What small DFW things will you do w/c 26th August?

carrielovesfanta

Hi folks

Hope you're all ok. I need to reread your posts properly. Hi to Toni'sFriend

Having a very stressy day in work and I suspect that tomorrow will be the same. Just feel very tired out with it.

I was off yesterday for the BH and I made a pair of dungarees so it was time well spent. I will gradually whittle down my WIP list. I have a bad habit of adding to it as opposed to taking away from it. I have a whole load of roundtuits and errands to run too... I'm toying with asking OH to go to the post office for me but he really hates doing stuff like that so I normally avoid it.

Today's mission:
:heartpuls B/L/D from stores
:heartpuls Check PMP (I always do this anyway but I forgot to post it)
:heartpuls Charge phone in work
:heartpuls Make sure stuff from veg box goes into fridge (OH bad for not putting it in then it goes mouldy)
:heartpuls Ask Oh to bring washing in
:heartpuls OH to do housework

Have a good one all

clf x

ditty1234

Today I did:
Ride share w colleague - se's driving tomorrow
Lunch from store
NSD day
Chilli from freezer
Sit in garden for two hours and watch the free show of the sky growing darker w ds
Complain a bit too much
Not really tidy kitchen or anything else
Not too bad for a first day back to work, will catch up on reading posts soon, too tired now.

PurpleFairy26

Morning all :hello:

Quick post as I want to be away out of the door in thee next 15 minutes

Today's list:

Hot drink for commute
Check banking
Made packed lunch
Use last nights tea tonight as we didn't eat it yesterday
Make jam when I get home
Stash some gifted jam in cupboard
Message lady with query about kitchen
Pick more fruit from garden. It's coming thick and fast now

Have a good day all. Purps.

foxgloves

Morning Campers,
Much more comfortable temperatures here today. All I need now is for the horrible fly bites I've picked up from gardening to improve & I shall be happy. Anyway, busy day planned. Frugal bits as follows:
*Two baths from one lot of hot water.
*Continue with 'Use-it-ups'. Currently the last bit of a lippy I'm extracting with a brush & I will get a final use of foundation today by using a coffee stirrer to get it out.
*Do something with all the tomatoes I picked yesterday. I'm thinking tomato soup.
*See what needs picking today. Likely to be beans, blackberries, more courgettes & spinach.
*Remember to put dinner in slow cooker - chickpea curry.
*Make tomorrow's packed lunch.
*Bake a sourdough.
*Decide what to bake for forthcoming camping trip.
*Pick sweet peas - free room fragrance.
*Knit more Christmas gift. It's a big project but growing nicely now I've stopped overthinking the pattern & thinking I know better than the designer.
*Change bed & household linens & load washer for overnight laundry on the cheaper tariff.
*Water greenhouse. Looks like outdoors will get some rain later. Hope so.
*Pick more herbs for drying.
*Take some repurposed containers down to the shed for use as seed trays, pots, etc.
*Do a few more little jobs to progress camping preparations. While I don't want to pack the works & the kitchen sink, it will infuriate me beyond measure if we end up having to buy small essentials we could have easily sourced from home.
*Update my dfw diary at some point.
I'm in the mood for getting started now. Have a good day, everyone.
Purps - Sounds like your garden fruit is doing well. We've had a good year for rhubarb & the pear crop looks decent. Virtually no apples this year, but we were inundated last year so this is quite normal for our tree.
F x

Toni'sfriend

Thank you all for the lovely warm welcome,

I managed to tick everything off the list but didn't declutter or tidy quite as much as I would have liked. Better than nothing though.

So today

Check bank account (don't think there will be any odd pennies today).
Left over roast beef, sprouts and roast potatoes from freezer for dinner.
Mushroom pate from freezer for lunch. I got several packets half price a few weeks ago. It says not suitable for freezing but it is absolutely fine (do you think they make these things up?)
Water plants. I'm trying to root some basil as well now but it's looking decidedly droopy.
General tidy
Tidy my wardrobe and drawers.
Try and declutter something. Anything will help.
Collect prescription from chemist.
Check Aldi for reductions. Wednesday is a good day before they make way for next week's specials.

That will do for going on with.

Have a good day.

determined_new_ms

Hi everyone welcome to Toni'sfriend :hello:

I've been away for a hen weekend in Brighton which was a lot of fun. Need to assess the financial damage and pay my bff £20... done

I have the day to myself as madam is at mil's

Today:

~Feeling unmotivated so hoping to get some get up and go soon....

* TOMM things started to slide when I was away and when I came back on Monday I was not in the TOMM mood! Got on top of it again yesterday done
* making roast tonight - there will be enough for another 2 meals from the joint
* will make cake while oven is on done
* I have a couple of paid jobs I need to start
* I would like to go to the allotment for an hour done - all veg for dinner was picked this afternoon
* take madam's books back to library and send off passport done
* do a job search done
* listen to free book podcast. Really enjoying it but it's coming to the end
* make a loaf of bread done
* make madam's and oh's lunches for tomorrow
* financial shuffles done - my banking was down yesterday :eek: going to set up a standing order to stop this monthly Russian roulette! *
* read newsletter

Ok that's me. Have a great day!

twiggy86

Morning all!

Today I have/will:
* Make lunch for work
* Quick shower
* Look at car insurance quotes
* Check banks
* Play with next month's budget based on insurance
* Park for free for hospital appointment and walk in
* Read newsletter
* Charge phone in work
* Check PA and OP
* Buy present for friend's baby shower - google around for cheaper option!
* Dinner out with FIL - hoping he or OH will pay!
* Make a shopping list as the current food options are very slim!

That's everything I can think of for now!

1LuckyLady

Good afternoon all,

The weather has turned very wet and cool today, the garden will benefit from that though!

Todays list
:heart2: gym session done and water bottle refilled
:heart2: ys bread for all our breakfasts
:heart2: had some friends over with their kids yesterday and the leftover little choc muffins and some sausage rolls have gone into the freezer so that they can go in the school lunch bags next week rather then leaving them in the cupboard/fridge and ds1 snaffling them! (the teenager has hollow legs)
:heart2: froze some grapes that were a bit soft
:heart2: took ds2 & his friend to the cinema but took our own drinks/snacks from home
:heart2: check banking/update spreadsheet
:heart2: run the dishwasher on the quick 30 degree wash
:heart2: leftover chicken with salad for tonights meal (but its feeling very cold so I might make a quick curry out of it instead! chicken curry it is!!
:heart2: make a banana loaf or peanut butter/banana muffins as they've gone too brown for my lot to eat as they are. (again probably better to make the muffins to use in lunch bags) cooking now, I just hope I remembered to double up all the ingredients! !!
:heart2: prep rm survey stuff and add dates to the calendar
:heart2: put washing away, its been left so more then usual will need ironing I bet only 15mins worth of ironing so not bad really and the spare room looks much better now everything is away
:heart2: we've started having a bowl in the sink to catch water from washing hands etc so that we can use it out on the garden (I don't know why we've not always done this!)
:heart2: make dh's lunch for work tomorrow
:heart2: general tidy round

Thats about it for now. Take care all.

ditty1234

Not happy, just lost my hourly hours at my main job, because I'm not flexible enough for my boss!
Be back later.

1LuckyLady

Ditty so sorry to hear that.