Fledglings go on summer mode, Welcome to July.

[YesEinsteinsMumDid]

Ok, so as there is no thread, and I can't remember or find a volunter for this month I declare summer mode operational.

This means:

1. You are still welcome to join and post

1. If you want there to be links and no one has posted them, feel free to post them.
2. As technical thread leader I shall be hanging out in the naughty corner bar
3. We'll still answer questions for anyone wanting information on the fly lady system and support each other. It's just a little more relaxed.

And with that, bring on July and crazy pants school holiday stuff...

Waves to SC. at douce Molly Malone

I would like to join please! I've skim read the thread.

We are putting our flat on the market in January. So things have to be tidy decluttered and packable by then.

I need to:

Get on top of washing - not helped atm by new washing machine arriving on Monday (after 2 weeks of no washing machine) and being away tomorrow and the weekend. No time to catch up.

Deep clean - having bathroom redone so any attempt at cleaning will be rendered useless by dust etc created by tradies. So will thoroughly deep clean once they're finished.

De clutter - have done a half arsed attempt at wardrobe. Need to venture under beds/cupboards/spare room wardrobe.

Need to get Dh on board too.

Shattered. Out all day again. Last manic day though, so things should improve drastically now. Well, until Boris represents us to other nations .

Waves back at Blue!

Einstein (mahoosive magic-Harry-Potter-style cape failure there]

A very warm welcome to Ememem84! Good luck with the pre-sale cleaning! (Just so you know, this thread is in holiday mode atm, but we will start posting Flylady links formally again come Sept. Flying info for the day can be gleaned from the Flight Plan on the flylady website .)

Cotswold at least now we have the opportunity to watch Boris, D Davis and Liam Fox deliver on the promises they have made [not]

G'night all! And pls don't let our Bremainer speak put you off this thread - all brands of Flyers genuinely welcome here - 'tis all about Brexual healing now don't you know ... ...!!

Yay! Welcome Em nice to see you over here :)

I have done sod all today except teach one pupil in the evening. Achy as hell this evening.

Tomorrow I need to go to the bank and have a blood test, and OH SHIT just realised we were meant to order a Tesco delivery and we totally forgot.

After that I have a maths class so need to get the place a bit tidier. Sigh!

Morning all,

Hi Em

Hi Sling I've never met a Celestine either. I'm beginning to think other Celeste's are avoiding me

Einstein I WILL give this jam making lark a try one day, maybe this Sunday (don't hold me on that however)

Ta da

fed ds
washed breakfast dishes
wiped kitchen worktop
made beds
wiped bathroom basin, wiped over loo
wiped downstairs loo and basin

Need to deep clean the kitchen today. Hate cleaning the kitchen. I'd rather clean the bathroom over the kitchen any day of the week.

Celeste

Cag hope blood test and maths lesson go well!

Morning all! (actually it's already afternoon isn't it?) )

Over-slept today and then compounded the problem by Mnsetting procrastinating! Now rushing to catch up with chores but feeling distinctly uninspired!

Not encouraged by the experience just now of getting to the bottom of one of dd's rucksacks and discovering the remains of the pasta supper she took to camp over 12 days ago [big urgh] festering nicely in a sealed tupperware box (she had "forgotten" to give it a rinse out apparently!).

Approaching the rest of the unpacking with trepidation ... .

Should add, to be totally fair, that dd herself is occupied with bottoming out her bedroom today in advance of party.

Oh and is it me or has Mnset become, well, a lot more "spikey/combatitive" of late with (referendum disagreements aside) many people seemingly spoiling for a fight? I always thought that the tone here was generally quite measured but it seems a bit different now somehow. Maybe I'm just getting old!

No I agree, it can get rather scary on here these days.

I didn't go to the bank/hospital, still got crappy headache. DH took the DCs to gym/trampolining, and is going to the bank after. I have done no tidying whatsoever for the maths class I have later, I'm not even dressed. I'm hungry and grumpy, I've had PMT/cramps for like a week but AF hasn't shown up. (No I don't need to POAS! It's just getting later each month and it's peeing me off.)

Sorry you are feeling crap Cag [have a and a ]

• agree totally SC, I even feel twitchy on this thread now.

However I am still lurking. And Flying, we've had quite a blitz in the last week or so.

Whoknows/Cag glad it's not just me being paranoid - sincerely hope this thread can remain a bit of a sanctuary - but agree I am always a bit worried nowadays in case someone's posts get lifted by print or radio media for some reason! (Hopefully lists about chores won't interest them too much but one can never be sure!)

Congrats on your Flying blitz Whoknows! You have reminded me that I must shut down screens and get back to it ...

SC eww!

Had to collect parcel with new vacuum cleaner filters this morning, so running out of excuse not to do some hoovering. See what Smokey thinks of that!! He definitely disapproves of the lawnmower, so...

I definitely think of this thread as a haven SC - this, and the Frugaleers :)

Currently doing the illness-friendly(ish) tidying method of getting up, putting a couple of bits away, sitting down. And repeat. Ugh.

Yes, I also echo that MN has become dog eat dog since the run up to the referendum. I saw one thread last weekend where someone said something relatively innocent and got taken completely out of context and she got torn to pieces. I'm picky what threads to reply on as it is anyway. I like it here though, seems chilled

Ta da

fed ds
washed breakfast dishes
wiped kitchen worktop
made beds
wiped bathroom basin, wiped over loo
wiped downstairs loo and basin
cleaned fridge
cleaned cooker hob
cleaned microwave
bleached kitchen sink
dettol'd kitchen worktops
bleached kitchen bin
mopped kitchen floor
general tidy up
made tea
washed dishes
bathed ds
tidied ds room

It is chilled here, I also like it in Gardening. But anything else and I tend to post once, have my say and then leave it, I really don't want to get sucked into anything heated.

Got to pop out and get DS from Scouts in a minute, will try and post again when I get back.

Ta da
fall asleep everytime I sat down.

I swear we are nice and chilled out in here because 1. angry cleaning is productive and 2. naughty corner bar. although considering I have started a bunfight in housekeeping in the past it can get a little fiesty here sometimes too but seriously see point 1

Hi guys.I've done absolutely no cleaning,cept wash up,while dp been off.place total crap hole!!

Many moons ago I remember someone start a thread bout housekeeping-AIBU to think people that post what they have done round their houses have no lives.I couldn't resist posting"not at all as it allows me to post on places like this using a computer powered by my own sense of self satisfaction"
Sarcasm lowest form of wit then I live at the bottom of the hole

Good morning all

Feeling very [shocked

Sorry, pressed "post" too soon

Good morning. Hope all ok.

Feeling very [shocked] and about the reports from Nice [where we have stood there on the seafront many times ]. So appalling I can't really get my head around it.

Trying to summon up energy to sort dd's party out tomorrow. (We were out in the country yesterday afternoon and I have made very little progress.) I usually leap in to action in response to last minute pressure ... but ... um so far this hasn't happened ... .

Agree with everyone - cba with any goady threads - never liked them anyway and I have enough goadiness at home with a stroppy pre-teen thank you very much

arf at angry cleaning Einstein

So agree Stillivinginazoo housekeeping is so ground-hog day that unless you see your day's achievements written down in b&w you think you've achieved a lot less than you usually have and they all just drift away in to the ether and segue in to the next day's tasks ... and it all becomes one amorphous lump of nothingness ... .

Speaking of achievements - wow Celeste - that is an amazing list you have done there!

Hope you can acclimatise Smokey to the hoover Blue (although marvellous excuse if not!!)

Hope you are feeling a bit better today Cag

Big wing flaps to everyrone else ...

Had better get on [groan]

Horrible horrible news :( when will it end?!

I'm not really feeling better, feeling sick and headachy and still no AF! Starting antibiotics today, was given them for chest issues but also wondering if I may have some kind of UTI - that's been the only reason I've ever missed a period other than pregnancy. No hope of getting a dr appt today though.

Yes, and so very cowardly Feeling decidedly uneasy here in Bxls here again too. All sorts of security warnings going around. But thoughts keep going back to those poor people waiting by hospital beds or waiting for the phone to ring ... .

Sorry to hear you are still feeling rough Cag Take it steady.

Thanks SC - have just done a bit of home ed stuff really, the DCs decided to clean the kitchen (DD likes cleaning but doesn't actually like the tidying that needs to happen before it... she then got stroppy when I suggested leaving the newly washed floor to dry naturally rather than covering it in clean towels!).

However DD said the other day that she wanted to get rid of all her Barbies. She prefers her Monster High/Lottie/Lalaloopsy stuff. So that's good. She's just gone and collected them all - will be donating to a charity shop or perhaps use the next collection bag that comes through the door. So that's great. :) I also want to weed out a few of DS' outgrown clothes which can be handed down to a slightly smaller friend.

[Wanders wearily on to thread and slumps down in to naughty corner]

Have sorted bed sheets, got dh to help me move beds around in dd's room, swept cobwebs from corners of sitting room and bathroom (a precarious job as it involves very tall ladders) ironed table cloths, washed and ironed bunting, hoovered stairs, bought cake ingreds and drinks and snacks and ice, organised outside activity, lined cake tins, found decorations etc etc. Just about to wrap some presents (although dd's birthday not for another week in reality).

Inappropriate in circs, given yesterday's events in France, and I should be counting my blessings but just having small moment of fatigue/childish mini-strop over dd's sleepover tomorrow .. .

I normally throw myself in to party organisation with great energy but CBA today for some reason and need to get over myself frankly!

DD really deserves a good time for her birthday with her friends but last weekend we did cooking for five thousand (which turned out to be quite stressful because of totally self-inflicted lack of organisation) then five hr round trip to collect dd from camp and drop off friends, then trip to London for family event. Weekend before that was dominated by shopping and packing for camp. Before that = exams. Before that ballet spectacle etc etc.

I know I have it so easy with an 'only' compared to most of you on here, and all of this is totally normally and to be expected and I seem to make heavy weather of things but just wish sometimes there was a weekend which didn't involve an obligation to something/other people!

Not helped by dd's mood atm which is totally normal for a teenage but heavy going with bumptious attitude and constant nagging to help!

Heigh no, I should see all of these events as fantastic opportunities not obligations but my bunion hurts

Just heading out to take dd to dentist now ...