The Listmakers World Cup: Slatterns 4 - Areas of Doom 1!

[Alibabaandthe40nappies]

Welcome to the new thread everyone

All newbies and lapsed members welcome!

Need a kick up the bum or a shoulder to cry on, this could be the thread for you.

Freaki anyone who actually does ironing deserves respect. Bows and exits room backwards

Freak - you will just have to eat those and make another batch

Wed:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed DONE
• leftover jobs; flowers to neighbour, photo to other neighbour, collect DS1's bag from pre-sch DONE
• Factory Shop with DS1 for wetsuit/online LookingOnline
• check online for rash vest for DS1 DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• DS2 nap DONE
• go to friends for an hour or so DONE
• home for boys tea & mine DONE

• boys to bed
• quiet night watching my tv & eBay listings

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register; Find another one that is taking on NHS patients
• upload & order online prints (DH getting rid of that PC so i need to a) research 'time machines', b) get one, c) move all photos from his PC onto it, d) link up my laptop with it so all photos from here go on it
• upload chosen photos from his PC & my laptop to Snapfish & order
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door - Autumn job really
• clean kitchen cupboard doors
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others; make my playlist; clear my iPhone of music, reload with just my playlist
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1 - Have Name of School; HavePhoneNumber
• go through diaries with DH
• watch eBay listings: 6 Selling; 6/6 bid on; 1 Sold
• package up sold & paid for item
• sewing repairs (trousers, cardigan, DH trousers)
• research backing up hardware for computers Started
• tackle Areas of Doom (out of 5 stars);

Kitchen: 2star arts & crafts area Started Living room: 5star chest of drawers contents & top (loads of photos, need culling I think) Landing: 3star top of dresser

OMG Ali. is everything still in place?

Mini it is, amazingly. We are lucky to live in a very nice area although our neighbours are away too so no-one would have seen if anyone had been inside! I couldn't find my Macbook to begin with and nearly fainted I was panicking so much, but DH had decided to put it behind a sofa cushion before we left so that it wasn't visible through the window.

[bloody well tell me the next time you do something like that emoticon]

Ali, Its scary,
I arrived home one day to find our side door kicked open, but police think they were scared off by alarm,
but when I checked to see if everything was still in its place,
I opened a drawer in off ice to find,
dhs cheque books, spare keys for his shed (£10000's pounds worth of tolls in there) all sitting it would have been so easy for them to grab,
new mobile still in box sitting beside video camera and a mini CD system in kitchen, meanwhile I'm telling the police how we don't have anything to steal but when I looked round all the little things add up!

(also was very embarrassed as living room was quite a mess) and I had to explain that it was the usual Plumbum mess needless to say I joined MN soon after and found you guys((((hugs)))

Actually thinking about it everything in our office is still in easy piles for someone.................more jobs for list

Ali - glad everything is ok, i often leave my keys in the front door when i come in, is when someone knocks, like the postman to tell me!!!

Handy eBayer, insisted on coming round straight away to collect the Xbox i was selling, paid in cash too, so all dealt with straight away. Though i really really hope it all works!!!

Wed:

• boys to bed DONE
• quiet night watching my tv & eBay listings Doing

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register; Find another one that is taking on NHS patients
• upload & order online prints (DH getting rid of that PC so i need to a) research 'time machines', b) get one, c) move all photos from his PC onto it, d) link up my laptop with it so all photos from here go on it
• upload chosen photos from his PC & my laptop to Snapfish & order
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door - Autumn job really
• clean kitchen cupboard doors
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others; make my playlist; clear my iPhone of music, reload with just my playlist
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1 - Have Name of School; HavePhoneNumber
• go through diaries with DH
• watch eBay listings: 6 Selling; 6/6 bid on; 1 Sold
• package up sold & paid for item x2
• 1 sold item collected DONE
• sewing repairs (trousers, cardigan, DH trousers)
• research backing up hardware for computers Started
• tackle Areas of Doom (out of 5 stars);

Kitchen: 2star arts & crafts area Started Living room: 5star chest of drawers contents & top (loads of photos, need culling I think) Landing: 3star top of dresser

Ali, blimey! Fingers crossed for the morning.

DS fell and bashed his forehead earlier. Good job I took pictures for FB before he fell over.

Tomorrow -

• clean
• laundry
• garden
• Morrisons

Freakoid - unfortunately no pints involved.

Plum - this is brilliant. Have got victoria sponge tins size 7 inches, one honey/fruit cake tin 8inches and one 9 inch tin that I have used for making baked cheese cake.

I like the icing plan too.

I can't see your link for some reason though?

Ali - hope you're ok re pg test! We've all done the key in the door thing . DH sometimes hides our macbook under a cushion too. Handy if you sit down without him telling you

All up, dressed and breakfasted DONE
Clear away breakfast things DONE
Walk or gardening DONE
Vitamins DONE
Rubbish out
Recycling out /plastic
Lunch DONE
Open windows DONE
put washing on DONE
put washing to dry DONE
Washing in, folded and put away
tidy kitchen
empty dishy
dishy filled and on
admin/filing/post
dinner
clean kitchen again
bath DD/DS
DD /DS to bed
tidy bedroom
put toys away in lounge
feed cat
Water plants

Extra stuff
Send meter readings/direct debit form to BC
Buy mould resistant paint
Ebay stuff
Wrap birthday present for DS's friend's DONE

DS's Party
Send extra invites x2 written
Buy stickers done/presents DONE/sweets/decs/paper cups and plates
Make buns / birthday cake
Food shop
Party bags
Games +prizes, pass the parcel wrap.

Ongoing
Write nursery donation letters
new curtains/black out blinds for DS's room - measured up
New curtains for our room
Measure for carpets upstairs
Paint summer house/greenhouse
Gloss bathroom window DONE Gold star to me!

Ah, found link now plum. Sorry!

Is this one working

x posts

Yes Monkey 15 is what we want.
Hopefully Mini will be here to help......if we can extract her from the office of DOOM.

Do you think my 9inch cheesecake tin (its one of those that you can undo to get the cake out) will do?

What kind of cake shall I put in the middle? Some kind of moist marble cake thing?

I might do the Nigella Buttermilk one although that is for a square tin . Ah she says don't worry it'll be fine in a different tin. Phew.

HMHB - I sometimes use a springform tin for wetter chocolate sponges (ie.lots of the Nigella ones that are full of treacle/sour cream etc etc) as it's easier not to get it all stuck. Then I wait for it to cool and slice the cake in half and then buttercream/jam or whatever.
I am making a chocolate cake for DS' birthday cake, going to use a GH recipe this time I have decided.

DONE
Unpack
See if DS wants any tea
DS bath and bed
Change our bed
Unload dishwasher
DH to finish putting things on Ebay

TO DO
Early-ish night

9" is a fairly big cake by the time you add the ears,
what size of tin is nigella for, could you do the mix and then pour into 8" and then the rest into one of your smaller tins for your ears

a 10" square tin is 25% bigger than a 10" round tin etc

My Mickey cake is 8" and 2 6" and it just about fitted on a 16" board

Ali always line with a bit of grease proof paper, turn your cake out onto rack remove tin then peel off paper.

Thanks Plum, you've reminded me to get a board!

The Nigella cake fills 23cm square pan 4 cm deep.

Or she makes 2 and sandwiches them together for a birthday cake. Her victoria sponge uses 2x21cm sandwich tins so I could get that size but use the buttermilk recipe for the cake IYSWIM.

However, your idea to just use the 8 inch tin with another for the ears would save on the sandwiching, which is a good thing.

Night all. Dream of chocolate monkey cakes.

Eek a faint pink line! Does that mean yes??

EEEEEKKKKK!!!! YES!

Oh god really! I have started a thread in Chat too, was that desperate to get a 'second opinion'.

Oh my God.

Thurs:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed
• me & DS2 to speech therapy (10am)
• sort ebay stuff
• lunch & tidy up
• DS2 nap (remember to wake him up promptly, yesterday i didn't and he was lively until 9pm!)
• afternoon? park?
• boys tea (??)
• garden time
• boys bath & bed
• DH home late + our dinner

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register; Find another one that is taking on NHS patients
• upload & order online prints (DH getting rid of that PC so i need to a) research 'time machines', b) get one, c) move all photos from his PC onto it, d) link up my laptop with it so all photos from here go on it
• upload chosen photos from his PC & my laptop to Snapfish & order
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door - Autumn job really
• clean kitchen cupboard doors
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others; make my playlist; clear my iPhone of music, reload with just my playlist
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1 - Have Name of School; HavePhoneNumber
• go through diaries with DH
• watch eBay listings: 1 Selling; 5 Sold
• package up sold & paid for item x2
• sewing repairs (trousers, cardigan, DH trousers)
• research backing up hardware for computers Started
• tackle Areas of Doom (out of 5 stars);

Kitchen: 2star arts & crafts area Started Living room: 5star chest of drawers contents & top (loads of photos, need culling I think) Landing: 3star top of dresser

You know you can't get a false positive

I know, it's just the faintness. But it's definitely there, DH could see it too.

Woohoo, woohoo

OMG Ali!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!! A line is a line

I had to check here first as i had a 'feeling'