Daily Project Round 10

Let’s hope this link works! I’ve been using the 5 min setting and it gets me started on a task.

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SoE

@mumofoneAloneandwell - definitely not like Emmerdale. Much less drama and shenanigans!

@SingleThreadJoiner2 - that would be me with anything to do with online banking. Always think it’s going to be a nightmare!

@watchPhone - hope Spiritdoggo is ok. I like the sound of your cube. Might have a look. Or I suppose I could just set the timer on my phone….

Didn’t quite get my yesterday list complete but got some things done. Blinds are back up in hallway and he even cleaned the high window for me. It’s a ridiculous design and I feel I should get the architect out to explain themselves at times. And send them up the ladder to clean the window….. New sofas are in and look good.

I had a bit of a lazy morning. After been woken just before 7 by council truck picking up our old sofas from outside. Had a PT session. Then a quick nip to the supermarket. Did some weeding in the side garden this afternoon. Gave up as knees were sore from kneeling. Noticed a few of the plants I put in have either died or are not doing anything so may nip for replacements tomorrow.

DH is out tonight so it’s just DS and I for dinner. Was hoping he’d fancy the pub but sadly not.

Happy Friday all.

This morning I sorted out something to do with online banking that I had been putting off for literally six months because I thought it was too much hassle and would take hours.

It took barely five minutes.

I never learn, do I?!

Hi all, laundry truly never ends.
It's gone cool here again and I've had some manic work days so feeling like I need a good nap in some warm sunshine. Seems very unlikely right now.
Trying to get dc1 to revise for mocks, they are a little too laidback!
Glad it's nearly the weekend, out for drinks after work tomorrow, then a full on weekend of teenager chauffeuring.

Afternoon all

Yesterday was spent getting my MOT sorted - twas a nightmare that had me rushing about all over trying to get a replacement registration plate - Halfords do them for £18 but then I needed ID documents - having to print my insurance documents, which meant using my printer which just never works without me begging it to, downloading apps and saying a prayer 🙄🙄 - then rushing back to kwik fit, who were so busy but squeezed us in

Anyway, it took 6 hours but it got done and passed.

Dd was amazing, and only got tetchy towards the end, which I am so grateful for - she got cupcakes and cuddles as a well deserved thank you treat 😄😄 (only one of those she was interested in, the other was tolerated!)

Anyway today is to clean the carpet on the stairs , and the living room which has papers everywhere (from me searching for my insurance proof)

@Mumtobabyhavoc thank you, glad to be back 🥰 - although I am with you on the laundry, another load is going on today 😪

@Peridot1 thats lovely of you to host the village. In my mind I picture Emmerdale 😄, i'm willing it to go well for you all - and 100% that you get the weather

@SingleThreadJoiner2 cheers to jobs that stay done - yes to a new kitchen! I'm renovating mine myself (not a full scale reno) after watching tiktoks. Slow going but why not - we deserve good things! 🥰

@watchPhone that time cube sounds like something they have on The Bear - sounds cool and I now want one!
Hope everything is okay with spiritdoggo - and glad the bathroom reno is coming along nicely x

@WinterFrogs lovely and windy here too - which obvs i am very happy about 😌 - will check out the book 👀 x

Boo to moths and flies, but love to you all, kids and pets and parents and villagers included ❤️

All go round these parts! Let me join in by saying that I renewed the lease on our car - took barely five minutes and will Stay Done for another 24 months 🎉

Need to do online shopping order before this evening, and chase something about potential new kitchen...

hello! Still in bathroom chaos but walls are plastered, shower tray in place and tiler here today, so ready for big push to finish next week and also the vanity unit will be in place by end of day I believe. And it is finally quieter. So, coming along. However, we have discover HUGE dying flies which we think are coming from the loft! The loft hatch has been moved and is currently open so we have covered it over with some spare plasterboard lying around. All the boxes of stuff are slowly disappearing - some stuff went back today and I am slowly chucking stuff in the skip!!! Just need to go and buy some paint tomorrow no time today.

I also took delivery of a visual time cube (aka a kitchen timer 🤣) - you can set 4 times 5, 10, 25, 50 minutes - which has worked amazingly well for my attention span (or it’s a novelty!) today and I had a very productive work yesterday using it.
Other things from today

• gym this morning
• need to wash gym kit for refpilates tonight
• Visit sibling who lives nearby later for a shower 🚿
• Buy a new pan!!! Our only decent sized one has sprung a leaky
• I need to book a day off for next Friday
• there are piles of clean clothes everywhere with nowhere to go 🤣
• I need a notebook from a room blocked by tradies…. I’m resistant to typing a list. I need pen and paper. I also need my watch charger from same room….
• I had ChatGPT do me a weekly menu based around macros and a list of preferred. One of the meals was oats and whey powder 🤔 - I was why are you recommending sawdust? 🤣 Milk and yoghurt was also on the list so was expecting overnights oats or something. Anyway - I can figure it out myself was just being super lazy. I will call it curious rather than lazy. So menu planning it is.
• SpiritDoggo has a bright red patch on her chest so need to grab a photo of it to send to vet to see if it needs a vet visit.
• finance admin Thats it for now, have a good one, SoE

It never does @Mumtobabyhavoc.

@WinterFrogs - the 14th will be clean up but from the 15th I will be doing nothing!

Yesterday I did DS’s room - except his desk and changed his bed. Changed all towels in bathrooms. Washed towels. Sorted and cleaned utility room. Still a bit to go but it looks a lot better. Went with DH to order wine and rent glasses for bbq. Took my winter duvet to be laundered. Moved a table back onto landing from spare room. Went through pictures to try to decide what goes where in hall, stairs and landing.

Today:

• usual dishwasher/kitchen/laundry
• finish utility room
• we have new sofas being delivered this afternoon for tv area off kitchen so need to move current sofas and vacuum and clean ready for new sofas
• blinds on landing are going back up today - one is 5m high - other is reachable from landing. They are also remote controlled. So guy who installed them is coming to put them back up. I want to give them a vacuum first as they are a bit dusty
• vacuum kitchen and dining area
• tidy off shelves in dining area which has become a bit of a dumping ground while the sideboard was being painted
• put things back into sideboard

Was hoping curtain pole and curtains would go back up in sitting area this week but I don’t think that will now happen before the bbq annoyingly as the guy who is doing it is on holiday next week. He is also supposed to put pictures and mirrors up. Nobody else will care but I’m a bit annoyed. He might have time tomorrow so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

Have a great day all.

Gotta love chatgpt @Peridot1! You won't know what to do with yourself come the 14th! We'll be here cheering you on till then.

I've had a nice day. Saw my mum - dropped off some bits she needed. She's in a bit of a muddle today but very sweet with it. Met a friend for a coffee this afternoon and i have finished my latest audio book. We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes - read by Jenna Colman. Highly recommend the book and Jenna is a lovely narrator.

Standard jobs today- nothing that'll stay done. But I have changed the sheets and put the fleece duvet cover back on. We sleep with the window open and I was cold under just a sheet this morning. Littlest came to tea and her mum has just collected her. I'm just about to clear up the trail of destruction.

Really windy here! And cool but not cold. Washing is in the dryer. Must put away. Cleaned the bath this morning too.

Hope you're all doing well 😊

@mumofoneAloneandwell - it’s a bbq for around 60 people in the village that we are holding in our garden but jointly hosting with some others in the village. We did one three years ago after some of the men went to a charity cricket day and drunkenly bid for a catered bbq for 50 and won. We hosted as garden is big enough and we are fairly central in village. It was decided to do again but this time it’s not catered. Currently lots of discussion about food and who is doing what. We are focussed on getting the garden ready and I want the house finished. Well downstairs anyway.

@petalpower - yep. Moths are back. Never really went away really. Even over winter we were still finding some. Need to moth bomb again in bedrooms. Also need a really good deep clean - moving furniture etc and vacuuming around edges of carpet etc. I use the sticky traps constantly which I think keeps on top of it a bit. Indorex flea spray was recommended so I try that around edges of carpet when I deep clean. Haven’t time to do it at the moment though. It will have to be after the bbq. Every thing at the moment is prepping for that. I’ll be very glad when it’s done!

Got a bit overwhelmed yesterday with things swirling around in my head so dumped my rough list into ChatGPT and I have a bit of a plan. Apparently we are in better shape than I think….. not so sure really!

Anyway. Today’s tasks:

• usual kitchen/dishwasher
• pre cleaner tidy
• DS is in London today so I am sorting his room, changing bed etc and cleaner can do his bathroom
• 30 minutes weeding in side garden
• two plants to pop into small pots
• change towels and wash
• trip out with DH to buy wine and beer and book glasses hire for bbq
• clean out veg drawer in fridge and wash

Have a great day all.

Thanks for kind thoughts re FIL.
Are your moths back @Peridot1 ? Ours are but only in certain bits of the house. We used micro wasp traps last year as used by NT properties. Don’t seem to have made much difference for the cost. Back to the pheromone sticky traps from Amazon.
Very rainy/thundery day here. Brief break of bright warm sunshine so put load of towels out on the line - managed 10 mins before torrential rain and hail. Tomorrow looks better fingers crossed!

Afternoon all

Today i have:
Done dd's hair - she was not pleased
Taken her out for fresh air and consolation kfc, which she is now at home munching on happily (I've got a slimfast, which i am not so happy with)
Got some groceries in - i love Yorkshire Provender chicken soup, omg its amazing

Tried to send a yodel parcel back to Very that was due over a week ago. The shop said its 10cm too big so might not be picked up, will have to keep checking 🙄

Tonight now I just need to clean the living room, and do some painting which I started and abandoned months ago 🙃

I managed to empty my washing basket so I am feeling very good about that, although as I am in a flat, the weather doesnt matter so much

@petalpower thank you and my best wishes to your fil - how stressful for you all, i hope that you are able to get a care package sorted 🥺💐

@Peridot1 your house sounds like its coming along nicely 😍 - whats this big do? Hope it goes well and is sunny for you

@WinterFrogs i love jobs that stay done - its so rarely the case isnt it! An early night sounds well deserved xx

Dd has just abandoned her chips and they are calling me... 😫😫

@WinterFrogs the big ‘do’ is Saturday 13th. Please pray to the sun gods. We definitely do not want rain. I cannot wait until Monday 15th when it will all be over, the clean up will be done and the house and garden all done and I can relax for a bit. Even ChatGPT told me to leave the patio alone and not buy any more plants! Well once the final section is power washed and tidied……

Sorry to hear about FIL @petalpower. It’s always something isn’t it?

And the laundry is constant here too.

A bit of a bitty day here today. The decorator hadn’t put the sideboard he painted back in the right position or put the top back on properly so I attempted to do that and promptly scratched the paint. Managed to touch it up myself. Spotted a few more bits needing touching up so did those too. It does look good though. It’s now a nice olive green rather than pale grey. Won’t put anything back into or on it until I’m sure the paint is fully dry as it scratched so easily earlier.

Had a chiropractor appointment so nipped out for that. Back in time to hang laundry up and have lunch. Then de spidered my bedroom. Lots of skinny ones up on the walls and ceilings. Then replaced all the moth traps in the bedrooms and switched out my jumpers drawers for shorts and T-shirts and put moth repellant stuff in drawers etc.

Sun is out now after torrential rain earlier. Contemplating a quick garden task…..

Enjoy the rest of the day all.

Let's just say I am catching up with you @Peridot1! Yesterday I felt a lot older after a full day with littlest. I am normally quite energetic but yesterday I hit the hay at 8pm . You are achieving so much at the moment! When is the big do?

@petalpower even with two of us I do a load most days. No longer the mountains of old though. Currently do some of my mum's that she doesn't trust the nursing home not to tumble dry as well. Sorry to hear about FIL's hospital stay.

I got a replacement light bulb up in the utility room/shed. That's a job that should stay done. I do really need to have a clothes sort out. Unusually, DH did a bit of sorting. Evidently I am in charge of shredding it judging by the pile on top of the shredder. He's tidied his bookcase too so me keeping quiet and just being responsible for my own stuff did the trick.

I had to do an unexpected prescription request to GP as the pharmacy only gave me half of my eight week supply. Unless the other box has gone down the back of my dressing table 🤔

Hope everyone is having a good day!

Great news abou the school place for your daughter @mumofoneAloneandwell !
The weather has definitely turned here, much cooler and rainy. Sod’s Law dictates that the laundry basket is full again and actually overflowing. Where does it all come from?!
This week should have been the start of getting projects done as DH has returned from his course. However FIL had a collapse and ended up in hospital for a couple of days so DH needs to go and help out as his dad is very frail and elderly. We are keeping fingers crossed for a care package being put in place but are not sure whether it will be enough.
Jobs for today:

• clean family bathroom
• buy items for FIL for DH to take later
• set up online poll for group activity
• engineer visit to look at malfunctioning fridge freezer that has thrown up an error code
• flea and worm medication for Petaldog

Thank you @Mumtobabyhavoc @Peridot1 @WinterFrogs

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Excellent news about the school placement @mumofoneAloneandwell! That’s fab for you both.

how frustrating @watchPhone. I do remember you moaning about him.

@WinterFrogs - I cannot do audible unless I’m outdoors walking. Otherwise I fall asleep. (which big birthday? 🧐)

So decorator came and finished off. We decided not to get him put the blinds back up. They are about 5m high. He took them down using a scaffolding platform but forget they needed to go back up before the platform went….. 🙄. Anyway I messaged the guy who put them up originally and he will come and put them back. They are remote control operated so a bit tricky and I want to make sure 5he whole mechanism works.

Kitchen/sitting/dining area is definitely coming together- finally!

jobs wise I did laundry. Cleaned kitchen sinks including waste disposal. Planted 10 plants. Argued with DH about him asking a recipe and then not following it. Drank wine. Had dinner. Now in bed.

night all.

Hello everyone 👋
Just catching up 💕 It is a much more sensible temperature now so I got out into the garden a bit, to dead head and weed.

Great news about the school @mumofoneAloneandwell 😁

Sympathy on the chaos @watchPhone!

I have a new trick for reading as my eyes aren't great when they are tired. I listen on audible and read simultaneously ( if i just do audible i fall asleep - great cure for insomnia but means i never finish the book) Kindle's ok as i can increase font size. Now i sound like my mother! Even my parents' ancient Agatha Christie and Miss Reads are on audible now. That maked me feel very old. Must go back to optician but i only got new specs in September 😔

Very early night here as had a busy family weekend and saw everybody and now we've run out of steam! Big birthday coming up soon and feeling it! @Mumtobabyhavoc am feeling even more tired than usual reading your accomplishments with and around the kids.

I hope everyone is well and also all the pets, parents and children are too, and employees/work colleagues are behaving themselves. And vice versa.

Time for a bubbly bath!

Highly supportive of downing books and having a long summer filled with fun and enrichment! Sounds like a VERY good plan.

Congratulations!

Evening all 🥰

So today

Cleaned bathroom
Finished huge pile of washing up
Put whites on

Ive still got to do braid dd's hair (wish me luck)

@Mumtobabyhavoc excellent gif work - and I love Marylin 🥺

@Peridot1 we did thank you 🥰 - well dd wasn't bothered remotely 😄, I think she is Arsenal'd out! Hope dh is okay - it got so hot

@watchPhone i'm all about lists here as well, ive got to get organised! Hope your bathroom reno goes smoothly, no thanks to that joiner!

Dd got her sen school place! Starting September. We are over the moon, as homeschooling just isnt going too well. I'm treating the rest of the time like a long summer and have downed workbooks altogether!

Have a lovely evening all - Love Island starts tonight and despite it being awful, I am very much looking forward to it 😄🥰