New Year's Resolutions?

[ilona73]

do the study ,drawingroom,halls stairs and landing , library , my bedroom and ensuite, bathroom and maybe the kitchen if i am lucky......some list huh but miracles do happen!
Seal the lovely stone floor i unearthed when i was ripping my downstairs loo to bits!
Grow some veg in my veg plot and get the rest of the garden sorted....
find time for shoe shopping (womans gotta have shoes!!)
Reserve to keep my cool with the CO when he visits and vetos everything i ask for :? ....
Try to be patient
Not kill anyone
Drink more vino!
oh ... and when my husband and kids drive me up the wall smile sweetly and plot my revenge! hehe xx

 

[FamilyWiggs]

I'm lucky, Mrs F doesn't get the whole "must have wardrobe full of shoes" thing either.

Mrs F has a wardrobe? See, that's where you're going wrong. First she wants a wardrobe, and then she wants clothes and shoes to put in it. It's a slippery slope...

 

[ilona73]

oopps i forgot one
to spend more time on here in between all of the above ! hehehe x

 

[Feltwell]

Mrs F has a wardrobe? See, that's where you're going wrong. First she wants a wardrobe, and then she wants clothes and shoes to put in it. It's a slippery slope...

Well, she is pregnant, and I do like to remind her every time that she's in the kitchen that all I have to do is nick her shoes and then she will fit the stereotype of being barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen.....

Don't believe a word of it. We both know who's in charge. The kids, mostly!

 

[jocelyn plummer]

Remove the peeling exterior paint finish from the back wall of the house
remove and replace blown bricks and repoint
strip pantiles off garden outbuilding and replace properly
decide on a floor covering for the kitchen
install new electric shower in bathroom
remove easipanels from bathroom , make good and redecorate

wish for 6 wooden windows--maybe just one would be possible for the bathroom------

Continue to get to the bottom of the missing house deeds and resolve when, how and who pinched some of the garden.

Empty remaining storage unit------ sell, sell, sell.

Sounds simple enough, but electric supply has to be got to the bathroom, taking off the easipanel means plastering over the breeze blocks, removing the paint finish outside means scaffolding and mess

G & T anyone?

 

[ilona73]

Hell yes and make it a big one.. i have needs!!
cheers me dear xx

 

[jocelyn plummer]

Cheers everyone

 

[biffvernon]

http://www.1010uk.org/

 

[Inspector John]

Smile and acknowledge other road users.

Are you missing the phrase "by using more than one or two fingers" from your resolution for a reason ?

You've delt with builders before, haven't you? :wink:

 

[LadyArowana]

You've delt with builders before, haven't you? :wink:

Yes indeed, my resolution for this time last year was "keep builder on target without losing temper". I have not decided on one for 2010.

 

[Ushy M]

Repair and hydraulically grout gable end wall
Lime point and plaster above
Remove cement pointing on front wall of house
Hydraulically grout above wall and repoint in lime
Remove nasty cardboard floors and replace with elm boards
Remove nasty new joists on hangers and replace with oak joists properly mortice/tenoned into main beams
Remove nasty cardboard/plasterboard ceilings and replace with something better
Get garden into sufficiently good shape for Open gardens (rashly agreed to whilst pi**ed)

Umm...
Cuddle cats and grow herbs
Try to keep job despite attacks on public sector to pay back National Debt
Keep quantity of shoes down (according to Mr M it's like being married to a bloomin' centipede!)

AND cut 10% of my carbon emissions in 2010.

 

[Inspector John]

You've delt with builders before, haven't you? :wink:

Yes indeed, my resolution for this time last year was "keep builder on target without losing temper". I have not decided on one for 2010.

Resolution for TwentyTen.... Smile and acknowledge him :wink:

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Happy New Year everyone!

 

[essexbearhunter]

Bliadhna Mhath Ùr !

 

[Carol]

My resolution, same as every year since 2002.

Finsh re-pointing garden wall -lime of course.

This is made harder by the wonderful work done on the new bit by expert stonemason and builder.

Mine won't match !

 

[Flyfisher]

Happy New Year to everyone!

My immediate resolution is to get my bodyclock back into sync with daylight. I seem to have slipped towards bedtime at around 3am and getting up at 2pm.

 

[JoceAndChris]

I like the secret band-playing wild side FF reveals now and again. :wink:

Happy New Year everyone! Hope 2010 sees lots and lots of house projects happily completed.

 

[Flyfisher]

I like the secret band-playing wild side FF reveals now and again. :wink:

'tis true I've been playing a fair bit over the Christmas period, but 'mild side' would probably be more accurate. :wink:

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Finish the steps between lounge and utility room;

Caulk around all the wood that has shrunk this year;

Make register plate for chimbly;

Do porch and office above - including lime plastering porch;

Make door for lounge that Biff or Andrew wouldn't laugh at;

Finish floor in dining room;

Appreciate decent wine and coffee more;

Make NT membership worthwhile by visiting more than the usual 3 local properties;

Accompany Joce to Hunt Ball (if Chris is busy!);

Get Stag going properly and MOT it;

Grow next year's Christmas lunch - veg, pigs and geese;

Saviour the moment of voting in the General Election and the small part played in seeing the back of our Dear Leader.

How interesting. I was searching for another post and turned this up from 2009 instead.

I am delighted to report that I have completed 2 of the resolutions on that list. Sadly they are the last 2.

Has anyone else got a list of period to-do things, that is equally glacial in progress?

I suppose I have at least started the office above the porch from the list... which involved some wonderful flitchplate repairs, new oak lintel (the one made entirely of sawdust underneath the plasterboard was not really considered structural any longer) and some lime plastering.

Oh...and the oak arrived yesterday for me to make to door for the lounge.

Crikey - this dizzying rate of progress is actually making me giddy!

 

[JoceAndChris]

1) Start, finish hall.
2) Remove all concrete and cement.
3) Learn lime pointing and plastering, do kitchen.
4) Make curtains for porch, hall, top bedroom, kitchen.
5) Repair all windows.
6) Sell husband's superflous vehicles, spend money on shoes, diamonds.
7) Expand livestock.
8) Hatch, rear, sell chicks.
9) Continue campaign of aggressive social climbing and go to hunt balls, shooting parties etc.
10) Have big PPUK party.
11) Understand architecture and be able to spout knowledgeably.
12) Go to Belton House.
13) Charity shop everything that hasn't been used in the last year.
14) Train to be a solicitor.

:lol: mostly all done though the windows never end and training to be a solicitor doesn't seem a very sensible idea any more.

Family Wiggs, we must still go to the Hunt ball, with Nicola and Chris of course.