Weekly Flylady Thread 19th August 2024

Narc0lepsy

Sorry about your holiday ills Pigpen, and hope other ill people get better soon.
I've sort of skim-read but can't remember anything - it was a busy weekend moving first some of Mum's effects into her new home, then moving her.   Won't bore you with details, but although there was a lot of anxiety (from all of us), disorientation and confusion in a new place (Mum) and general angst, it went as well as could be expected.  The staff are delightful, efficient (bore off a large suitcase of Mum's clothes and returned them less than an hour later, all labelled and on hangers) and very welcoming. We were constantly offered food and drink.  Other residents are also very caring and reassuring to both Mum and I; it seems a real community.

We got back last night so all I've done today is 1 gymswim, 1 lake swimming lesson, packed clothes away, watered greenhouse and pots and read emails. 

Honey_Bear

CoG Try Vanish - 1 scoop in the washing machine load in addition to powder or liquid or whatever you use.  

And anything by Angela Carter is wonderful.  Try her short stories The Bloody Chamber if you want to get the flavour of her style.  I've read it a dozen times and each reading zings with the freshness and sheer joy of her originality.  Having said that, she's probably a bit marmite for some.  Much loved in literary circles.

Lunch out tomorrow has been cancelled - elderly neighbour who didn't have a heart attack after all, just severe indigestion apparently, had forgotten it was her son's 56th birthday so she's cried off.  Oops.  It means I have another day of sorting out hotspots and very overdue paperwork. 

roundtuit

Morning all xx 

I'm up, made my bed,  dressed,  packed my lunch bag,  eaten breakfast and I'm supping my brew. Yep. Back to jolly old work for me. Marvellous. 

Taking double drinks with me in case of coughs. 

I'll feed the birds and put out the recycling before I set off. And I plan to call at PO on my way home - to pay rent and withdraw cash to pay the hairdresser on Friday after work.

Let's see if we can pick up the rhythm of life.

Love to all
Rxx

kazwookie

Kitchen is done

Rubbish out

Cats all fed / stroked / cuddled.

OH and I are off out, so he can test out his new bus pass!!   he is like a kid in a candy store, checking the route /times / fare for me, the bus can only go left or right around here to start with, from here they don't do inland, until a main town!! he cannot seem to grasp that.

Valli

CoG.  Vanish and, even if it’s still there, try drying in the sun.  Shifts curry stains 

Took the aged ps up to hospital l last night as dad had an mri scan Mum, of course, has to come as she can’t be left.  So we took her blue badge and got free parking.  I assume evening appointments are scheduled so that very expensive machines are being used out of hours.

Dried some washing and made jambalaya for tea.  

ETA feeling sorry for myself; I have a cold.

pigpen

Valli said:

Took the aged ps up to hospital l last night as dad had an mri scan Mum, of course, has to come as she can’t be left.  So we took her blue badge and got free parking.  I assume evening appointments are scheduled so that very expensive machines are being used out of hours.

They don't use them every day so if they turn them on they use them constantly for 14 hours straight.. 7am-9pm here.. a couple of days a week (Monday to Wednesday here).. I was told because their days didn't work with our days.

Today I have managed a telephone appointment.. IF the doc calls.. I am passing all things disgusting.. if it makes me queasy it is really bad.

Bills paid, cats fed and drugged. Returns organised I need to bag up some bits but their collection is sorted. DD1 is picking up school jumpers for Dot tomorrow when she gets Spams blazer and I need to order shoes for the 3 big ones.. Dot is a 6, Squeak is a 7 and Pixie is an 8!!!! I'm going to Decathlon and buying her kayaks!!!

I need to laundry in/out shuffle but I am really dizzy and there is no one competent here.

Valli

Thanks Piggers...makes sense (re MRI)

pigpen

putting my list here to be held accountable..

School shoes. 8, 7 and 6

school trainers.. hmm ... not checked those. 8, 7, 6 and 2

Bag for Pixie

jumpers for Dot .. DD1 on it..
Pay bills outstanding

Pay swimming

Pay dance.. They've changed the times of dance class so now it is finishing later and much less convenient! booking opens next Tuesday.

Who needs new winter coats? ...

Sort computer .. delegated to OH

List Vinted stuff

Sort school cupboard

Write Christmas list.. I have 2 sorted. out of 26... and 7 birthdays..

Fed girls, made a cuppa..

pigpen

GP called.. she is nice but hysterical.. as proven again.. she sent a paramedic and did a hospital referral to haematology (which I will also decline).. for a UTI... just give me AB's woman and let me be!!! Obviously I thanked him for coming but refused to let him in.. sneaky thing turned up wearing red so I thought it was the DPD man and answered the door because paramedics wear green, right!? ... well they are sneaky lol.. not making that mistake again!! apparently I have a 3.5 year thing of serious UTI's .. since 2009 I've had one every 3.5 years.. fancy that.. at least I'm consistent!

Twinkles glasses sorted and eye test appointment made for next Thursday... 3:15ish..

OH should be on his way home shortly.. meatballs/pork steaks with pasta for dinner.. easy, quick and requires no real effort from me.. no one else will cook it!

Cloth_of_Gold

Honey_Bear said:

CoG Try Vanish - 1 scoop in the washing machine load in addition to powder or liquid or whatever you use.  

And anything by Angela Carter is wonderful.  Try her short stories The Bloody Chamber if you want to get the flavour of her style.  I've read it a dozen times and each reading zings with the freshness and sheer joy of her originality.  Having said that, she's probably a bit marmite for some.  Much loved in literary circles.

Lunch out tomorrow has been cancelled - elderly neighbour who didn't have a heart attack after all, just severe indigestion apparently, had forgotten it was her son's 56th birthday so she's cried off.  Oops.  It means I have another day of sorting out hotspots and very overdue paperwork. 

Before I saw this I decided to use a bit of a stain removing cream I bought from Lakeland ages ago. I've used it a few times to remove small food/drink stains on the carpet; I suppose it's like Vanish. I rubbed some into the stain, left it for a bit and then put the shirt in the machine again for good measure. Finally, after having soap rubbed in, being washed in the basin with Persil, and spending 4 and half hour in the washing machine over 3 washes it's finally come out. All that for half a teaspoon of tomatoey sauce. [rolls eyes].

I was aware of Angela Carter but had not read anything by her. I was in Waterstone's in the high street recently, killing time when A was at the optician, and I noticed The Magic Toyshop, which I'd heard of but knew nothing about.  It's a nice hardback edition with an attractive cover designed by Jacqueline Groag and I bought it on impulse. I've read 60 pages and am really enjoying it. 

I'm trying to make time to read again as I've been a keen reader since I was a child but in the last 3 or 4 years have either not had the time or not been able to concentrate. The last book I read was a golden age detective story but it had lots of characters and lots of twists and turns and needed to be read fairly quickly if you have as bad a memory as I have. Unfortunately I read it only intermittently over many weeks but I finally got almost to the end and read 'So our killer was Lydia Talbot'. I thought, 'I can't remember who Lydia Talbot is in this story' so I put it down in dismay, unfinished. Hopefully I'll come back to it at some point and read the whole thing, but more quickly. Sorry for rambling on.

No flying today, apart from washing up. I was going to clean the bathroom this morning but A wanted to go to the park and by the time we got back it was time for lunch, after which any enthusiasm inclination I had to clean the bathroom had disappeared.

@pigpen that sounds terrible. I'm sorry I can't do anything to help but sending hugs and spoons.