April 17, 2006

• Progress

• Defrost Freezer
  
• Laundry
  
• Supermarket.  Buy milk, bananas and salmon in addition to usual groceries.  Usual groceries do not include milk.  I have a mild intolerance to the stuff, so I put rice milk on my cereal.  Check bread situation and get a small loaf if necessary (mild wheat allergy, so I don’t eat that either: in neither case is it life threatening, merely extremely uncomfortable).
  
• Buy milk which I forgot to buy on the last trip.
  
• Church : St. Paul’s Cathedral (on Good Friday).  We went to St John’s Wood on Sunday.  Glorious music.
  
• Hoover and dust bedroom
  
• Clean out one cupboard and two drawers in bedroom.
  
• Tidy sitting room just a little more (I think the camp blanket could, possibly, be shoved out of sight, the ancient Lush Times recycled and so forth.  Actually, Lush times will be good for practice newspaper flowers, being quite colourful).
  
• However, I then hung out several racks of washing, and started working on some tapestry pictures that need framing.  When they are dry, I can frame them and get Mum to help decide where to put them.
  
• Try and restore order to bedroom shelves, now in severe need of some sort of organisation
  
• Sort out the map shelf.  The others look a bit better.
  
• Take books to Charity shop.  Find some more books to go to charity shop
  
• Go through knitting magazines.  Make pile of those that my friends may like which I no longer want.  Distribute.  Recycle the ones that no-one wants. I now have a folder to file things into. This represents progress.
  
• Finish Joy
  
• Finish booties (baby is due Tues-Thurs).  This means buying buttons
  
• Finish second sock.  Heel now turned.
  
• Start to finish Audrey.  I say start to finish Audrey as she’s been on hiatus since February, and I’ve got part way through the second body piece (they are identical).  I thought I was only part way through the first body piece. There’s sleeves to be taken into account.
  
• Decide to give up on posting Christmas present to friend, as she never sent me a card for my birthday (or, if she did, it got lost in the post), and save it for her birthday, which is for some months and I might change my mind by then.
  
• Check email at work on faintly regular basis.  I’ve already tried to moderate a mailing list, only to discover someone else got there first (I wonder who).
  
•  Go to Hayfever. 
  
• Make egg for Mum.
  
• Worry that washing machine isn’t heating evenly, or at all for that matter. Descale washing machine.  Worry about impact on environment. 
  
• Descale dishwasher (may as well get two things of descaler)
  
• Mop floor (I spill when I do laundry, and the floor’s grey rubber).
  
• Fill in gap in paintwork in sitting room (not sure where paint is).
  
• Work on website.
  
• Put laundry away. (not sure I’ll ever complete this, the laundry seems neverending).
  
• Think of delightful presents for Heather’s future sister-in-law.  *Evil Cackle*. 
  
• Mend drawer under bed.


• Fit new smoke detectors (this sort won’t need their batteries replacing for 5 years at least, if not 10.  This is good, particularly given that the neighbours are decidedly rubbish at either fitting new batteries, or letting us know that new batteries are required).



 I also need to post this.  Stage door photos.  Don’t you just love them?  My Mother is thrilled to bits with this, and can’t wait to post a copy to her cousin in Canada.




Yes.  That’s Mum and Dame Judi Dench.




xxx