Daily Project Round 10

Good morning all.

Busy day yesterday. New furniture for living room was delivered. Old sofas picked up. Garden centre trip. Usual laundry. Changed a bed. Arranged bits in the living room. Or “dressed” the room in designer speak! Also went to garden centre and have all the rest of the plants I need.

Extra task was cleaning the frames of the French doors in the living room as they were disgusting when we opened them for the delivery. Spiders webs, spiders, leaves, dust, dead insect. You name it it was there!

Today new blinds for kitchen are being delivered and installed. So I’m cleaning the area around the windows and the window sills. And generally tidying up as the whole of downstairs is pretty untidy.

Not sure whether to continue inside or do stuff in the garden this afternoon. I think going forward as the weather is improving so much I need to do a bit of both. When it’s hot I’ll garden in the morning. DH of course will stick to his routine of going outside around midday…..🙄

Hope everyone is well and having a good day.

Just binge watched Legends over the weekend. Wasn't sure but did rewatch the final episode. Gritty.

Today

• bathroom stuff has started to arrive; it's quite volumetric. My back bedroom office might need to be sacrificed. Work starts 2 weeks today and I will then have cash for more frivolous things 😄
• Need to pick a colour for the bathroom walls. We will go through 50 shades of white and no doubt not find one that is the right white.
• I need a project to get me through the winter (looking ahead 😄) but thinking it might be a sewing one - there's lots to do! I'd like to get all the prep done early so I don't abandon it mid project for the want of interfacing!.
• A light came yesterday which was supposed to have dark bronze fittings, but all the fittings are pitch black.... that will have to go back; but a new one arrives today.
• Work is all a bit hectic and shouty at the moment, I may take a day off
• the tape measure arrived so I am going to send a search party out to try and find my waist and measure it - DONE my that was depressing.
• I am having some back and forth with a travel company about why I don't want to share a room on a trip! I might just find somewhere else (I know I will have to pay more blah blah blah). Planning a Cornwall trip too, though instead of the depths of winter we will go this summer when accommodation is triple the price (what a well thought out decision that was). Although have just costed out a surfing lesson for me and the GNephew - quite spendy for an hour.
• I've been walking form room to room picking up plugs and pennies.
• I moved a record player from one side of the room last September (!) and I went to listen to music yesterday. No plug. Desperately searching for the connector/plug.

@FourSeasonsLobelia - I love hydrangeas but sadly so do the deer……

It’s a nice vibrant green shrub @FourSeasonsLobelia. Great for structure and it’s evergreen so still a pop of colour in winter. A friend who is a landscape and garden designer recommended it for our previous garden and I really liked it.

Busy day here today. Have already had a furniture delivery for the living room. Of course planets couldn’t align so that the old sofas were picked up first so room is pretty cluttered currently! They will be picked up before 3 though. Then I can get in and sort the room a bit. Pretty happy with it all so far. Although the footstools are a bit big. Should have ordered the smaller ones!

Other jobs today:

• laundry
• change a bed
• garden centre
• quick supermarket shop which is usefully close to the garden centre
• hopefully some more prep for the beds in the garden
• tidy the mess I’ve made moving stuff from the living room
• find a home for work stuff that DS has been storing in the living room
• clear out the fridge

Tonight is village parish council AGM and I’m on drinks duty.

Have a good Monday all.

Thanks @Mumtobabyhavoc for the article! I think I have decided on hydrangeas there. I did not know they could cope with shade like that. I went to have a pootle through the garden centre to look, but did not find exactly what I am after, so will try another one tomorrow. the DCs school is 12 miles away, and dropping them off at 8 then trying to get home again is a nightmare so it works for me to stop by a garden centre/cafe and wait out peak hour for a bit. I like to think this is multi-tasking....

We also have heavy clay soil @Peridot1 . i shall look out for Nadina lemon and lime! Not heard of that before!

Hope everyone has a lovely day. I have a heavy admin day ahead....

Lovely pics @Mumtobabyhavoc 😍

I am enjoying the gardening talk! Very inspiring 😊 Planning to get out into mine today, and also do a bit of batch cooking while the stuff in my fridge is still fresh.

Crosse posted. Looks lovely @Mumtobabyhavoc.

@FourSeasonsLobelia - I asked ChatGPT for help! So given the fact that the beds are in full sun pretty much and the soil is very heavy clay soil and the drainage isn’t great I have Nandina Lemon and Lime (which we had in the beds already and they survived so I’ve lifted them out into pots temporarily), lavender Hidcote, two different Hebes, some Geums and Erigeron. I like cohesion and repetition although not too regimented.

Managed to get one bed almost ready this afternoon and positioned the plants just to get an idea of positioning. Need another garden centre trip as that bed pretty much swallowed all I’d bought. Need a few more lavenders, hebes, geum and Erigeron.

I've been out for coffee twice today so quite a social day! Turns out the fridge freezer is kaput so I need to order a new one, and it's built-in so a faff to get into the space.
Still waiting on a quote from bathroom guy number 2, I'm not sure how long to leave it before I give up. Last Sunday he said it would be "next week". It's not filling me with confidence in his actual time keeping.

What are you putting in your beds @Peridot1 ?

I have two pots on either side of our front porch. They struggle every year and I usually remove whatever is in them (last year I tried ferns, the year before topiary bays). Problem is the entrance is quite dank. But i am looking to put something a little hardier and preferably with light-coloured flowers that might survive more than a year. Garden centre visit tomorrow I think.

Hello all.

Yesterday was some laundry and a bit of a clean of the kitchen surfaces. Not much else.

This morning was a village clean up/litter pick followed by tea and sausages in wraps on the village green. Nice sunny morning for it.

This afternoon will be more gardening. Hoping to finish the beds by the patio in the next few days.

Have a lovely Sunday all.

Hope everyone is well today. How are you feeling @WinterFrogs ?

I bought another 2 hanging baskets- already pre-filled with flowers (geraniums mostly). So that's a total of 7 dotted around our entrance. I also bought two euphorbia to dump in a bare patch. I'll do that later as part of my 25 minutes today. I still have 2 sweet william plants to pop in somewhere as well. Not sure where yet. Then watering.

I'm tired though. I could not sleep so finally gave up around 4 am. So now I am quite tired. I have ironing to do as well.

Hope everyone has a very good day.

Hello! That's an impressively used 25 mins @FourSeasonsLobelia! I am trying to do the same in my garden. I am definitely making headway.
I was wondering why Flylady did an article on crisis cleaning as 'many of you will be hosting this weekend'.

I hope you have a good one @Aria999 and @Mumtobabyhavoc 💐

I would like it to warm up a little, mainly for @petalpower and @Peridot1 sakes. But not too much, please and thank you 🙏

I have a day of gardening and reading planned. I have my nose stuck in a Jojo Moyes novel at the moment.

I hope you all have a lovely day ☕️ 🍰

Wow @FourSeasonsLobelia that is a lot!

Happy birthday @Peridot1

I managed two loads of laundry yesterday, and today I talked to my relative about their trip and looked into a fiddly return of some sinks. We've been out all day and only got back a couple of hours ago so trying to be organised and unpack bags etc straight away rather than leave them hanging around.

I want the weather to change too!!!

I impressed myself @Mumtobabyhavoc ! To be fair, the entrance to our door is quite small.

I am hoping to spend about 25 minutes a day in the garden. Its been sorely neglected over the winter.

Hope everyone has a lovely evening, and @Mumtobabyhavoc and @Aria99 a great day.

Belated happy birthday @Peridot1 - hope you had cake!
Today I've hoovered under the kitchen units as we've had to remove the plinth to unplug the fridge freezer to reboot it. Fingers crossed the warning light now goes off and normal coldness will resume. I hate buying any form of electrical appliance.
I'm currently trying to pay a bill but my laptop is on a go slow. All appliances clearly conspiring against me today.
One week to half term, eldest is off school now for work experience.
Happy weekend all!

Happy Birthday @Peridot1 !!💖

Hope you are feeling better today @WinterFrogs

I have done an Old School Classic Daily Project. Set the timer for 25 minutes in the garden. I trimmed the dead fern fronds at our entrance. Then watered the ferns. Then I cleaned up the hanging baskets, and re-potted them with sweet william and rehung them at our door. I put down some fertiliser as well in pots a d brought in the little lilac coloured pots I had sitting empty ready to clean for another use.

I’m ok thank you @Mumtobabyhavoc . Just getting fed up with the weather being cold. I’m itching to get into the vegetable
garden and get all my plants out of the greenhouse and into the ground but there’s still a risk of frost for another couple of weeks.

Happy birthday @Peridot1 !