Daily Project Round 10

My magnificence of the week has caught up with me. Full of headache so I had cheese on toast and then went to bed.

Happy Birthday @Peridot1 🎂

Oh Happy Birthday @Peridot1

Hope you bought yourself some cake 🎂!

Hello all

@WinterFrogs - I did manage to get back to bed for a while yesterday. Not really sure what else I did all day!

Today is my birthday and I spent the morning taking DH to have a tooth extracted under sedation. I mooched around some shops while waiting for him but didn’t see anything I liked and he was done much quicker than expected. Usual day otherwise. Did go to the garden centre this afternoon and bought the plants for the beds along the patio.

I think it’s takeaway pizza for dinner for DS and I as I think DH is on soup.

Happy Friday all.

I thought we’d had the last lighting of the wood burner for the season but it’s just so cold here so I’ve given in. Currently 11C but the forecast is for 24C here this time next week!
Still not achieving very much - motivation has definitely gone AWOL.

I am still here! Thanks @Mumtobabyhavoc for starting the new thread. Won't bore you with talk of deadlines and late nights but am hoping to have turned a corner 🤞🤞 and will dedicate today to neglected life and work admin tasks. At a minimum -

• some laundry
• paying deposit for community centre for D's birthday party in July
• checking family member's travel arrangements next month for their trip to London

^^ I’ve now GOT to go to the car laundrette if only to add to the painterly gallery unfolding on this thread 😉

You must be living in the same country as my DS @Mumtobabyhavoc …same coastline too. He said yesterday that it was due to drop to just +2 tomorrow for the start of your bank holiday weekend. I think it has been up in the mid/high 20s.

He wasn’t too happy!

Our weather has been just the same @WinterFrogs ! It’s cold too. Today’s temperature was 11C max - chilly!
Not much achieved today, just menu planning for next week, online supermarket grocery shopping and ironing. I’m lacking in motivation and just want to sit on the sofa with tea and biscuits!

I love the twin photo @FourSeasonsLobelia!

Gardens....I am glad I have been proceeding with caution with just secateurs as I have just unearthed an old wooden drawer, and it was sheltering slow worms ❤️ I have put it back! I disturbed a toad yesterday. I need to just keep mad bramble fronds at bay in the wild area otherwise it really will take over the whole garden. Will need to do a proper clear up over autumn/winter I suppose. I can't have it going completely wild but I'm hoping if I work slowly it'll give the inhabitants time to move house safely. Time to look at books/videos about that. Any recommendations?

Odds and ends dinner tonight. Luckily DH is thrilled just to get fed. It shall be wholesome.

I hung washing on the line in the sunshine. Within ten minutes it was raining so brought it in and put it on to tumble dry. And now the sun is out again 🙄

Right, off to see what I can do with those odds and ends that is not soup!

Your gardens all sound lovely.

I made a stab at a formal garden with ours. But actually rpefer a cottage garden and when I have some spare cash plan to fill in some of our sparser flower beds.

In the meantime though.... my twin photo to @WinterFrogs photo from the car laundrette.

Rambling cottages and cottage gardens do sound lovely!
Hello again @teachyourself lovely to see you!
We'll all be doing a sun dance for your bbq day @Peridot1 😊 I hope you get the chance to go back to bed for a bit. I've made it to sitting on the bed now. Need to shower and off to an appointment shortly. @WideOpenBeaches sorry about your volunteers. That is such a shame!
I had the same thing with my steam iron. Had to nip out and get a new one on the morning of a wedding recently. I have just learned that if you put small electrical items like that on top of the green recycling bin, the binmen will take them. That is handy as i used to just nip into the tip on my way past, but now we have to book a half hour slot. Which needs to be worthwhile as round here it's a maximum of four bookings a month. I'm fairly certain that there will be more fly tipping round here as a result, or people putting recyclable stuff in their landfill bin. I was tempted to bin the iron, but didn't 😇 Flytipping is already a problem around here.

I have brought home some bits and bobs from the horse place to clean this afternoon. I also need a good rummage in the freezer. Ooh, and I just cleaned a shelf in the mug/tea/coffee cupboard while the kettle boiled <smug>

I hope you all have a lovely day ❤️

@petalpower - I like pink, purple, white, vivid greens, blues and some pops of red or orange strategically. Not keen on yellow depending on what it’s with. DH just wants a mish mash of colours. He’s bought geraniums - fine if they are red or white. Petunias - hmm - could be a mish mash. And nicotiana which also could be a mish mash. Also not sure where they are all going to go!

@crivit - welcome back.

@WideOpenBeaches - oh we are just having a bbq. Not an open garden. Although obviously it will (hopefully) be in the garden!

I got up early as charity collection is any time from 7am. However I’ve been awake since 2.45……. When DH appears I may go back to bed.

Today’s list:

• usual kitchen/dishwasher
• laundry
• vacuum living room once sofas have gone
• move a sofa from sitting area off kitchen to living room temporarily
• move new bookcase into position in living room
• decide on light switches and sockets for kitchen/dining/sitting areas
• chase quote and dates from painter for rest of work
• order new sofas for sitting area off kitchen
• possible garden centre trip

And definitely a nap! Have a great day all.

Morning all

Thanks for crispy and clean thread @Mumtobabyhavoc. It’s beautiful ☺️

I used to live in an old rambly house with large rambly cottage garden and we only opened it once. We had only been there a couple of years and the ground elder was rampant throughout these long borders. I was utterly exhausted by the end. Kudos to you for doing it @Peridot1

DM loves opening her garden up for the local village open day. She transferred 50 years of garden knowledge and 3 acres of proper garden into a tiny garden.

People pour down her garden path and ask her loads of gardening questions which she loves answering. I think she loves the attention.
In fact I KNOW she practically basks in it…!

I’m quite concerned about her there on her own in the garden with general public milling about so I’m going over to keep an eye on her and the house in a few weeks time.

Love the car launderette idea 😆. I took mine to the DIY jet wash place and then it rained a day later 😥. Ho hum.

Didnt do too well yesterday. Had to cancel a morning meet up for these volunteers that I attempt to herd as - despite all 8 being as keen as mustard to do this - backed out. I was not happy.

Started the ironing. Brown gunge coming out of iron. Attempted to clean it and gave up after billowing smoke came out and set fire alarm off. New one arriving today.

In an effort to make something of the morning I booked myself onto a lunchtime strength training class… then realised I was going to Zumba in the evening.

Came home, had lunch. Got SO engrossed in re planning my utility room and missed a beauty appointment.

Went to Zumba but 20 mins in, my arms and legs forgot to coordinate. Luckily in back row, so as long as you shuffle left when everyone else does… you avoid a collision…usually ☺️

Going to keep it simple today.

Just meet up with mentee. Drink coffee. Listen.
Anything else will be a bonus.

I’m exactly the same about plant colours @Peridot1 ! We live in an old painted farmhouse with a cottage garden. I really don’t like anything too bright or spiky and very much go for soft pastel colours with a traditional feel.
Welcome back crivit!

Hello again all waves

I've been catching up with the old thread (triathlons! faints just thinking about it) and thought I should actually post again.

Having serious car laundrette envy. One of the surprising things I miss, as where I live now you are not allowed to stay in your car while it gets laundered 😭 My inner child is very sad about this.

My overall to do list has had some things taken off it, some things added, and some things have just been hanging around on it sigh My main one for the rest of tonight is to do a laundry load as I'm going away for a few days and some of the things I want are still in the wash basket. Also would like to clean the cooker hob as it's not exactly shining as it should. Currently in a café drinking a coffee though, need to move and finish the food shopping first.

edit For some reason it has used a different username to usual. This is actually crivit.

I definitely wasn’t brought up anywhere near landed gentry @WinterFrogs. Although great grandparents etc were in service or farm labourers on one side and dockers on the other!

I really should take our car to the car laundrette too. Maybe next week. We have one in a local shopping centre where you leave the car so I could go for a coffee and do some shopping. Multi tasking you see.

@petalpower - plants are so expensive. DH got some plug plants while I was in Australia and has been diligently growing them on in the greenhouse. I’m fussy about colour though so although he says they are colours I like they might not be!

@FourSeasonsLobelia - we hosted a big village bbq three years ago which was catered after DH and a few other from the village drunkenly bid for it at a charity event. So it was a joint effort and I didn’t need to worry about the food. This one is a bit different as not catered but still a joint effort with the same other people so not all the pressure is on us. I will get intimidated and nervous closer to the time!

Nice!

I think i might take a twin photo when i go to the car laundrette tomorrow now.

I am making smug ratatouille.

I admire your summer village festivities @Peridot1 . I always want to host but then get intimidated by the thought!

Waves to everyone.

Made it to the car laundrette. Also have made smug soup and been to tesco to recycle batteries and get £4.08 from their cash converter machine.
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