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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – READY
I’m so ready for the school holidays..how weird is that. The kids haven’t been to school yet this year, but I still can’t wait for a break. We need a break from the constant school work and nagging, and crying, and tantrums, sleepless nights, rough mornings, arguments, shouting I could go on and on but bring on the half term break..we are ready!
By the time you read this I’m hoping my boiler will be fixed and we will be warm again. At the moment it’s frosty outside, it’s been snowing but it’s now frozen over. My house is generally warm but not when it’s this cold outside. I wasn’t ready for this and I’m sitting here in a blanket, heated shoulder wrap and fingerless mittens. I will be ready for this happening again though, I’ve just bought an electric radiator.
The kitchen is nice and toasty though. I have been struggling to get my washing dry. I have a tumble dryer but there is always a reason we can’t have it on. The kitchen window has to be open and it’s too cold in there, we are cooking and it’s too hot with it on, it’s too noisy and disturbs sleep, there are so many clothes we can’t risk shrinking (boo, to being a tall family) and clothes with special materials, or transfers that can’t be tumble dried. So the tumble dryer doesn’t get much use. I had a clothes airer to put my wet washing on when I can’t hang it out, but when its cold it can take a couple of days to dry anything. So, I bought myself a heated clothes airer. I have wanted one for a long time but I didn’t feel ready to spend over a hundred pound on an airer when I had a tumble dryer. But honestly, it’s worth every penny. And it’s currently warming my cold kitchen while the heating is off. It’s silent and dries my clothes in a day. I’m actually thinking of bringing it into my living room to warm us up!
As I mentioned before we are so ready for the half term break. But a little more, the children are ready to start afresh. They have fallen behind with a lot of stuff so have spent a couple of days this week on special catch up sessions provided for them. When they start back after half term they will be ready and (hopefully) willing to just get on with it.
We are also getting ready for the garden makeover. Graham has booked a slot at the local tip and recycling centre to get rid of some of the rubbish that has accumulated at the side of the house. I have also sorted a clothes collection for all our unwanted clothes. After a bedroom clear out we have ended up with nine black bags full of unwanted clothes. The collection takes them off for charity or recycle use.
Have you seen that Sphock advertisement on TV where they get rid of everything with one click…ah if only it was that easy. Even listing all our stuff on Ebay wouldn’t be worth the money. I did it before with some of the kids clothes, spent about an hour photographing and listing, then the packaging, posting, printing lables etc. I earned about £7, probably worked out at about 50p an hour for the work put in.
So, this week I’m ready for anything, especially having the boiler fixed today! And I am so ready for some warmer weather…roll on Spring!
Now it’s over to you, what word or phrase sums up your week this week?
I’m with you on being ready for the holidays! Hope your boiler is fixed soon – it must have been hard trying to stay warm given how cold this week has been. The heated airer sounds fab and glad it helped keep the kitchen warm as well as drying the washing more quickly. Sounds like you had a good clear out of clothes. Hope you have a nice half-term. #WotW
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We are ready for half term too! hope your boiler is fixed and you are all warm again! Good luck with the garden makeover.
We are so ready for the break too. I am so looking forward to not doing much for the next week.
I hope your boiler is fixed. This really has been the worst week for it to break down.
I keep thinking about buying a heated airer but never get around to getting one. It’s a great way to warm the room and dry the clothes a little bit quicker.
Good luck with the garden makeover.
It sounds like you’ve been busy decluttering. It is crazy how many clothes items you can clear out. I do my girls rooms a few times a year and there’s always quite a few bags.
Have a great half term x
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Anne, I am so sorry to read about your heating issues. Being cold is terrible! I never heard of a heated clothes airer, but it sounds like you are getting some good use out of yours. I hope by now your house is warm again. It must be so tough to be in charge of your kids’ schooling in addition to all of the household chores. Maybe by next year, schools will be back to normal. I am soooo ready for spring too.
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I hope your heating got fixed. Our house gets really cold if the heating isn’t on. We are by a river and so in a dip. Also terrible for mobile phone connection as I discovered in a power cut we had last week. I would love a heated airer. I hope you had a nice week off too. We were meant to be catching up with school work but it didn’t really happen! #WotW