Is June the new January? - the Fledgling Flyers are doing their flaming best

[pushmepullyou]

Welcome old and new fledglings to the June Fledgling FLYers thread!

Thank you very much to castlelough for leading us expertly through May - I shall try not to be too haphazard with June, although I make no promises

If you're overwhelmed by clutter and general household grub then join us as we (loosely) follow the step-by-step Flylady housekeeping system or languish in the naughty corner hoping to do better tomorrow

As usual, we will be following the Flylady three-pronged approach:

1. Baby-steps (a daily step to establish routines)
2. Then baby-steps + 15 mins daily decluttering
3. (And once decluttered) babysteps + daily missions and maybe even detailed cleaning in the weekly zones

For more information have a look here, although to avoid a cluttered inbox, we advise not signing up to the Flylady emails. The basic principle is little and often and don't worry about perfection (no chance of that here!).

Don't worry if you are behind; just jump right back in and it will all come around next month again anyway!

All the links for the babysteps and missions will be posted here every day and we'll all be here to cheer each other on and chat our way through the month.

Morning. Feeling a bit worse for wear for too much walking and too much coffee and a very very late night last night. I suspect I will feel it most tomo which will be a problem but hey ho.

Pain killers and water are my plan for the revive soul part. I think I might just grab a hot bath and slowly tackle the laundry mountain that has gathered downstairs. should enough coffee be consumed there is also lego that still needs to be finished being dealt with and moved to ds' room.

[delivers copious supply of for Pushme tonight]

precise, short and concise are my middle names don't you know

God slot and lunch have been crossed off list. DD getting ready for party and I will soon have 2 blissful hours to myself in which to cook ....

Ellie if we have friends over for brunch on Sunday, dh will sometimes go to his favourite bakery and buy an extra-long baguette known as a "restaurante" which he then proceeds to slice open length-wise, butters very lightly, layers with bacon, and then about six fried eggs (with smears of specially imported HP of course) then remaining half goes back on top. Then everyone gets a slice off the joint no wonder I am the size of a house. It's really good!

The other bit of the story is that said bakery is next to hotel where lots of Japanese tourists stay who sometimes ask dh to pose with his bread - to them he must appear to be a true native Belgian proudly clutching his extra long baguette no innuendo intended

Oh lawd, I've gone and and done it again ....[hastily backs away from screen]

Waves to Toffee and all!

x posts [big wing flaps to Bitchy]

[pours extra reviving bubbly stuff in Bitchy's bath]

3 posts in 2 mins

SC

ellie dear you can stop counting not sure it is helping

chb sc should know that I love and adore her and her posts and would never want her to change.

What a lot of posts from SC you all.

Well I did plan on going for a run this aft, but its not a very nice day and Ive been sat MNing for too long now.

Today's list
Bedding currently drying
Pamper bath later
shine sink tonight
Homework this evening
Make a list of things to do this week and on what days

Toffee Every time we lose our cat it turns out he's asleep somewhere unusual for him. One time DS had left his wardrobe door open and the cat was curled up at the bottom.

SC mmmm that bacon, restaurante thing sounds lovely.

Well I suppose I should actually do what I came on the internet to actually do and stop reading threads on MN.

sc you are hilarious! Love your weird and wonderful stories.

Ds1 is eventually sitting down to do some homework. It's painful getting him to get on with it. Very bright but completely unmotivated. :(

Ds2 is in bath as he was moaning about being bored. :)

Dd is chatting to ds2 whilst pooing on the toilet

Good god, I can see I will be corralling rather than rounding up tonight

Waves to everyone and scoots into naughty corner as body's given out again, but really popped in to say SC don't change, please! You cheer me up more than you know.

Arf at SC's DH and his extra long baguette .

Sorry you are poorly, Just. Hope you can rest and recover.

Narky - neither of my boys (even the teenager) have any self consciousness about being on the loo. I feel sorry for visitors sometimes.

Lilleth - oh, I like the sound of a pamper bath. Might add that to my list too.

ellie - good for your DS to be bag packing at Morrisons for the Cubs. Did you go for your run?

CHB - has the hangover tiredness worn off yet? Early night for you tonight .

pushme - roundups are entertaining, but not essential, you know. Don't worry.

Burned loads of calories today by walking into town to go food shopping (though I may have inadvertantly stumbled into some clothes shops on the way ), then carrying three bagfuls of stuff uphill to get home again. Was properly exhausted by the time I arrived home. Bought some Weight Watchers wine. Tell me it won't be disgusting, please .

Am planning on tackling the ironing in front of the telly tonight. I did this the other night and ended up watching all sorts of entertaining stuff: the Graham Norton show, Father Ted and then an episode of 'The Tudors'. Have finally found a way to stop ironing being so boring!

Toffee - yes, I always do ironing in front of the TV! When I do any at all

HAve been suffering from acute grumpiness and CBA this weekend so have achieved neither flying nor family fun nor a refreshed spirit. Hey ho. May next week be better!

Big waves to everyone... Better get the boys some tea.

errrrrrm, no toffee Cba kicked in. Tomorrow morning methinks.

Ha ha toffee true- except this was dd, granted she's only 2 but still, poor DS was trying to relax in the tub.

SC I wish I had a little camera tracker to show me what my cats get up to at night. They are always waiting at dawn to come in again.

done
after a nervewracking start to day, when ds2 refused to go the Mass I was meant to be helping with (DH was out all day), it all went v well. Dd mopped floor after Going Forth Party which I have to say is a first for her, anywhere in the universe and Ds2 managed to enjoy himself instead of having a breakdown about how no-one was "playing" with him, and also be helpful in a fashion.
We then resorted to buying more clothes for the Outward Bound course next weekend; how one girl can expect to wear so many clothes for a muddy adventure trail is beyond me Ds1 wore his new North Face fleece, and kept saying, "I feel terribly hot...why am I so hot?" I kept pointing dd to kit list which said, OLD TROUSERS, but she said that none of her old trousers fitted her; convenient that.

So we staggered home, and then ds2 played Darts with Dh

made stew
made banana cake
and I'm keeping to my diet, which is no snacks except strictly timed ones!

Toffee I always have a pamper bath on a sunday. Its part of my renew my spirit day after having a long run which didn't happen today

ellie CBA kicked in with me too about running, though come 4 I was annoyed with myself for not going. It was dull and cloudy earlier, but now its lovely.

Exactly the same thing happened here lilleth !

Me too, had good intentions of running this morning but it was all dull and windy and I didn't bother. Spent most of the day shopping, I haven't bought any new clothes for ages and most of my everyday stuff is falling to pieces. I hate clothes shopping but it badly needed doing. Back later.

everyone

[leaves out valium for *Pushme]

In that case I'll tell you the one about dh and his catering size mechanical prong another time

Swan look out for this on Beeb 2 this Friday

Toffee I love Fr Ted!!! (Also cackle at the Tudors but for all the wrong reasons)

Waves to Lilleth Narky Just Bitchy Ellie and everyone else!!

G'night all!!

pppsst Swan, sorry, but what is Going Forth party???

Evening all - fairly AWOL this weekend as I took the fat lady's instruction about family time seriously

My house is erm... a bit of a tip. Living room is mainly toys, and the rest of it is mainly due to me having been ill. I shall do penance and crisis cleans all next week - except Monday and Wednesday when I am working in the office.

Never mind. In four weeks I shall be on holiday in rural France and hopefully imbibing

See you all tomorrow!

toffee ma dear, I have every intentions of passing out early tonight. The alarm is set for stupid o'clock. Just going to get some tea and find a hot water bottle. Ds has finally stopped screaming about how much he hates school and is settling down to go to bed. I know exactly why he doesn't want to go back to school. He has no idea who his teacher will be when he gets back.