General Chat

Sharron is still coming back so be afraid, be very afraid!

The first bit of the house I tackled was the cupboard under the stairs and that took me ten months. OH is not working now so we are getting it done together at our own pace.

Our latest project is the cubby hole which is the bit between the kitchen and the wet-room which was supposed to be where the wheelchair was charged but it never was.

Anyway, I have kitchen cupboards and the bookshelves where I keep my cookery books in there.

The floor has been well washed and the walls and doors. I decided to dust and clean all the books, which I did in the kitchen, piling the cleaned ones, and there were many, upon the cooker top and draining board until I was tired and left it for the evening.

As I came back from my ablutions in the wet room later in the evening I thought how much my kitchen looked like one of those on the television in the programmes about hoarders.

It certainly gave me impetus to get the books finished and out of the kitchen quick smart today..

At least it was piles of clean things and not the gross collections seen on some of the hoarders on TV.
You and OH are doing really well.

My problem when sorting things is getting distracted by 'finds' and then going off viewing them instead of keeping to the task in hand.

I find I work best with a self-imposed deadline of a finishing time.

I need to crack on with this because we have nowhere to prepare food. We had a take-away last night but don't like them enough to have them very often.

Naturally, I have needed to peruse he content of mot of the books.

It's the perusing that slows things down!

I managed to foist 3 of my many books onto my 14 year old grandson today.
He claims he isn't interested in anything, 'readable'.
So, of my 1000 ish books,he believes nothing would interest him!
He shall be worked on. :-D :-D :-D

Granny will, of course ask him about the books in the future - he'll start to wish lockdown hadn't ended :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

I love him, really <3

His brother - 11 years old got the passenger and crew list of the Titanic..
He's really interested in the Titanic.
Somewhere I have a street map of Southampton at the time.
I shall be trying to find this, then highlight where his ggg grandparents, and their friends lived, and post it to him, so he can mark off where the crew (a lot from Southampton) came from.
He's also getting the victorian school desk I have - because he's always liked it, and I have no room for it.

That sounds like favouritism - it isn't.
When the 14 year old was younger, if he was interested in something, he got it.
He's just in the early teen 'I aint bovvered' stage :-D :-D :-D

We have a lot of things that hubby has old hobbies mostly and cost 100s of £s but now collect dust, he won't give them away or sell them because "they cost a lot of money" expensive dust collectors in my opinion.

My brother makes things, like working models of old boats - and sells them at a vast profit!

Hubby would like to be able to do something like that but the man cave is so full of s...e there isn't enough room for a lathe etc. :-(

OH has his mobile heap resting in the wet room until I get in there and disassemble it.

He is the Big Heaper, son of his mother, The Mighty Heaper.

Where I have been unable to contemplate anything domestic for such a ridiculous length of time, he has had free rein to heap whee and when he pleased. Had it not been for that, I would just need to waft a duster round a bit.

What shocked me a bit the other night was when I saw all the books stacked on the stove. It looked like those hoarders kitchens you see on the television where they have lost the use of their kitchen under their toot (like I have lost the use of my shower under his bloody toot!).