Stepping our way through Autumn old and new steppers welcome

[BlackCatinchaos]

Hi all, I have been absent for a little while. Don't know about you but I could do with a new thread --for a kick up the bum--

All welcome.

Just jump in where you are, this thread is about doing a little at a time to step our way towards organisation and a clean tidy home.

Visit flylady for inspiration (will link in a mo)

No hard and fast rules here just a bit of motivation required!!

Anyone want to join?

I found my glasses, now having a chocolate drink. Mmm

We haven't made it to town yet so may have to go tomorrow instead.

DD declared that she wanted a bath around mid day so I let her but I said she's not having one later.

Adora we have cream carpets too, not ideal with young DC. Our's could do with being replaced --or cleaned-- but we can't afford it at the mo. I use warm water with a dash of washing up liquid. Not sure if that would work on marker though!

List update:

Breakfast for all done
get dressed done
find glasses done
write out bday card done
try to get through the day and stay calm going o.k. so far
tidy up - never ending
sorted and shredded some paperwork done

Still to do:
wash up/dry up
"what's for dinner?"
laundry
find insurance certificate
make sure everything stays calm.

DS is "having a meeting" with some of his friends in the hallway. they are hiding from another friend.

cats the meeting in your hall made me [hgrin]!
hope little kittens ok.well done on the daytime toileting!
bessie im also wreckd today-for reasons unknown dd2 decided to wake little zoo at 3am and had ds awake to by 3.30 and kept all awwake rest of the night despite threats of voilence/bribes etc
ds had a meltdown bofre lunch adn i cajoled a 30min nap into him so hes just a bit grumpy.poor little zoo is very tired but managing.dd2 continues to be the child from hell
we ahve a playmobile vet care centre complete with poorly giraffe that has a bandage
dp got 2 giraffe tops and a toy giraffe in a tshirt that says i love * on it!she was given some money and bought a talking giraffe from tys r us
she also got the gruffalo and gruffalo child dvd so we bought a gruffalo birthday cake
i will have to look at your cake bessie when i get a minute

Do you guys use groupon (or any similar sites?) i got my carpets cleaned last year by a local firm for a very good price (75% off I think) - defo worth doing if the opportunity arises!

My word, DD2 is in a bad mood now that she's been told she's doing her own laundry.

Morning all, I have just left DS downstairs on his own while I took a shower (dd in her bedroom). I came down to find 4 empty crisp packets in the bin.
I am not sure if DS has just eaten all 4 packets or if they were already there . He admits to eating 1 packet.
If he did eat all 4, I am that he could be so greedy!
But I have no way of knowing if he did. I now feel

Made it to town today --that will be the only time with the DC this week--

Having a now.

bessie I don't know a lot about Groupon. What is involved? I guess it is to do with getting money off things though. - is that right??

Yes cats, every day they have special deals on - some local, some uk-wide. You buy a voucher off them, which you then redeem with whoever is offering the deal. Over the last year or two, I've had 2 gardeners, 2 photoshoots, my carpets cleaned & a laptop.

I managed to clean the loos & descale the kitchen & bathroom before work today

Evening all

I am flagging - I've taken a few days off work during the half-term and today I decided for some inane reason to sort out my hall cupboard. My hall cupboard is very big - half has coats and shoes, half has shelves with bathroom supplies and random tut other essentials in it. I sorted out the coats half quite quickly which gave me a false sense of security as the other half has taken me ages! I'm not too far away from the end now but need to convince myself I do want to go out to the bins and recycling skips ( as I'm in a flat that means down a flight of stairs and across a yard!).

Meanwhile I am boiling in the flat but don't want to turn the heating off as I am desperately trying to dry a pair of cord trousers for tomorrow. I am in the embarrassing situation of only having 2 pairs of winter trousers that fit me at present and as I want to be warm and casual tomorrow I don't want to wear a skirt.

I have more than enough clothes for work and my casual clothes are fine for the odd day I might wear them in a normal week. It's just when I'm on holiday I struggle a bit! Currently wearing my painting/decorating trousers but it doesn't really matter as I've been in all day sorting out the *** cupboard. Oh and I got all my ironing done while watching 2 episodes of Time Team back to back.

Adora - surgical spirit (think they call it rubbing alcohol in the USA) usually dissolves permanent marker, but you will have to apply it really carefully so as not to end up with a big partially dissolved blob! Test it on a small bit first. Use clean cloths, apply surgical spirit sparingly on cloth and dab a bit at a time, blotting with kitchen paper as you go. Keep refolding cloth to use a new clean bit and reapplying fresh spirit so as not to transfer any of the marker ink anywhere else.

Sounds quite good bessie

I am feeling ill again tonight. There is some kind of cold/flu type thing going around here at the mo and I feel I may be on the verge of catching it. My head feels quite spaced out like I'm not really here and I have that sore throat feeling. Everyone one here has been coughing and sneezing lately so it doesn't look good!

Hope you get your washing dry arti

Thanks Cat. I have now braved the cold to get rid of the rubbish and recycling and I'm going to iron my trousers on the insides before I go to bed and leave on radiators to get last bit of evening and early morning heat.

I still have stuff on the floor outside my cupboard but it is improving (getting rid of rubbish helped! - 2 plastic bags full plus an extra bag of paper recycling! . I'd no idea I was storing rubbish! )

PS Cat- I hope you feel better soon. I think vitamin c, zinc and honey really help with colds!

Morning all,

I'm surprisingly not feeling too bad this morning after feeling so bleurgh last night.

I feel like I might be productive today!

Just having some breakfast and before I get started.

[hsmile] [hgrin] [hshock] [hwink] [hblush]

Just had to get that out of my system! [hgrin]

Guess what I have been doing today!

What have you been doing today arti ?

My day wasn't as productive as I had hoped and my sore throat came back too.
DD decided she wasn't going to leave the house and I CBA to make her so we have stayed home.

DH and DS are trick or treating --getting wet-- . They have just returned.

I will be off out in a mo to do shopping --as I have no chance during the day--

Come on Arti, tell us what you've been up to then.

Cats sorry your sore throat hasn't gone, hope DS and DH had fun trick or treating. My two are off to stay with seperate friends tonight, I don't want to think about the amount of sugar they will consume.

After my morning routine I had breakfast and then got a dental X-ray done, then on to the dentist. Sat ther for 90 minutes while she did whatever dentists do I'm not thinking about it, that way I can pretend it wasn't me in the chair and I need to go back next week to get it finished.
After that,
Shopping locally - no good
Drive into town and got what I needed
Lunch, wasn't hungry but can't take ibuprofen on an empty stomach
Back home
WM emptied and refilled.
DW needs emptying

Still need to collect one DD and deliver her to my neighbour plus bring t'other one's school bags home. It's a long weekend here and not a moment too soon IMO.

Well - i went into town ( I'm having a few days holiday from work) to see an archaeological excavation that was going on. I read about it on the internet and it said that members of the public could go and chat to the archaeologists and see what they had discovered. When I turned up, the guy in charge of the dig asked if I'd like to join in the digging, so I did. I spent the day excavating what used to be the corner of a Victorian greenhouse and flower bed!

I really love the piecing together of information to see if you can work out what was going on.

Mystery of the day: -How did a late 20th century biro into what seemed to be the same soil/clay layer as part of an old (Victorian?) marmalade jar [[http://www.thevintagewall.com/0412ARDI05.html like this and also under some bricks that were edging an old drain?

biro get

Sounds like your day was much more fun than mine Arti [henvy], I'm glad you were able to get involved, I would love to do something like that. We've walked the dogs and decided not to cook as it's 9.30 and neither OH nor I am hungry.

Sounds like great fun art! Did you find the biro?

DH was out at a beer festival last night, so I had lunch with friends at work & toast for tea, and went to bed about 9pm, ready for my early morning wake-up by DD2 (teeth)

I have a horrible sore throat & the girls are both a bit snotty, so the lurgy is descending here

bessie hope you're not catching the same cold type thing lurgy we all have.

arti Sounds like a fun/unusual way to spend the day. --makes me think of Time team on the telly--

I eventually went shopping at around 8.00 last night which turned out to be quite nice as the shop was almost empty --no other customers--
The local firemen/women are often in there stocking up on food. they were there last night. [hsmile]

Happy November

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[hgrin]

I can't believe it is November already!!

Here's another link for you cruising through the holidays - I AM going to have all my Xmas presses bought by the end of Nov!

ER.. yes I did find the biro , but it is important dating evidence - honestly! To be fair I also found the marmalade pot, evidence of an unusual (and possibly early) drain and a clay marble like the ones on this page

I'm off to do some craftwork and avoid looking at the mess in the flat as it is my last day of holiday.