what have you done today?

Alanp

ka7e said:

Watched workmen finish installing fencing around my garden. Made numerous cups of tea/coffee for workmen. Dashed to local Co-op to replenish supplies of milk and cookies. Made more cups of hot beverages. Was very brave and didn't cry at the large amount of £££s workmen had to be paid. (They were very good, fence is lovely and they did some extra work for free, probably in recognition of the copious amounts of tea and biscuits/cake consumed).

Always look after workmen/women, with plenty of tea/coffee, and biscuits, it pays to keep them onside as you’ve found out......nice one

MovingForwards

Today's task is masking both sides of a door with 15 glass sections and the floor so I can crack on with painting the weekend.

Slinky

Made butternut squash soup in the slow cooker. Whilst that was cooking, I went out and did a couple of hours litter picking.  OH was just going out for his lunchtime walk (he's working from home) as  I got back so I went back out with him for a walk. About to go out again to the Co-op. Should hit 10k steps on my way.

clive0510

Slinky said:

Made butternut squash soup in the slow cooker. Whilst that was cooking, I went out and did a couple of hours litter picking.  OH was just going out for his lunchtime walk (he's working from home) as  I got back so I went back out with him for a walk. About to go out again to the Co-op. Should hit 10k steps on my way.

while I'm furloughed I been trying things I would never normally do. so next thing to do is going to be butternut sqaush in my slow cooker. not going to do it now, coz I'm going to take the car for mot. so monday am, thats the project. thanks.

phoebe1989seb

We've been living in our adopted country of Wales for the past 33 months so are not currently in lockdown. 

I don't work, unless you count being an unpaid labourer/artistic director on our current house project, lol!

Today I've shifted loads of plasterboard sheets in preparation for the next stage of our upstairs layout reconfiguration, spent more time than really necessary studying paint colour charts, hand-washed some woollen knitwear, updated my instagram with the latest pics of progress on our cottage restoration.....and carried out a cushion headcount, lol (I'm rather embarrassed to admit that including those still in *storage* in the ottoman bed, we have 61 😮).

Meanwhile, DH has been at work. He's a self employed landscape gardener/builder and as such has worked every day this year - if not for paying clients, then here at home 

Paully28

...to make you feel proud!

Apjs87

I worked. In a non essential shop. Manned but not open to public

Slinky

Slinky said:

Made butternut squash soup in the slow cooker. Whilst that was cooking, I went out and did a couple of hours litter picking.  OH was just going out for his lunchtime walk (he's working from home) as  I got back so I went back out with him for a walk. About to go out again to the Co-op. Should hit 10k steps on my way.

Hit 14.5K steps in the end. Got most of the way to the Co-op then realised I had no face mask, so had to go home again to get one.

 Last weekend we did battle with an old Japonica on one side of the garden, which may have been in position since the house was built in the 1960s. It was coming out so we had a good hack at it, but the root is massive, we had to leave a lot of it in the ground and attack that with a drill to ensure it doesn't sprout again.  Today we have done battle with a large Japanese maple we inherited from the previous owner of our house. It is in a place which will be built over, hopefully, next year if we get permission for our extension. The maple is going where the Japonica was, hopefully.  We think it may be around 40 years old, possibly older.  It took about 4.5 hours to dig it out, the roots were enormous and we discovered a load of old plastic peat bags were mixed in with the roots which made it difficult to clear them. We have finally managed to haul it loose, so tomorrow's job will be digging a large hole and moving it across. Will need a lot of care next year to ensure new roots are established.  We did wonder a couple of hours in if it would defeat us, but we've shifted some big established plants before and just kept going.

Can't have a shower as we put some new silicone sealant on the shower this morning as we had a small leak. How I wish we had a bath. New one going in as part of our building plans.

Will enjoy a takeaway later.

Slinky

clive0510 said:

Slinky said:

Made butternut squash soup in the slow cooker. Whilst that was cooking, I went out and did a couple of hours litter picking.  OH was just going out for his lunchtime walk (he's working from home) as  I got back so I went back out with him for a walk. About to go out again to the Co-op. Should hit 10k steps on my way.

while I'm furloughed I been trying things I would never normally do. so next thing to do is going to be butternut sqaush in my slow cooker. not going to do it now, coz I'm going to take the car for mot. so monday am, thats the project. thanks.

Needs about 4 hours on high, make sure you chop the squash into about inch cubes. Blend with a stick blender. It's yummy.

twopenny

Absoloutly nothing apart from a walk in the freezing cold and fog.

Been tearing into projects daily to try and stave off lockdown and the depressing short dark days with some purpose and to pass the time - and realised that I'd got stressed and not just relaxed. Sometimes you just have to give in.

6 days till I can play tennis again, it will be good to hit something and laugh, 23 days to the shortest then the sun gets higher in the sky,