Weekly Flylady Thread 9th September 2024

Jazee

Fridge is whiffy so sorting that out is next job.

roundtuit

Morning all xx 

Another night of broken sleep. Followed by a dream including large waves (my brain's usual interpretation of feeling overwhelmed) but I'm up, made my bed, brought down the laundry hamper,  emptied the bins, put new bin bags in bins, completed Wordle in 3,  completed Connections with one life left, and supped my first brew. Calendars have been turned over,curtains opened,  and meds taken. So at least I look like a functioning adult 😉

Congratulations GI. Xxx

Brew 2 is required before I function any more.

Rxx

roundtuit

Brew 2 supped. Toast eaten.

Round 1
Get dressed 
Feed the birds 
Put out the rubbish and recycling 
Sort washing into loads 
Set first load swishing 
WUDUPA 

Rxx

kazwookie

Well log delivery between 10 and 10.30 has not taken place, owning to my phone not making incoming / outgoing calls, I cannnot ring him. (OH has gone out to find out about bikers for blood bikes)

In the mean while, I have brushed off the outside window sills, weeded a path, swept the drive way, chatted to a postie, fed cats yet again, mended my windchime donger, ie the bit at the bottom, put more weeded from wild garden into the green bin.

Frizzlef

Congratulations Good Intentions! 

Just decluttered a long run and a bacon sandwich as a reward! Yum. Put the whites in WM before I left so they now need pegging.out.

List for today....

shower


Your bedroom

Level 1

remove items from floors/chairs etc - put away or put in the wash

level 2 
vacuum floor

Meal plan
Food shop
Ds2 to parkour
Struggling in garage
Vax sofa

pigpen

Congratulations on the new grandpink GI .. That is a gorgeous name! Scans are useless for determining size.. they told me Boog was 'about 6lb' .. he was 3lb10!! They did the same with DD1 several times.. utter rubbish.. they can tell better by feel! The radioloists actually say '2lb either way' so it is always a vague guess.

DS1 is on about making a baby with this new girlfriend.. I am NOT happy about it.. she is nice but it is not right for him or their circumstances at the moment. He needs to sort his entire life out before ventring into anther lifelong committment.. he is 32, there is plenty of time!

OH sent shopping, I am trying to find something for Dot's birthday.. and i need a cuppa but am too lazy to move.. I want to change everyones bedding and I'm still lazy!

Swimming bag needs sorting.. and DW.. I shall make a cuppa and do those.

Natty68

Has anyone done seated pilates? My friend has somehow talked me into going on Monday...

Also she wants to do seated tai chi too..that is on Wednesday I think...lol. Has anyone done that too..

Ok off to do something meaningful...lol

Jazee

Dailies and dog walk done.  Just having lunch, gardening can wait. I'm off out and about for the afternoon.

Honey_Bear

Cloth_of_Gold said:

@Honey_Bear "Probably the first time I've ever cleaned it properly since it was decorated about 23 years ago." I saw myself  that sentence I'm afraid.   

Have you tried Felicity Cloake's coffee and walnut cake? It's not bad. Do you have a bread slicer or is it a meat slicer that you used (I don't know if that's even possible). I prefer 'proper' bread but that is usually unsliced and I'm terrible at slicing bread. I always get one end thicker than the other and frequently end up with doorsteps when I want thinly, or fairly thinly, sliced bread. I have seen some devices on Amazon  such as this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cutting-Adjustable-Foldable-Suitable-Homemade/dp/B07CZ1L3RW/ref=sr_1_7?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.JfGgYilqLGYz0HFbf8nvq8GjCJ-qRT9XmjS-MlH3emMCBObiKsi7uDq2HI_XjUJYrPfnaMW5fuRGY3tjHbv3BtL-3DLyIWhYuMKgsGOeGPcp_QN6MH6aNN1-Dv3JlCj8Flw8dlchGzbwdpJIjHLfAzaCJDVvImqzLnlej_69upFANC5yiU7PtafaDJB5x7w7mmQT4pHHxyaBoIZNOPTz2JpgEHPMPeRJ1Wu8MoNQVCPM9jHrTbneY0LiuIhzF1TXATUHnSPEk-FFuZowrkL8AlQtjD_PsQzBIgKgSzowQsM.Oj1ZHlUZs036BnkYaBqHJtwlJbFhdKT0Kjzh2GHxI54&dib_tag=se&keywords=bread+slicer&qid=1726219159&sr=8-7 (pigpen goes and checks the link on her freezer  ) but the reviews of such devices seem a bit mixed.

I had an email from the Institut Français about that film as they are showing in their cinema. I wouldn't mind seeing it and A is very interested in the Vueve so I wonder if it can be viewed online - I shall check.

"I saw myself  that sentence I'm afraid. "  That is why we are on the Flylady Thread.  I suspect there are others here who haven't seen a corner or two of their homes in a while but I could be wrong about that and everyone's houses, flats, bedsits or whatever could be permanently sparkly.  What I don't get is why anyone would willingly spend any time doing (the thankless task of) cleaning when there's fun to be had like eating chocolate and skipping. 

No, I haven't come across Felicity Cloake's coffee and walnut cake so if I do I'll buy it and try it.  Frustratingly as soon as I'd made the decision to make one for us when I trotted down to the local bakery they had one which looked gorgeous but at £3.95 a slice, which wasn't big, I figured I should just carry on as originally intended.  I'm actually finishing off the first one which I made for a neighbour's 60th so I know exactly what it tastes like.  I don't remember them being as sweet as Nigella's recipe is but you can taste both the coffee and the walnuts so I'll grit my teeth, literally, and carry on.

The slicer was an expensive one from an excellent kitchen kit shop that had been on a bottom shelf for so long it was very dusty. I should have asked for a bit to be knocked off the price but I'm always too embarrassed to do that. I'd read on the Grocery Challenge thread that people swore by them and intended to get a cheap and cheerful one but confronted by a really good alongside some lightweight flimsy ones I splurged.  It has a smooth carving knife type blade for meat etc and a hefty tooth/teeth type blade for bread and I can set the thickness from wafer thin to about 1.5cms which is a briliant.

My bread hand-slicing is like yours, or at least it used to be all the time and is still occasionally when I'm not concentrating.  We don't buy bread any more because the breadmaker is so good so I/we get a lot of practice and Belovéd is no better at it either but he always blames me for the loaf being on the wonk.  When I gave up smoking I put the money I saved each year to something I really wanted, like lots of big blue pots for the sundeck, and the following year, evening classes.  The best one was carpentry and the tutor took a video of me sawing wood, which showed me exactly why I'd never been able to saw a straight line which is exactly the same thing as slicing bread. (I also did a plastering course which is exactly like icing a cake but bigger and on the vertical.  If you can ice a cake you can plaster a wall.)  I move or shift my weight very slightly when I'm halfway down, usually my whole body to the right, which means the blade (breadknife or saw) moves ever so slightly to the left hence the wedge shape.  When I remember I can now saw wood and slice bread straight, which was the only thing I really needed to get from that course.  (I can also make a mortise and tennon joint but there's not much need for that here.)  Try filming yourself with your phone from where the knife point goes out the other side of the loaf and you'll probably see what I mean, if you're doing the same thing as me.  I was slightly tempted by those bamboo slicer things but I was worried it was just another bit of kitchen gibble and we don't have a lot of space.  I don't keep the slicer in the kitchen because of that, so I really only use it for ham when I bake one, or when I've got a lot of bread to slice for sandwiches. 

So, today I got up at 6.00am because I was wide awake, took the dog for a walk, made up the superkin, shuffled some laundry, and pottered around in the kitchen until Belovéd woke up and made him tea.  The cats were delighted and so was the dog who got so over-excited by it all she had the zoomies at 7.15am.  I am not a morning person normally but we're having a champagne cream tea for anywhere between 20 and 25 - not everyone has replied yet - next weekend and I want to get it right so things are on my mind a bit.  We have one vegetarian (easy because she eats fish), one vegan (relatively easy because I had planned to include a few vegan things I like anyway) and one gluten-free person.  The GF person phoned this morning to say, and I quote her word for word, 'So, it's xxxx.  Er, so this champagne tea thing, what are you doing so I know what to bring?'  I've never known anyone with so little grace.  The only thing I haven't found is scones, which is pretty important for a cream tea but as I'd only been on the case for 14 hours I would have eventually, and we'd told her partner the day before that it would all be taken care of and she'd chosen to ignore that.  So, she's now sourcing her own scones and I'm significantly less enamoured of her than I was two days ago.  He's a very old friend, she's been his wife for about five years and it's hard work liking her.

Two more loaves will be baked this afternoon, dough for two are currently in the breadmaker, when my neighbour gets back from town with some milk powder because I've run out, I'll make up the double room, hang the net curtains back up in the letting rooms and run a load through the WM because it's sunny and lovely here, and that's it on the work front today.  

YORKSHIRELASS

Congratulations GI, lovely news.

I am slightly blown away by Pigpens fridge.  I did not know such a thing existed!  Possibly showing my age there. 

I put on the big girl pants last night and accepted an invitation to go out, which was lovely, and made me feel really positive.  I need more of that in my life! 

Today I have done some volunteering, cleaned out the cupboard under the sink and the cooking ingredients cupboard which really needed doing, made 2 lasagnes, cleaned the fridge and had a general tidy up.  I am now going to hoover and start cleaning windows but will stop at 3pm to have a bit of down time before DH comes home from work. 

I have also gathered some apples from the garden to make a crumble.