Weekly Flylady Thread 1st January 2024

roundtuit

Pots DUPA 
Second load of washing given an extra spin and put on airer.
Christmas tree and bag of baubles taken upstairs.
Tree lights in box on stairs waiting to be taken up.

Eggs needed eating so scambo on toast for lunch.
Last slice of Christmas cake just eaten with another coffee.
Few more bits of cardboard and plastic put in recycling bin.
Soaps (Christmas gift) stashed in cupboard under the kitchen sink.

Every little helps 😊
Rxx

ETA Fayolle I couldn't do it the first time I tried either. Sometimes it's easier than others. Have I started a new trend? 🤔 

Fayolle

roundtuit said:

ETA Fayolle I couldn't do it the first time I tried either. Sometimes it's easier than others. Have I started a new trend? 🤔 

Mebbe 😉. DD started me doing it over Christmas when she got stuck, thought I’d give it a go without her. Turns out she might have been the brains behind our success…
1 floating candle candelabra decluttered from the loft.  Whoever knew that we even had such a thing…

pigpen

Treacle is unhappy the tree is in the box.

I removed a dead pigeon from the flue.

I took down the lights which had been up 3 years and the cards which had been up 2.
WM on
front room vacuumed.

Cloth_of_Gold

@Asparklierblonde the rain spoils everything. I hope you weren't too late home. The best pheasant I've ever had came from one of A's relatives so I would have enjoyed yours I'm sure, plus the other goodies.

@p@pigpen lovely photo of Treacle.

This morning  went for a coffee with one of our neighbours who had a problem she wanted to discuss with me. I made a couple of suggestion and she seemed much happier at the end of it. I then popped to a wne shop for some wine (I probably should be having a dry January but hey-ho - maybe after A's birthday, later in the month). I also went to the M&S Simply Food and bought a some herby falafel balls, milk and bread. They had Christmas cakes on sale for £3, reduced from about £20 I think. I don't need another Christmas cake of course but it's use-by date is not until May and it was such a bargain I couldn't resist. I"ll just treat it as a fruit cake, not a Christmas cake of course.

I came home, made lunch, washed up, and then took the cards and decorations down. I took the tree onto the landing ready to take down to street level in the next day or two. Pulling it through two doors and past furniture caused a lot of needles to come off but they were soon vacc'd up.

I'm going to change the home of some of the decorations so they are boxed up but not put away. Some of them were in a draw in a tall boy but I want to use that draw, plus another gained by consolidating the contents of two others, for my jumpers so that, hopefully, they will be less accessible to Mr and Mrs Moth and with the tips provided on this thread might stand a chance of surviving more than a few months.

Cloth_of_Gold

A scarf that I'd ordered online arrived. It looked lovely online but what they have sent is quite different. It's a much darker shade of blue and doesn't have a zigzag patter woven into it, which the photo online had. It's a nice enough scarf but not what I ordered.

We had a call from the nephew of our elderly friend in the south west. He had been discharged after a stay in hospital to a care home for a period of rehabilitation. The home has turned out to be very poor however; they even gave him fish and chips when he is a vegetarian! The staff were also poor evidently, and our friend is very quiet and self-effacing so not one to complain with no good reason. He's not bee transferred to anther home, which he like evidently.

I have had half a Lindt chocolate Santa and am now trying to summon up the energy to wash up.

ionafan

Evening all.

Poor Treacle, he looks quite upset, pigpen!  Rosie is also wondering what is going on in this house...

My major achievements today:
- taken down all the Christmas decorations except for the nativity set and the outside lights and two light bridges (which will be turned off before I go to bed)
- filled a mixed bag for the CS
- finished off some Quality Road chocs which were taking up space on the kitchen table
- walked Rosie all round the Covert, including the steep slope up the side of the old quarry
- sorted my study bookshelves, listed all the books I want to declutter, and emailed the list to half a dozen people who are in the same line of work as I was until recently and might find them useful
- not killed DH - I sent him out to play trains instead.

Rosie deserves some indoor playtime now, then I'll be off to bed xxx

flamingo747

So wiped out from doing 2 big tip loads for SIL as well as some cleaning, rearranging, and furniture building. It's been a full day mission, and I've barely seen my own home! Tomorrow we will do tip runs for ourselves 

Valli

so I have
brought i. damp washing, ironed it and put it on maiden to finish drying.
Been to see friend who was 60 and has ensconced herself in various pubs and invited folk to pop in and see her.  I went to the session in my local.  She doesn’t actually drink, and as she’s diabetic or pre diabetic doesn’t have chocolate.  I figured she probably had flowers so i bought an orchid . phaleop ‘whatever’ …I’ve got 6 and i only wanted 1 and three of mine are white…
Made marmalade.
been to work to attach wheels to DW basket as 4 were missing and it was causing an issue, the basket kept drooping on the the lower rotor arm
Collected Y/S celery brought into work and made cream of celery soup
knitted a bit

Cloth_of_Gold

Valli said:

so I have
brought i. damp washing, ironed it and put it on maiden to finish drying.
Been to see friend who was 60 and has ensconced herself in various pubs and invited folk to pop in and see her.  I went to the session in my local.  She doesn’t actually drink, and as she’s diabetic or pre diabetic doesn’t have chocolate.  I figured she probably had flowers so i bought an orchid . phaleop ‘whatever’ …I’ve got 6 and i only wanted 1 and three of mine are white…
Made marmalade.
been to work to attach wheels to DW basket as 4 were missing and it was causing an issue, the basket kept drooping on the the lower rotor arm
Collected Y/S celery brought into work and made cream of celery soup
knitted a bit

I love the way you nonchalantly threw in 'Made marmalade' in the middle of that list of tasks as if it were as trivial as opening a packet of biscuits or something. 

I finally found the energy to wash up, then set-up A's breakfast things, cleaned my teeth and did the evening eye routine. I would like to go to the 8.30 Mass tomorrow, in which case I shall need to be in bed soon - here's hoping.

Narc0lepsy

Chilly here this morning; the car told me it was 4 degrees as I drove to the lake; the water temp was reported to be 7.5 but still felt a little nippy although the sun came out. Swim buddy witnessed my signature on LPA so that's the first bit done.
- Got home and put more clothes on as Mr N wanted to go for a walk and photograph some flooding; sun still out so I went too. Amazing how much water has soaked in since I went that way yesterday, so not spectacular photos.
- Spent much of the afternoon continuing to reorganise/replace items in the conservatory, which is starting to look good now despite too many plants.  The rest of the house is beginning to look better as things go back to their rightful place.
- put away flower arranging tools, containers etc which were scattered round the garage and a few bits in the kitchen.
- Activated new bank card.
- Set up payment for cc bill.
- Dug out wool as swim buddy had commented that she wants some fingerless gloves and likes purple; I remembered having some wool from doing some for SIL a few years ago. I'm not much of a knitter but these are simple and quick, so I'll see if there is enough wool left (not that I'll know until I've either finished them or run out part way through).
- Decided to put the range on (aga-like, it is gas and rather costly to run these days) so I cooked a stuffed cornbread for dinner (will do tomorrow as well), roasted more squash for soup tomorrow and made a date and lemon sponge for pudding (will also do tomorrow). Washed and dried some of the squash seeds to sow later in the year; there is still half a very large orange squash left, one medium blue one (both grown by a friend) plus 2 or 3 small ones (grown by me). 
- Whoever kindly gave me the daily planner, I have started a list!