Weekly Flylady Thread 12 August 2024

roundtuit

Morning all xx 

I took parrots before I went to bed and slept through the night. Yayyy. I'm up, made my bed, completed Wordle in three, completed Connections without losing any lives, and I'm supping my first brew since Tuesday morning!!! Only I can't taste it so it's like drinking hot water 🤷‍♀️. Never mind ... it'll soothe my throat. 🙂

So. After two days in bed. And one day up but not dressed. My aim today is to shower, wash my hair, and get dressed. Like a real hoooman would. Like a well hoooman would. I wouldn't say that I'm well. But I'm not ill ill either. 🤧.  What's in between ill and well? Whatever it is I'm it. 🙂

Yesterday I watched a video on YouTube of someone ironing. I find watching other people iron quite soothing. My friend H used to ask if I minded if she ironed while we chatted over coffee at her house. No. I don't mind....as long as you don't expect me to iron too!! Now the lady in the video was ironing lots of lovely pinnies. She even had a gardening pinny to go over her house pinny. And I got to wondering. Do you guys wear a pinny? My grandma used to wear like a full length wrap round tabard like article. I vaguely remember Mum wearing a round the waist pinny - maybe at Christmas? I don't wear one. I think I do own one. Like a cooking apron. Someone bought me it years ago. It's in the tea towel drawer.  Under the tea towels. So that's my research project today. Pinnies. Do you wear them? Do you remember anyone wearing them? 🤔 What is your opinion of pinnies?

Bet you weren't expecting that question this morning. Round is recovering 😁

Have a good day
Rxx

Crazycatlady2

Bleach in toilets, out of date food binned and some rubbished binned....it's a start I guess

Fayolle

Morning all,
Yay, Round is back! Don’t you go doing too much now, young lady x Pinnies, is it today? My mum was a pinny wearer, but only for cooking. She had 1950’s housewife style ones that she used to knock up out of old material, frills and everything. Our NDN at our first house was pinny wearer - one for the kitchen, one for housework and one for gardening, which I always thought was very practical, but never copied. I have aprons, if only I could find it. It used to hang in the kitchen, moved to a hook in the utility room. The utility room as been in boxes for the year, pretending that it is being renovated, so who knows where the apron has gone? I used to wear a chef’s whites apron, now I am more floral, as befits my aging years 🤣. Bet you wished you hadn’t gone down that rabbit hole now! However, I do know that DD has a pattern for a tabard style one which I have always fancied making, to cover my LA floaty dress (which I don’t now own, not sure why I gave them away) and wandering around the allotment with my trug. Hmmm, now where is that pattern….
Today is starting on a slow burn. I wrote a list last night, so obviously I am ignoring that and going to the allotment for a couple of hours. Onion day today. DH is going out for a couple of hours this afternoon, so I might attempt to tackle the list then. Or not.

roundtuit

You know me better than that Fayolle the further you go down the rabbit hole the happier I am 😊

I've made my bed, showered, washed my hair, got dried, combed my hair, cleaned my teeth,  and got dressed. In clothes. S.l.o.w.l.y. And feel better for it.

I've also fed the birds, emptied the bins, and put new bin bags in bins. Eaten toast and supping a coffee.... can't taste it though. 

Rxx

ionafan

Good to know that you're on the road to recovery, round xx
I have none of those useless waist pinnies, just one full length one.  It has a birds design in fairly muted colours, and was given to me by a friend.  It hangs behind the kitchen door when not in use (which means most of the time) but I try to remember to use it for cooking when I am wearing my better-than-everyday clothes, eg when friends/family come round for a meal, and especially when I'm using the main oven - I got fed up with having to go upstairs and find yet another clean top!  For everyday cooking using only the hob or microwave I am generally a very clean cook.  I never wear an apron for flying or gardening, though: that's what old(er) clothes are for.

Another lovely day here, sunny and not too hot.  I didn't wake up until 8.10 and had slept through DH getting up, getting breakfast, and going out.  My breakfast was waiting for me on the side by the kettle when I went down to see if he was OK, because I hadn't heard him - maybe he went out through the side door instead of the front.  He has gone by car and train into the big city to catch a heritage bus to the next big city, where there is a transport museum, and when he's seen enough he can get a train home.  No money involved, except for fuelling the car for the 5min journey to the station and making a donation to the bus preservation society, as we are fortunate that our bus passes also work on our local trains and Metro.

I sorted more photos into families last night (this is flying, as it involves decluttering and making room on the shelves) and am ready to begin putting those of my father in date order and into the loose leaf pockets.  He  was born in the late 19th century so his toddler photos are lacey and velvety and extra cute   I want to take the photo album of my father's side of the family with me when I visit my second cousin once removed on Monday.  Perhaps he will want copies of some and may be able to offer me others to fill in the gaps.

I'm taking K and the girls up to the forest for lunch and a walk.  I might sign up for the Tramper this time, if it's available, as my knee is very painful and I'd love to go deeper into the woods than I can manage on foot.  Another nod to the ageing process.  I'm not being morbid, honestly - just realistic

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend xxx

Valli

I have two pinnies, full length, which I use for cooking usually.  

Taken 5 of my knives down to the repair cafe to be sharpened.  Washing on the line.

Jazee

Hello.  Glad you're improving Round.

We have lots of full length aprons here.  DH uses them for messy cooking and I use them for messy gardening.  I prefer the ones with a pocket to put small tools in.

Today, I have done dailies, walked Poppet and done some gardening, without apron.

 I'm going to have a couple of hours reading while DH watches football then we're off to meet DGD3.

Honey_Bear

My mother wore an apron on her lower half, always with pockets and there were masses of them, all cotton, bright colours and she never cooked without one.  She did not do housework.  When my father asked her to marry him - he was in the army - she said, 'Yes.  I'll go anywhere in the world you go, and I'll have as many children as you want, but I won't do housework.'  She never did.  I grew up in houses where there was always someone who helped at least three days a week or someone who lived in when we were in Malaysia.  I had no idea I would have to do housework as an adult because it was something someone else did.  Out of sight and out of mind, really.  I never saw her hold a duster or touch the vacuum cleaner. 

I only started wearing aprons to cook when Belovéd came into my life and cooking became a daily thing.  Until then I often ate at work (subsidised restaurant) or would happily just have cheese and an apple for supper anyway.  I can cook, but my mother didn't like sharing her kitchen so I had to put myself through a Cordon Bleu course to learn how to.  Never bothered much for myself though.  Belovéd and I alternate cooking evening meals and it turns out I'm quite a messy cook so I need an apron that hangs around my neck and ties around the waist, but I only wear it to cook.  I've got several and they're washed fairly frequently as I splatter food over everything.  I cook a lot for fun now really.

Can't get my head around wearing an apron for gardening. 

I'm making those Chef Jean Pierre chocolate pots today to go into the freezer for next weekend.  Annual croquet event in the communal garden which is as rough as rats but it works as long as people accept our croquet lawn has a chicane.  Up until this year I've always done a main course buffet for however many people are invited by various households, (22 one year), things like cheese and onion flan, Coronation chicken, massive coleslaw, New York style potato salad, green salad, tomato and red pepper salad, basically every time a household invites more people I added another salad.  Next door has always done puddings, and last year she made an apple and blackberry crumble which was served without cream or custard or ice cream.  It was rather dry and dull.  Anyway, this year she's decided she wants to do the main course / buffet, whatever.  First off she said she was going to cook a whole salmon, I thought, I wish I'd thought of that, what a good idea, new potatoes etc.  Yesterday she told me it would be too expensive so she's doing baked potatoes and three different toppings.  I've never told anyone this but I consider a baked potato with a topping rather dull, and I always thought croquet with a lovely lunch on a sunny Sunday was rather a special occasion but clearly not when other people have to make any effort.  (She's not short of money, they've already been on a foreign holiday this year and are about to go on another two week one.)

I'm going to be a bit sly and make three desserts.  Chef's chocolate pots (and they really are absolutely gorgeous and super simple to make), a Pavolova - because I find them very simple and everyone loves them, and a crumble, probably peach and raspberry, served with the free Ben and Jerry's icecream I'm salting away in the freezer from the Co-op offer.

I realised last night for the first time that she's probably a bit jealous of me.  She's mean-spirited at the best of times and I think she's rather tired of people enjoying my food.  It's not as if she hasn't been on the receiving end of our hospitality here - roast pork the weekend they moved in, and Christmas lunch last year because they were on their own.  When they invited us in for lunch she served liver and bacon and proudly told me it was because it was cheap!  (As it happens I loathe liver, the smell makes me want to barf and has actually done so more than once, but being polite I forced it down.  I'm not sure I've ever forgiven her for that!)

So, Round, there's your rabbit hole for today.  So glad you're feeling better.  Don't over do it, will you.

kazwookie

Part walking done

Neighbours grass cut

5 cats fed

OH taken out and walked around a sunflower field

Walked around a garden centre didn't buy anything.

Cleaned kitchen floor

Now off to  buy food.

Pollybear

I have an apron which I put on when I'm making pastry because I always get flour all down my front.  It was my Mum's and she's been dead for 43 years so it's probably 50 years old.  It was from Marks & Spencer and has a St Michael label in it, which really dates it!  I have the matching place mats too.  I don't really like having new things as you can probably tell.

I've got two loads of washing dry today and I was going to sit outside and read this afternoon but one side is hedge cutting and the other has just started up a barbecue so I've given up and come on here.