What should you be doing?

All of the above except for the rowing machine - only because I don't have one.

Liquidise the soup I made earlier
vacuum the sitting room
finish letter to my Mother
sort out and shred old paperwork
set up new printer
then if I have time catch up on some reading!

Cleaning my teeth because I'm to have a hearing aid fitted. Before you wonder how the two are connected - they're not. Bye for now.

Nothing - I can't get out because it is still snowing and there is at least a foot of snow on the car park and about three feet of it on the car.
My flat is warm and cosy and my TV signal has now come back, so I am having a third duvet day.

List on my kitchen table says

Let out chickens
Put washing on
Wrap and post prezzies to Oz
Do Spanish homework
Go for a swim
Mop the floor
Bleach the grouting in the shower( permanently on the list)

Have done first two but then got sidelined googling all sorts of irrational topics.Raided the Christmas stash and have now had 3 cups of coffee and eaten a whole packet of shortbread

Grannylin, a woman after my own heart!
Soop, a nice non sequitur. Can you hear me now?

I should be washing paint work and looking for Christmas presents.

My DIL has told me that my 2 year GD likes "hard books". Right now I can't decide between Stephen Hawkings "A Brief History of Time" or James Joyce's "Ulysses"

soop I'd be cleaning my teeth if someone was going to be in the vicinity of my hears, which in my case are fairly close to my mouth, as I had salmon in chili sauce for lunch and, as I can still taste it, they would be able to smell it!!!

soop I'd be cleaning my teeth if someone was going to be in the vicinity of my hears, which in my case are fairly close to my mouth, as I had salmon in chili sauce for lunch and, as I can still taste it, they would be able to smell it!!!

I should be :
doing lots of filing
Ironing
going for a walk
hoovering the whole house
cleaning sticky fingermarks off the windows
and a multitude of other boring domestic chores

but I'm not; I pulled a muscle in my back/side picking up the 3 year old and I'm taking it easy; I've gone on strike for the day, jacked up the c.h. and am sitting with my feet up, laptop on lap, telly on, phone by my side, cup of tea and box of chocolates on the side table and have just arranged for a firm to come in and do the cleaning one day next week - my Christmas present to myself

Gally - what an excellent idea. You deserve that little treat.

Have you got room for a friend Gally - sounds like bliss

Yes Kitty - and anyone else - just get yourself round here and join in - plenty of room!

Glad you went ahead with getting the cleaners in, Gally - not that I thought your house needed it, of course , but it means you can just let someone else get on with it for you, especially as your back's still hurting.
I should be starting on the tea, but am still thawing out after being at the auctions for most of the day with a friend. It was absolutely perishing in there!

Did you buy anything Marelli? Bet you did!
Gally, that would be the height of luxury for me, getting a cleaner in, oh would that I could afford it!

I should be looking up prices for Moshi Monsters toys on behalf of older grandson, so he can buy his y0unger bruv his Xmas pressie.

How do I get out of footing this inevitable bill? [sonfused]

!!!

No, I didn't get anything, number, but I did bid on an old wall-mounted phone! It was lovely - the sort that had the bit that you put to your ear, and you spoke into a funnel thing . Stopped bidding at £70 .

Bet your OH was relieved!

Well, you know me, number !! I was mentally placing it on the wall in the hall......I'm sure there would have been a space somewhere.....!!

Some people should not be allowed in auctions!

number I know I'm very lucky to be able to get a cleaning company in for a couple of hours. I would actually rather do it myself (silly or what) but it's just the thought of attacking no less than 11 full height glass doors in th e kitchen and removing nose prints and dozens of sticky mini hand prints and scraping up dried food from the tiled floor which has made me go down this route - I don't think it'll become a regular thing
Marelli I'm glad that you saw the light and stopped bidding - now, did you really need one of those phones?? Hope you've thawed out; it's -1 now so no wonder you were freezing [polar bear emoticon]

That's a good idea, think I'll put that on my Christmas list Gally.
Need to put swimming costume on it too. Finally went for the swim and, as I was feeling a bit porky and as the changing room was empty, I had a good look in the full length mirror at my backside. Horrors! The whole of the back of my costume was see-through and I've only had it 6 months. What a sight!

Grreatnan, don't I know it - I am a bit of a caution! My other pal and I used to go along to the auctions and buy boxes of 'odds', which we sorted out and, once we had enough good, old pieces, used to sell at antique fairs. Once we found an old diary. It was a 1932 one, but had been used by a young woman to record her thoughts during the London Blitz. Her husband was a 'fire-watcher', and she feared for his safety each night when he went out. She spoke of how the planes came over and how frightened she was, especially when it was a 'bombers' moon'. She spoke about being unable to find good food then her delight when the butcher had a delivery of rabbit. She recorded her despair when once again she miscarried. We contacted the Imperial War Museum who asked if we would let them have it, which of course we did.