Flying- will have to try doing some hanging baskets like that next year, sounds like a great idea.
Scruffy - I think the best thing to do is to put little spikes in your flower beds so the cats can?t settle down to do their business. Course doesn?t really work if you little ones around (or are prone to walking on your own spikes 
)
Toffee - see, this is why I want a cat!!! 
I?ve only just read about the meteor showers, what a shame I didn?t get to see them. Hope you feel better soon.
WhoKnows - big congratulations on keeping things going with maintenance ? this is where I fail all the time! Hope your boiler gets fixed soon. Had to go without water for half a day (when I put a nail through a water pipe 
) and that was bad enough. Knocked on next door neighbours door to get a few jugs of water to keep us going.
PA - oh you are a brave soul! I love reading your updates.
OFM - oh dear, doesn?t sound like a nice break at all.
Swan - sounds like you had a lovely holiday. One of the nicest cooking methods for holidays is a bbq. We have a kettle bbq (weber) and it does fabulous roasts as well as normal bbqing. Well done on the weight loss .... sigh..... got to address my own body clutter.....
Lauren - two lovely date nights.... very, very nice!
Bitchy - two weeks! Gosh that must be hard. Enjoy curling up with a good book.
Engels - I feel the same way, the Olympics took over here!
MsOna - good luck with that list!!!
Who watched the closing ceremony? Absolutely awesome, loved every bit of it! So sad now though that the Olympics is over.
Although it doesn?t feel as though I accomplished all that much over the weekend I did manage to get the Utility room completely emptied and cleaned up. Decluttered quite a few things from there and from the shed as well. DH took a car load full of stuff to the refuse centre.
Absolutely determined to declutter. So disheartened that I can only have a couple of rooms tidy at a time because the others are bunked up with clutter.
Just had a look at the heading for today?s mission and thought ? ooh, bathrooms are ok, probably won?t need to do that. Then I read it.... damn. Absolutely do need to do this one!!! Don?t have an office, but I need to create one. But to do that I need to get the spare room working..... sigh..... So my part 2 mission is to clear the space in the spare room which will become my office. Shall I choose a spot facing the window or facing away from the window? We have a beautiful view from that room, and I can see myself losing too much time gazing out of the window, but it is so very therapeutic looking out that way. Hmm... what to do, what to do.
Oh and home bleugh day ? can?t even reach most of the floor space upstairs, so it will have to be limited to down stairs and the stairwell
I have two weeks where I actually need to accomplish a LOT ? decluttering, tidying and decorating. And at the same time keeping the DSs entertained. Need to get the house remortgaged and so the house needs to be revalued at the end of the month to take into account all the building work.... eek! I feel like hyperventilating now.
My to do lists are too big to even try to get my head around, but will go something like this:
-Mission
-Home bleugh (downstairs)
-puttying and sanding 3 x downstairs doors
-undercoating 3 x downstairs doors and 2x upstairs doors
-painting 3 x downstairs doors and 2 x upstairs doors (not likely, but I can dream!!)
-1 x load of gentle wash
-2 x baskets of ironing
-15 minute kitchen tidy up
-15 minute bedroom declutter
Tada:
-3 x loads of washing washed and hung up outside to dry.
-Dishwasher emptied and reloaded
-DSs fed, dressed and ?kicked?encouraged outside to play
-2 baskets of ironing done and put away
Now you lot have been my morning tea break, so I had better get back to work.