Daily Project Round 10

Aand again with the cross posting - this time out @petalpower! Hello! Glad you found us 😊

Hello @Peridot1 we cross posted! Argh that would be too much for me, though I do agree with your DH. I grew up with landed gentry. It is true that their furniture is more battered and their carpets more threadbare than anyone else's. My parents were all for throwing the place wide open for guests visitors random people though. Siblings and I have gone quite the other way. One is a hoarder and a hermit too. I'm a sociable ( outside the house) minimalist. I expect a psychoanalyst would make something of that.

Anyway, you are a brave woman dear @Peridot1 and I hope it goes well. And you will have a glorious home and garden as a reward 💕

I’ve found you all! I thought we were getting close to needing a new thread. What a lovely kind and supportive area of MN this is.
It seemed to take me a long time to get back on top of things at home after our 10 day break. The washing was never ending!
Yesterday’s extra jobs were going to the garden centre to buy some geraniums and trailing plants for my pots and hanging basket and having a good scrub with bleach at all the horrid areas of the shower, especially around the door and seals. The plants were so expensive and I think next year I’m going to get some plug plants and grow them on.
Today I need to mop all the hard floors, pick up a prescription, change DS’s bed and swap my winter and summer clothes. It’s still feeling very chilly here but the forecast for next week looks better. Hopefully no more frosts as I’ve been covering my potatoes over with fleece each night in the vegetable garden.

I last used one of those when I was in labour @Mumtobabyhavoc! Might be worth trying again, although I'm relieved to say that I am pain free today.

Almost forgot to take the car to the laundrette but luckily our @BerfyTigot mentioned her car is also in a state on our our last thread (which is no longer taking replies) so that reminded me. Thanks Berfy 😊

I will look out for Spring Watch @RunningKatie Last time I watched it I was doing an awake but not actually doing anything night job and it was perfect for the 4am till 6am bit when it was particularly hard to stay awake. I've just looked it up - must have been one of the live cameras on the red button. Think it was the 2023 one.

Sorry about the work situation 😔

Right, off to sort my car out and another hour in the garden too. It's been raining but the sun has come out now. Quite windy. Bin men came today so I took advantage and got some grot out of the shed to save going to the tip with it. Nothing recyclable.

Best get to it! Have a great day everyone 😊

Morning all. I’m grumpy at the weather again. Feels like 5 degrees outside apparently. Wind is blowing right off the fields at the back so not sure I want to do anything in the garden. And it’s due to rain this afternoon. Might wrap up and go for a walk and see if that helps me feel less of a grump.

@WinterFrogs - yes we are hosting a village bbq in mid June. So the perfectionist in me wants everything done inside and out before then. DH keeps saying people won’t notice or care but I do! And the local wealthy couple with the biggest house and land (and lots of staff!) are coming……. Think local landowners.

Today’s list:

• walk
• laundry
• kitchen tidy
• snagging list for painter
• sort piles for furniture charity collection tomorrow
• towel wash
• sort pictures out to decide what goes roughly where in hall, stairs and landing
• clean said pictures
• get dates for painter to come and finish plus sort snagging and put blinds back up on landing

Have a good day all.

Home Fires is good viewing, I totally agree. Springwatch starts soon and I'm looking forward to that, our baby robins have all fledged which is lovely.

We are thankfully not doing GCSEs this year but next, first we need to survive a week of work experience.

Work is tricky at the moment, many resignations of lovely people, I had a small cry tonight whilst dh looked on in bafflement.

Stairs hoovered, washing machine loaded, lunches made for tomorrow. I need to fix the shoe rack (again) and have another drink - the winter germs keep fighting back. It's still cold enough here to need a winter coat, May likes to catch me out.

It's all go at your house too @Peridot1! You are hosting something in June I think? I am able to do mine with no pressure luckily. Fortunately I am quite happy doing it and will just manage what i can. I've had to apply bio-freeze to my neck and shoulder as I think I'm starting to seize up. Hoping to be fit to do another hour tomorrow. And maybe the gardening muscles will get stronger and I'll be able to do more.

I love this thread too! I can't believe weve been going so long.

I hope you enjoyed your hot latte @Mumtobabyhavoc!

@FourSeasonsLobelia what a pair we are with our mobile wheelie bins! Mine mainly contains dried mud, hay and shavings now. I'm looking forward to getting it clean (it also got splatted with seagull poo today)

Home Fires ( mentioned on last thread) is really nice viewing. I have collapsed in a heap now. DH is washing up.

Looking forward to old and new projecters joining us 💕

Hugs all round ☕️ 🍰

Thanks for the new thread @Mumtobabyhavoc!

Cant believe we are up to number 10. Although I do feel if I actually remembered I was meant to be getting things done I might be a lot more organised……

@WinterFrogs - I’m dizzy reading what you achieved today! That’s a LOT.

I have had a PT session at the gym, did some laundry and organised some furniture collection as new furniture is arriving. One lot is going to the British Heart Foundation and the other sofas are being collected by the council as they are too tatty to be sold. New furniture for the living room will arrive on Monday. Sofas to replace the too tatty ones are not ordered yet…. Was plannning on some Ikea sofas but DH noticed they claim to be “extra soft” which isn’t ideal. So back to the drawing board. And they need to be here by June 5th…..

Weather is better today so got a few hours in the garden. Still lots to do. My new toy arrived and I almost broke it within ten minutes. It’s a mini rotavator and I managed to get a big stone stuck in it. Thankfully DH managed to get it out. But it did make digging over the bed much easier.

Gosh Thread 10! A testament to our very own Most Esteemed @WinterFrogs who persevered in the early days when it was tumbleweeds at times.

I echo our Equally Esteemed @Mumtobabyhavoc ... we are a friendly bunch and love newbies.

Springing into the next thread! Thanks @Mumtobabyhavoc

I come fresh from the car launderette. But 'twas shut so my car is still living up to it's name of 'The Wheelie Bin'.

Thanks @Mumtobabyhavoc 😊