It's Friday!

[sunnyday]

Good morning - 'tis Friday

How is everyone?

Young Froglet - ouch 'Crochet Elbow' - hope it's improving with rest.

Busy week here so now looking forward to a quieter weekend🤞 

Have a good one x

[louby loo]

Morning all,

Busy day so far, had the GD for a sleep over. therefore already today- I have delivered 5 babies, given the full beauty treatment to 5 customers (including a bunnycorn, had various beauty treaments and hairdoos , been on hoilday twice.... and finished of with a trip to the (Real) vet!   This does now mean I shall now be playing 'vets' all afternoon 😂

Have a good weekend all. 😊

PS. I did remember to take all the slides, clips and bows out before leaning the house!

[SueFinanceManager]

Good afternoon gentle folk

louby loo I feel quite exhausted after reading all that lol

Survived my fun but very busy weekend last week so looking forward to a much quieter one this weekend. 

Have fun whatever you end up doing and hope the sun shines for you although the thunderstorm and big rain we had yesterday made hubby happy as he got a night of watering the veggies ⛈️

[Froglet]

Hello all,

The elbow is a little better - I'm trying to do things for just short periods of time and give it lots of stretches and rests.

Have made lots of progress on sorting the room of doom this week - including rediscovering the EYFS pink folder!

A couple of walks round the park and a day catching up with a friend - nothing in particular for the weekend!

Louby - you reminded me of when my nephew (now looking at universities) was little and I would have to play 'stories' with him and I was invariably the big bad wolf/giant/villain of the moment!

[sunnyday]

On 01/08/2025 at 17:20, Froglet said:

Hello all,

The elbow is a little better - I'm trying to do things for just short periods of time and give it lots of stretches and rests.

Have made lots of progress on sorting the room of doom this week - including rediscovering the EYFS pink folder!

A couple of walks round the park and a day catching up with a friend - nothing in particular for the weekend!

Louby - you reminded me of when my nephew (now looking at universities) was little and I would have to play 'stories' with him and I was invariably the big bad wolf/giant/villain of the moment!

EYFS pink folder - that's a blast from the past! 🙃

[Froglet]

I’m reading a lot more now I’ve finished at school and I’ve just finished ‘The List of Suspicious Things’ by Jennie Godfrey. Really good - definitely recommend if you haven’t already read.

[sunnyday]

On 02/08/2025 at 13:58, Froglet said:

I’m reading a lot more now I’ve finished at school and I’ve just finished ‘The List of Suspicious Things’ by Jennie Godfrey. Really good - definitely recommend if you haven’t already read.

Lovely - thank you always good to have a recommendation 

[sunnyday]

Good morning - 'tis Friday!

How is everyone?

I have had another really busy week and am now looking forward to a bit of 'me time' today and over the weekend.

Weather seems to be 'hotting up' again ☀️

Wishing a happy weekend to all x

[louby loo]

Amost forgot it's Friday already!

Nice balanced week for me activity wise,  and off for a late lunch with my old school friend this afternoon. 

I'm trying to declutter the house - that's not acutally working out though.... I think I'm just adding to it! 😂

Have a good weekend everyone xx

 

[sunnyday]

On 08/08/2025 at 10:17, louby loo said:

 

I'm trying to declutter the house - that's not acutally working out though.... I think I'm just adding to it! 😂

 

 

Oh yes I know all about that a case of 'why did I even start this'! 🙃

At our singing group/choir on Tuesday the leader was telling us that her lap-top wasn't 'speaking to' her printer - I said "just let me know what you need, I can easily run off some song lyrics" - famous last words - my blessed printer has now thrown a hissy fit and at the moment I can't fulfil my promise - arrghh

[Froglet]

All ok here! Enjoy your me time Sunnyday and hope you get your printer sorted. Louby - I feel your pain, I am still decluttering my spare room. Some days it just feels like I move stuff around.

Nothing in particular planned this weekend so a quiet one for me(more time for decluttering! 😉😂) 

[louby loo]

On 08/08/2025 at 13:31, sunnyday said:

 - famous last words - my blessed printer has now thrown a hissy fit and at the moment I can't fulfil my promise - arrghh

That is the kind of thing that always happens with me!

 

On 09/08/2025 at 10:14, Froglet said:

 I feel your pain, I am still decluttering my spare room. Some days it just feels like I move stuff around.

 

Yep! I aways seem to be 'just moving stuff', either that or I have everyting spread out on the spare bed - then suddenly need it cleared so I quickly put it all in a big bag and out of sight!

 

[Cait]

I take your ‘declutter’ and raise to you my late husband’s workroom, still to be tackled almost a year on 😕.  There’s a double garage like this too, an attic and a loft, although that’s largely sorted except for the humongous LP collection. 

[sunnyday]

On 11/08/2025 at 14:01, Cait said:

I take your ‘declutter’ and raise to you my late husband’s workroom, still to be tackled almost a year on 😕.  There’s a double garage like this too, an attic and a loft, although that’s largely sorted except for the humongous LP collection. 

IMG_1693.mov

Oh Cait 😥 that's hard going...

I do sigh when Mr S 'scrounges' yet more 'stuff' - usually wood and tools - knowing that (almost certainly) I will be faced with sorting at some point.

If it helps, my late brother-in-law had loads and loads of 'specialist' books which my sister was able to give to Oxfam - she contacted them, told them (roughly) what was available and a very nice young man came and took two car loads away - they wouldn't be displayed in any shops but would be advertised and sold online...

Good luck with it all x

[Cait]

On 11/08/2025 at 14:43, sunnyday said:

Oh Cait 😥 that's hard going...

I do sigh when Mr S 'scrounges' yet more 'stuff' - usually wood and tools - knowing that (almost certainly) I will be faced with sorting at some point.

If it helps, my late brother-in-law had loads and loads of 'specialist' books which my sister was able to give to Oxfam - she contacted them, told them (roughly) what was available and a very nice young man came and took two car loads away - they wouldn't be displayed in any shops but would be advertised and sold online...

Good luck with it all x

Newark air museum and Elvington air museum have been fabulous.   The former took a load of books and well over 250 unmade aeroplane kits - many no longer produced.   Elvington took a bomb rack, the machine gun rack from a Lancaster, various cockpit instruments from wartime planes and loads of books and ancient magazines.  Cumbrian Railways association have taken a van load of track chairs, signs and signalling boards and diagrams, and North Yorkshire Moors Railway have taken railway track maintenance equipment, signal levers and the like, so the big stuff is largely gone.  It’s down to books and research paperwork mainly now, well over 100 full ringbinders of research on the various old railways of Cumbria.   They will go to the CRA eventually - there’s folk rubbing their hands to get hold of it, but our son very much wants to go through it all first.   

[Cait]

I’ve binned a lot of ‘could be handy’ bits of wood and chopped down cardboard boxes that he had stashed - actually filled the large paper recycling bin with those - it was quite cathartic wielding the Stanley knife to reduce them down to flat bits that would fit tidily in the bin 

[louby loo]

Well Cait it must be a hard task for you 😢 but you're doiong well. 

I came on here to tell you that I actually got rid of a sewing machine today, but now feel quite humble about my achievement.x