Weekly Flylady Thread 29th April 2024

Narc0lepsy

Today seems to have been and gone.
- woke up surprisingly to sun, so decided to go swimming as although my swim buddy couldn't go today, Monday's forecast isn't so good. It was a lovely swim although I had to chuckle as there was a group of training triathletes when I got in (wearing a long-sleeved swimsuit) - they were all clad head to foot in neoprene and you should have heard the squealing when they put their dainty boots in the water! Shish, it was 15 degrees, wimps.    Starting to see some fluffy moorhen and coot chicks now, very cute. I didn't hear the cuckoo there today; it was there on Thursday. I did about 1.1miles and the sponsored swim is 1.4 so that's promising.
- did the usual L!d! on the way home, had 10% off so got more grow bags and various bits which will last.
- did church flowers and spent a lot of time sweeping pews and hoovering up deceased ladybirds.  It's a shame there aren't more cleaning volunteers (there are 3 of us who arrange flowers and by default we are the cleaners; sometimes one other congregation member helps); it is a lovely very old church and needs so much more tlc. Years ago we had a conservation specialist come and give us a day's training on caring for old wood, brass etc but you'd need a huge team to keep it up, not 3 people already busy with work, elderly parents etc.
- did a bit in the greenhouse and garden.
- Mr N and I went for a lovely walk round the nearby RSPB reserve and heard the cuckoo; perhaps it fancied a change of lake. 
- put dinner on to cook and did some drum practice JUMP. 

Valli

CoG ASB was on the Ibiza feature, and it was on just after 5 pm, so at the beginning of the final hour.  

Bright and sunny here.  I came to bed early so of course I am awake early.  

DW x 1. WM x 3

roundtuit

Good morning all xx

GI - I didn't restart the knitting yesterday. That's a job for today. And I know exactly what I did to gain a stitch so I'm happy to start again. It'll need to be a slow, concentrated knit but I can do it. 😊 

piggers - I've been looking online at your tips for obtaining supplies. Thank you 😊 

I'm up, made my bed, opened the bathroom and my bedroom windows, completed Wordle and Connections,  and supped my first brew. 

Brew 2 and breakfast next.

Have a good day.

Rxx

Goodintentions

Good morning 😁
The sun is shining, I have put DS's bedding in the WM & put on the DW. I have also had my breakfast in the sunshine on the patio! 
I have gardening scruffs on so will dirty them up accordingly 😂 I have a delivery of summer perennials (bare root/tubers) which need dealing with & maybe some summer bedding to plant in pots. I can do that while I wait for the WM to finish & the strimmer battery to charge up, then I will head to the allotment. Sounds like a plan! The kids are doing stuff with their partners' families & DH is running a relay, so I have the place to myself to potter. 
Round good luck with the knitting today. I too have recently ordered from wool warehouse after a recommendation from a a friend. It was sent in a lovely organza bag that I can present my creation to my DD when it's done 🥰
Have a good day everyone!

roundtuit

I'm dressed, fed the birds, filled the birdbath,  put out the recycling, stood the airer outside in the sun, and pots are soaking ready to be WUDUPA. 

Then I'll have a coffee 

Rxx

Cloth_of_Gold

Thanks Valli - I'll listen later. Ibiza? I'm intrigued now.

A warm and sunny day here today. I went to the 8.30 and stopped off at the bakery on the way home where this time I did manage to get a cheese straw, and another p-au-c, that we've just shared with a cup of coffee. I removed a vent cover in the bathroom which caused a little bit of mess so I vacuumed it up. We needed some bread so I combined getting that with a walk.

Am going to WUPA the breakfast and coffee things in a minute and then so some indoor gardening, after which it will nearly be time to prepare lunch. Hope everyone has a good day.

Loanranger21

Cloth of Gold your phrase I did a small job in the bathroom which caused a little bit of mess so I vacuumed it up made me laugh uproariously. Double entendres! 

fritzie-65

Ditto !! 😀

Honey_Bear

I hope you're both feeling a bit better at the tailend of the week than you were at the beginning YL and Fayolle.

I'm sorry someone's stolen your cat Piggers.  Is the cat's new place close enough for it to make it back to yours?

Uneventful drive to Littlehampton during the week for the agéd aunt's funeral, the last of her generation, but I realised afterwards I was very tense due to the high possibility of someone being there I really didn't want to have to deal with.  Fortunately they were absent, so I had a lovely time (is that allowed at a funeral?) talking to a cousin I have missed for the past 40 years while we were both getting on with life.  We're now well and truly back in touch, which is marvellous.  

Thence to the New Forest for a YHA stay, and I now know why people rave about packing cubes.  I've been scrabbling around in my pack for decades looking for the one thing I need and this time I just bunged three cubes on a window sill and I could find everything I wanted immediately.  The big ones I'll use for putting out of season clothes away but three small/medium sized ones are bathroom gibble, clothes, and stuff.  Worked a treat.

There has been limited flying over the past two days but we did vacuum throughout and I changed the lodger's bed (should have done it before I went), and so today I'm turning out kitchen cupboards.  Not everything that is coming out is going back in, and as it's bin day tomorrow Mr Bin Man is going to be hefting stuff away that I should have let go some time ago.  I'm making yoghurt with a litre of longlife milk that's a year out of date.  It'll either work or it won't and if it doesn't I haven't wasted anything other than 30 minutes of slow cooker energy and two spoonfuls of milk powder.  Very MSE.  I suspect the dog would have it even if we didn't want to eat it, because she slurped her way through a bowl of the milk but the cat, who is a bottomless pit of permanent hunger, turned his nose up at it.

Cloth_of_Gold

Who would have thought we had lurkers in this everyday story of domestic folk.

H_B I'm pleased that the funeral was a joyful, rather than a sad occasion for you. I met couple of my cousins at my aunt's funeral a few years ago having not seen them for donkey's years and it was good to catch up, so I know what you mean.

Lunch made, dishes WUPA and eye meds administered. Houseplants tended to; one needs to be re-potted but that's an outside job, which I will do tomorrow - probably. New duvet cover ordered.