Weekly Flylady Thread 10th May 2021

Fayolle

roundtuit said:

Fayolle  I'm short of nowt 🤣
One very dusty parrot!
Rxx

Keep him! He has my name on him! 🤣
Troops fed. Baked camembert and hm sourdough, yum. This is why the slinky weigh in this week no longer shows that I have 3lb to lose to get to my first target weight, but that I have somehow gained 5lb this week 😳. The scales must need dusting, I think…
Kitchen to tidy, towels rushed indoors as it poured down, now sunny again.

Valli

wow Round - awesome flingage.  And 'rammel' used hereabouts for gibble too; and 'short of nowt' used by my Ma with 'I've got' added on.

I have had a request for a pink cardi for a baby I knitted for earlier this year so I ought to go for wool.  Washing is about dry, cloud is building so I should get that in but I'm so pleased.  I've also updated PTA accounts and reconciled against bank statement.  There's a mysterious deposit (only £5) which I cannot explain and has no reference...and there's no record of it in my paying in book.  I'll double check the bank receipts actually.

pigpen

roundtuit said:

Fayolle  I'm short of nowt 🤣
One very dusty parrot!
Rxx

Me neither.. but I have 2.. a blue one and a red one!!! haha

pigpen

I've had a strop.. yes another one...

There I am with my arms KILLING after yesterday painting DS2s room.. who is 25.. so a full grown adult male.. yes.. I am painting his room.. OH (second full grown adult male) comes in with a cuppa and stands behind me (not at all in the way) with his arms folded.. watching.. Boog (22, adult male) also comes in.. we wont mention the cat he let in which promptly tried jumping out of the bedroom window.. he stood watching for a bit then chimes in with 'why are you painting it?' ... 'because no one else will if I dont!?' ... 'no' he says.. ' why are you going up and down the ladders when it is easier for others?' .... 'again.. because no one will do it! unless you are volunteering???' ..... 'NO!!!' (horrified) 'But OH could reach better than you' ....

*stunned silience*

I then pointed out the laundry needed hanging out, the DW loading and the cat trays cleaning.. the room was suddenly empty!!

roundtuit

Two sat navs, a Status Quo tin, and a small Batduck now also in the bag for DS. 

Three chargers dusted and put in 'don't know what that belongs to' wires drawer. I'll match them up as I de-hoard...any left at the end will be slung. There was a pen in the drawer - that's now in the pen mug.

And I have a tad more floor in the living room.

Yayyy
Rxx

ETA  Valli  - it's 'I'm short of nowt I've got' here too; I abbreviated lol

Honey_Bear

'Got bu**er all' here.

Belovéd was apparently inspired by my decluttering of clothes (in particular) to start on his sock drawer this morning, which led on to his polo shirts (not teeshirts but that would be a whole 'nother thing), then his suits (all two of them) jackets - rather a lot, then jumpers and now - shoes.  He has to try all of those on, and go for a trundle in them so that could/will take some time; in the meantime they're boxed on the landing which is fine with me.  You could have knocked me down with a feather.  His CS pile includes two cashmere jumpers because I told him (when he asked, not so thick as to volunteer it) that it made him look old (instant rather predictable reaction from an ex-actor), and the other - of his own volition.  I hope they make someone very, very happy when they find them on the rails.  One pile for the CS is to be marked, 'For rags' and the other just donated as is.  I think he's also put a couple of jumpers in the laundry basket because although they're destined for donation they need freshening up first - they've been unworn for a couple of decades.  I'm absolutely stunned and delighted with that!

I'm in the throes of Foodbank paperwork, and tomorrow's afternoon tea which was to be in the garden has been postponed to Wednesday afternoon, when the forecast is much better.  I plan to get Auntie May's teaset out of the loft where it's been for 27 years and make the tea of our dreams to celebrate the end of this Lockdown.  I've absolutely no interest in going to the pub but I do want to mark and celebrate it with friends.

roundtuit

DS brought cake nom nom - and left with the bag full of stuff, a single duvet cover and pillow case (like new) that GF says she can sell online, two deodorant sprays and a bubblebath. Fer-ling.

I've been into town to fill up with petrol and pick up my prescription.

And the gardening fairy has arrived and is mowing the lawns - even though it kelched with rain earlier. And looks like it will do again some time soon.

GF says that she can sell the Mr Men Annual online - so that will be in the next bag for DS. 

And once the Flylady retreat has been decorated the parrot will be dusted and live in that room until such time as Fayolle comes to try my fishfinger sandwiches.

I'm going to label a couple of bags: cs donations and cs rags. And put the already washed and ready to go bedding and other items in the appropriate bag. 
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Rxx

Jazee

Inspired by Fayolle I also made a Swiss roll, half for me and half for DD when she brings the dogs back later.  Done my first ever Covid test as going somewhere indoors tomorrow and then watched Bohemian Rhapsody.

pigpen

roundtuit said:

And once the Flylady retreat has been decorated the parrot will be dusted and live in that room until such time as Fayolle comes to try my fishfinger sandwiches.

That great delicacy.. I may rudely invite myself... I shall bring salad cream. Do you have those mini pizzas in sammiches too? and crumbled flake with a packet of walkers?...

Bedroom needs a small amount of touching up. and the rest of the paintwork doing, I need to sand the filler and hope the rest of the plaster stays put. I washed the carpet, it smelled like feet!! Then promptly knocked over Pumpkins water so sucked that up.. I put the computer chair back in but I ned to remove mirrors, strip wallpaper and OH has purchased lining paper.the door frame, radiator and 1/3rd of the skirtng needs painting but that is all for next weekend with the papering.

Pack ups done, Dot in the bath, OH at work until 7, he can put them to bed when he gets in.. I am utterly dead.. my everything hurts and I still have 2 girls to bath!
I need to send OH to the shop and I am not going with him to collect Moomin later because I am too hurty and tired.

ionafan

Well done round, Fayolle, Jazee, pigpen, HB's OH and round (again!) for doing so much today.  In contrast, I have done very little.
Jazee, I hope you have a lovely week.  It all sounds most exciting!
Having given up a committee job last week, I have gained a Treasurer's role.  Not at all sure that that is a Good Thing, but it is something in which I have experience and am capable of, since it does not involve standing/walking for long periods or climbing up ladders.  I've just realised that I shall have to clear space on my study shelves for the account books - they are *not* going to be left in a pile on the floor.  Quite a lot of shelf space is currently taken up by some empty ring binders which are destined for family history papers, which are currently in plastic storage boxes, which DS2 wants so I will shift the empty ring binders into the cupboard on the landing for a few weeks (or more likely months) and bring them out one at a time, as the boxes are emptied.
My geraniums have survived in the mini-gh, and so have the sweet peas but I think we must have an army of slugs and snails eating the shoots off my French beans as soon as they poke through the soil
Rosie coped very well this afternoon when her walk was rudely interrupted by a clap of thunder almost directly overhead, and then by two more a bit further away.  She ran off down the hill in fear at the first thunderclap but (thankfully) came back when I called her, so I was able to put her on her lead and she dragged me home again faster than I've walked for a month.  We were both soaked by the time we got back.  She is now lying peacefully next to me, waiting for the chicken dinner that she knows I'm cooking