Housework lists again

[ailbhe]

I hit "advance" on the heating at 1:30 pm.

Emptied, filled and ran dishwasher.
Cleared draining board twice.
Cleared east kitchen counter, washed it, covered it in stuff waiting to be washed...
Cleared west kitchen counter, washed it.
Cleared clothes-rack of dry clothes.
Hung two loads of laundry on clothes-rack.
Made own bed.
Washed two loads of laundry (bedding).
Hung one load of bedding on the banister.
Glued loose end of fridge handle back onto fridge as proof of concept.
It worked; retrieved freezer handle from storage, washed it, glued it on. Wish it luck.
Swept dining room in patches, moved furniture around to where it ought to be.
Folded clean dry nappies and put away ready to use.
Used them. We may not have enough dry, uhoh.
Adjusted heating time so that Rob doesn't get frozen until he actually leaves the house at oh-god-thirty.
Drank two flasks of coffee Rob made for me before he left.
Spent quality time with the happiest Astrid I've seen for days.
Dressed all three children, which involved finding clothes for some of them and actually putting them on others.

Edit 14:20:
Taped bubble envelopes under the front room window for insulation.
Made a draught-excluder from two knee-high socks stuffed with plastic bags; used it to replace the IKEA snake on the spare room door; put the snake in the front room by the bay window.
Emer put the plastic-bag holder, a fabric tube, along the edge of the floor too, tofill the gap; clever child.
Brought down a rug for the hall floor.

So the insulation is all increased, which should help. Tonight we need to glue polystyrene to the back of the loft hatch. The solar-heated hot water didn't get hot until the sun topped the houses at about 9am, but it rapidly reached 5C, so is probably higher by now; that's all degrees centigrade which the gas boiler will not have to provide, yayness.

Edit 15:10:
We've basically been looking at toys online and making Santa lists! Yippee!

Comments

[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

There probably is, but I don't own this house!

[ailbhe]

If you're there much longer, you could point out to the landlord that you own the bills? That wouldn't work with any landlord I've ever had, mind you.

[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

The plan is to buy next year anyway, when my mother and grandmother's houses are sold (I will get a very impressive deposit from them). And to be fair he has just put in a super-efficient boiler and thermostatic valves, which will hugely reduce the bills *and* bigger radiators up there which keep it warm without having to have the downstairs at about 30C. Not to mention a lovely new bathroom.

[ailbhe]

Um, "that's nice," in that your new house will be nice, and it's good you'll have a good deposit. The landlord sounds good, too.

[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's pretty good really. He's a local estate agent, but this is his own house, which is a good combination because he is on the ball about what's reasonable (in both directions). In return I try to be fairly undemanding - for example I've said I will just move a bookcase to where the fire used to be and he can redecorate this living room properly when I leave.