CoolCadbury I feel like a fraud now - baby isn't a newborn, she's just over a year now, although she has a cough/cold and is waking in the night coughing - although she's never been that good a sleeper (work in progress!). She's also a climber - last time I left her on the kitchen floor happily playing while I carried bags upstairs, I came down to find her kneeling on the edge of the kitchen table?! 
She's starting to like tv though, so yday she had a marathon 3 episodes of Baby Jake and thankfully was glued to it whilst Ds and I hoovered and tidied the hallway . :)
homeaway thanks, you're right, I should focus on what I've done, not what I haven't. Looking on the bright side is always good. :) You're right too that the bits I have done are still working well too, I think because they're hidden away, or, as with the dc's room, getting encroached on again then I was getting disheartened, but all progress is good - right? And I'm definitely moving in the right direction.
Justgotosleepnow Perhaps you need to hire yourself out now you're done? I don't think my house will ever look 'visitor ready' all the time, but hopefully will be better than it is now.
ProvemeWrong That sounds lovely (bar the coffee maker of doom). I completely forgot about the toy rotation - which I'd intended to implement, but I need to try and get back on track. We just have so many toys. I'm trying to be ruthless in getting rid of some (and I think I'll feel better when they're out of the house, after the sale at the end of November) and I have already sold a few bits on ebay.
Our toys are organised in nursery-stylee, in too easy to access Trofast units with picture/word labels (well some are, some are under the stairs/in the dc's room/the attic), but there are so many that some do get forgotten about and some drawers are too full so hard/annoying to take out, so perhaps I can cull some of the contents whilst still keeping the 'category' - e.g. looking round the living room, I can see a little rugby ball, 2 (small and big) sensory balls, a baby pop-up ball, a sponge ball, a ball on a stretchy string and 2 small plastic balls - wtf? and I know elsewhere we have big bouncy balls, 100 ball pool balls, some tennis balls etc etc. But which ones to lose?
Also, I culled a few instruments (hurray), but got stumped on kids' handbells - I have a set of 8 and an add-on set of 5 that play proper notes. They're quite cool but fucking noisy in the hands of toddlers and if you're musical (which I'm not and the kids are too young) you could play proper tunes with them. They're only ever used in a random way, so do I:
a) keep them, they were a present and googling it turns out they cost about £80 (eek!)?
b) flog the main set or the add-on set on ebay or both?
c) keep a couple of random ones? and sell the rest at the table top sale?
Anyway, thanks everyone for the positive and inspirational messages, I'm feeling much happier and more motivated (wish I could bottle this feeling!) and I'm really glad its working for so many of you! 