Mud & Mischief

Well, I guess I knew it wouldn’t. Not entirely sure where today has gone, but I wasn’t sat down with my feet up by 1pm, that’s for sure.

A thread on a forum I visit from time to time mentioned the idea of writing everything down that you do during the day, kind of as a poke in the ribs that, yes, you do actually do stuff and not sit on your butt drinking tea all day. One of the posters did that, after her husband had asked her that self same question after he’d walked in from work and found her sat at the dining table with a cup of tea and a paper. The second cup of tea she’d had all day, btw, and it was nearly 7pm.

So what did I actually accomplish today? Apart from my lie in until 9am, which was nice.

Hard to remember, actually, as it’s now 6.30, but I know I did all the normal kitchen cleaning things - emptied dishwasher, cleared draining board, washed up, wiped down counters, took out recycling etc. Then I made soup (carrot and squash), processed 1/3 of the 9lb bag of cooking apples we scrumped from the garden of an empty house . Put wet washing from yesterday on line, brought in dry stuff, put more into machine (only half a load - seems I’ve got this laundry thing cracked - I’ve gone from 12+ loads a week to less than half of that. Yay!!). Fed the offspring, had a bowl of soup and half an hour on the puter. Put more wet stuff on the line. Picked tomatoes and beans. Put apple sauce into jars and froze. Contemplated doing the other 6lbs and baulked slightly at the thought. Fished sausages out of the freezer for the girls’ tea. Refereed a few riots, gave up and chased them all upstairs doing a good impression of a screaming banshee. Made them lie on their beds for half an hour. Lay on mine and use the wireless laptop to browse for a bit.

Woke up the Piglet who’d actually gone to sleep, came back down, cleared off dining room table (no mean feat!), completely cleared kitchen floor, swept and shifted stuff around so I can now walk from one end to the other, get from the counter to the bin, the fridge to the cooker without tripping over anything at all. Filled the equivalent of two big black bags with junk/rubbish etc. Washed up some more stuff. Sorted out two of the boxes of boot sale stuff that have been sitting outside for a week now, binned some soggy books (yes it was painful but they weren’t even suitable for charity shop box) and repacked them and put them somewhere waterproof. Cooked the girls a ultra popular tea of sausage, egg and chips (sausage for Myf, egg for Tea and chips for Piglet…)

3 hours later, kids are asleep and we’ve had a curry with a couple of friends. Going to go socialise now.