Weekly Flylady Thread 21st April 2008

Mudbath

no danger of that. my friend's just come round to have the children till dh comes home. i'm off to bed. thanks for everyone's good wishes....xx

vanilla

poohbear59 wrote: »

We say a prayer to St Anthony and things always turn up!

Can i ask what the words of the prayer our, i'll try anything to find it.

serena

Working is messing up my flylady thread reading no end...

ssl - there's nothing I like better than someone getting a new garden! I love talking over possibilities! I would avoid Leyland cypress, which is what you may be thinking of for hedging. It grows a metre a year, which is great until it's tall enough and then you realise it carries on growing at that rate forever, and will cost you a fortune to keep trimmed. It will overshadow your garden, and the roots take all the moisture so you won't be able to grow anything near it, not even grass. My neighbour had planted them 18 years ago, and I hated them. Happily, the new neighbour hated them too, and had them removed, at quite some expense. Can I suggest getting hold of Alan Titchmarsh's two books How to be a Gardener? The first one is on growing stuff, and the second on designing your own garden. They're excellent, and if you can track donw the videos (try the library), they are great too.

Pink Fairy - there's quite a few good gardeners on here - dusty is absolutely spot on about the soil, I'd have said acid too. Keep the salix away from any drains, also the weeping willow. They are terribly pretty as little trees, but definitely not for small gardens, and nowhere near foundations. Acers tend to leaf up late. Try scraping a little bit of bark with your thumbnail. If it is green underneath, the plant is alive.If brown, may be dead, but give it until later in the year before heaving it out.

hollyh and her ds2 - hugs

mudbat - huge hugs, that isn't great news. I hope you will be recovering very soon.

G&B - Happy birthday!

Huge congratulations to johanne and her OH on the safe arrival of their beautiful baby girl!!!

Off to search the fridge/cupboards for food. Must be something edible left. Spaghetti again I think...

PS, just so this is not totally off topic, I have put some washing in, and will do the washing up in a minute. The kids should do their own rooms.

Dustykitten

Evening all, kids fed, washing up done, firemen due at 7:00pm

DS1 is glowing with pride he has just been called to play his first 'men's' cricket match tomorrow. It is for the third team but when you are just a month past 14 that is quite good going. The joy of washing grassy whites for the next 4 months.

Need to take DS2 to youth club now.

BBL oh gardeners world tonight

nicki_2

Right, check in while tea cooks

Fridays list

• Dailies
  • Reading book with DD
    
  • EXERCISE Counting the cleaning as this today - but not until its all done!
    
  • [STRIKE]Tea [/STRIKE]
• FRIDAY Personals
  
  • Ebay parcels
  • Asda shop. Going out to get a card etc for Jo & her OH with DD later. POSTPONED UNTIL TOMORROW
    
  • Assemble dolls house, but not furniture so DD can put the furniture in
    
  • Sort out budget best I can including grocery budget
    
  • Inventory of cupboards & freezer etc for meal planning, just main ingredients though! No condiments etc
    
  • Look into cost of a new mattress - work out whether its worth getting a whole new bed or not?
    
  • [STRIKE]Cover DD's corkboard[/STRIKE]
  • Put up DD's corkboard
  • Bag of mending (find missing buttons!)
  • Ebay items
    • Put listing in turbolister
    • Work out when to finish them!
      
    • List tonight, in theory!
  • Update CV
  • Put up new corkboard in kitchen
    
  • Files on computer sort out - 15 minutes at a time
    

Killer Kitchen - Monday
[strike]Sweep[/strike] and Mop the floor
[strike]Study or other reception room & bathrooms - Tuesday
Vacuum the floors[/strike]
Master bedroom & landing -Wednesday
[strike] Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs..[/strike]
Clean lightshade. And remove dead insects
[strike] Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing[/strike]
Mad Thursday - Living room, Hallway, Stairs
[strike]remove clutter from floors, chairs and fireplace[/strike][strike]
Vacuum floors and sofas[/strike]
[strike]Wipe and water neglected plants[/strike]
[STRIKE]Dust those flat fluffy surfaces[/STRIKE]
[strike]Vacuum under the furniture you can move[/strike][strike]
Clear a hotspot[/strike]
[strike]Vacuum hall and stairs.. all the way up to the top!!!!![/strike]

• [strike]Wipe woodwork in the hall and stairs &[/strike]Wipe front door.. inside and out!
• Sort that corner full of shoes and coats and bags... I know you all put this off so get it sorted.. before the better weather hits!!
• [strike]15 minutes filing[/strike]

Childrens/Spare rooms - Friday MAINLY DDs job
Level One
[strike]Clear the floor[/strike]
Spend at least half an hour doing something just for yourself.. a nice bath, a manicure.. just your time! Make that appointment to have your hair done!!
Level Two
strip the beds and wash those sheets.. and any duvets that need doing SUNDAY JOB
Level Three
[strike]Vacuum the floor[/strike]
[strike] deweb and fluff the room[/strike]
Extras

• [strike]Wipe sticky marks from walls and doors[/strike]
• [strike]15 minutes filing![/strike]

Right, tea time. :wave:

embb

Evening ladies! :wave:

Just had a quick scan of the posts for baby news and there was some, woohoo

Congratulations Johanne, OH, aunty nicki and big cousin, well done gal! :j

Teenies gone out and littleys supposed to be sleeping at her nanas tonight but they weren't in when we got there (grrrrr) so she's gone out to play and no doubt they'll be here for her soon, so, plans to gut my living room then have a nice long soak are on hold, actually think I'll still do the living room whilst I'm waiting......aren't brainwaves good.

The non-essential spending is going good, I've had a couple of urges but they passed, I've managed to save this week......drum roll.......£82 :j :eek: :T :cool: weheeeeeeeeeeeeey! *bounces*

Right, gonna make a cuppa then catch up with the rest of the posts...ciao

x_raphael_xx

Congratulations to Johanne, welcomes to Sarah, the new flybaby!!

I am so glad it's kids rooms today & I don't have any!! Been to the gym, another full 20 minutes running! Then got home & walked the poochie.

Gah! doesn't sound like much but I am knackered now!

I'm selling my car too, I put a notice in the window on my way to gym, and I've already got a guy who wants a test drive tomorrow! I don't think I'll get any more than £200 for it, but I just want to get rid now, £1.15 for diesel! Getting too expensive to run.

ashbart

Thanks again Pink Fairy & Dustykitten - I have a feeling wheat might be the culprit. I am going to try and cut down and see what happens...

Glad you're back and ok Mudbath!
MOAM - Love your post - PMSL!!

WM unloaded and loaded again
Quick tidy up of hotspots in front room and kitchen
Need to empty DW

Wii Fit connected and my BMI calculated. Didn't have a chance to do much as tummy cramps back again so will have to try it out tomorrow. Hope everyone has a good night! Ash xx

embb

I know what you mean raph, I had a :eek: moment when I went to the garage and foud Diesel is now 1.19.....****** what?! :eek: Unfortunately I have to have the car for work or else I'd be tempted to get rid.

MOAM that had me in fits of laughter, found it so funny I emailed it to OH

Glad the op went well Mudbath - lots of rest xx

Dustykitten

I need your reviews on wii fit - do you have the board thing you stand on? It seems a lot of cash. We already have a wii but I've never tried the couple of games we have.

Quiet now. DS3 bathed and watching a bit of tv - he has had a friend so not watched any today.
DS2 at youth club
DS1 in his room, he is supposed to be revising - I shall require evidence.

RANT
Forgot to tell you about when I was in Halifax earlier. Really long queue and only 3 positions. Middle guy is on hard sell to an elderly lady trying to get her to make an appointment with an FA. She really was not keen and he was using very pushy sales tactics - whilst we all waited, so on the way out I had a right moan to one of the supervisors and told him I was not impressed by their treatment of the elderly!

RANT OVER

Going to sort some paperwork to find my postal vote form as I've just had a phone call to ask if I posted it yet. We live in a really tight ward so they do their upmost to get voters out - trouble is I can't decide who to vote for.