Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

Cheery_Daff

Mine got left outside all winter 😬 it looks like yours is more substantial - mine is basically like a string shopping bag - good for lying and looking up at the trees, but not good for having a cup of tea 😂 

I've cleared one of the beds in the front garden (not cleared the soil, just the dead ferns etc). The herbs are starting to emerge, and there are daffodils and primroses hidden under there too 😊 Going to do a bit more while Mr C has an extra lie in

themadvix

This is our hammock - definitely more chair than bed: https://www.yellowleafhammocks.com/products/hanging-chair-hammock-khaki-big-sur-california. We did not pay full price for it, but definitely a good quality of life spend.

 Good work on the bed - I’ve done a bit of cutting back this morning but not all in one place, so it’s hard to see what I’ve done (in fairness I’ve mostly been in the kitchen - bread, bagels and biscuits underway). Mr MV is cutting the lawn very gently currently - and I’m typing from hammock - WFH has a different meaning in our house once hammock is up 😂).

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, that's lovely, and infinitely more practical than ours, which is something like this (but string vest colour 😂)

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themadvix

Yours does look like you’d fall through it quite easily!

 Hope you’ve managed to have a productive but restful day and Mr C’s back is improving.

Cheery_Daff

Mine's surprisingly cold to lie in - the wind whistles round your back 😂 but our garden is very exposed, and it's in the shade under the trees, so probably more that than the hammock...

Had a good stint in the garden. Lopped the dead stuff out of the bed in the front, and weeded all the pots around the patio, and did a bit of pruning of the roses and the cotoneaster bush. Felt good to be out, and I also stopped for a couple of cups of tea, one in the morning on the swing, another in the afternoon, the first this year on the patio 🥰🥰

Went into town with Mr C for a mooch round the charity shops and a sit outside a cafe in the sunshine 😊

Spoke to my mum, who is feeling rather sorry for herself with labrynthitis 😕

Went to band practice, good to focus on something outside of myself and my to do list.

And I ordered shelves for the downstairs loo. Pleased with this - I'm trying to tackle the 'energy leak' jobs, the ones that cause stupid problems that sap my energy the whole time. The last one was the recycling bins - we've gone from using the council provided bin (and having everything overflowing and being annoying for several days a month, and looking scruffy the whole time) to a set of three stacked lidded bins, a small change, but it's made a big difference to me mentally, not seeing a pile of rubbish the minute I walk through the door to the house.

All the tools etc tend to litter the entrance too (we use the utility room as the main house door) so hoping this will make a big difference too!

Right, off to do a bit of curtain sewing 😊

KajiKita

‘Energy leak’ jobs is a really good way of describing it. What will you use the shelves in the downstairs loo for? 

Glad you got a good session in on the garden as well as some time out of the house for Mr CD 😊 A good balance for you both ❤️

KK

VintageHistorian

One thing I have learnt from "Sort your life out" is having areas for specific things and making sure the storage fits that. So getting shelving for the space that stores the tools so they can be stored in a specific place will be so helpful for you.

(Just don't do what I do which is go "Oh yes and now I need to 3 nicely patterned boxes but I'm sure I'll see some at the charity shop/carboot so there's no point getting them from WH Smiths now" and then 3 years later...still have no boxes.)

Cheery_Daff

Ha @VintageHistorian that's exactly the type of thing we'd do 🙄😂

But yes, shelves will be for tools - the drill, screwdrivers etc, stuff we use quite a lot and NEVER put back in the garage (because the garage is an un-navigable tip too) but which don't have a home in the house, so they get moved from place to place, shoved in different tubs, and endlessly searched for. 

You've hit the nail on the head - there are quite a few things that just don't have actual homes, so they get shifted constantly, which means whenever you want to do a job you never know where anything is. It's beyond annoying and about time it was sorted!

Did a bit more on the curtains last night. Mr C also sorted through some stuff I'd cleared from the craft room. I think we'll always have a craft stash in the loft, but this didn't need to stay in daily view - he's found a few bits to get rid of so some good decluttering there too. I'll put the rest in the loft this evening. There's a bag of stuff for the bin in there too, so I'll get that out tonight, and think about what of mine can go in the new drawers.

Oh, and we have some floor paint from Mr C Snr's leftover - it says you have to use within 10 days after adding the activation liquid (no idea what happens if you don't, quite probably nothing). Anyway, might as well use it so I'm going to paint our stairs, which haven't got any paint down the middle, but which aren't nice enough to sand the side paint off. I was waiting til we get round to decorating the whole thing (some is just plasterboard) but as nobody else ever goes upstairs it'll be a while and no harm just doing the painting for now. 

First though, work!

Cheery_Daff

Octopods savings session 6-7pm today folks!

LadyWithAPlan

All action over here and loving the outdoor cups of tea pics! 

So nice to see the sun out and the sunsets have had the most amazing light in London along with the crispness of the air and the sun - been quite magical 

on the storage issue that Container theory - the  Dana K White saving homes introduced me to is here - she has a yt video on it / basically have one place for one kind of thing but if the container is not big enough you have too much stuff