Weekly Flylady Thread 11 August 2025

Honey_Bear

Sorry to hear about your BP CoG but it's good that you checked it and found out there may be a problem.  Well done on on the weightloss. 

I had a plan when I got up this morning it's turned to merde, as always.  That seems to be an every day occurance, and I'm afraid Flying is only ever when there's a gap in the plan.  There are no gaps at the moment, but Belovéd washed a bit of kitchen floor after Wren spat out one of her capsules this morning, I trod on it and spread Evening Primrose oil all over the kitchen floor.  And I did some serious re-organising of the freezer drawers this morning.

It's my 70th at some point next year and to celebrate we'd like to take the Grand Tour of Scotland, starting and finishing in Glasgow.  There are a great many moving parts to this plan and trying to pin down some arrangements is like nailing jelly to a wall.  Belovéd's ankle issues means walking will have to be kept to a minimum so public transport is the key to getting this sorted.  Before I firm up my ideas, what things to see or do in Scotland would any Flylady who chooses to comment suggest we really, really shouldn't miss? 

So far the only things I know we defo have to do are The Kelpies and a guided tour of a Speyside distillery because it may be my birthday we're celebrating but he absolutely loves Speyside single malts, and there are at least two distilleries slap bang next to a railway station on a line not included on the GT but a nifty sideline will be just the ticket (see what I did there?).

Supper will be the hallumi and sundried burgers with salad both courtesy of an A1di's TGTG box, a few sauté potatoes, a scrap of sweet potato fries to use them up and courgetti spaghetti followed by a small box of grapes from the same TGTG box.  

kazwookie

COG please go and see your doctor / nurse.

Well it never rains here but pours. OH volunteering yesterday, I walked to visit him,(not been for months, just as well I went yesterday)  get there to find him TIA / mini stroke, paramedic was wonderful spent 2 hours or so here, doing all sorts of tests etc, made referals etc, so today spent 4 hours or so at big city when they did MRI, ct, bloods, pressure tests,  etc etc. Result is tablets for now, heart monitor for 2 days, he mustn't take it off, take it back on Friday, no driving for 4 weeks at least, and so on.

COG have you booked your dr's yet in light of the above???? do it!!!!

Very basic flying done, kitchen, recycling out, cats fed, small windows open.

I have done walking round hospital grounds while waiting! but it got very hot, but still on target.

Pollybear

Hope your OH is doing better kazwookie x

ionafan

Get well soon to your OH and coping vibes to you, kazwookie - in my experience there's not much worse than a man who isn't allowed to drive xx

Do it now, online, if you can, CoG - or at least phone first thing in the morning.

The Grand Tour sounds wonderful, HB.  Go early enough in the year to avoid the mosquitos midges!

My progress today has been limited by the need to sleep off a migraine:
- close the downstairs blinds so that we don't get fried
- check finances (awaiting a refund from O2) and download bank statements
- dust my bedroom
- order DGD2's birthday gift, once I've received the go-ahead from DS1 who is curating her list
- go to my Healthier You group.  I have weighed myself and appear to have STS for about 3 weeks, yet I'm eating less, and all the right things 
- start machine sewing the curtains
- organise a card for a friend who's 88 tomorrow

I also did some odd bits of shopping and took a load of stuff to my favourite CS [fer-ling!].   The rest can wait until tomorrow.

xxx

Valli

@CoG….ask for contact details for their complaints dept…they are taking the hiss

it’s too hot

Honey_Bear

GWS vibes for Mr Kazwookie.

First night of National Fireworks Championships over and done with; all animals sedated with chicken for 3 x 10 minute displays.  We close all the doors, windows, curtains and shutters before it starts at 9.30pm, put Wren's thundershirt on her, turn up the volume on the TV and start giving them their treats as soon as the sound of the first bang.  I wouldn't go do far as to say they love fireworks but they are all so treat-orientated that they don't even begin to think about trying to hide.  Twigs twirled her ears in the loudest bits but Wren and Higgs just kept chasing the food.  Let's hope tomorrow goes as well and then it's over for another year.  If we can get them through these two nights the random ones around 5 November and New Year don't seem to phase them too much.

weenancyinAmerica

@Honey_Bear - You might want to see if you can find some Avon Skin-so-soft. It really does keep the midges and mosquitoes away.  Are there any companies that specialize in handicapped/senior travel over there? We have  a couple of companies that can arrange tours that really help people who are traveling with walkers, scooters, or wheelchairs. If you take one of these, they will also handle the luggage so you don't have to worry about it. The American Association of Retired People also has special tours where you go and stay in one place and then take tour buses out together to see the sights. My first trip to London was with them for two weeks and I didn't have to worry about packing again until time to come home. We went to the theater 4 times (including in Stratford upon Avon) and had side trips to Oxford and Stratford and Chartwell and Brighton. You might write down what you especially want to see and find out if a tour is possible.  

Cloth_of_Gold

I'm really sorry to hear about your OH Kazookie - what. horrible shock. I hope he's back to full health soon. 

I've not heard of the NFC @Honey_Bear If you weren't lookig after your pets could you go and watch? We live opposite a number of garden squares and the very well-heeled residents of each square put on a firework display around 5 November. They are proper professional diplays that go on for 15 minutes and as we are on the top floor we can watch from the comfort of our sitting room. 

I rang the GP this morning and had a call from a GP an hour later. He's taking a conservative approach. He wants to me to take readings with my machine morning and evening for seven days and record them on a form he later sent me and return it to the surgery. He's also going to book me in with a health care assistant to have a 24 hour blood pressure monitor fitted. I've had that done before and A has too, but done at the hospital. I didn't know they did them at the surgery. 

Although I'm hospital/GP phobic, in way I was a bit disappointed as I thought they would have started me on something straight away. Anyway, I'll keep an eye on it. I was hoping to have some wine this weekend, not having had any alcohol for two weeks, but I think that I'll keep off it for the time being as I read that it can raise your bp. 

I just made a (decaff) coffee and I'm waiting in for Green Flag to come and put the spare wheel on as we have a slow puncture (I can see a screw or something in the tyre). 

I bought a couple of paintings and a print at an auction and they arrived this morning so I've got to unpack them and think about where they might go. I'm always amazed how much cheaper things are at auction than they would be if you bought them in a shop/gallery. If I were setting up home I'd look to buy things at auction. 'Brown' furniture often goes for next to nothing but even more modern things (mid-century or even fairly contemporary furniture) that I could see in a younger person's home often go for way less than you would pay in a shop. 

ionafan

Well done CoG - you've started the ball rolling, and really the GP needs too see firm evidence before giving you possibly unnecessary meds.

Hope your OH is making good progress, kaz xx

It's cloudier and cooler here today, thank goodness.

Flying report:
- had a text chat with my DGD2 who has become a real teenager today (she's been practising hard for the past year)
- S&S'd kitchen and bathroom
- hoovered through downstairs and emptied the fluff
- walked into DH's bedroom and almost walked out again because of the rarefied atmosphere.  He was complaining at breakfast time that he felt muzzy headed, and I wasn't surprised: it certainly was stuffy in his BR because he hadn't had the window open overnight, and with his CPAP machine he is just like a steam train.  I flung open the window and have created a nice through draught... so he's gone back to sleep!
- dusted DH's window sill and the top of his "spare" bedside cabinet - the other one needs to be cleared before I can do anything there
- dusted my bedroom
- swept back the large amount of earth that a fox?/cat?/Rosie?? - the last is unlikely - had dug out of the border and piled onto the lawn
- removed an annoying little bramble splinter from my finger
- I bought three frames for £1 each at the CS yesterday for some of the cross-stitch pictures.  Before putting them away in the craft drawer, I checked the sizes.  The 11cm square will be perfect for the one piece done by DH that I intend to keep, but first I need to add 2 or 3 rows of xxx all round the picture to fill all the frame area.  The two much smaller frames are ideal for two little motifs that I stitched myself, about 20 years ago.  I'll keep my eyes open for more frames every time I go to the CS
- took a meal out of the freezer for tonight
- started WMx1

Just finishing a cup of tea before I peg out the washing, then  absolutely must get on with joining the curtain sections - I'd like to have that stage finished by teatime.  Fingers crossed that I can keep the migraine at bay.

(((Hugs))) to all in need, plenty of spoons in the kitchen drawer and sticks on the lawn so help yourselves xxx

kazwookie

Morning

Walking done

Kitchen done

Sausages defrosting

OH is resting ie watching telly, and fiddling with the sticky pads to the monitor he is wearing, lucky they sent him home with spares. He (inc me) also has been reading all the leaflets they gave him, he now thinks we need an air fryer and it watching a telly programme about  it, and say he will use his eby money he has just earnt finlly selling some of his stuff to buy one.

I don't think we need one or what benefits it will bring, I hardly use the oven.