Daily Project Round 10

Gosh those pizzas really look amazing @Mumtobabyhavoc . I'd be pleased to get spinach past mine!

Today is an 'at home' day. I need to do some of the regular sort of house stuff. Yesterday i bought a campanula and popped it in a bare spot underneath a tree. That was my 'gardening'!

Hope everyone has a good day and all are well. x

Hi! Driving by too like @FourSeasonsLobelia! Bucketing down here this morning as expected. I've been quite productive in a sort of pomodoro way. Emails responded to, calls made ✔️ Glitch with phone touch screen sorted ( thanks AI!)
An hour pulling up weeds in my mother's garden and got rid of some bits she'll never need again ( or miss, which is the biggie) Hair cut ✔️ Half an hour in own garden 💪 ( Gardening all before rain started - got up early)
Must put dry laundry away and run hoover round, dinner is weekend leftovers so I'm hoping to get some reading in this afternoon.

Big hugs to all, you wonderful bunch of projecters including any lurkers 👋

happy Monday everyone!

Just a drive-by post to say best wishes to you all.

Morning all - happy Monday 🥰

Well dd needs to get out and let off steam but its pouring down, so we will have to make do with colouring, balloons and a trip to a quiet tesco where she can run and find her snacks (🙈)

I've managed to piss off my royal mail guy, by taking forever to get downstairs with the vacuum 😬😬😬😬 he was waiting in the rain bless him

Today's projects
Deep clean kitchen and just bin stuff i'm not using (inspired by your husband @RunningKatie 😄)
Make dd a chicken tikka
Go through dd's toys and bag stuff up for the charity shop
Have an everything shower

@Mumtobabyhavoc me and dd will be doing the same, I am wondering if the early england matches will be streamed at Coal Drops Yard on a big screen 🤔

Have a lovely week everyone 😘

Morning all.

Spent some time this morning doing a couple of lists. One for garden stuff that needs to be done by Saturday and for house.

Yesterday we had some help in the garden from a young guy who lives in the village. Uni student wanting to earn some cash. He got loads done which is great. DH is feeling more relaxed as the back garden is now pretty much sorted. Although he hurt his arm moving a fridge we have been lent for the drinks….

I went to the supermarket and managed to scratch the side of the car quite badly on the barrier as you enter the car park. So annoying. A lovely lady came to see if I was ok when I parked and gave me a big hug. Offered to take me for a coffee too. So nice of her and her husband. DH was okay about it too. It’s only a car as he said. (He was also in the bad books for something so I think he felt we were even.)

This afternoon the interior designer we used is coming over with her handyman to put a curtain pole up and curtains back up in tv area plus some pictures in the hallway and up the stairs so once that is done we are pretty much finished for a bit. Yay!

Today’s list:

• kitchen/dishwasher - mostly done
• laundry - one load in
• change a bed
• tidy hallway
• put hooks back into curtains
• nip to garden centre to buy a picture I saw that I liked for the hallway and keep thinking about plus a wipe clean table cloth for the dining table
• clean pictures for hallway and stairs
• menu plan for the week

Have a good Monday all.

Oh we're looking forward to the world cup here! - Me and dd are loving the flags 😄

Understand why people are against it 🥺 the evil orange man will likely pull a 'sleepy joe' anyway 🤢🤢

Thanks everyone - 😄😄🙈🙈 never again!!

Thanks @Mumtobabyhavoc 😫 - ive gone through the whole thing but cant find anything that could be shaken out and cleaned - have boxed it up and need to have it collected tomorrow 😒 - solidarity re the bin juice! It might be the worst thing in the world 🤢

@FourSeasonsLobelia ❤️ to you all - I remember the gcse stress well, not long now - glad your mum is on good form x

@Peridot1 😄 ive spent the day thinking of all the things I need to do to this flat, I feel like once you start, something new pops up and its never ending - right now its stripping wallpaper which is taking forever 😒

@petalpower your days sound full on!! Happy birthday to your fathers x

@RunningKatie builders quotes can really vary cant they 😬, glad this ones was decent

Today's project:
Pack up vacuum and arrange return
General tidy

Both done - dd will be up late again so just killing time whilst being exhausted 😩

Love to all xx

@Mumtobabyhavoc - I have zero interest in the World Cup this time. Partly as Ireland didn’t qualify but mainly due to the whole Trump issues and FIFA. I think it may be the least supported ever.

Commiserations on the sand pit @mumofoneAloneandwell - it was an amazing idea.

Has anyone seen summer recently? I think swimming to work is on the cards this week having seen a forecast. Been to visit MIL today, went out for lunch so we could get home to finish off homework etc. Then I fell asleep on the sofa, again. It's becoming a bit of a habit at the moment.

Different bathroom man came round yesterday, quote is much more real life level and although they can't start till October it suits us. DH mentioned decluttering before then, however his concept of decluttering is getting rid of everyone elses things without consultation - but stashing all his in the garage. It's maddening.

Hope everyone has had a good weekend and has their wellies at the ready for the week ahead.

Hello all.

@FourSeasonsLobelia - so hard being so far away. It’s good that you have a plan for going though. Solidarity on the GCSE stress and tantrums. Remember it well.

@WinterFrogs - I don’t really feel like it’s a new house just more us I think. Well more me as DH doesn’t really get much of a say. The people we bought from built it to sell so it was all very neutral. Which worked well initially. Then we gradually started to change bits and it sort of spiralled! It does feel like there is always something I want to do though. Still don’t think I have the colour of the walls in the kitchen/dining/sitting area quite right….. and I need a rug for the hallway and the dining area…..and then the bedrooms….

@mumofoneAloneandwell - I think that sand was always destined to go everywhere! But you were brave to try.

@Mumtobabyhavoc - the joys of little ones!

@petalpower - it all sounds very busy. Hope your dad has a good birthday.

Not much achieved here yesterday. Sort of finished the utility room.

Woke up quite late for me this morning so am a bit slow. DH is already out in the garden. As it’s apparently not going to rain here today I’m going to do some bits in the garden. When we put the garden room gym in last year and painted it we used masking tape on the windows and never got around to taking it off so what left is glued on and has left marks. I’ve started cleaning it but need to finish that. And some weeding in the side garden. A few plants have died and I’d like to replace them. And I need to mulch the beds. Also need to do a supermarket run as I don’t think we have anything in for dinner. To be honest the plants replacing can probably wait.

Have a nice Sunday all.

Morning all. Thnaks so much for thoughts and solidarity. It is HUGELY appreciated.

I confess I also had a chuckle at your description of the sand @mumofoneAloneandwell ! You were very brave to try it!

Your life sounds full on also @petalpower !

Today I have repotted a plant already. Then the day's tasks are to either mop or vacuum all floors.

Wishing everyone a lovely day.

That sounds really difficult @FourSeasonsLobelia . It must be hard being so far away.
All ok here thanks @WinterFrogs . Just full on and busy. We go back to visit the oldies tomorrrow and help with FIL who is now at home with carers visiting twice a day. DH was there most of this week and then back home for the weekend. He had music and local commitments this weekend and it was his birthday too. My dad’s birthday is today and I’m hoping for a FaceTime later. I will see him most days this week and also take him to a hospital appointment which I think will be the first one we’ve had to use a wheelchair for. I am at a music day all day today and am running the refreshments for a charity that I’m a trustee of. I’m writing a lot of lists but not getting much projecteering done!
Hope everyone is ok!

Much love to you and yours @FourSeasonsLobelia 💐
@mumofoneAloneandwell I do recall clogging up my vacuum cleaner back in the day with random grot but never sand 🤔 I hope dd loves her beryoons 🎈 🎈

Hello @Mumtobabyhavoc children never let up, do they? I hope things are going ok at your house 🙏

Our littlest is a play dough fiend. Will play for hours as long as someone is doing it with her. Ideal grandparenty activity we have found.

How is df doing @petalpower and are you staying sane around all your family commitments? I am off to see my mum today. She has to squeeze me in around her busy social life at the care home. I am not complaining as it took her a while to throw herself into all that they have to offer.

It's bright sunshine here underneath thick black clouds. I'm off to potter in the garden because it looks like once the heavens open it will continue all day. Let's hope it gets it over with before @Peridot1's big day next week 🙏

Just a quick hello from me

Projects completed:
Clearing the stairs and giving them a good vacuum (found sand)
Vacuuming dd's play room - (sand everywhere)
Looked all over for hidden food - (found more sand)
More vacuuming - broke the vacuum cleaner 🤷‍♀️ - luckily its insured

Come to the very obvious conclusion that the indoor sand pit was a massive mistake, its inviting flies, and has to go tomorrow 😡🙃🙃🙃

Love to you all, and from my dd who is very happy with her 'beryoons' (balloons) 😄🥰🥰 (hopefully they'll serve as a distraction from the absent sand pit she will be waking up to 😬)

Hi all- sorry been awol the past few days.

I feel lime I am in waiting and watching mode with my mother and her operations. She is in good form now and I am calling Australia twice a day. The current plan is we hang fire until she has had her surgery and then the DCs and I go first week of July. She will still be in ICU for some of that.

DS1 now has 3 GCSEs to go. It's been fraught with anxiety, and sleepless nights and slamming doors and shouts of 'YOU ARE NOT HELPING MUM'.

Otherwise I am trying to revert to the original Daily Project ideals and just doing one thing a day. Today I did 'bathrooms'. Cleaned them all. Took about 15 minutes all up.

Hugs to everyone.

Hello everyone. Happy Saturday!

I'm doing a bit of a reset and feeling like @SingleThreadJoiner2's soul sister with jobs I've been putting off taking just minutes to complete.

I use my phone timer quite a lot but I'm really tempted to get a physical timer like the one you shared @watchPhone because I only really relax when my phone is off and away in the back of a drawer. Except (and here comes the stream of consciousness) I work better with music, which in my world requires spotify on my phone.

I have deleted work emails from my phone and I'm hoping that will help productivity. It was accidental but I like it. I find I'm addicted to my phone itself more than social media. I've just remembered that i can stream spotify from my laptop. I have some work to do around this I think.

I have found some old glasses which are also varifocals and they are better than my everyday varifocals, which are better for seeing distance, so now that I have got started on my latest book using audible, I've been able to pick up reading with my eyes again.

Warned you all, sorry 😆

I'm the worst for playing the same soundtrack on repeat so i love it when you folk share what you're listening to. I will check out your one @mumofoneAloneandwell I have just fallen in love with with Kaleo. Currently playing Way Down We Go 💕

All coming together nicely @Peridot1! Well done. I hope you love the new sofas. Do you feel like you've got a new house with all the recent improvements?

Best wishes to the gcse sitters and their families 💐

It's gone chilly here too @Mumtobabyhavoc and I am finding it a lot more comfortable. Raining too, which we really need, even this early in the summer and after an insanely wet winter. There must be some answer to storing all the winter water ( you'd think, but apparently more reservoirs means flooding some areas like they did with the Lady Bower one) So I've already had emails from the water board telling me to conserve water and just using it for drinking, washing and cooking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybower_Reservoir

Just a quick one from me

Me and dd have napped this evening so it will be a LATE one for us 😪

Today's projects
Get bags to the dump - done
Paint - not done, maybe tonight
Make a curry - done and waiting for dd to wake up fully and eat

Got flies coming in and I dont know why, i'm convinced dd has hidden food somewhere 🤔 so will sort that the second she sits down to eat

I'm listening to an album I used to love before sitting down to Love Island: Our Version of Events by Emeli Sande. So good

Thanks @watchPhone , ive stuck it in the amazon basket

@Mumtobabyhavoc your day started off productively, my laundry from yesterday still needs hanging up 😫

@Peridot1 congrats on the new sofas, are you comfy on them or are you like me who refuses to sit on them to preserve the newness for as long as possible?

@SingleThreadJoiner2 always the way

Best to all, and to teens during GCSE season xx