Weekly Flylady Thread 15th September 2025

YORKSHIRELASS

Thanks both, that's so kind xx

Everyone says that Covid is doing the rounds and it's definitely more than a normal cold.  I am in bed and have decided to have a rest day.  I have said to work that I might not be back until Monday but will see how it goes.

kazwookie

YL glad to hear you are resting, maybe a call to the Dr's as well might be in order. Drink plenty.

It is raining here, I have 4 full water butts   now of course the plants / pots / veg do not require watering.

It is indoor walking today atm, cats are helping, and likely to trip me up soon. (vids on yt)

OH has required Shepherd's pie tonight, so mince is out defrosting

General daily stuff done.

Fayolle

That’s a good decision, YL. Rest up and look after yourself. Despite what they might tell you, work will manage just fine, so don’t be under any pressure to go back before you are well enough x
Today has been designated a flying day. Well, it might be a couple of hours and not the whole day, but it’s a start. Wm is running although the clothes will have to hang indoors, upstairs is dusted, bathroom is clean. Next on the list is to clean the downstairs toilet and then vacuum upstairs.
We are out this evening with some friends for a belated meal for DH’s birthday, so that is dinner sorted. DH has a bag of sloes to sort out after our hedgerow foraging yesterday afternoon. I hope to make it up to my sewing machine later, further inspired as usual by watching the GBSB last night. 

eltee2

eltee2 said:

Taking inspiration from HB I've made a Things I MUST sort out this week list.  They're in danger of becoming 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸

✔️Hearing aid adjustment - BOOKED
✔️Dental check-up - BOOKED
✔️Renew 60+ bus pass - DONE
HMRC tax return
bulk-buy laundry/cleaning supplies
❌️Opticians
Workplace pension I forgot about (all £80 of it - kerching!)

El

Made a start 👆 - turns out optician appt isn't due until March. Hurrah!  Will sort out the rest by Friday.  Rest of today will be bathrooming.

Went for a walk & top-up shop earlier, got back just as rain started.   

Hip still holding out, will resume strengthening exercises.

Hugs, spoons & sticks if you need them

Have a good one

El

Valli

Pollybear said

Oh and I mended the gate.   A screw kept coming out of the latch.  I finally got fed up of pushing it back in and found a new rawlplug, hammered it into the hole, and rescrewed it.  Hopefully that will last.   Also WD40d the bolt which was getting very stiff.   DH has been moaning about it for about a month but that didn't progress into action.    Let's see if he notices

and has he?

Monday was spent dealing with jam, mostly.  Reboiled damson jelly has set and batch 2 was rolling boiled for 15 minutes and has set very well - possibly helped by the full 24 hours dripping through the bag.  So Tuesday kitchen got cleaned, also mopped the hall and contacted a bookseller to clear the books.  Though, despite arranging to turn up at 11 today he's yet to put in an appearance.  

Went to see Downton Abbey the Finale yesterday.  The audience was largely female and largely of an age

Today I took SD to buy a cat, so hopefully he will feel less lonely.  Just phoned him (SD) up to see how he (kitten 5 months) is settling in and he keeps scratching furniture so SD keeps moving the scratching post.  Reminded him to leave the post where it is and remove the cat from the furniture to the post when he scratches.

I've also replaced the 180 degree hinge for the door of the understairs cupboard as it had popped off.

And I've listed a tea set on eBay which was living in a cupboard and which I might have used once.   I had one person bid for 4 items but they haven't paid and I don't seem to be able to cancel the sale.

I'm not posting so much because I have a new forum password which I have promptly forgotten and can only access the forum on one device...so I must remedy that.

ionafan

Glad to hear that you are taking the day/rest of the week off, YL.  Get well soon - but don't count yourself as fully recovered until you really are

I am plodding on with (at least) Level 1's and September challenges.  J the gardener cleared the gutters for us yesterday, so that's another item crossed off my list.

So far today I have S&S'd the kitchen, done a 5min PU in the LR, and FUPA yesterday's clean washing which had mostly dried outside on the whirlygig in the sunshine.  I've been to the Healthier You group, which meant parking in the multistorey underneath T€sc0, so I had a mooch round looking for bargains (none that I wanted) as well as checking the price of ingredients for my baking marathon.  Then I called at MrAl's on the way home and did a medium-sized shop there, not including baking in gredients.  Rosie went out for her walk in the rain with L this morning, and DH has to go to clinic this afternoon, so I shall get on with indoor jobs like comparing the baking prices / printing out, making and filling seed packets / doing more cross stitch / putting in an order from the jungle / making phonecalls / sending emails.  And of course catching up with this thread and another that I follow.

xxx

Honey_Bear

eltee2 said:

Taking inspiration from HB I've made a Things I MUST sort out this week list.  They're in danger of becoming 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸

I think that's the point of what I'm doing, Eltee.  Everything I see and think, 'I must do that' are already frogs.  I didn't realise it until I started thinking of them as mental clutter that was preventing me from moving on until after I'd started my version of the September Challenge.  If anyone had suggested that I deal with a Frog every day until they're extinct I'd have run a mile.  Tackling outstanding tasks like this seems to be working for me though because I know I've only got to do one, and if it were a huge thing like sorting out a whole cupboard I'd break it down into individual shelves or drawers.  I know what I can manage and what would make me feel defeated before I started and I'm avoiding the latter as much as possible.

To which, today, I'd like to brag I did three really revolting jobs that I absolutely loathe doing.  Three.  The bird feeders are done and drying thoroughly.  When that's happened I'll refill one and put it out and then when it looks as though the new one I bought so I could Jack and Jill them needs a thorough clean I can bring that in and put the current spare one out.  I hope that means that none of them ever get into the state those two were again.  

I then dealt with both litter trays (Belovéd's responsibilty but he was away and my office stank of catpee) and changed the litter from woodshavings (not a good choice) back to sawdust and disposed of the very small amount of woodshavings left.  Our own bin is now rammed full of stuff, and a kindly neighbour has allowed me to drop a bag into hers.  Most of that was something I'd asked Belovéd to do a couple of weeks ago that somehow didn't get done.

Then I grabbed the old kitchen scrubbie, the Sta*dro*s and more rubber gloves and gave both loos an under the rim thorough scrub, a job that's needed doing for quite a while.  

The thing that irritates me is that whenever I do a task I manage to create more cleaning that needs doing.  Today, twice, I managed to spill sawdust, once on a door mat: fine, easy to vacuum; the other on the bed: not so fine, because we've got a crochet'd blanket on top of the duvets.  So that had to be vacuumed and then shaken out, then the duvets had to be shaken out.  It's that extra job that I create by being careless that makes it all a bit much, and it's something I seem to do on a fairly regular basis.

I'm glad you're allowing yourself a proper break YL so you can fully heal.  It sounds as though you need it, and if we all learned on thing from Covid it's that pushing through when you've got a virus is really bad for you.  Take it easy, recover and then a gentle re-introduction sounds much healthier.  

Pollybear

Valli No he didn't notice.  I finally told him when we got home this afternoon and he said it will only come out again anyway.  I told him he was ungrateful!

eltee2

eltee2 said:

✔️Hearing aid adjustment - BOOKED
✔️Dental check-up - BOOKED
✔️Renew 60+ bus pass - DONE
HMRC tax return
bulk-buy laundry/cleaning supplies
❌️Opticians
✔️Workplace pension I forgot about (all £80 of it - kerching!)😤 - SENT/EMAILED PAPERWORK

Fl!pp!n, bl00m!n, bùgg3r!ng h3ll - I tackled the pension thing yesterday afternoon/early evening.  It took me ages, soflying went for a burton and I ended up just S&S ing.

How many Fl!pp!n, bl00m!n, bùgg3r!ng forms to print, fill in, scan, send off documents?  Just for  eighty quid???  And they had missed off the first line of my address so I had extra forms, phone calls, proof of address to sort out 😤🤬 I was going to tell them to stuff it up their jackseys, but I persevered and all is now printed, filled in, scanned and posted.

It annoyed me so much, I had to make a batch of Twinks - delicious 😋

Thursday plan (subject to poss stupid 🐸🐸🐸)
Open windows
Air & remake bed
Give bathroom a good going over
Fresh towels & bathmats
Gardening volunteering session

From the weekly 🐸list - order cleaning stuff
HH tackling box from September 🐸CoD

That'll do

El

Valli

Pollybear said:

Valli No he didn't notice.  I finally told him when we got home this afternoon and he said it will only come out again anyway.  I told him he was ungrateful!

quite right too!  Men!

The books have been collected *fling* including books I've had for years and years and kept "just because" when I rarely, if ever, look at them, but of course they have to be dusted, stored in furniture which also has to be dusted... it's a vicious spiral.  

I'm busy making appointments (head and feet appts now booked) and making sure EVERYTHING goes in my diary so I don't inadvertently double book myself (it has happened before).

Long chat with sis - she's going to sell me her car at whatever the dealership offers her in trade in, so a bargain.  It wasn't right for me to buy mum's but the time has come to swap the Vallimobile.  So, once again I'm back to buying cars unconventionally.  Once I bought a car from a dealer.  Once.  (This one, and it's been a lovely car).

I'm going to my voluntary job later.