Weekly Flylady Thread 28th November 2023

kazwookie

Frozen bin lids, wack with something heavy, ie hammer/ lumpof wood, but not so hard that you break the lid.

Went to local town with OH to walk round the Christmas market, we were a day too early!! so back home now to warm soup.

I did hoover the whole house, do the bins, fed cats, got in wood, before we went out, not gonig to do a lot more today.

MIsty / freezing -2 here.

mumtoomany

Hello all, hope nobody has frozen to death yet!! East Yorkshire, two of our children live there, although not born there. They are both "sand grown" having been born on the Fylde coast. 

As part of our flylady low spend December, I'd like to declare that I've not spent anything yet this month, probably because it's too cold to go out.

The polytunnel doors have frozen shut. Beans are all dead, and the tomatoes and the two lettuce I'd missed.

Very little flying done, too cold and it's the weekend. But too much flying is bad for you, remember Icarus and Daedalus!

@Asparklierblonde, when we were children, my dad used to keep the coal in overnight, by banking it up with potato peelings. Just gave it a poke in the morning and it sprang into life. Don't remember anything else about it, I was only eight when we moved to a house with central heating. 

It's snowing here now! Roll on summer, hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

ionafan

Well, I was sure I'd posted this earlier!
Garden spiders have been decorating the greenhouses for me - I shall not dust their handiwork away.
Rosie must be crazy, she wants to go out for a walk.  I might manage a short one but will not object if she turns round and comes back after a few steps.  Brrrrr!

roundtuit

First load has been draped on the airer. Second load has finished swishing...ages ago, but I've just remembered...I'll give it an extra spin before adding it to the airer. 

Bin lid has thawed enough for me to open it and deposit bin bags. 

Rxx

Valli

Wrapped up - coat, hat, gloves to see to hutch - more straw in bedding area (they eat it!) and manger filled with more hay.  Water bottle brought in to thaw even though I had wrapped it in bubble wrap.  I was persished when I came back in and I wasn't out there long.

Been picking up and putting away; have brought next pack of tablets I need upstairs, washed tea and sugar caddies as a precursor to cleaning kitchen which I am now procrastinating over...

I haven't got the heating on yet in the hope that I will keep moving...

Fayolle

I’m just surfacing (mentally, I have actually been up since 8am, before you think me a sloven) from the after effects of the work Christmas party. A good time was had by all, including a night in a hotel. I might have even strutted my stuff on the dance floor at some point - my annual foray into such things. Nobody needs to endure that sight more than once a year.
Consequently, it has been a slow day. DH and I took a short chilly walk to a local artist’s studio this afternoon with a list of presents to buy, so another few ticks of the list, and a local artist supported to boot. I haven’t seen her since pre-Covid, so it was nice to catch up, virtuously declining the offered mulled wine after last night’s excesses.
Flying has been limited to running the wm x 1. Tomorrow is designated flying day as we have DSiL x 2 plus DBiL coming on Monday for lunch.
It is stunningly beautiful here, with the frosty trees and amazing cobwebs, but oh so cold.
Natty - flylady cards have been posted. DH was despatched with them on Friday morning, so they may even be with you by now.
ASB, Jazee, I have just finished reading The Foundling, if you haven’t read it before. Now moving on to Wrong Place, Wrong Time. This library ebook borrowing malarky is bad for my To Do list!

Asparklierblonde

@Fayolle I’ve read all of the Stacey Halls books they are wonderful x

Jazee

Me again.  Tree and decs up.  Xmas fayre visited.  I spent £5.30 which was actually from last month's personal spends and have three new to me books.  Although knitting is taking priority at the moment.

 I walked there and back to the next village, have been home forty minutes and still trying to warm up.

Doctor Who tonight.

Cloth_of_Gold

This morning A wanted to go to the cash machine at the bank to get a mini statement for an account without online access, and to various shops for this and that. We parked only about 10 or 15 yards away but he walks so slowly that it took several minutes to get there and and back. By that time we were both frozen. We then drove to some other shops but he was struggling to get his gloves back on and couldn't really cope with that and getting out of the car and into the wheelchair and so asked me to get the things he wanted whilst he stayed in the car. It was a relief really because I was very cold and wanted to get on more quickly than I could with A. 

After that we came home and I made lunch and washed up. Later I made tea (that's tea in the southern meaning of the word, not the northern one).  I then made a lamb casserole for supper, and I'm sure there was more washing up in there somewhere.

Pigpen, I was born in Hull but moved to London in 1986 and have spent the vast majority of my adult life here. I have a few cousins still there but I don't know where as I am not in contact with them. One used to live in Sutton but I don't know if he still does. I think another lives in Hessle or Willerby but I'm not sure. 

My lovely aunt and uncle and their daughter left there over 10 years ago and went to live near Ilkely, where their granddaughter lives. They both sadly died several years ago (in their 90s ) but their daughter (my cousin) and her daughter and family still live there and I am in contact with them. The only family members that I still have in East Yorkshire that I'm in contact with is my brother and his wife, who live in Welton.

soappie

Valli said:

Thanks Soappie… sometimes they do take the &£## don’t they? 

And funnily enough, when I went out to the car today to go shopping, guess what warning message came up on the dashboard? "Key battery getting low"! Might just be the cold weather, but I'll change it anyway!