Weekly Flylady Thread 3 November 2025

ionafan

Morning all.  DGD1+2 came, ate, slept, and went at 7.00 this morning.  They are great guests - apart from the early start!

So far today I have
- read some of my WDYTYA magazine whilst drinking my early morning cuppa (after taking the girls home).
- put the trundle bed away and made up the spare bed with its throw and cushions; teddies are also back in their proper place.  Hoovered the study/bedroom floor.  I had sorted the bookshelves and cleared my desk yesterday, so the room is now clean and tidy.  Rosie is enjoying the peace and has reclaimed her snoozing space.
- sorted the cupboard on the landing and thrown out more unwanted bedding (to go via Dun*lm to the SA); bagged it all up, including a huge and heavy duvet which I was going to cut down for DH's bed, but I decided after yesterday's struggles that I am past doing that sort of thing.
- hoovered the utility floor again and got up all the feathery bits.
- put a chicken carcase on to boil for stock; will prep soup for lunch next.

As soon as I've drunk my coffee, I'll take Rosie for her walk.
I ought to go to the u3a monthly meeting this afternoon but might cry off.  J the gardener is coming at 2.00, and I'd quite like to plant up the pots while he's here in case they need moving.

eltee2

Afternoon all

Spent the morning volunteering at local garden-in-the-park, which I enjoyed so much, I decided to spend the afternoon sorting out the-bit-at-the-bottom-of-our-garden.   Reckon it'll take a week or so, in bite-sized sessions - so that's my November 🐸 challenge.

 Indoor flying later will consist of S&Sing & a bit of FUPA.

El

ionafan

Having taken Rosie for her walk, I came home with horrible backache (probably caused by not yet having adjusted to the new mattress, and being overtired), so I left J to do everything I wanted done in the garden apart from replanting the pots.  I'll get round to it one day ... hopefully this side of Christmas.  Having relaxed for a while, the pain is not as severe now.

Meant to reply to Jazee: yes, I did try to sew the quilt before cutting into it, but it was so thick that I couldn't get the bit that I wanted to cut off under the arm of my sewing machine, so I had to put up with the mess!

MinnieMousesMummy

It's been a busy day with placement work and I'm not feeling too well so not really managed much flying done. 

Tasks I've completed today
Attended placement
Took the dog for a walk
Returned phone calls and answered important messages and emails
Took DD to guides
Completed some uni course work. 

The only other task that I am doing tonight is to collect DD from guides and then get an early night. 

Valli

Living room properly cleaned including rotation of sofa cushions.  DW and wm locked and loaded.  washing didn’t all dry online presumably as there was no breeze.  Stuff draped on maidens to finish off (jumpers)

Contacted flooring people and have arranged delivery of new furniture for after flooring is laid.

Fayolle

I seem to have lost the week. Is it Friday already?
What I can remember…. Tuesday, DD and I had a day out that may have involved some fabric coming home from the fabric shop with us. Wednesday, DH and I went to a NT property in the neighbouring county.  Lovely walk through the woods and I may just have indulged in some leaf kicking.  Yesterday, hmmmm, who knows - ah yes, helped DD with pattern cutting. This morning I spent a couple of hours at the allotment, renewing my fight against the invasive raspberry canes. Along the way, I have done wm x a few, cleaned the bedroom, the bathroom, and today the LR got a cursory turn with the vacuum cleaner and duster. I have just WULTD and then it will be HHI. I was going to pot up the last couple of pelargoniums and get in the plant that I rescued from the NT plant hospital, but I think they will now be Saturday Jobs.
Hope everyone is ok as it is quiet on here.

ionafan

First thing this morning I machine hemmed my curtain linings.  Since then I have deposited two enormous bags full of textiles (and feathers!) at the big D*n*lm store just off the motorway, exchanged a fitted sheet that wasn't deep enough to fit, and bought another duvet set that is a perfect match for my curtains (I took the spare curtain material with me to make sure!).  On my way home I shopped for necessary food and Christmas lights c/o MrAl.  Am now about to dash out again to collect DGD1+2 from their school and take them to DS1's school, where DGD1 has a job teaching little ones to swim.  Then I shall go straight down the main road to the market town to return a N*xt order that is the wrong colour.

The upstairs rooms in my house feel wonderfully airy with so much stuff having been decluttered this week

Honey_Bear

Aaahh that lovely post-declutter feeling.  *jealous*  I hope both you and MMM are feeling better today.  Glad you enjoyed the pasta thing Jazee.

I'm waiting for the plumber to come and final fix the heated towel rail in the bathroom.  I've been waiting quite some time today.  

In the meantime I've sent an email that is probably the solution to an intractable problem to unblock some money coming in, and finalised all the choices available for a week's holiday with my American cousin when she's due next May.  I get three days in a posh London hotel all expenses paid except breakfast, so I can't begrudge her.  She wants three days in London and three days down here.  London's more on the ball about up and coming events in May so I've given her a lot of choice and down here it's the No 70 bus along Whitsand Bay to a lot of really pretty Cornish villages on the Rame Peninsula with a fish and chip lunch (cheap as chips, too!), the Lost Gardens of Heligan and/or the Eden Project.  I've offered her some time on Dartmoor but she's a New York kind of (83 year old) gal, so that probably won't cut the mustard.

I had a knee scan this week, and the diagnosis was "mileage".  (My kind of doctor, who talks the non-technical version of things.)  That kind of scuppers some of my plans for 2026 so instead of The Two Moors Way, the Devon Coast to Coast and or the Tamar Valley Way it'll be 'How many of the 119 Dartmoor Tors I can to-and-back in less than three miles?'  I reckon I'm still good for three miles but I'm not sure how much longer I will be, so I've got to make the most of what I've got while I've still got it.  I've given the knee six months off from hiking and it hasn't improved it so it seems I'm stuck with it.  That coupled with a crown and a filling needed has been the bad health news this week so I'm not entirely sure I'm as reconciled to this aging business quite as much as I thought I was.  Grey hair I can live with quite happily but bits falling off or out of use - not so much.

Flying has been a constant 'Where does that really belong?' and then rehoming / chucking / deleting, followed by some dusting, wiping and vacuuming.  It's never-ending and I'm not sure I'm making progress but I'm a lot closer to getting the grocery shopping bill under control than I was a few months ago.  That's got to be a positive.  

Honey_Bear

Plumber has been and the radiator has been fixed back to the wall and reconnected to the ch system.  I've posted the letter to America, signed up for a Macmillan lottery and the framer will have our Beryl Cook pictures framed by the end of tomorrow.  At last!

Jazee

Hello all.  Think it's a couple of days since I posted.

Been working the last three days.  Also took Poppet for her vaccinations yesterday and today I've ade cakes for a village fundraiser tomorrow.  One batch went straight in the bin, not sure what went wrong.

DH has been off this week and decorating the bathroom but he's managed to break his foot, just tripped in the living room, so the gloss will have to wait.  Looks much better anyway and I've just shortened the new shower curtain on the sewing machine.