Moving on

peb

Ug. It's bad enough when water leaks. Hopefully your actions to de tuna will work

Cherryfudge

Thanks @peb - I need to face that asap, but am putting it off!

So far today, after a better night's sleep, I've given myself some skin care (face felt in need), listed the food stuffs that need to be finished or frozen before we go away and other than that, I've been playing on the computer. Must Get Going.

(Which reminds me, I'm on the last of the five volumes of The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E M Delafield. It's the funniest thing I've read in a long time, more than making up for a lack of fast-paced action).

I want to get my case basically packed today, and I'm working this evening. Jobs to do:

• Lunch - tuna salad, using up salad leaves, some tomato, That Tuna (grr), some red pepper, goodness knows what else but undoubtedly more of the biscuits I made the other day.
• Tea - pancakes - can't do them at lunch as I try to avoid calcium-rich food in the first few hours after main medication, but can't leave them too late as DH will smell them when he gets in! He's on a fast day ready for a small medical procedure tomorrow.
• Laundry
• de-tuna my bag
• buy new diary - existing one succumbed to tuna
• clean bathroom
• do ironing
• hoover

Other than those, things will crop up so I may be back to edit

Cherryfudge

Lunchtime update:

• Lunch - threw out half a tomato and some sweetcorn that looked dodgy. Used up the tuna, half the salad, half the red pepper, some chives from the garden and the last 2 of pecan/chocolate biscuits. Jolly nice.
• Tea - pancakes - can't do them at lunch as I try to avoid calcium-rich food in the first few hours after main medication, but can't leave them too late as DH will smell them when he gets in! He's on a fast day ready for a small medical procedure tomorrow.
• Laundry - more complicated than I thought. DH seems to have a bleed on his leg! I've soaked the marks this has made on the bedding and it's now washing with stain remover. Also hand washed some bras. More to come.
• de-tuna my bag - did my best with biological washing liquid and a machine rinse. No mark evident though this may change when dry. I think I can still smell tuna. 😟 It's pegged out in a gusty high wind so I hope for progress.
• buy new diary - existing one succumbed to tuna
• clean bathroom
• do ironing
• hoover
• book this year's green bin collection
• contact potential workplace re tester day
• update DBS 'membership'

Something I forgot this morning: the coffee I opened the other day isn't my favourite, though I'll drink it. I decided on a whim to open a bag of coffee bags grabbed while clearing my parents' house years ago. I have no idea how old it is, but it was a sealed foil packet so I guessed clean and dry inside, just ancient, and taking up cupboard and headspace. I gave myself permission to compost it if it didn't taste right. After the first few tentative sips, I forgot I was drinking old coffee, and finished it up absent-mindedly. It's okay, which is quite amazing really.

Watty1

If the wind does not remove the tuna smell try just leaving it somewhere 'airy' I use my hay barn but a shed or garage would work. Eventually I have found multiple smells just vanish using this method (including cat pee)

Amazing that the coffee still was fine! Great job!

ladybird1106

Glad Mr C drs appointment went well.

Love 🐞

WelshmansDaughter

Sympathy on the eau de tuna. I can still (metaphorically) smell the fish that was in the van a few weeks ago

Cherryfudge

Thanks one and all! The bag is still really wet so I can't tell whether the clean up was successful or not. Tomorrow it can go out on the line again.

Loads of laundry got done, and was mostly line dried. Some of the ironing is done, too, but I'll have to return to it. Of the admin-type stuff, I paid off the credit card (annoyingly, I've been charged 63p, which I think came from an item being in pending then I didn't get back to it the next day), emailed about the potential work, booked for the green bins to be collected (£52) and tried to sort out the DBS but it looks as though it was one I'm not currently using so I've to speak to the manager for the Wednesday job about that.

Other housework didn't get done, but some progress has been made sorting out food. Three hours at work this evening.

rtandon27

Oh my, I don't envy you the tuna adventure! When they came out with the no drain small tins, I started using them at work to reduce the smell in our shared kitchenette. They are not the least bit economical, but still cheaper and healthier than a store-bought sandwich! I usually have it with crackers and a small salad bag.

Hope MrCF is doing OK after his medical procedure, fasting is no fun!

Cherryfudge

Thanks @rtandon27 , the medical thing was this morning, he's sort of fitted it in between work! He popped home afterwards - camera has been swallowed so he now carries on while it reports back!

Tuna 'adventure': the bag now smells of whatever I cleaned it with, and is nice and shiny, but not yet dry so I think it will be a while till I know if it's been a success.

I am getting very little done today: it's all rather overwhelming. I'm just not good at going away, though I used to get straight 'A's for it. When I went to the other end of the country to study, I was the one who never felt homesick. I think this may have its roots in all those lonely trips to clear the house after Mum went into a care home. It was such a colossal job and I get decision fatigue over over whether to recycle a jam jar, let alone deal with a house of stuff, much of which held associations. Now I would rather be home than anywhere, though I like to get out and about around town.

So, various bits of nearly-dry laundry are being moved around radiators, the bed is made, a few more items have been chucked on top of the cases and I've had a conversation with the church office as cleaning supplies are running low. That's an excuse for me to have an early lunch and go out to sort those, but first I need to have a quick look ahead at the Sunday morning activity for the day after we get home: do I need to get any supplies in ahead of that?

Cherryfudge

I picked up some basics to restock the cupboard at church - the cheapest place I could think of seems to do highly scented anti-bac, which isn't my idea of fun, but I got some anyway, then realised it can't be used in catering areas. However, the man who was working there today assured me he had enough for now, and later he went to Lidl and found an unscented one there. I don't like being the one who brought four bottles of eau de synthetic jasmine and green tea, or whatever it was, that we now have to make our way though. Later I discovered Mr T's one is cheaper and unscented so I got a couple of those, too.

I've done my share of the cleaning, which isn't much, then went to paid cleaning so I got my steps in. On the way back I went to Mr T for things like sun cream and to drop off the soft plastics, and to L1dl for the things I can buy with coupons provided I spend them before I go away. About £43 spent in all.

DH felt unwell this evening, which could be from the procedure or could be the energy drink he had to break his fast. I hope he's better in the morning! He has to report back so they can have their readings.