Summertime

Sun_Addict

My first OAT of the month done. A job that’s been ongoing for months which is indexing and putting into files recipes I’ve cut out of magazines. Just need to find a space to store the folders now. 

KajiKita

Ran through my wardrobe when I got home and put some very loved, barely worn, smart clothes for the office, which will always be too small for me now, in the car along with various other bags of ‘stuff’ for the charity drop off tomorrow.

Not really an OAT, more a quality of life adulting - I have fresh sheets on the bed 😊

KK

Sallyforth

Perhaps we need to veer away from OATS in summer and concentrate on simple tasks? I’ve accomplished so much this past week but they’ve not been OATS if that makes sense?

Spring cleaned the flat pretty much top to bottom and finally demolished my massive ironing pile. Pete my lovely oven cleaner came yesterday so everything looks like new again. Toe nail polish soaked off for chiropodist today (who disapproves of gel polish). Tomorrow pedicure and manicure.

I find these “beauty” appointments very stressful but necessary to keep up appearances!

Tiny garden coming along nicely.

PennysIntoPounds

No restrictions @Sallyforth or anyone to only report OATs, as twas said on the first ever (sounds so significant, was a few months ago 😁) getting things done post-

Our aim is: choose a thing every day that's getting on our nerves in the background and do something about it!

Doesn't even have to be every day, doesn't need to be a big thing, doesn't need to be a particularly unpleasant thing, this is just a motivational and supportive thread to try to make our lives that bit better by helping us more regularly think 'yeah alright I'll just do that thing instead of it needing to be done' 😊

@Sallyforth it really amuses me that you're seeing your chiropodist and beautician behind each others backs, thank you for the regular laugh 😂🩷

Makingabobor2

Tomorrow I hope to go through the horrible corner cupboard under the sink. I'm pretty sure there's some stuff in there to get rid of & it needs a tidy. Its one of those that's so difficult to get to. DH left some stuff on the side that needs to go in there, but I need to tidy it first. 

KajiKita

Makingabobor2 said:

Tomorrow I hope to go through the horrible corner cupboard under the sink. I'm pretty sure there's some stuff in there to get rid of & it needs a tidy. Its one of those that's so difficult to get to. DH left some stuff on the side that needs to go in there, but I need to tidy it first. 

I have one of those cupboards ‘looking at me’ as well ….

Good luck! 👏

KK

greenbee

Replacement brackets for the blind were STILL wrong. They have promised the correct ones this time, but as I needed them for this weekend I'm not happy. I need to work out what I can do to screen that window on Sunday for the open gardens as I really don't want people looking in. There is one blind that was the wrong size (replacement due today) that I could potentially cannibalise and tape to the window frame.

Gardener is here digging holes for the obelisks. Hopefully he won't get too soaked. I've said that if he feels up to trying to free the rest of them from their packaging it will speed up my construction significantly He's got four large holes to dig, and the soil is very poor and compacted, so hard work and will need lots of compost and feeding. 

KajiKita

@greenbee, could you not just pin up / tape up some sheets / large shawls over that / those window(s)?

KK 

badmemory

A cheap shower rail with something draped over it or a curtain if you have one that fits would save sticking pins in or risking it falling down whilst it was needed.

greenbee

KajiKita said:

@greenbee, could you not just pin up / tape up some sheets / large shawls over that / those window(s)?

KK 

I think I can probably use drawing pins in the batten if necessary. I've got another window I'm going to tape fabric over, and some doors I'll hang the winter curtains over. Although I must remember to ask the gardener to make the holes for the brackets so that if, by some miracle, they arrive tomorrow, I can put them up. 

They're ceiling mounted as the windows (with double doors in the middle) are across the whole of the back wall, so I can't use anything pressure-mounted. I do, however, have lots of single flat sheets surplus to requirements. And somewhere I should have some lengths of muslin/muslin curtains I can pin together. So I'm sure I can sort out a bit more privacy somehow!