Weekly Flylady Thread 14th September 2026

leftatthetrafficlights

Sorry I'm late to the party! 🤦‍♀️ mega headache Monday and yesterday so absolutely nothing done at all 🙄 However, all better now so today I've been sorting the chaos!

I have fed and watered the moggies; cleaned, scrubbed and refilled their litter tray; fed the birds, cleaned, scrubbed and refilled their water bowls; cleaned and vacuumed the bathroom; cleaned and vacuumed our bedroom; vacuumed the landing and stairs; bleached and polished all the door handles, light switches, and sockets; bleached the handrails on the stairs and polished the spindles and finials; vacuumed the hallway and polished the table; vacuumed the yoga room and sofa in there; polished all the tables in the front room, wiped windowsills and vacuumed; cleaned the utility room and vacuumed; cleaned the kitchen and vacuumed; cut half of the grass in the back garden (battery has died on the lawnmower so I'll finish it when it's charged) and made chutney.

Jobs still to do are: the rest of the garden and mopping the floors in the kitchen, utility and hallway. I'll probably have to vacuum them again first though as the cat hair gets everywhere within seconds! 🙄😂

roundtuit

Good afternoon all

Valli I completed two groups on Connections before running out of lives. (I'd never have worked out the last two groups!) I've completed Wordle, Strands, and Waffle.

I've made my bed, fed the birds, filled the birdbath and put out the recycling.

A colleague has requested a poem for a friend and I'm going to be an ill-sitting hen until that's done. So I want to have that written by tonight.

I'm in pushme pullyou mode. I can see everything that I should be doing but it's all too overwhelming so I read or play solitaire. And then I feel bad. Rinse and repeat 🤦‍♀️. I so want to be that vision of me that has lost weight, can walk for miles, has a clean, uncluttered, but comfortable home, grows vegetables and herbs, cooks from scratch, keeps chickens and bees, and floats through life.

STOMP! That'll be me not built for floating. Maybe I should aim for an achievable 'trudge' to begun with? 🤔

Ignore me. I have a 'weird' head on. This too will pass.

I hope.

Love to all

Rxx

Pollybear

Afternoon all. One wash load done today and dry and put away. Shopping delivered this morning, then over to DD1's to collect her dog to look after until tomorrow afternoon. Cable box deleted all our recordings and planned recordings this morning for the second time. So I spent an hour on the phone where I was told to reboot it (that's what cleared everything the first time, which I told her). Obviously it cleared everything. So eventually it was decided we needed a new box and hub but I got an upgrade out of it for the same price. Not sure it was worth an hour of my life but we'll see if it gets sorted on Saturday. At least the box is working for now, although there's nothing to watch at the moment… Off to get DGD4 from school in a little while and she's back here until after tea. I still feel shaky from ringing up because I hate it. All those messages about how busy they are, how they value my custom, why don't I go online.

Vent over. Hope everyone's mostly OK x

Narc0lepsy

• bit of kitchen tidy/clean
• lake swim. Saw kingfisher twice!
• drumming practice
• checked greenhouse. Picked plum tomatoes. Continued harvesting outside with spinach/chard.
• did a large amount of hedge pruning. We've decided to remove a few miscellaneous and unruly shrubs/ivy/general mess from one corner of the end hedge, in order to provide an area to stand wheelbarrows and spare pots i.e. the gibble that clutters up in front of 2 compost bays.
• went to zumba
• sorted out some payout from t0pcashback as I'm nearing choosing a new phone; mine won't run some apps, needs charging frequently and keeps telling me it's out of storage. I've just looked up when I bought it: August 2019, so it hasn't done badly.

ionafan

Odd jobs done this morning:

• finished re-writing a song for the young church families to practice for Harvest Festival
• sorted out some pictures to make cards for the children to colour
• checked I have the necessary ingredients for a harvest loaf
• sorted out lids to fit the many empty jars that I have been given this week
• having been given a bag of very ripe tomatoes at last night's church council meeting, I have prepped them with some chillis and they are now simmering in the SC, to be turned into more tomato and chilli jam
• prepped the rhubarb I acquired on Sunday, and will use it with some of the enormous pears that I also acquired last night to make rhubarb, pear and ginger jam - it's that time of year - and I've been promised a bag of green tomatoes on Sunday so more chutney on the horizon
• watered plants in the LR which I often forget to do
• will be going out for a short walk with Rosie soon
• need to deliver a birthday card and shop later for more ginger and sugar, plus antiseptic wipes for the grab bag

This afternoon I am going to a talk about the benefits of drumming exercises - I shall be channelling my inner Narc0!

xxx

roundtuit

Good afternoon all xx

As well as the basic make my bed, feed the birds, and put out the recycling I have finally bitten the bullet and checked the pressure in my car's tyres.

That's been on my to do list for months! Done ✔

Rxx

Blackcats

I sorted through another box of treasure/junk (delete as appropriate) from the garage. There is now a clear path from the front to the back of the garage so it's easier to get access to things to deal with them.

finalised my dad's online shopping for the week, paid his paper bill and sorted out his vergin meedja contract. They were going to put his monthly bill up to £202 🙀. I really dislike dealing with that particular company as they seem to have a set sales script and don't listen to what a customer actually wants. My dad is 98 and couldn't give a fig about the latest cinema releases.

Summer clothes packed away for the year.

Hoovered round.

Valli

DD came for some towels to use as rags (may have mentioned this - I dunno) anyway I realised I have more towels than I need so a chat with a friend from outswim cancer and I now have a home for them to go to - there is still life in them - too good for animals they will go to her BiL who, having been homeless and sofa surfing is about to move into his own flat. just got to sort them now.

Did ironing today and took DD out for lunch and picked up my friend from garage and took her back there later. Dust bunnies have been spotted - their end is nigh.

Narc0lepsy

• Ionafan said This afternoon I am going to a talk about the benefits of drumming exercises - I shall be channelling my inner Narc0!that should be interesting, let me know what I'm getting from it!!

• went to aqua zumba
• did drumming lesson
• got a few things from Mr T
• spent way too long researching phones
• did some gardening
• did some major calendar-sorting as we have quite a few things going on in the next couple of months

ionafan

Is everyone apart from me in full flying mode? I have just made myself a coffee and would love you to join me!

So far this morning I have finished making another small batch of tomato chilli jam, and designed and printed a Harvest card for the church children. The ingredients for another big batch of chutney are in the house, waiting for attention.

I have spent hours this week on the children's activities, which is more than I can do. I must put my foot down about only doing one activity for each monthly meeting - not three, as I have this time - as I keep falling further and further behind with things that I do for/with other people, eg family history research (sorry, T).

Yesterday's drumming session was very interesting. It was more talk than actual drumming, but we learnt a lot about Parkinson's symptoms and diagnosis, and how drumming can help. Apparently it helps re-train the brain, creating/strengthening new neural pathways to replace those lost to this devastating disease, as well as improving/maintaining mobility and speech, and reducing tremors. All of us had a go at the practical together, following the teacher's lead: simple drumming patterns (played along to music) interspersed with physical movement, eg punching forwards left right left right, or lifting one hand at a time above our heads, or stepping to one side and back again. We had real drumsticks but the drums themselves consisted of an upturned plastic bucket/bin with a "silent" drum pad on top. We were only a small group, and there was lots of laughing between the serious bits. Sorry, we were laughing too much for any photos to be taken! But you can read more about the research here.

xxx