Star sorry about your mum - also with builders in you need to abandon hope of garden looking nice for a while..your heart will be broken otherwise (on the other hand a small bunker at end of garden might be useful tohide in)
My best piece of advice for having work done in house is - put half of your possessions in storage - then the dust won't annoy you so much it IS worth it
TM sorry about virus - we all feel a bit coldy too, think is post-halfterm slump
Today has been hectic in a nice sort of way (house is a mess though - covered in suitcases), dh stayed at home to potter, no jobs of any kind done, but we went out to lunch to a new Turkish restaurant, and with his help I've managed to get a bit of ds's space project done without feeling v agitated, although I couldn't stop myself screaming with rage when ds1 wrote that planets RESOLVE instead of REVOLVE, across the front of the shoebox
which I had lovingly painted.
Celestial glitter everywhere.
Starbear I love that youtube Dawn French thingy, especially when she hides the Cocopops at beginning (saw it a while ago, am I imagining that bit?)
Also done: slow cook supper, powerwalk, vaguely kept to diet, dh has done dts homework
need to go off again and walk to Cubs now to pick up as there is such a bad traffic jam not worth taking car.
MC storage - large wicker baskets always look nice in a living room, pound shop also has pop up HSM boxes and such like wth lids that dd enjoys putting things away in. Dcs want to be where you are, so you can't really avoid SOME toys in living areas. I think girls require enormous numbers of miniature sized drawers to keep Sylvanians, hairslides, feltips in or it all becomes unbearable and no-one can find anything and just keep buying buying buying more and more.