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TC77

@Gers the book reminds me DD1 says she would call in webuyanys**t.com when I go.

recovering from covid but the place is ever worse, and not sure I see a way out. Need to be bolder but feel I am avoiding .....
In bed watching films so lots of escapism !

daisy_1571

weenancyinAmerica said:

@daisy_1571 - that is so interesting about one of your favorite cartoons. I just downloaded one of the panels from Steve's cartoon this morning myself into my save file. Steve Pastis, the author, lived here in Orange County, California, and I have met him before. He now lives further north in California.We discussed writing a Greek family history book. I don't know if he is still working on it or not. I have saved several of his cartoons. They come up on my news feed for my e-mail almost every day.

WeenancyinAmerica the 8 degrees of separation game !  We won it this morning with only 2 degrees between me, the reader and him, the author and you in between 😆 

Should you ever speak to him again you can let him know one of his cartoons is laminated, followed me around several work desks and now that I'm retired and have no work desk, its on the wall of a craft room in Scotland, regularly read and it still resonates with me  😃 


Daisy xxx

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. Write a daily To Do list - only 3 tasks 

2. Sort out sleep patterns - target bed by 2:00 a.m. & up by 9:00 a.m 

3. Deal with mail & email on a daily basis

4. Don’t put it down, put it away + deal with mini tasks as soon as they are noticed e.g. refill olive oil pourer or salt cellar, stitch up a hole in a garment etc

5. Commence ‘Operation Frog Tickling’ using the acronym - I.R.I.S. (Identify, Research, Implement, Sign Off) - One per quarter

6. Continue to keep kitchen clean & tidy - before going to bed

Saturday: DH & DSis went shopping just before 14:00. DH had intended to drive but as he wasn’t really awake, DSis took over driving duties. I dealt with all 4 pieces of my mail + plaited 9 more bookmarks with scrap yarn. See pic

DH & DSis arrived back about 16:10 & I put everything away. Dinner was shop bought individual pies with mash & green beans 😋 Wudupa. DSis & I watched SCD & got bored 😑 Not because the dancing was bad but because it seemed to go on forever - 140 minutes 😥 DH put the vacuum cleaner back together & it worked 🥳 Stayed dry all day & though chilly I resisted the temptation to turn on the heating 😉

1687 - 1689 Packaging, kitchen recycling, drinks cans - recycled 

1690 Kitchen detritus binned

I went to bed at 04:00 just as DH was settling down to watch the MotoGP races.

Sunday: a dry bright start & I was up at 11:00. I have my first cuppa, have set the timer & am starting the cheerleading 😊

Gers, thanks for that 😅 Definitely expensive 😥 

That is so funny daisy_1571 🤣😂🤣 & thanks for the reminder to dispose of ood & opened medicines 👏

Excellent work sorting out the greenhouse ~FlowerPot~ 👏

weenancy, you really have met some interesting people 😊

Good luck to your brother Floss 🍀 You might need to help him get started 😉

TC77, I am pleased to hear that you are recovering from your bout of Covid 😮‍💨 Remember that the TLC Carriage is a perfect place for recuperation 😊 Also a good place to chat to fellow Declutterati & discover a way to kick start your decluttering mojo 😉 Good luck 🍀

Absolutely brilliant daisy_1571 🥳

Will you look at that - with full concentration I am done & dusted in 20 minutes & the sun is out 😃 Hope everyone apart from weenancy has a dry day 😉

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Decluttering Target 2024: 1690/2024

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2Scratters

@Mrs_Salad_Dodger Thankyou for DH's and my medal. He is a happy bunny about it.

I have found this week whilst in the process of not stressing or panicking about moving stuff around that my bedroom wardrobe actually had space in it. As I am moving clothes from the back bedroom(the one that's to be converted to a kitchen). today I will take a hoover into the loft to reduce the dust and roof debris and make some space for "stuff" that needs a temporary place.
 I have also made a decision to list a cashmere coat for sale on the bay.
 A small set of drawers have been removed from the back bedroom wardrobe and placed into our bedroom. They don't match so may need a trip to Ikea to find a replacement set.
 Not a lot has left the house at this time which I am a bit concerned about. It feels like maintenance mode yet there is plenty to still go out. I need to remind myself that a new dog collar in and 1 out is a declutter. Along with 2 large bags of plastic for the supermarket and cleared from the back of my car 
 I suppose whilst it is still moving out I am still winning at it. The items that are getting binned are very small and don't have too great an impact.
 Rome wasn't built in a day neither was all this stuff. 

@vulpix was it you that asked about wooden decorations?
 I have one literally at the side of me where I stand at my lap top (don't ask) which came from my parents house and it won't be too young. Who ever mentioned about it please message me and I will forward this to you.

Have a good weekend all

2  Scratters xx

London_1

Hi chums tested this morning and its definitely not Covid ,just a blooming very heavy cold thank goodness I get a covid vaccine every 6 months because of low autoimmune system and my next one is due on the 12th next month.

DD is throwing her self into the 'Ghost Walks' on the island and went for a 'walk through' for the Ventnor Botanical Gardens one for Halloween next month.

She used to do several similar things when we lived in the Medway at The Dockside historical experience and loves doing them. Dressing up in costume and telling folk about the history of places. She gets on very well with the other am dram folk and has met lots of new people.

Tomorrow the builders are coming ,they laid the pipes on Friday for the new downstairs loo and shower room so I shall probably be keeping the three dogs amused while the builders are banging and crashing about

I have a stack of about 7 paperbacks that I can take to Tesco's Westridge Centre shop its about a mile away from me, and a big supermarket, as you leave there is a large bookcase where folk can donate books and other people can come along on the way out from shopping  and if they see something they like they just make a donation to the local charity bucket there and help themselves.

Great way to recycle and help raise some cash for charity.I've seen and donated to a couple of books myself so once read they can go back to be resold. As I've not been very mobile because of my cold I have done a lot of reading in the past week so I may nip up there tomorrow and drop them off as Ive not been out since last Tuesday

Very windy today but dry, and rain forecast for later but I got a wash load on the line this morning and I'm just about to get it in as its been blowing well all day.

Hope everyone has had a good weekend looks like a wet and windy few days ahead this week

JackieO xx 

GrannyKate

Very slow start to my long 'to do' list today.  Delivered DS2 and partner to airport down south and they've gone to stay with my brother in Portugal. I spent a lovely Saturday wandering around St Albans - my great grandma was baptised at the Abbey Church (now cathedral) there in 1870.  Headed home on A1 and saw lots of flooded meadows in Bedfordshire but roads ok.  Once they were on plane they got a message to say window fitters wanted to measure up bedroom windows this morning so I headed to their house at 10am to let them in.  I bought some cold/flu drinks on way back as I have a cold and fell asleep for a couple of hours.  @London-1 - remind your grandson to take care in Romania as that is where my new phone was stolen in Bucharest last December. I consider myself a seasoned travel but fell victim to a pickpocket for the first time ever.  

Nothing to count yet so I had better get on with things. 

florianatwobob

oh @GrannyKate you’ve been around my neck of the woods-ish this weekend. Did you try the little cafe at the cathedral? 

Beds and Herts have been soggy, the other side of my town is rather flooded and a few homes have been evacuated. I’m fortunate as my house is on a hill so we’ve been seeing all the water running down hill, the back of my house has taken some serious rain lashings though.  I’ve got the dehumidifier running in the kitchen as I think some may have crept under the render as some paint has bubbled in the kitchen in an odd place. 

weenancyinAmerica

Mrs. S_D: in addition to working for Alex Haley (Roots author) for several years, I also tend to become president of a lot of organizations and get to meet people that way (Helen Reddy donated books to the British Isles Society while I was President). Also got to meet many of your genealogists - Michael Gandy and Colin Chapman especially - on the tours I used to take to England and while I was president of the British Isles Society. My father was the same way and very active in organizations so I was used to meeting the mayor and the city council as well as business leaders. He also was active with the Muscular Dystrophy Association (my brother had it) and we met a lot of people that way - John Wayne was honorary President of the local society then so we had a chance to meet him. Other times it is because of strange things that happen - went to zookeeper's convention because I didn't want to go to a library convention at the same time and spent the week at dinner with Jimmy Stewart and his wife Gloria; went to an art walk with my class and ended up talking to Julie Andrews for half an hour about a painting she was considering. So you never know who you will run into around here. My mother got around to meet people also and used to have a Roledex file of home phone numbers of people in government for the county. People would call her when they needed to go direct. Steve Pastis, cartoonist of Pearls Before Swine, I met through an organization we both belong to and got to talking about doing family history.  

vulpix

Hi, currently in a queue to get onto the ferry. A calmer 12 hour trip forecast. The last one was like a 14 hour log flume with metallic groans and bangs and the moving around of huge metal chains. 

 The leaving party was lovely. They have made such lovely friends and so many people turned up. Today they are very hung over and OH has a sprained ankle and a lost coat! The mark of an epic evening!!
 The van is full to the roof. We still need to collect a drum kit and record collection tomorrow. OH’s parents are putting the flags out in anticipation. A table also needs to be squeezed in. 🤣

 We have all been to a photography exhibition today. Some band photographer whose name I can’t remember photographed The Who in the 60’s and asked Roger Daltry where his jumper was from. It was a Fairisle, so he came and photographed local people in their Fairisle knits. 

 I am so grateful to have experienced The Shetland Islands and its lovely community. ❤️
  
 2 Scratters, yes it was me looking for old Christmas Decorations for my Grandsons advent calendar 

 vx

daisy_1571

Oh v, that sounds awful !  My mum and dad went on a similar journey to yours and I remember them telling us they got in the same single bunk and held on to each other thinking if the ship goes down they are at least going together ❤ 

The journey back was fine  🙂 

D x