tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post5855591992248943204..comments2024-03-19T14:28:03.565+00:00Comments on welsh hills again: The tell tale signs of losing it!Elizabeth Musgravehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-48270842264051259802008-10-19T21:47:00.000+01:002008-10-19T21:47:00.000+01:00Oh gosh - I have these days so often, Elizabeth, I...Oh gosh - I have these days so often, Elizabeth, I'm almost losing sight of the fact that there are days that aren't like this. I refuse to believe we're losing it, though - I just think life is just like this sometimes.LITTLE BROWN DOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09752176955139690523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-26739097177485515022008-10-17T13:31:00.000+01:002008-10-17T13:31:00.000+01:00You are so good at articulating the things that af...You are so good at articulating the things that affect women in their every day lives.<BR/><BR/>I've just spent the morning rushing around like an idiot, doing all the things you describe, because I am away this weekend, and before I can blink, it will be Monday morning, 7am and work. Still trying to find the elusive balance.Catherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01588437065757203375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-9717266776940234722008-10-14T22:00:00.000+01:002008-10-14T22:00:00.000+01:00How do you always manage to hit the nail on the he...How do you always manage to hit the nail on the head so brilliantly?!! Just back form a week away and everything has exploded into chaos. I chase round like a whirling dervish accomplishing nothing with confusion growing ever larger and more unmanageable.<BR/>Thank god you experience it too…I feel hugely better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-67140292024683695032008-10-14T13:20:00.000+01:002008-10-14T13:20:00.000+01:00Every day seems like that for me sometimes! And I...Every day seems like that for me sometimes! And I am at home all day! I don't know how you do half of what you do with your work, hol let and garden!!<BR/><BR/>xxBluestocking Mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01502764742097142372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-7982880006046010332008-10-11T18:01:00.000+01:002008-10-11T18:01:00.000+01:00Hi there EM. I can never understand people that sa...Hi there EM. I can never understand people that say they're bored, there's always so much to do..<BR/>I love Milla's solution but I'm with you, keep up with with the Welsh classes. ElizabethD made me laugh I'm forever taking my rubbish for a drive around the Pyrenees! I think on a serious note though its important to get it all into perspective and remember to look after oneself. One person can only do so much; and I'm sure you do it all very well cariad xxPili palahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05994841627179129909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-30713363437944839892008-10-11T13:43:00.000+01:002008-10-11T13:43:00.000+01:00Gosh yes - that sounds very familiar, those days o...Gosh yes - that sounds very familiar, those days of tail-chasing and low achievement. They get balanced out with the days when you are on rocket fuel though!Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05798594086901897654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-72653263338140012102008-10-11T11:58:00.000+01:002008-10-11T11:58:00.000+01:00Sounds so familiar...some days I am on top of the ...Sounds so familiar...<BR/>some days I am on top of the game, others not. Of course here my routine is influenced by many external factors, usually farm and frequently livestock related. <BR/>We are waiting for a gilt to farrow so instead of cracking on with the routine I go and vist her to check all is well and then get diverted. Pigs are big timewasters!<BR/>Why is it the dishwasher always needs emptying, and just like Elizabeth says the rubbish and compost bins fill so quickly and then of course there is the re-cycling which at times threatens to engulf us all in a mountain of plastic, tin and glass, not to mention the daily newspaper which we have taken to reading [usually in bed or in the bath] on account of the 'crisis'.Arcadian Advocatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17866414695514956884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-61042292242329308132008-10-11T11:33:00.000+01:002008-10-11T11:33:00.000+01:00You hit the nail on the head again Elizabeth! For ...You hit the nail on the head again Elizabeth! For me, too, the bird feeders being empty is the thing that starts me off on a chain of hopelessness. 'If I were to go outside and fill the feeders then I could... take the bin out, empty the recycling, take the compost...' ad nauseum. It is happening everywhere, to all of us! Good luck with it all.Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08563878298811062442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-32537603150486394932008-10-10T22:57:00.000+01:002008-10-10T22:57:00.000+01:00Good list from Milla there, sounds useful. I've ha...Good list from Milla there, sounds useful. I've had such a week tho' EM, having worked two weeks straight I had to keep my neighbour chatting in the garden this evening as I couldn't bear to let her see the state of the kichen - all papers and post and dust and dog hair (now cleaned in a fit of guilt, dinner had to wait!). I don't know how working mothers do it. All I've managed to do is clean the bath this week. And as for the houseplants, I've been meaning to buy Baby Bio for a year, they need help! <BR/>Time off next week - these jobs just have to wait. My family and friends have suffered too... I must make amends.Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05378174162151683519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-80769000526951829722008-10-10T21:55:00.000+01:002008-10-10T21:55:00.000+01:00I am like that most of the time, I am sorry to say...I am like that most of the time, I am sorry to say. The only thing I don't seem to put off is blogging!<BR/>I get easily distracted, that's the trouble.Maggie Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06183886005936250976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-15531373002684718902008-10-10T17:59:00.000+01:002008-10-10T17:59:00.000+01:00I recognise almost all of these - the birds reproa...I recognise almost all of these - the birds reproach me when I get back from London because no one else remembers. Isn't it difficult filling bird feeders in the dark!Jodie Robsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02442935205880334932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-62989028108136276312008-10-10T17:26:00.000+01:002008-10-10T17:26:00.000+01:00YES!I had one of these last FRiday. It began with ...YES!<BR/>I had one of these last FRiday. <BR/>It began with losing an earring and trekking to lots of places only to find it safely at home..<BR/>And as for plants...I must go NOW.Janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08627338108089464863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-44771370175544360012008-10-10T14:52:00.000+01:002008-10-10T14:52:00.000+01:00l lost it years ago, today l have really really lo...l lost it years ago, today l have really really lost it, have been chasing about not doing a lot, mind suddenly emptying of the task in hand, it is sunday?muddybootshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01117980616235810426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-2131529249247527692008-10-10T10:11:00.000+01:002008-10-10T10:11:00.000+01:00Yes, yes, yes. I have these days and the same lit...Yes, yes, yes. I have these days and the same little things too like the feeders and the compost bin can really niggle can't they? Recycling too.<BR/>Funnily enough I was thinking of you yesterday, the fact you hadn't blogged and hoped you were OK.Cait O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04569760764766505179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-10067570233480878432008-10-10T08:48:00.000+01:002008-10-10T08:48:00.000+01:00Yes - I have those days too.Unfortunately I cann't...Yes - I have those days too.<BR/>Unfortunately I cann't have a G and T because although I love it - it doesn't love me (sigh)<BR/>Talking of builders dust ... actually lets not!<BR/>It is the little things, every time.<BR/>KarenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-17287228279001253352008-10-09T21:54:00.000+01:002008-10-09T21:54:00.000+01:00The world's not going to end if you don't do any o...The world's not going to end if you don't do any of them is it? It is that horrible feeling of reproach and judgement about not achieving every target that gets me every time - and that's even if the target is just emptying the bin.<BR/><BR/>I'm haunted by the dust bunnies that swirl over every floor. surely they can't be too hard to keep under control?mountainearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15977393968796316843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-33287556495559525612008-10-09T21:12:00.000+01:002008-10-09T21:12:00.000+01:00Have another one then - you deserve it!Have another one then - you deserve it!snailbeachshepherdesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01397158758052413758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-19221328882315732722008-10-09T17:11:00.000+01:002008-10-09T17:11:00.000+01:00Well Milla I have emptied the compost bin and hoov...Well Milla I have emptied the compost bin and hoovered the rug so that is a start. Ian does loads normally, including bins, he just hasn't been here this week so we have not been sharing the load. do get on very well with my sister and do want to speak Welsh!<BR/>Love slouchy red boots as a solution pondside.<BR/>I suspect the real solution is that it is just being one of those weeks and might just have to wait until next week.<BR/>G and T was good though.Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-55490216610573925962008-10-09T15:00:00.000+01:002008-10-09T15:00:00.000+01:00That sounds like the normal state of affairs here,...That sounds like the normal state of affairs here, so I have lots of experience on which to draw in giving you this advice.....take the large G&T and go back to bed........or go out and buy yourself a gorgeous pair of slouchy red boots. Either way you'll feel a whole lot better, and I believe that a person with a pair of slouchy red leather boots must be a person whose life is under control in other aspects.<BR/>You can fool all of the people some of the time........Pondsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407539138546412482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-72253745575422725782008-10-09T14:56:00.000+01:002008-10-09T14:56:00.000+01:00A stiff drink, an early night and the knowledge th...A stiff drink, an early night and the knowledge that we all have days like that. Just think how boring it would be if you had nothing to do!The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-81278713743486217622008-10-09T14:10:00.000+01:002008-10-09T14:10:00.000+01:00yes indeedy, every single day.Let me be your helpe...yes indeedy, every single day.<BR/>Let me be your helper:<BR/>Jettison the house plants, think of them like flowers, which get chucked happily. If they can survive with zero attention, fine, otherwise, vamoosh. even the best ones turn dusty and reproachful.<BR/>The birds are fine, the minute you do feed them, the sparrows (don't like) will swoop in all greasy and take the lot.<BR/>Empty the compost bin. Flies will come. Not nice.<BR/>Yank the sweet peas - I did it last week, very satisfying, came up really easily and left a big hole which looked like I'd been very busy with.<BR/>Ask Ian to do the sheets. And the other bins.<BR/>Make FIL a fish pie, everyone loves, nice and easy, decision made. And a super dooper fun cake with indoor sparklers and Happy Birthday Letter candles.<BR/>Rug? Marvellous things called hoovers. FIVE MINS TOPS.<BR/>Anyway, when you make a start, the rest will domino in to place. But some days it just doesn't want to come. Maybe wait for the day when it does - it could be tomorrow.<BR/>Speak English.<BR/>Ring your sister when you guess she's going to be out. Leave a loving message. She'll call back, the time will be there. (assuming you get on??)Millahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15967731998504496807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-64232197411450615612008-10-09T11:42:00.000+01:002008-10-09T11:42:00.000+01:00Yes, frequently. In fact yesterday I did remember ...Yes, frequently. <BR/>In fact yesterday I did remember to put the rubbish bag in the car to take to our communal bin. But found it some hours later having taken it for a 100 km drive to visit my husband.Elizabethdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02405703727112759947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-62831434885256953872008-10-09T11:32:00.000+01:002008-10-09T11:32:00.000+01:00Oh yes, oh yes, Elizabeth. You describe my every d...Oh yes, oh yes, Elizabeth. You describe my every day! You start on one job, get distracted by another, and another, and another, and end with 50 jobs not quite finished and a whole heap of fuming frustration!Carah Bodenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11429666157453439321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-57665068927217656902008-10-09T10:00:00.000+01:002008-10-09T10:00:00.000+01:00Yep that's me all over especially watering the ind...Yep that's me all over especially watering the indoor plants, and they're right under my nose on the kitchen windowsill.toadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02890073795239873916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-34855179969544892852008-10-09T09:54:00.000+01:002008-10-09T09:54:00.000+01:00Oh I'm like that all the time, very rarely get on ...Oh I'm like that all the time, very rarely get on top of things. I always wish I could press 'pause' on my life and have a jolly good sort out!Faith https://www.blogger.com/profile/04672728248961388984noreply@blogger.com