Bedclothes washed☑️
Dog walked, bathed & groomed☑️
Bathroom all cleaned ( cause of dog....)☑️
Flowers all dead headed ☑️
Big, no huge, basket of ironing.... tomorrow!
High CO2 levels in classrooms are a silent barrier to learning
I love a list, especially when it’s full of ticks!
Todays list is;
Clean fridge
Ironing
Market fruit & veg.
Collect parcel.
Phone contracts to sort
Confirm & print out France accommodations.
What’s on your to do list today?
Bedclothes washed☑️
Dog walked, bathed & groomed☑️
Bathroom all cleaned ( cause of dog....)☑️
Flowers all dead headed ☑️
Big, no huge, basket of ironing.... tomorrow!
I’m putting off anything remotely physical until next week when it will be cooler. This heat makes me good for nothing except reading!
Washing on the line since 9 this morning
Bathroom thoroughly cleaned
2 birthday cards bought written and sent
now resting on the bed with a cuppa and a sandwich
will iron uniform in half an hour then off to work from 2-8
Dod for a walk - Done
Slice of Toast - Done
Stay somewhere cool.in the house - ongoing
Around 3ish clear the garden of dog and cat s*
This evening
8pm Dog for a walk
I’m with Bazza
Having lunch out, so no need to cook
No point making a list I m off to the beach housework ll still be here when I m not ???
A fifteen minute trip to one of our local beaches then a shop before we go home, then working on my articles for our town monthly magszine. So hot even the gulls are panting
Inset sleeves into the dress I am sewing.
Dh and I have been working hard all work tidying up and re-arranging his workshop and (whisper this, so no-one hears: throwing a quantity of oddments, kept because they might come in useful OUT).
So today's to-do list began as usual with washing-up and bed-making, feeding the kittens and cleaning their tray.
Then I cycled down to the dump with my cargo bikeful of rubbish (see above) before either of us could change our minds about the "things that might come in useful if kept".
Then we both walked round the local summer do run by the local shopkeepers - it isn't grand enough to be called a fair, did some shopping, came home and then spent an hour reminding the two kittens of the things they are NOT ALLOWED TO DO!
On that particular to -do list was not jumping up onto the kitchen counter even when raw mince is being packed to go into the freezer. (Yes, we know Tigger, completely unreasonable).
Not eating the leather shoe laces of master's shoes, (Tigger again)
Not jumping up onto the bathroom window-sill (which is too high up for a safe landing) and knocking various tubes of sun-cream, hair lotion, ointment, nail clippers and a tin of hair pins onto the floor. (Trubel's contribution. )
Not running out of the back door, as we came back in. (Both).
Kittens due to be vaccinated on Wednesday, so are NOT ALLOWED OUTSIDE YET.
The rest of DH's and my to-do-list for today is to relax, with various renderings of the kittens' list da capo al fin for the rest of the day. (Bathroom door firmly shut, and mercifully they can't open the freezer).
Too much:
Hook up drip hose for veg plot
Plant spuds
Plant broad beans and peas
Move rose
Move hydrangea
Weed rose bed
Weed veg plot
Plant rhubarb
Plant up shrubs/perennials
Sort compost bins
Tidy patio
Tidy terrace
Check the bees
Tip run
Tidy front bed, prune roses
Weed replant Dad's border
Reinstate path in veg plot destroyed by previous gardeners
None will be done as it is just short of 34 degrees and our garden faces due south!
I don’t want to cook, couldn’t decide what we wanted to eat today, so I threw a rolled shoulder of lamb into the slow cooker, with a couple of onions and a carrot. First time I have done a whole roast, so we shall see how it turns out later on. Meanwhile I am staying out of the kitchen which is south facing. Might try my study for half an hour, otherwise I am catching up with the newspapers.
Making a fruit jelly
Cleaning out freezer
Doing some filing
Trying out new iron
Pottering in the garden
Watching the 100 cricket.
I didn’t set my sights high as it’s Saturday, it’s very hot, and….I’ll think of something else in a minute. Regrettably I fear only the first and last items will have been accomplished.
However, on Monday I will definitely………
Dreadful night last night. Spent the first half in the cooler bedroom downstairs, then for some forgotten reason went upstairs DH still downstairs. So a bit discombobulated today, so doing nothing at all until this evening.
Repackage and return the "pirate pool" I got for the grandchildren, unfortunately it would not inflate properly. I have it packed, done the return online, just have to physically take it back to the shop. Talking myself in and out of that part.
Callistemon21 I have never blanched runner beans before freezing. Just slice and put them in a freezer bag. I don't iron either ?
Some things already done - dogs out early but only in the garden as still too hot for walks. Fed the dogs, fed the 2 adult cats and 2 recently acquired 10 week kittens and cleaned litter trays. Have to take time for some cuddles before my breakfast.
Changed the bed, washed bedding and out to dry. Load of coloured washing out to dry. Vacc mat in kitchen. Cooked some new potatoes ready for salad. Much too hot to do any of the gardening or even sit under the parasol so decided to watch some gymnastics on t.v.!
Breakfast in bed courtesy of DH
No soup to make for lunch as DH has offered given I made enough Mac & cheese for 2 meals the other night.
Play with new lightweight Hoover 'Breeze' a delight after the weight of my old Sebo.
Make bed.
Entertain lovely new to us collie doggy Mollie and DS visiting with Portuguese tarts and a share of DH's soup
Phone DD and my sister
Email DGS
Oh good - seem to have done most of it. Time for a cuppa and to share a cake with darling DH...
Today, my list consisted of:
Change the bedding - ✅
Wash dirty bedding - ✅
Dry bedding - ✅
Iron bedding - ❌
Iron other washing in basket - ❌
Go out for lunch - ✅
Read book - about to ?
There’ll be more for my list, but it’s too hot to think about it just now ?
Pack another box (moving) - done
Do both dark and light washing - dark done, whites in. (Dry indoors - it's foggy and no wind here).
Send scanned letter on by email to Letting Agent.
Pack more things to go to Charity shop. (Part done).
Throw cover off bed, done.
Shower, done
Clean en suite, done
Water veg, done
All of the above before 9:30
Read paper, mostly done
Think about hoovering through downstairs,, thought about it, done
Wet and wring out scarf thing for neck, done
Ring children, done
Watch The Hundred, doing
Not bad really, list nearly ticked off!
Its 33 here, nothing much else will be done until watering again and making dinner about 7:30.
Coffee at new cafe ✔️
Clean bathroom ✔️
Ironing not done
Shopping not done
Cleaning generally dusting etc not done
Booked quote for new blinds ✔️
Shower then shopping centre indoor (with air con
.
Put new water softener in. Last blood pressure test todo tonight and get it ready to send to my Gp. Clean out chickens then feet up for a cuppa and to read a book to end the day
Watch tele…. The Hundred and football! Husbands in respite for a few more days and I’m doing ONLY what I like!
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