Now I know

[Thomzo]

Well I gave up work two months ago and I don't seem to have made much of a dent on the list of jobs that I was going to do during this time.

Today I found out why.

The chore at the moment is to renovate a run-down shed-come-greenhouse that sits on the side of my house. So far, it has taken me over a week and I've hardly started. So I was going to paint the windows (inside if it rained). Did I? Forget it . So what happened?

Well first I had to pull the kitchen apart so that the plumber can fix a leak tomorrow. When I pulled out the fridge and the cooker, the floor under them was disgusting so I had to wash the kitchen floor.

Then I remembered that my main water butt had a leak so I thought I would fix that quickly. When I moved the water butt it was full of stale, dirty water so I cleaned it out. Then I discovered that the drain pipe feeding it was blocked so I cleared that. The butt feeds from the conservatory roof which was disgustingly filthy and I thought it was a shame to fill a nice clean water butt off a dirty roof so I cleaned the conservatory roof. When I was cleaning the roof, the outside tap started leaking so I had to fix that.

Then the OH appeared. He is moving house and was chucking out a perfectly good wardrobe, sofa and a dustbin full of compost material. I had persuaded him to bring all those things my way (they might come in useful one day). So I then had to find a home for all the goodies and empty out the compost. The sofa is being freecycled and there has been a flurry of e-mails about it.

By this time I was cold and soaking wet and needed to warm up in the shower. After the shower I was far too clean to start painting windows.

Maybe tomorrow!

[invisiblepiper]

Can I just thank you - I was feeling useles cos I never achieve half of what I'm supposed to! When you write down the reasons like that it makes much more sense!

[Wombat]

I can just imagine you doing all that Zoe!

Nev

[Millymollymandy]

Brilliant Zoe that is Oh so true! Perhaps today if you set out planning to do something completely different you might find yourself painting those windows!

[Thomzo]

Ha, no chance. It was far too cold to be out in the shed-come-greenhouse. The plumber was here all morning - at least the leak is fixed and he did a very neat job . While he was here there was very little I could do so I sat and did some studying. Got me a bit more up to date with the studies which is good.

I did manage to mow half the lawn in the twenty minutes between showers and then had to put the kitchen and laundry room back together again.

Cheers
Zoe

[CyberPaddy66]

A simple job is never simple IMHO.