Weekly Flylady Thread 21st July 2025

Valli

morning all

yesterday I ironed all the pile plus what was on the line before our trip to Manchester to see Peter Kay, eat delicious food in a restaurant in the Corn Exchange and we popped to a big store with yellow bags and spent ££ but it was fun

eltee2

Morning all

No sleep again, got fed up lying awake so been downstairs since 5am.  Done some frogging on CoD stuff, 1st WM done & on line, 2nd load on.  about to do HH weeding the front garden.   

 Think rest of the day will just be PUPA, FUPA, general tidy up, S&S and more frogging

🥱

kazwookie

Picked sweet peas, now in a very small vase in kitchen.

Walking done

Cats fed

Kitchen sorted, didn't take long.

F1 sprint now being watched 

Gardening later on.

Have a good day 

ionafan

Yesterday I cleaned the inside kitchen and DR windows, as well as doing the usual dailies, and I almost dealt the death blow to two of my frogs.  For the family history one (for a friend) I did all the research I'm prepared to do right now and sent him all the files and other info, but some of the files were very big and I am waiting to hear that he has actually received them before putting a line through that item on my list..  Also, my thoughts on the financial frog have been committed to paper (thanks for the nudge, round!) and action will be taken on 31st of this month, with 2 accounts to be closed and money to be shifted around.

CoG, if you want to open a savings account in your name for your group, I had no difficulty with this bank. You have to have the current account and then ask for the savings account (which offers a bonus interest rate for one year from opening).  Go via the MSE Banking & Savings section in this page header to see what Martin's team say about them.

DH wants to go to the heritage railway to see the Scotsman flying past, so I'll drop him off, take Rosie up to the Forest for her walk, and pick him up again later.  Will catch up with you all this evening xxx

Fayolle

It’s been a slow start to the day. Nothing to do with friends coming round for dinner and a late night, of course 🙄. DH is having an even slower day than me. I have WUDUPA, QHI, wm x 1, dusted the LR and quickly vacuumed the DR and LR. Just don’t look too closely. 

The planned allotment trip to bang in a frame seems to have been postponed - DH’s head doesn’t seem to be up to that task right now! Maybe later.
It’s dull and very still here. Cooler than yesterday, but the 60% chance of rain this morning only amounted to about 3 drops. My small border with perennials and shrubs is now starting to die. I’m not sure how to future proof this, other than only grow plants like lavender - of which I already have quite a few. 

kazwookie

Fayolle try drought loving plants such as hibisucs, alliums, buddleia, verbina, echipop, agapanthus, try google for firms like J.Parker, Thompson Morgan and such like. 

Do you have room for a water butt and watering can, or soaker pipes.

Or (which I know is not very helpful) but gravel the lot over and just have a couple of pots to make watering easier.

I've had to grow plants that a. like the dry, b. deer don't eat, but this year they got my sunflowers!.

Fayolle

Thanks, Kaz. I already have some of those plants, but might need to seriously reconsider. Everything is just struggling here. I have 7 water butts, they have been completely emptied twice this year, and are just about empty again. We haven't had any significant rain for months here. Last summer, everything got waterlogged, so you can’t win! I feel your pain with the deer - they jump into the allotments and have a party. Absolutely everything has to be grown under cages. Today in the garden I have watched the pesky pigeons ripping branches off my lilac to build a nest next door. Yesterday, one decided the thyme pot right by the door might be a good place to sit. 
On a productive side, one birthday card has been made, 3 more to go.

Cloth_of_Gold

ionafan said:

Yesterday I cleaned the inside kitchen and DR windows, as well as doing the usual dailies, and I almost dealt the death blow to two of my frogs.  For the family history one (for a friend) I did all the research I'm prepared to do right now and sent him all the files and other info, but some of the files were very big and I am waiting to hear that he has actually received them before putting a line through that item on my list..  Also, my thoughts on the financial frog have been committed to paper (thanks for the nudge, round!) and action will be taken on 31st of this month, with 2 accounts to be closed and money to be shifted around.

CoG, if you want to open a savings account in your name for your group, I had no difficulty with this bank. You have to have the current account and then ask for the savings account (which offers a bonus interest rate for one year from opening).  Go via the MSE Banking & Savings section in this page header to see what Martin's team say about them.

DH wants to go to the heritage railway to see the Scotsman flying past, so I'll drop him off, take Rosie up to the Forest for her walk, and pick him up again later.  Will catch up with you all this evening xxx

No, I don't want a savings account, I want a current account as that's what the old account was and it gives more flexibility, e.g. a debit card. I'll haver a look at them for the current account though. 

I forgot to iclude the link in my post yesterday - it's here:

https://www.comparebanks.co.uk/banking/best-charity-bank-accounts/

MinnieMousesMummy

Good afternoon. It's a late post from me today as I've been out doing a trial day for a potential job. I think it went well, but I will just need to wait and see. It's doing what I first did when I left school, but it was fun, so fingers crossed. DH is starting to feel better after his night at A&E on Thursday, so we hope to attend a boot sale tomorrow if the weather stays nice. I'm beginning to feel rather nervous as I have less than a week to wait for my exam results, which will determine if I am heading off to study my PGDE next month. 

My list for the rest of the day
Organise stuff to take to the boot sale tomorrow if the weather stays nice
Ask DH to take measurements and find out how much it would cost to fit a DW in the kitchen 
Get fuel in the car for tomorrow.
Sort through the back to school piles and update the shopping list
Laundry x 2 loads
HH sorting out my new diary
Take DD over to the stables and do what is required with the horse. 

I think that is everything that I need to tackle today. I hope everyone is having a lovely Saturday/weekend. 

Honey_Bear

Fingers crossed for your exam results MMM.

Technically we've meal planned for next week, but I then did a stocktake of all the food in the kitchen and have redecided at least one meal.  There seems little point in having store cupboards and a freezer if I don't know what I'm going to use the stuff I've got in there so a more in depth plan is needed.  Bonus - I discovered a box of mushrooms in the freezer, and packet of pour over mushroom sauce and Beloved loves tagliatelle so that's going to replace a meal from the freezer on the plan, and then found two rounds of cheese pastry, which will be flans at some point, possibly married with some jars and tins of ratatouille we bought back from our trip to France.

I'm having a shot at making a couple of half-sized baguettes.  Not sure how successful that's going to be, but as the oven will be on for pizza later anyway I threw all the ingredients in the breadmaker earlier, I've shaped them and they're now proving in the oven out of any draughts.  Lots of yeast for the weight of flour and no sugar, so that'll be the reason French bread tastes so different.

Fayolle on the subject of watering plants, I save the 2 litre plastic milk jugs and whenever I'm running the kitchen hot water tap I save the initial cold water in them, top up the jug with plant food and use that to water some of the plants on the sundeck, mainly my tomatoes.  Our water but has been empty for a few weeks and I really hate using drinking water to water plants, so we're pretty frugal with it.  Not to the point of multiple water butts though.