Weekly Flylady Thread 12th October 2026

Narc0lepsy

Thanks for the list.

I didn't get a particularly good night's sleep, so decided against Body Pump first thing. However I had a good fly round the kitchen - emptied DW, washed up pans from yesterday's roast, assembled ingredients for chicken tacos with leftover, tidied a lot of things away.

Went to Alexander session.

Went to zumba.

Sorted cc bill.

Checked trains for impending Canadian visitors.

Still picking the last few plum tomatoes, they have done really well. Squashes now picked and put in greenhouse to dry (or whatever they do). I need to pull up the old plants and do a bit of weeding/digging as I have some winter kale from seed now a reasonable size to go out in the veg bed.

Jazee

Morning all.
I have only been up half an hour so just on first cuppa. Poppet has been fed and medicated.

I have no excuse not to fly today but puzzles first.

Have a great day everyone.

Updating to report that I have freshened sofa throws, damp dusted flat surfaces and everything on them and cleaned the windows in the living room. Having breakfast now.

Got wordle in five, connections with two lives lost and strands with no hints.

MinnieMousesMummy

Morning all,

It has been a busy morning so far I have fed the animals, walked the dog, took DD to her hospital appointment.

My list for the rest of today

• Do paid stuff (visit client, sort work account, sort ID and verification for upcoming work)
• Do required uni work
• Attend lectures
• Empty the DW
• Share the GoFundMe link for DD
• Tidy up the kitchen and load the DW
• Hoover downstairs
• Spend an hour organising the planner
• Clean the dogs kennel
• Check and catch up with volunteer emails
• Take DD to the stables so she can feed her ponies
• Feed the animals and walk the dog

I think that is everything that I need to tackle today. I hope everyone has a lovely Tuesday.

Jazee

Me again. In no particular order I have:

In the kitchen - WUDUPA, s&sd, cleaned window, sill and everything on there. Shined sink.

Changed bedding, previous stuff now on line.

Hoovered through.

Walked Poppet.

Fayolle

Glad to hear that Poppet is recovering, Jazee.

Up early to move my car from the way of the builders / delivery lorry / dustmen. Bedding changed and washed as the rain started. Damp washing is draped in the small utility room. The sun has come out now but the effort involved in undraping and hanging out, let alone builder dust as the line is outside the DR door, is way too much to contemplate. Upstairs dusted as an effort towards guests arriving this weekend.
Dentist check up appointment ticked from the list. Admin this afternoon methinks.

Blackcats

our bathroom refit is still ongoing so flying is a bit haphazard. However, all our holiday stuff is unpacked and put away or is in the washing pile ready for the next load to go on. DH will put the big suitcase and that cat carrier in the loft tomorrow - we'll that's the plan.

I'm keeping the kitchen spick & span and the lounge is tidy. Our bedroom is neat and tidy too. That's enough for me in the midst of the building work.

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi everyone

Very busy day at the paid stuff but took time out to chat to my brother who was feeling anxious and in need of a bit of moral support. He has suffered badly with MH issues in the past. One of my colleagues made a snide remark about personal calls in work time so I told exactly why I had taken the call. I have made the time up, not that it's any of her business.

Our bed changed, upstairs dusted and tidied, lots of clean washing put away and the kitchen put to bed.

That will do for today.

Narc0lepsy

• gym swim
• went to 'work' to find that they'd emailed me (I hadn't seen it) to say not this week as some work is being done involving asbestos. No problem as it's on my way home from the gym, so went home keen to make the most of the time.
• pulled up all spent squash plants, just one still has flowers. I'm sure it won't produce anything this late in the year but I couldn't bring myself to pull it up. Did a load of pruning and shredding. Walked round garden later with Mr N and a notebook as there is some work needing doing by a man with sharper/bigger tools than anything we have so we need a list!
• Put all remains of Sunday's chicken carcase in the slow cooker with some veg to make soup. I've just turned it off and fished out the bones, will leave it to cool overnight before freezing.
• vaguely checked food stocks as we have a friend arriving tomorrow for 2 nights; one of those we are eating out. Got stewing beef out of the freezer to slow cook tomorrow as we don't know what time he's arriving.
• Did some drumming practice.

Tomorrow, with aqua aerobics cancelled (annual pool clean) and no work, I need to do a final fly pre-visitor, make a cake, get the casserole on and do more gardening. Among doubtless other things I will think of.

ionafan

Evening all. Glad to hear that Poppet is recovering and hope you, Jazee and DH, are feeling better too. Lack of sleep is not enjoyable.

I managed very little yesterday as I hurt all over but especially my thumbs and wrists, so it took me almost all day to do a little light dusting, make cake for the Old Wives, and then chop up the ingredients for the first batch of green tomato chutney. Today, thankfully, I have had less pain so

• finished cooking the first batch of chutney and put it into jars;
• prepared all the ingredients for the second batch, ready for bottling straight after breakfast tomorrow;
• had a text conversation with the vicar which resulted in K&N being cancelled for this week (I would have been the only person there) - which was useful in giving me more free time;
• channelled my inner Round and moved the TV stand and DVD shelves out of the corner where the OpenScreech engineer would need to have access to the old connection (DH only informed me of this at breakfast time 😠); DH started hoovering in that corner but didn't finish, so I ended up getting rid of several cobwebs and dust bunnies;
• filled all 4 of our watering cans and a builder's bucket, in order to save some of the contents of the water butt in the back garden, because it sits right where the engineer was going to have to drill another hole through the wall; then let about half the butt full of water down the drain, after which I was able to slide it out of the corner;
• put everything back straight again (dusting/wiping as I did so) and finished dusting the room while I had the cloth in my hand;
• enjoyed an hour of zzz while DH went to model railway club;
• walked Rosie;
• cooked chicken with mushrooms and pasta, then retired to the sofa to drink coffee and watch GBBO followed by the old Mary Berry WDYTYA.

I'm now trying to write a to-do list for tomorrow but haven't thought of much apart from telling J the gardener what jobs I need him to do. There's some cake left over (!!!) from the Old Wives, so I won't have to bake specially for J.

xxx

MinnieMousesMummy

Morning all,

My list for today

• Feed the animals and walk the dog
• Do paid stuff
• Do required uni work
• Attend lectures
• Empty the DW
• Tidy the kitchen and load the DW
• Laundry x2 loads
• Take DS to his holiday club
• Take DD to the stables so she can feed her ponies
• Feed the animals and walk the dog

I think that is everything that I need to tackle today. I hope everyone has a lovely Wednesday,