Daily Project Round 10

Thanks everyone, glad to be back and feeling somewhat 'normal'.

Hope dc2 feels better soon @RunningKatie shame about the drinks.

The wifi on the train was shocking so I couldn't really do much. I did go through some photos as there's so many I need to delete. I honestly thought I had done a good lot of them but only deleted about 300 😩I'll probably try and do 100 or so a day cos it's a rather boring task. I take screenshots of things I want to make / places I want to go...I'll need to live to 100 to do it all 😂

Todays one job was to sort all the webpages I had on my favourites bar (A LOT!). That's now been done so hopefully it'll be easier to find what I'm looking for now. It's a beautiful day in Manchester so I'm off to do some exploring.

Happy Saturday everyone 💐

Looks lovely @autumnangel - hope you have a wonderful trip.
I'm stuck in with dc2, they are running a lovely temperature so I've had to cancel drinks with school mums. It wasn't meant to be clearly. Hoping for a quick recovery as we've got 2 weeks of school holidays left.
The keg of beer sounds fab @petalpower- dh would love to be at that level of organisation.
Tomorrow depending on how dc is then we might attempt tile shopping. And I need to change our electricity supplier. Such is the excitement in my life.

Lovely to see you @autumnangel. Enjoy your adventure!

Hello! I hope you are all well. It’s been a while and I’ve been missing you all. I’ve caught up on the last few pages, life sounds busy for everyone yet you all keep going.

I’ve been keeping busy and most days I’m feeling ok and maybe I’m now a tiny little bit optimistic about the future. House is still a right mess though (not sure that’ll ever change!)

Currently on the train from Glasgow to Manchester for a solo adventure and a concert tomorrow. I was hoping to read my book but its busy and I can’t concentrate so I’ll have a look at the to do list and see what I can get done.

Busy morning indeed @petalpower.

@watchPhone - I only have the lampshade. The lamp itself is lovely too though.

DS has had a really good first week thanks. He’s in the office four days a week and working from home on Fridays. Much better for his age I think. And it’s closer to home so he leaves later and is home earlier and can drive if he wants. Don’t want to be too outing but he’s working for a large multinational company who are a household name in oral health products amongst other things. Last job was with a Canadian-American brewing company. He seems really happy and positive so far.

Reupholstering is so expensive @watchPhone. Neighbours had a wing chair done and it cost a fortune.

OMG I meant Landscape Artist of the Year. @Peridot1 that lamp is lovely and hope your son has a smooth first week in his new job and congrats @FourSeasonsLobelia on the GSCE results.

Today

• SpiritDoggo is at groomers so will need to pick her up shortly - DONE she is looking very fluffy 😃
• bottom of sofa cushion has splits in that I need to get the upholstery needles and cotton and sort out. I might cost up getting it reupholstered as it is a lovely shape and very comfortable
• need to tidy up - lots of cups and mugs scattered
• lol, need to move out of living room, it needs a hoover as well I can see glitter everywhere. I need to put the rug in the washing machine; there is clean washing piled up, shoes... the list goes on.
• I am very hungry so will go and sort out some lunch now

I had one of those trips already this morning @Peridot1 ! Half hour trip out to local
large village: picked up prescription for
me, picked up parcel for friend/neighbour, popped into co-op for groceries, went to butchers and greengrocers, ordered keg of beer at micro brewery for family event next weekend and ordered meat for family bbq next weekend. Lots ticked off today’s list!

@Mumtobabyhavoc - I did get it on sale. Love a bargain!

An @petalpower quick trip yesterday afternoon. Posted a return, dropped some of DH’s now too big trousers off in charity bin in car park, picked up prescription for DS and got a few supermarket bits. Did DS’s laundry and that was about it. Oh and drumroll please I finally did the coffee table!

We had a plate rack added to the end of the kitchen to display some plates and it was fitted on Wednesday. Yesterday while fiddling around with putting things in I managed to drop a plate I bought in Australia last trip. It’s been sitting on the kitchen countertop since March unharmed!

Today is normal kitchen/dishwasher, change a bed, cobweb duty, gym, vacuum downstairs.

Have a good day all.

Thanks for good wishes re DS everyone.

Hope you got to sleep @Mumtobabyhavoc

I'm trying to just make little achievements today. So I am doing a tip run; dumping one charity shop bag and going with DS to the shops to buy new uniform. Sigh. More money.

Hope everyone has a great day.

Loving the lampshade @Peridot1 - it is a thing of beauty
Well done on ds's GSCEs @FourSeasonsLobelia - we have a year to go, I've started working out 6th forms as they have to change schools. It's going to be an interesting year.
I need to clean up, the cleaner missed a week when we were away and we have friends over tomorrow eve. I need to hoover etc., and also shop for snacks and drinks. Just logged off work so of course I've sat down with my phone.

@SingleThreadJoiner2 - thanks. I don’t think so but DH is a lot more bland in his tastes shall we say?! 😀

Congratulations @FourSeasonsLobelia !
! What a happy time, well done everyone in the family.

@Peridot1 that is gorgeous and not too much at all!

I so get that! DS had a hard time with GCSEs too. He did his at home in the dining room with an invigilator. He missed so much school with daily migraines. He came through it, did well at A levels with just a few bumps along the road, got a first at uni including top of his year for his dissertation and then did a Masters. Got a good first job and this week started a new job and he is buzzing. When I look back it’s almost hard to believe.

Thanks.
I'm so thrilled. It's been such a rocky ride over the past 4 years or so. His scary French teacher (old school French teacher, very stern, very forbidding and utterly marvellous) gave me a hug and said how far he'd come.

I promised him I wouldn't cry. In the end I only cried 4 times at the school itself, so I almost kept my promise!!

Oh well done to DS @FourSeasonsLobelia! Enjoy your wine. Much deserved.

Ive cancelled the cleaner and I'm on strike until the weekend when I am making DH clean up with me.

DS1 got his GCSE results. He passed everything and even got a surprise 8 or two. We are absolutely thrilled to bits and his English teacher said to me; 'I KNEW you'd cry!!'. He;s in his same school for A levels and has chosen quite a nice selection of complimentary topics.

He's now out with his bestie so I'm heading to the pub for a glass of wine to celebrate.

Hello all.

@Mumtobabyhavoc - impressed with your late night painting. I never do anything once dinner is done.

@SingleThreadJoiner2 - the only problem with Stonehenge is how close they built it to the A303 road, 😜. If they were that clever they should have worked out that thousands of years later cars would slow to a crawl as they passed and there would be constant traffic jams. It is pretty impressive though. I took my dad a few years ago when we lived in Somerset as he’d always wanted to see it.

@RunningKatie - it’s this one. I have it on a dark blue lamp. Which is on a dark green sideboard.

@watchPhone not super close, and definitely not walking through them, maybe 100 meters? 200? I am terrible at estimating these things!! But close enough to feel the sheer size.

Hi all- I'm in a houswork funk. Tired. Fed up. The place is an awful mess and our cleaner is due tomorrow.

@SingleThreadJoiner2 - could you get quite close up? I think Portrait Artist of the Year were there a few seasons ago and were able to walk around ‘inside’

Today

• refpilates done
• phone vets re SpiritDoggo she does not need a health check - done
• book SpiritDoggo in for a groom and nail clip - done
• Try and reschedule an eyebrow appointment
• empty dishwasher
• I am enjoying peeling glue from a glue gun
• recycling out!
• I’ve moved locations and am back at a messy desk….
• need to find my Garmin watch connector - I found all the others I was looking for 🤣 must look under bed

@Mumtobabyhavoc I did find it impressive. Just thinking of the engineering effort involved so many centuries ago to make it all stand up, line up, even get it there in the first place - it's quite moving really!