Weekly Flylady Thread 19 October 2026

ionafan

Thankfully the migraine is abating, so I have managed to do a bit of flying:

• S&S'd the bathroom
• tidied round everywhere
• did WMx3, damp dried in the TD, and hung on the airers in the bathroom to finish drying properly
• tried to clean fluff off the condenser(?) on the TD, but need to use the shower head, so will bring it up to the bathroom tomorrow
• did a bit of admin on the computer
• cooked a really good stew on the hob - even better than I usually manage with the SC
• walked Rosie quite late in the afternoon, as the rain meant that she really didn't want to set foot outdoors any earlier.

I thought I was meant to be going to goddaughter W's school concert this evening, but realised my mistake when I arrived to find an almost empty car park! It turns out that it's not until 10th November (her mum had just said "on Tuesday evening"). A bit peeved because it meant that I missed another National Trust group meeting, but I would have been too late to get a space on the main car park at the village hall where we meet, and the car park extension is down a steep hill which I certainly wouldn't attempt in the dark - walking down is worse than up.

Hoping for a more productive day tomorrow.

xxx

Valli

I haven't done much flying today, though the empty dirty laundry tub has made it back upstairs (it lives in the landing) and I have done a bit of wualtd and DW emptying BUT I have got my inherited sewing machine out and sorted it and used it. Not a perfect little project but I know where I went wrong and the next one should be more successful. I've actually brought sewing bits upstairs and used it in the office/craft room and am pleased with the location/storage and hope to do more soon. This makes me happy; it's what retirement is for IMO (hobbies).

Honey_Bear

Retirement is absolutely about hobbies. I've been retired for quite some time and I don't seem to have enough time for any of them but I'm learning to say No to people who want me to get involved in their projects. I said No on Saturday morning and felt very proud of myself - the chap I was talking with said it was something he needed to learn to do himself. I didn't like to tell him he was my first actual No! All I've been doing this past few months is just backing off and resigning from things; the No took a bit of girding up of loins to actually do.

I forced myself to finish the shower room yesterday afternoon and I'm very proud of myself for that. My lists are always longer than I can manage and that's a job I procrastinate over, sometimes for weeks if I can get away with it, and I was tired and dispirited after yet another failed attempt to find the right hiking trainers but I laughed so hard at a joke on Twitter that I cheered myself right up, popped down to the post office to send the ill-fitting ones back, bought myself a bag of jelly babies and ate the lot in one go. I felt so much more cheerful I had the wherewithal to actually scrub the shower properly so it was done. I'm still working on the bird feeders but the worst is over.

I'm now in the queue for Bayeaux Tapestry tickets - I'm told it will be at least an hour as there are 65,467 people ahead of me. I need to spend that time productively - finishing the bird feeders and finding a really important (to me) bit of paper that's been missing for about two weeks. Anyone else queuing for those tickets this morning?

Fayolle

HB I have just messaged you. No I’m not ahead of you for the tickets! I think I might wait until the tapestry goes back to Bayeux and go there - we have driven past but never made the stop.

Some flying has been achieved, much to my surprise. The bathroom has been cleaned, and the bedroom, bathroom and landing vacuumed. Various parcels re the “new” DR have been received, including 21m of curtain material which now needs transforming into curtains.
Off to measure out lengths of curtaining, hoping that my calculations are correct…

Honey_Bear

Thanks Fayolle, much appreciated. For those of us who didn't get tickets, I've just discovered our local library/museum is apparently also doing a digital thing about it connected with the British Museum, so I've booked that for next February. And for once I've beaten the end of term rush because not a single viewing is fully booked.

I scored a couple of y/s braising steaks in the Co-0p last night as Higgs stole all the dog's medicine chicken slices and I had to replace them at bedtime to dose both her and the other cat up. They're in the slow cooker now along with leftover carrots and parsnips, y/s mushrooms, some tomatoes that were utterly tasteless raw (Note to Self: Don't buy supermarket tomatoes if you're growing your own - they taste like cotton wool), a few onions that have seen better days, leftover thyme from the guitarist's fab meal, leftover gravy from Sunday, the absolute dregs of a rather nice bottle of red,veg stock made from the same guitarists leftover celery and carrots, and a home grown bay leaf. Probably the most MSE meal I've ever made, and it'll feed three extremely greedy people or four more sedate ones easily. It's huge. I might try and replicate that again in the future because it's tasting rather fab.

I haven't found my important bit of paper but have discovered that the filing cabinet needs a thorough filleting so that'll be tomorrow's major Flying task. In the meantime I'm going to finish the horrible bird feeders and make up the superking and double beds so I can tick something off my endless lists.

Valli

excellent work on the NO HB

done fluff all today but been to the vol job. I do put walls around my time there, I could easily do more hours but I don't

Milk bottles out

Narc0lepsy

Rain all day so none of the planned garden stuff. Mr N resisted putting the heating on till about 6pm - I'd said not until November but he feels the cold more than I do, despite wearing lots of clothes. Still, the last time we used any gas was April so I suppose I can't complain too much - although I will!

• went to aqua aerobics
• put one load in wm but promised respite from rain didn't happen so hung on maiden in spare room
• did drumming practice
• sent a couple of emails
• did a bit of research, consulted Blue Light discount and ordered a new tablet as mine is nearly 10yrs old and struggling.
• sorted a few piles of paper in the RoD (my study); I am determined to turn it into something nice this winter.

Jazee

Hello all. Hope you're all ok.

Once I am on a paid stuff day, I don't achieve a lot but yesterday I did wash out kitchen bins and the cupboard they're in as well as usual jobs.

Today I have caught up with checking banking and admin, put dry washing away, done a work shift and walked Poppet.

Honey_Bear

Storm Austin was due to be with us around 1.00pm but it was a clear morning so I bunged all the stinky dog pee towels, cleaning cloths and everything that needed to go in a filthy wash in the WM early and pegged it all out by 8.30 (I couldn't move earlier as the cat was on my knees), and got it in about half an hour ago. It's not dry but it's not as wet as it was and it's not stinking the place up.

Belovéd put the two bird feeders I'd washed back together again so I refilled them and put them back out, and scrubbed out and refilled all the birds' water bowls, so those jobs are off my conscience. I've hoiked the other birdfeeder in but that can wait until tomorrow.

Took down all 20 tomato plants, rescued anything that might ripen and hacked up everything else so it's all in the garden bin I share with a neighbour. I've filled it up. I hope she's not planning on raking up leaves this weekend; if she is I'll bag all of her leaves for her and that'll make leafmold for a couple of years time. Washed all the rescued tomatoes and they're draining.

That's me for the day. I'm pooped. It's time to catch up on Biscuit Week on Bake Off and I've no idea how far back I've got to go on Sewing Bee, but pretty much the whole series.

Pollybear

Afternoon all. I managed to dry some washing today, we had a lovely sunny morning, but it's beginning to cloud up now. We've got DD1's dog for just over a week so we took him out for a walk in the nearby small town this morning and this afternoon I've walked him "round the block". That's 10 minutes on my own, 45 minutes with him. There are lots of blades of grass to be sniffed and weed on. (Should there be an extra e in weed? I'm never sure).

Just normal tidying round, meals and clearing up here today but nothing is that bad.

Hope everyone's OK x