September 2015 fledglings shine their sink and their lace up shoes and prepare for the new academic year ahead

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Welcome to the September 2015 Fledgling Flying thread! Hang up your microfibre cloths and park your buckets here!!

[Sorry - I've namechanged again - but remain SC]

This is where from the 1st of the month, we attempt to declutter and follow the 30-step wisdom of Flylady (minus cutesy language and a surfeit of e-mails) with lots of chat and support and mutual motivation (and of course) along the way. (More info available here and here ) and here.

Humungous thanks to our previous thread leaders (nns relating to a planet and to a colour) for guiding us through the summer and keeping us sane throughout the holidays!

As usual we will be following a three-pronged approach - and don't worry - we are all at different stages. Some of us (SC stares at feet) -are stuck at the decluttering stage after an embarrassingly long number of years :

• repeat or start baby steps (again!)

• repeat baby steps + do 15 mins a day decluttering in the current zone

or

• reinforce babysteps and do daily missions if you have finished decluttering.

And those of you who have decluttered and are really enthusiastic can throw some detailed cleaning in to the mix as well!

This is a very long-running thread so we may appear cliquey but we really aren't! All newcomers, long-termers, lurkers and intermittent returnees not only welcome to join in but positively encouraged to do so!

Any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

Good luck!

About to put on the fifth wash load of the day! Will do the last bit of drying tomorrow before work, and get it all hung out... then I need to attack the non-tumble-dryable stuff. Crikey it builds up so fast.

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fuzz - congrats on your washing marathon and good luck with the dr's appointment .

Fiz - sounds like a miserable cold . Hope DD feels better soon.

CantSee - well done on getting through that paperwork .

SC - a pita about the car. Hope it's sorted soon.

Have been quite stressed trying to sort everything out for school tomorrow. I found DS1's glasses, then put them down somewhere and lost them again, so will be spending precious minutes when I could be asleep hunting them down.

nope, SC not a word of that meant anything to me, and I did Latin A level! Presumably inplumes necant go together and salutem fetus are the object. wanders off to google bits of sentences.
This Latin is going to your head. I hope it is not some famous quote I've missed, like the feathery ones beware the doomed salute.

okay I got that completely wrong.

Necant - let not any harm (???)
implumes unfledged/unfeathery
salutem - health
fetus - offspring

not quite sure how to put that together though...good health to the children of the fledglings ???

off to bed now

it is probably something like sweet dreams baby birds. never did latin and guessing blindly

sleep well Toffee hope you found the glasses

x-post Knitting

[admiring] much better

Morning

have driven two kids to school, and now have to extract ds2 from the News and do some work with him before we go to another park meetup, luckily nearby this time.

Household things not going very smoothly but at least there is food in the cupboards/veg/fruit/chicken for supper and washing backlog not quite as bad as it was.

Tomorrow dh and i have to go out again though (family event) and I'm dreading it despite it being a fun evening. It will be fine. Tomorrow I'll know about the school place situation too, although I suspect it will be just a letter to say..no place as yet, but you are x place on waiting list.

right better set to work and do some more Maths.

Yes, found the glasses where I'd put them down at random. Managed to have everything organised and laid out ready for this morning.

Both boys much better at getting ready this morning and we actually left the house on time, which meant the journey was less frantic. Long may this last.

Felt very much the new girl waiting with DS2 in his playground this morning. DS2 and I stuck out like sore thumbs, I think (everyone else chatting away in groups).

DS2 has a half day today, so going to pick him up soon. Have a whole day to myself tomorrow though .

(I was appalling at Latin, so won't even try to translate SC 's message).

Hope family get together goes ok, knitting. And that you get good news about the school place.

Sympathies to your DD, fiz. I have come down with a stinking cold in the last couple of days too, and it's no fun at all.

SC looking up "necant" I found "they kill"!?! John Cleese in Life of Brian springs to mind at the moment. "People called Romanes, they go the 'ouse?!"

Toffee It feels a bit like that with the boys' new schools at the moment too. Managed to meet a couple of mums at DS2's school meeting yesterday, but DS1's place is massive and overwhelming at drop-off time.

Flying? Not so much.

salutem infantem volucres!

sorry for the confusion everyone - think I er may indeed have got that a bit wrong - it was late and I had had a and I am evidently useless at Latin

intended to say words to the very general effect of "hope all ok/things not too bad fledglings" but should probably have said more simply "spero sanus factus es" or some'at!!

So you were both right Knitting and Can'tsee!

And Blue yes - necant - is problematic. I meant it figuratively in the sense of 'thwart' ie 'hope life not thwarting you' but stuffed up

All I shall say is "errare humanum est"

hope everyone is having as a good a day as possible!

in midst of things now but back later for links and to respond to personals!

PS Blue "Blessed are the cheesemakers"!!

ta da
rest

Nothing else of note today.

Was that Greetings Baby birds ie greetings fledglings? SC. Also I'm human and not perfect? wrt translations.

Latin I know nothing of but i love looking at the literal translations and figuring out meanings. somethings just really don't translate directly and that can be fascinating linguistically.

actually to error/make mistakes is to be human I suspect would be a better translation my spelling is still shocking

oh I did so want to know the literal meaning...what bit is which? Like Maths I am now itching to know just why it means what it means.

Toffee Blue new term, everyone is still catching up on news and gossip, in a few days there will be more cross fertilization.

Had a great active (ds2) time at the meetup, now I stink of woodsmoke. Ds2 after a lot of persuasion has gone off to assemble an old Hornby set (not that old, but not new ifysim) rather than just switching on telly after exercise.

I never 'ad the Latin...

the strangest thing...all three children are making a jokey film together in the garden and being nice to each other. Film involves pouring water on each other Dd's sewing machine has arrived - not quite sure where it is going to live..in kitchen cupboard, in her room or in the telly room. Want it not to be source of aggravation but also I suspect in her room it might be mistreated.

chicken in oven
veg on table apart from roast potatoes

I am so tired I could crawl into bed now.

4 try watching European Parliament simultaneous translations. One translation was "step up to the plate" and I thought, who uses that idiom nowadays - did it really mean that in the original weird..

Actually that makes sense. Step up to the plate iirc is connected to the steam train and railways, and i think in meant you were the driver and as such you had to step up to the plate (a bit of the train) in order to take control. Or something similar.

Actually that makes sense. Step up to the plate iirc is connected to the steam train and railways, and i think in meant you were the driver and as such you had to step up to the plate (a bit of the train) in order to take control. Or something similar.

Somehow managed to get through my shift. But was honest with my boss and told her how much I'm struggling, and also detailed more of what I find difficult.

Just doing a quick panic tidy before potential new piano pupil arrives for an informal chat (basically my way of getting around the fact that I can't charge for a lesson if DS is being a pain!)

According to Collins, step up to the plate comes from baseball, which would account for why I tend to think of it as an Americanism.

Lots more words without a direct word-for-word translation here. Although don't get me started on calling them "untranslatable" when you translated them right there in the post!! (Sometimes it just takes a sentence to do so.)

((gentle hugs)) fuzz. Hope chat with piano pupil went well.

I stand corrected

Evening all!

Hope all of you (and dc) who are suffering with illness/colds are tucked up in bed and that you feel better tomorrow

And hope all the new school starters (and their parents) are thriving!

Sorry, after a mornign of volunteering + going back and forth to school, back and forth to ballet shop (twice)and back and forth to ballet + 2 dog walks (and not much Flying done at all) have now run out of time again. Especially as most of this evening was spent doing complicated sewing with ribbons for new pointe shoes - the lady in the shop did explain and even kindly made biro marks - but thank heavens for Youtube is all I can say!!

Will bb tomorrow afternoonish to respond to personals and perhaps do a little parsing of a Latin sentence (but am certain you are better qualified than me knitting - I only got to 'o' level!!)

Have just remembered that I still need to respond to query about Usborne cook books too (makes mental note for tomorrow)

In the meantime, linkies for tomorrow herewith! G'night all!

The baby-step for tomorrow, Thurs 10th Sept is the power of 15 mins a very useful one!!

We are in Zone 2 this week, the kitchen here.

For those Fledglings at this stage: here is the detailed cleaning list for Zone Two.

Thursday's mission can be found here. Cleaning your kitchen sink taps with a toothbrush! [Can't say I have ever done this with that particular tool but there we are].

The daily focus for Thurs is errand day doctor, dentist, supermarket, dry cleaning etc.

The habit for September is developing a before-bed routine here.

A summary of the above (which should update itself daily) can be found here: www.flylady.net/c/fp.php?tzm=-120.

Keep going everyone! Small steps and all of that!

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