Weekly Flylady Thread 5th May 2025

Jazee

Morning.  

Wordle in four, two lines on connections, strands with no hints, letterboxed in five.

I will fly this morning.

Have a great day everyone.

eltee2

Morning all

First load swishing in WM - must remember today is Tuesday....

Open windows
Air & remake beds
Go for a walk +shopping

Kitchen bits
Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Descale & wipe over kettle
Wipe over toaster & empty crumb tray
Empty bin, clean & leave outside to dry
Clean oven & grill
Wipe over doors & drawer fronts
Clean windows & frames
Sweep and mop floor

That'll do for now

Jazee

Me again.  In no particular order I have

watered gardens and in greenhouse 
put recycling out
got two wash loads on line
changed sofa throws
did a little admin
walked Poppet
WUDUPA
hoovered and swept through house
s&sd toilet and bathroom 
made bed

Thats it for today.  I have an exercise class and knitting to do.

Valli

Hello


Electricity was off for a while as decorator papering over sockets.  Have emptied most of shed, swept it, decanted gravel from crumbling bags into plastic tubs repurposed from work, sorted out compost bin, planted a lavender in a fancy pot, swept out bunny hutches which are airing, accidentally let Daisy out of her run but managed to grab Miffy and get her out of the way, thus saving the girls from fighting.  Got Daisy back in run.  Found a few apples in shed so have given them to bunnies.

Car screenwash and coolant topped up.

eltee2

eltee2 said:

Morning all

First load swishing in WM - must remember today is Tuesday....

✔️Open windows
✔️Air & remake beds
✔️Go for a walk +shopping

Kitchen bits
✔️Clear and wipe worksurfaces
✔️Descale & wipe over kettle
✔️Wipe over toaster & empty crumb tray
Empty bin, clean & leave outside to dry
Clean oven & grill
Wipe over doors & drawer fronts
Clean windows & frames
Sweep and mop floor

That'll do for now

Plan gone a bit haywire with impromptu pub lunch.  V enjoyable but am sleepy now. Hopefully will rally round in an hour or two 🥱

ionafan

Morning all.  Hope everyone's well and enjoying the sunshine.

I am having an unblocking day - first the toaster (a big crumb), and then the flexible nozzle of the old Dy$0n which had been rattling like a rattlesnake (small pieces of gravel).  I just hope I don't find any manky drains to unblock!
I've pulled the recycling bins out of the kitchen cupboard and wiped all round inside (will remove rubbish to the recycling bins in the shed on my next trip down).
The old Dy$0n has completed the first part of its journey to a new home somewhere upstairs, and I'll bring up the accessories later. I have a never-used folding bed table to carry down, which will fit easily in the space vacated by the old Dy$0n (it's DH's, so I have to wait for him to decide that it can go to the CS, but that is my long-term plan).
There is one bank statement to file and I need to check if the B&C insurance renewal note has appeared on my account.

The second set of Grandfather's postcards from Norway (summer 1936) is proving much less daunting than the 1914 set because he wrote fewer.  When I've finished those transcriptions it will leave just a few odd cards sent by other relatives which are of interest only for the signatures and recipients' addresses - I shall probably photograph them on both sides, file the pictures with the other family tree evidence under the senders' names, and then donate the old views that might bring in a few pennies on the Bay of E to the CS.  My aim is to have the spare bed clear again by the end of today.

I enjoyed watching WDYTYA last night more than I had anticipated: I'm not a particular fan of Ross Kemp, but his grandfather worked on cruise ships just before WW2 and his experiences linked up with what I have been researching for the past couple of weeks. 

Have a good day - I'll be back later to read about all your exploits xxx

eltee2

eltee2 said:


Plan gone a bit haywire with impromptu pub lunch.  V enjoyable but am sleepy now. Hopefully will rally round in an hour or two 🥱

 I didn't rally round after all!   Will be doing bathroom today, plus I'd like to sort out 2 of the boxes in our bedroom

Honey_Bear

I've been feeling very lacklustre over the past week or so, but seem to have found my mojo for cracking on today.  Not that it showed with Strands et al, which were all a bit of a disaster but you can't have everything.

I've got a humongously irritating frog off my desk where it's been lounging around between there, my brain and a drawer for 20 years and for the moment it's out of the house.  It'll be back next week and with any luck and a call to my cousin in America for advice - out of my life shortly afterwards.  That's made me very happy.  I have to say the people I've dealt with this morning about it have all been absolutely wonderful and for various reasons I'm not sorry I didn't deal with it before.  Sometimes procrastination serves a purpose.

Posted a couple of things at the post office which manages to spend most of its life closed but was open today, happily.

Quick trip to the Co-op for essentials.

Popped in to the jeweller at the bottom of the lane to ask if she had any ear-ring butterflies I could buy for a pair someone made for me some time ago that were missing them, and lovely lady, Sam, gave me some.  I was quite willing to pay but I think she wanted to chat more.

Dailies:  dog fed, medicined and walked, bed made, kitchen tidied, all manner of boring things sorted out in the house.

I've spent a couple of hours in the yard emptying both composters and spread all of that under trees and shrubs at the top of the garden.  The next task will be to wash out the medium sized terracotta plastic pots to that I can pot up the tomato plants that have long outgrown their garden centre pots.  In the process I've found a thingy I put dill seeds in and another thingy with parsley seeds in have done me proud (I'd given up on them and banished them to under the sundeck) and some volunteer tomato plants around the rhubarb I repotted a few weeks ago so I'm going to see if I can learn to !!!!!! p*r*i*c*k out seedlings in the vacated garden centre tomato plant pots.  I'll probably kill them but one or two might survive while I acquire a new skill.

Jazee

Hello.

First work shift, dailies and dog walk done and I've mopped all the hard floors.  Will attempt the puzzles next.

eltee2

Afternoon all

3rd & final WM  load swishing - other 2 drying outside might need 10 mins in TD later.  Been left indoors on my own, so have got quite a bit done.   Running out of oomph now...

✔️Open windows
✔️Air & remake our bed
✔️DS bed stripped, aired, fresh bedding on
FUPA & PUPA all 3 bedrooms
Deal with 2 boxes lurking in our bedroom
Dust high & low
Sweep/vacuum bedrooms
S&S kitchen

Bathroom
✔️Towels & bathmats to WM
✔️Clean loo, sink, bath/
✔️shower/screen/taps
✔️Wipe over bathroom cabinets & tiles
✔️Wipe in-between radiator rail thingys
✔️Sweep & mop floor
✔️Put out clean towels & mats,
Jollops down plugholes

✔️Put kettle on
Enjoy ☕️
Finish tasks