Another busy weekend has passed. We spent yesterday morning absolutely blitzing a couple of areas of the house that have been long neglected - the understair cupboard which, much to my disgust - has been clogged up for the last few weeks with God knows what (I blame Will, and quite rightly he has now reallocated a lot of things to his shed and just left behind Christmas decs and my hoover!), the kitchen counters which over winter where I've been unwell have collected allsorts and not even had a proper clean, and a couple of baskets of odds and sods from around the house that I scooped up some time in Autumn with the intention of sorting through that day... and never did. Feels good, and we sorted out a bag of stuff for the binman, mostly broken rubbish that we will never get around to fixing. I'm yet to scoop up a bag to get rid of today and the clock is ticking, think I'd better have a quick look over books in a bit.
Will had a few friends over yesterday for a pre-birthday celebration, and I had a birthday party to go to for a couple of Ivy's friends. A long night as Ivy's croup is back and neither of us got a spot of sleep, and a long day today with everyone crabbing and moaning.
Hopefully Ivy will be sleeping soon and will catch up on her Zzz's a little (won't hold my breath) and we can have another positive, productive week.
This weekend I started reading Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nicholson. A really interesting look at the lives of wives and women in the 1950s - definitely biased towards the 'aren't things better now thank God' side of things, but a lot of thought provoking points.
We were meant to be going to a fun day a couple of villages away tomorrow, but with Ivy's cough it'll be a housey day instead. I have all of the linen from having people staying to take care of, so fingers crossed for a blowy day and they can go out on the line rather than the tumble.
That's all for now. We are going away on Friday, just for the weekend, but our first holiday together since 2014, so a few things to get sorted around the house before then.
Lovely week all!
I need to take a leaf from your book and start delving into corners. We have both been ill on and off for a while and things just get put down rather than away. I am sure that another load can be assembled for the charity shop if I put my mind to it. I would not hold your breath for a drying day tomorrow, the forecast is not good and it is raining now. I hope that Ivy soon recovers, croup is an insidious thing and lack of sleep gives everybody the jitters. Have a good weekend and get those batteries recharged.
ReplyDeleteNo, by the looks of today I'm not holding out for dry weather either - it's got half an hour to sort itself out!
ReplyDeleteIt has been a tough winter and there will be things that get left behind and overlooked. I'm sure soon we'll both be right as rain and back on form, for now it's about just doing what you can!