Weekly Flylady Thread 18th May 2020

pigpen

I have simple needs.. I just wanted someone to love me and be kind to me and feel wanted. The garden can be concreted over I hate it.. filthy mess (remind of this in 30 years time.. I will still be here..) I reality I spent the first 35 years being abused and the rest picking up pieces, 12 children, 8 cats, 6 grandbeasties and a squalid house and a mud patch out back which is starting to resembles old man steptoes yard! I have 4 tidy rooms in my house and one which would be tidy if I got my act together and sorted the piles of stuff which shouldn't be in there.

What does one do with 5 boxes of stuff that would ordinarily be charity shopped??

I have slurped a cuppa, done some knitting, made £5 on various apps and have a duvter to hang out and some more washing to fling in.

DLA form has been received so another 8 weeks or so to look at that.. even if we get the lowest amount possible it will help Dot immensely.. Narco, I woulld happily hire you for Dot.. if you fancy a trip out.. you'd probably only need 10 minutes with her.. she goes wild around new people.. the other 3 hide.

Second cuppa I think.. I might make OH one and hoof him out of bed too.. or not.. I get more done without him..

I'm still eyeing up wallpaper I can't afford.. THIS ONE

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I’m here but not posting as have a horrid tummy bug; been in bed since Friday. Kids being so good, lots of screen time but nothing I can do about that. Constant nausea and all I can manage is Coke and ham.

Valli

roundtuit said:

Morning xx
I'm not fussed about a summer house, but I would love some chickens, a pond, ducks, a herb garden, a veggie garden, dogs, cats, and a cottage on the edge of a village (isolated, bit not too isolated). And in this dream I am slim with long hair and I wear Laura Ashley dresses and big straw hats with a ribbon round it. 

I have that dream - but I'm a freckly ginger who likes short sleeves and actually gets irritated by frills and furbelows (sp?) so that's not going to happen.  Happy in my jeans though.
Well!
I now have a 'new' laptop.  Internet is terrible, passwords keep vanishing.  
Anyway, ebay sales posted *fling* and I shall list more.  I also have stuff to plant including french and runner beans, so I need to redig the bean area and cobble my bamboo frame together.

Jazee

I have done some planting and been to the dog field.  They both get so excited there, worth every penny.  Early lunch of pringles now.

ionafan

GWS asb xx
Love the dreaming, round

This morning I have
- checked FB and emails
- done online jigsaws
- moved money around
- put tomato and courgette plants outside, also a tray of zinnia seeds which are already sprouting, though I only sowed them 2 days ago
- eaten breakfast
- asked DH to cut my hair (i.e. no.5 clippers) as it was driving me nuts
- did his in return (on no.1)
- hoovered all through
- showered, cleaned bathroom and degrotted shower mat, finally got dressed - but it was the logical order
- made coffee for myself and DH
- weeded all down the edge of the drive (about 25m) in blazing sunshine, in preparation for sowing flower seeds this evening.  Do I hear you say "At last!"?  Yes, I was planning to do this at Easter...
- hung out WMx1 of 2, started WMx2

Now I must pack up a parcel for my oldest goddaughter, nip down to the PO, and get bread, milk and cheese in the CoOp.
Might need zzz after lunch, as it's very warm here.  Rosie has come into the cooler house, rather than lie in the sun - and she's Romanian!
I also want to pop to the local GC later, and will sow more seeds this evening.

Dream on, Flyfriends - we all live in hope xx

Fayolle

Round - come and stay with me! I have a couple of Laura Ashley dresses and a trug so you could waft around the garden to your heart’s content, looking at the fields and talking to the birds. The downside is that you would have to turn my ambitious plans into an idyllic garden, rather than the - ahem - “garden with potential“ that it is now.

Taking a short lunch break from work as it is mighty boring. Towels are blowing on the line. Sorry, Round, but you might lose your straw hat here, as it is always breezy, being on top of the hills.

GWS, asb x

Jazee

Dailies done of a fashion and I've done some more gardening and a bit of knitting, and that's me done for the day.  I'm going to walk the dogs shortly then read my book.

roundtuit

WUDUPA another bowl of pots and all the plastic for recycling; washing brought in and folded; cleaned out Sweetie and replenished his food and water pots; had a phone call from Dad.
piggers - the pile for the charity shop is growing here too. The hospice was collecting ready for when their shop reopens - I missed that boat, but I may contact them and ask if they still want donations (when I get Roundtuit  ) 
asb - gws vibes heading your way xx
Valli - in RL I live in jeans now - but I did wear frills in the 1980s - frilled blouses with ….jeans   The only time I've worn a frilly frock as an adult was as a bridesmaid at my brother's first wedding - that was a special concession for him and my first s-i-l. Pink satin with white lace - so not me at all  
ionafan - could do with your DH here (to cut my hair). I am perilously close to the 'grab the scissors and chop a bit off' stage xx
Fayolle - where do you live? I'm coming  I'll skip the dresses, but grab the trug and waft - I'm a dab hand at goosegrass pulling now too. Although I'll need to be careful as my left arm has come up in red lines   Have you got chickens? (Probably best if you say no or else I really will be heading north / south/ west. (If you live east of here you are in the North Sea!!!)
Love to you all
Rxx

Valli

laptop has risen from the dead like Lazarus (might be on dodgy ground with that analogy) as it has been stuck on a sunny, breezy windowsill - draw your own conclusion.  Keyboard doesn't work but I had the foresight to borrow a spare one from work.
Lunch scoffed.  memory stick (flash drive) collection 'tidied' ie obsolete files removed from them.  Backed up personal files and key files to password protected memory stick.
Now I can get on - surprising how attached we get to the tech stuff.  

Fayolle

It’s been a lazy evening after a flurry of dinner, kitchen s&s (barely, so maybe s&s is too strong a description), HHI, wm loaded for the morning and rubbish / garden waste out ready for collection. Since then, I have indulged in watching Gardeners World, and flicking through a gardening book, fantisising of a beautiful veg plot that Round is going to tend for me 🤣. But as I have no chickens and definitely live way further south west of her, I might just have to shift myself tomorrow and actually tick some jobs off the lists that I have written.