Afternoon all (well it is here). Hope everyone OK. Felt jaded this morning owing to late night flurry of suddenly urgent office work yesterday, involving printers proofs and stressed web designer (on a Sunday evening fhs 
). Anyway, all plans and routines, inc cooked supper, went out of the window and it was hard getting out of bed this morning - only just made it to school on time. Not helped by horizontal rain or running out of coffee. Yurgh. Must do better.
On the positive front, very fortunate because my cleaning lady is here (postponed from Fri) doing the home bleugh which should free up some time for me to declutter. The only downside being that she has taken it upon herself to throw away what I thought was a rather tasteful and artistic arrangement of materials collected during our forest walk yesterday, which she obviously took to be a mess of old leaves 
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Been working this morning. [Don't you just hate it when people say "this only needs a light edit". I don't understand it as there is no such thing!! [Exasperated emoticon.] So need to focus on clutter this pm, especially because everyone late delivering; so expecting hideous hump of urgent work at end of wk.
Ta da:
morning routine inc dw, wm, s&s & rabbits
tidied up downstairs ahead of cleaner
dining room table hotspot
urgent copy-editing
two urgent bank payments that didn't get done yesterday
two e-mails about said bank payments
texted friend
made school collection arrangements for tomorrow
dried first load laundry
rebooted wm
To do:
e-mail man about a pitch
finish long and boring piece of writing for office
e-mail different friend
decluttering boudoir
clear home office desk
put away clean laundry
school run
hwk supervision
quick trip to Ikea (groan) whilst trying to spend as little money as poss
try and sort dd winter gear conundrum (she has an enormous head and tiny hands, so no hat or gloves, even though bought for this season, actually seem to fit )
more name tapes
sausage and stoemp for supper (postponed from yesterday)
evening routine inc rubbish/recycling
early bed
Thanks for links Blue and thank you Goth for nobly volunteering to run December thread. Much appreciated!
A warm welcome to Stickysausages (love the nn!)
Toffee your mil is very lucky to have you and your family nearby
Babapeela I'm another one who's constantly clambering on and off that wretched Flywagon 
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[Hands steaming mug of honey and lemon drink to Lauren] Hope you feel better soon.
Whoknows I hope your ds has a wonderful trip and that you aren't too worried about him (easier said than done though I know). Good luck with OU studies.
Bitchy thanks - rabbits had lovely day gambolling on the lawn and rampaging around the house yesterday. And they are no longer hiding or going awol thank heavens. DD reckons the black cat belongs to a local witch, and it was only causing mischief because it was Halloween 
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No wonder you feel overwhelmed Angrybuddha! Just the bit of your list that says 'bath dc x 4' and 'pe kit x 4' makes me feel all weak and wibbly! Hats off to you for getting any other Flying done at all!
Ditto I'madoozermum- 4 dc + 13 hr work days cannot be easy - even with a SHH. Respect!
What a romantic dh you have Dizzy!
Thinking of you this week Mercury hope all goes well.
Hope menfolk getting back in to line Ellie Goth and Engels! Dh driving me spare atm. .
Great to have you back CrikeyBlimey
Swan that's the problem with home baking isn't it? I made jam tarts with dd yesterday and it's me who's snaffling them today 
. Really, really, really like the sound of your little house in the woods... [runs after Ellie]
Arf at cake-stuffed impromptu presentation PA . Think you are far too forgiving though - I would have been livid!!
No need for apologies Just I reached exactly the same response as you in the end although it took me endless posts to express it.
Big waves to Feetheart Honu Trazzles Castle Saturn Stillwearingoddsocks Nicknacks Rummikub Owlface Petmyunicorn Witco Splatpancake and anyone else I've inevitably missed.
Right, my lunch-time soup has been drunk, dh has popped in to steal food from the fridge see me, time to get back to the boudoir of doom ... .
Keep dry everyone!