle

Morning
Welcome noendinsight :wave:

It was a full day at work yesterday. I think flying might have consisted of filling up the fruit bowl and little else. I had a rubbish night’s sleep last night, consequently I was sound asleep at 7am and am still drinking my first cuppa.

Today I am going to follow the lists à la Fayolle and try really hard not to get distracted by the greenhouse. It’s not like I’m successfully growing a ton of stuff, but I do like to go and check that a leaf hasn’t appeared since the last check.

So far - recycling out for collection, a load of towels in the wm, no ironing pile - hurrah. DW to empty next, then I’ll see where I get on the lists.

Have a good day all.

ETA - dancemum, I suspect that Kaz has sent you some sound advice. I hope you have some success.

shirlgirl2004

The utility room is my one room that needs sorting noendinsight. It's a dumping ground for things to go into the garage. I told myself I was going to sort it yesterday but I procrastinated instead.

S&S bathrooms. 1xWM 1XDW 10 minutes in the utility room.:)
kitchen floor, downstairs wc and hall floors washed.

Valli

Old car taken to mechanic. Had sense to pick up a cheque a need to bank so when I walked up to town for the bus I nipped into the bank - and the new Iceland - DS will enjoy the free gift - chocolate twists. Probably made by DD's company!

Had prepped and switched on SC before I left for my favourite - campfire stew.

Fayolle

Most of the necessary bits of yesterday and today’s lists done, so pretty pleased with that progress. I’ve ignored the bits that I didn’t like the sound of.
I also ventured into the utility room to see if I could unearth the draining board from crud so that I could make some attempt at cleaning the room. 4 mismatched pasta bowls, 2 metal water bottles, 2 half burned candles and a coffee storage jar with no seal that I’ve been trying to fix for a year or more have been flung to appropriate places.

kazwookie

Daily stuff done
Volunteering done for 22.5 hours
Had something to eat.

Off to figure out what to do this afternoon off my loooooooooooong list

Honey_Bear

Sorry about DD's car, Valli.

(((Hugs))) Dancemum. I can't offer any help other than to say that you know your DP's situation better than any of the people looking after him in hospital, and if they aren't given relevant information, they can't set up a proper careplan.

New-to-me dog has spent the last 24 hours racing downstairs to the lodger's room at every opportunity to whine and scrape at his door frantically. She doesn't want to follow me back upstairs, I don't believe in dragging them on the lead, shakes with fear when I carry her up, and then races back down at the earliest opportunity. It's the only room in the house she hasn't been allowed in since she arrived, (he's a dog lover but slightly allergic) and I'm now convinced she's spent years trying to find the litters of puppies that have been repeatedly removed. In the end a bit of sun bathing on the sundeck with OH and the kittens in attendance calmed her down completely, at long last.

While she was carrying on I washed her blankets and hung them out, cleared out the fridge, cleared the washing up again (second time today), prepped dinner, vinegar'd a travel kettle that hasn't been used for a decade or more that I'll need at the end of the month, vacuummed the worst bit of the house, tidied around some hotspots, and topped up bird buckets and cat biscuits. More to do to get this house back into a reasonable shape; there's gibble everywhere.

I am a slattern.

Honey_Bear

[FONT=&quot]Dancemum, I got the paperwork to do our Powers of Attorney 15 years ago and really struggled, binned it all when I realised it was completely out of date while reading MSE Martin's guidance on here and then read this thread:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3671735/new-power-of-attorney-guide&highlight=lpa[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]from start to finish, making notes as I went. It was absolutely brilliant. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I then filled them both in online for myself and OH, and got them signed by everybody in the right order. To begin with it seems pretty daunting, but actually, once you've filled in the easy bits on line (name, address, date of birth, name and address of the person/people you want to give the power of attorney to, and someone who can vouch for the donor that they're compos mentis (a certificate provider), you're pretty much home and dry. You can take a whole year to fill them in on line, so I'd thoroughly recommend using the government's system.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]When the whole thing is done and dusted you send it off to register it if you think it might be needed at short notice at any point (OH and I can't trust our next of kins so we both had to do this), and then make lots of copies to give to each attorney, the bank, the GP's surgery etc and then file them away for when they're needed. I got the photocopies done at the library.
[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I had a stamp made because each copy page has to have a sentence written on the copies and a signature, and as we had rather a lot of pages and copies between us. It was a buy one get one free offer for the stamp, so if you get to the point that it would be useful, let me know and I can bung the spare one in the post to you.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Alternatively, some councils have a free certification service, but I imagine you have to pay for the copies to be made, or there may now be a nominal charge in some area. If you've got any questions and I can help I'd obviously be very happy to.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The reason I did them myself was because I'd read the MSE guidance, thought it was too complicated for me to understand, went to see a firm who does LPAs and asked a lot of questions and one of the answers I was given didn't make sense. Got home, looked it up and he was completely wrong. At that point I realised I could save us 2 x £180 as long as I took my time over it. [/FONT]