Mellow Fruitfulness

KajiKita

I’m glad you got some downtime @PennysIntoPounds 😊 I can well imagine it did you good 😊

Made a start on re-edging all the borders. Managed to get c. 8 metres done, along with weeding the front of the borders and reshaping one section completely. Happy with that 😊

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KK

SandyShores

We managed to put some summer stuff away in the garage roof space this morning.  Cleaned down the table and chairs ready for covering over for the winter - but then it rained so put the cover away again.  Few bits of shopping done - this healthy eating lark is almost a full-time job, I think I need to go part-time at work so I can keep on top of it.

PennysIntoPounds

It seems to be the rule of life @SandyShores that you can only ever excel at one aspect at a time, that's why we need our OATs threads, so we can be ready to pounce onto the unsuspecting task when it's not looking 😁

greent

It's half term here, so I have a week off and have a list of OATS to attempt to achieve over the week! 

Have made a very gentle start over the weekend - listed 1 thing on V1nted yesterday. Need to up my game from today! 😃

Watty1

Found winter boots for riding in.
Cleaned summer riding boots - I mean really cleaned by using a brush and polish and duster and leather cream - rather than quick wipe with damp cloth.

Have accepted the inevitable - winter is here - so put away things like sun cream etc. and found warmer weather stuff and began clearing up outside.

WelshmansDaughter

Cleared the allotment to the best of my ability and emailed to hand it back. Sad but that is one job off the list.

greent

So yesterday I achieved: clelaning/ tidying/ inventorying the kitchen freezer, pruning 5 trees (garden waste bin is now full), a thorough clean of the cooker extractor (top sides, bottom, inner bits and the 3 removable plates), a good scrub and shine of the(black granite, so it hides a lot!) splashback behind the range, a very detailed clean of the hob (although 3 pan stands still to finish - hands were sore), 3 months tracking of household funds (I note balances of all accounts/ investments on last day monthly and only really track one account which has about 8 standing orders go into it each month for things like annual school bus pass (£1100), water, house insce etc) and about 2- 2.5hours of work (sigh) plus the usual laundry, cooking etc.

Today I plan on finishing the hob, bleaching DS1's lab coat, deep cleaning the downstairs loo and cleaning all the kitchen cupboard fronts (plus ironing, taking DS1 to the next town, and maybe some more work) - although I am currently still in bed 😁 I find I start the week being quite productive and by Friday its a very different matter! 😂

KajiKita

Wow @greenbee, you are a demon OATer! You are throwing such a model of excellence it will completely over shadow my little post!    

This morning, before leaving for work, I disassembled and put away the heated airer (having switched it off yesterday evening). I timed myself and it only took me about a minute .... why oh why, do I have such a mental block about this?! 🤣🤷‍♀️

This evening, when I get home, before it gets completely dark, I want to run around the house and empty all the internal waste bins as they are starting to get critically full ... 🙄

KK

greenbee

It was @greent not me @KajiKita! 

I've done a minute bit of work, run the robot round the sitting room (mostly dog hair and cat hair by the looks of things() and relocated it to the bedroom so it can collect loose fibres from the new carpet when it charges up. Drawers are back in the big CoD, and some of them have new lining paper. Lampshade is also up (but not in bathroom as I need to resolve the issue with the fitting). One dog bed and a couple of his fleecy/fluffy blankets washed and on the line for a blow - they'll need to go in the TD to get the rest of the dog hair out, but hopefully will be reasonably dry when they come back in. Not sure when I'll run the TD as no sun is forecast tomorrow and it seems to have vanished already today. Overnight electricity is not particularly cheap either. 

Hoping to get the bedroom sorted by the weekend so I can move myself back in there.

Just need to track down the plumber and get him to commit to a date!

Rhyddid2026

@greent I felt exhausted just reading that list!