Weekly Flylady Thread 22nd September 2025

Honey_Bear

Well done Eltee.  It's amazing how straightforward a Frog can be where we've girded up our loins, so to speak.  (((Hugs))) for the loss of your sister.

Fayolle

Morning all,
Well done Eltee, and thank you sharing. Hopefully the hard parts will get slightly easier to deal with over time.
It’s a dull grey start here. Not as inspiring as a cold sunny day, to me anyway. Loins have been girded, and the duster is in hand. LR it is. I did have a look down the lists earlier and I’m not too shabbily behind, which has to be a first for quite a while. Other plans for the day include getting to grips with some small garden jobs - pots to deal with, gh pickings to sort etc. The last of my bulbs arrived yesterday so planting those are on my to do list. Mostly they are hyacinths to force for Christmas presents. Look at me trying to be organised.

Valli

Cat taken to vets for castration and microchip.

Wailed all the way there but was strangely quiet in the dog-filled waiting room.

eltee2

Thanks HB and Fayolle - it's been 2 years, sometimes I can talk about her for hours on end no problem, others I well up just thinking of her.   But she'd be proud of my efforts ❤️

I feel lighter after sorting out chair 1 and chair 2 has less gubbins on/around/under so hoping to sort that out today before I go for a walk, culminating in meeting OH for a cheeky half before take-away treat.

Today's doings
✔️Air & remake bed
✔️Open windows
✔️WM x1, line dry then 10 min TD 
👍✔️SW WI - lost 1.5 of the 2 I gained last week
S & S kitchen
S&S bathroom

El

Honey_Bear

I woke up knowing exactly what today's 'That needs to be done' was - unblocking the kitchen sink drain.  We were both too tired to deal with it last night.  When I got home from the Foodbank it was already blocked, and looking at the pipework under it I knew exactly what had happened - there's a six inch stretch that's horizontal.  I don't think I'd ever noticed it before or given it a second thought.  It's been like that for well over 10 if not 20 years so it was bound to happen at some point.  Any and all combinations of bicard, soda crystals, boiling water and vinegar were tried to some avail, but by this morning - serious pipework was called for.

Belovéd likes to dive straight into things without prepping first so I absolutely knew my first job was to clear out the cupboard under the sink and remove the shelf - he didn't know it was removable - so I'm really, really glad I did that before he had a chance to find a pair of gloves to start dismantling the pipework because he gets all macho and sad to say a bit chauvanistic once he's started on a job and I realise he's going in the wrong direction.

By the time I'd taken the dog for a walk he'd got the blocked stretch undone and between us the whole thing is now back together, sparkly and free draining.  Because we'd used so much vinegar, bicarb and soda crystals the seriously packed gunk didn't even smell.

It was rather wonderful to discover that the whole cupboard was easy to empty, nothing extraneous was in there, it was clean and the shelf and bottom shelf didn't even need a wipe.  I'm amazed but feeling secretly very chuffed with myself for that, and also because only last week I stocked up on seriously cheap vinegar for cleaning purposes so we had plenty to hand.

eltee2

eltee2 said:

Today's doings
✔️Air & remake bed
✔️Open windows
✔️WM x1, ✔️line dry then 10 min TD 
👍✔️SW WI - lost 1.5 of the 2 I gained last week
✔️S & S kitchen
✔️S&S bathroom

El

Chair 2 will have to wait until this evening/1st job tomorrow.  Will leave washing on line until we get home, then TD if needed

Off out now 🍻

Fayolle

Enjoy, Eltee 🍻. I’m not jealous at all 🙄
Pretty productive morning by all accounts. Downstairs dusted and vacuumed. A couple of bits rehoused or removed. Fridge odds and ends used for lunch, meaning that there are numerous plastic boxes now needing washing up. A few outside jobs done, more basil and chillis picked and frozen. Bathroom s&s. And..ta da… the second kitchen blind has been dusted and cleaned. That’s my September challenge for the day. This afternoon the reward will be an hour or so in the “craft room”, hopefully finishing the top that I’m making. 

kazwookie

Grass is cut!, blimey it is still growing.

Kitchen cleaned

Soup made

New jeans fit well , even OH commented that they make my legs look thin, that is because my leg ARE thin.

Cats cuddled and groomed

Other small boring stuff done.

ionafan

Valli said:

Cat taken to vets for castration and microchip.

Well, that's one way to spend your birthday!   Hope you've also celebrated well on your natal day, Valli! xx - and belated greetings to your DS for yesterday.

Well done eltee on clearing most of what was underneath the first chair.  The other box can wait until you're ready xx

Yesterday I made 3 rich fruit cakes for my DC's early Christmas present, and as I have now wrapped them up and stored them in the fridge until I see them, I can cross that item off my to-do list.  I finished decorating the MacMillan Coffee Morning cake this morning (having realised overnight that fresh nectarines slices on top would quickly go brown, whilst tinned peach slices wouldn't - so that saved me a lot of time) and it all went down well with the tasters.  I've also spent most of the afternoon making enough apple crumbles to feed about 36 at the Harvest Supper tomorrow - though we won't be able to go to the meal as it clashes with DGD1's birthday party.  I was going to start making my harvest sheaf dough, but apparently it doesn't need proving so I will have plenty of time to get it done by delivery time (2pm) if I start at 8am tomorrow.

I have given the kitchen a good clean, and all the leftover ingredients fitted easily into the larder cupboard

I think I'll finish making up the packs of seed packages next.  DH has gone out to play wargames with his new medieval knights that he bought with the proceeds of the sales he made at last week's bring-and-buy event (I just knew the money couldn't possibly find its way into our holiday fund, because it never does), so he's happy, and I have control of the TV zapper [wicked laugh].

Hope everyone has a pleasant weekend xxx

Jazee

Morning all.  It's the weekend and I actually have four days off so I will try to fly now I'm feeling a lot better.

Good luck with today's wordle.  I got it in six then looked up the meaning.  Seems you can just go to google and get the answer each day anyway.

Have a great day everyone.