So wrong - but I do get embarrassed by the number of times my name appears. Just love it when it's all someone else's.
Think again?
0600 Tea - check & answer mail - offload any bees-in-bonnet onto A4A - dispose of 500+ spammy things
0630 Put cauli to soak for cauli cheese
0645 Riddle fire, empty ash, refill, get coal from shed - still in nightwear
0700 Tea for 'upstairs' - news
0730 Bath
0800 Get papers - sort - tea- read papers - check blood pressure - take pill
0830 Check greenhouse - open up - move around - add heat, light
0900 Sow more seeds- refine vermiculite
0915 Waste to compost bin - hard boiled egg for b'fast - vit pills - tea
0945 Prepare cauli & onions - fry lardons for their meat & for fat for the sauce
1000 Make sauce - stock from larder - milk - cream - make breadcrumbs - grate cheese
1015 Feed birds - check water butts' (9 of them) feed for blockages
1030 Figure what to give us + next door (3+5) tomorrow.
1100 So who cares? Glass of wine. Research info for A4A queries
1130 Prepare & cook lunch - glass of wine
1230 Lunch - glass of wine
And in between all this - check for irate lotterers, disputing my comments, reply & listen to advice from Daughter & Wife.
This is retirement??
Wrote this this am but it vanished. No wonder?
i'm always impressed that you find time for us, Tim :)
and i trust your experience much more than the books!
Jo
Quote from: tim on April 02, 2006, 19:41:40
1130 Prepare & cook lunch - glass of wine
1230 Lunch - glass of wine
1300-1700 Sleep off wine ;D ;D ;D
Good Luck and all the best
Mike
Yes, Mike - to make way for the Scotch(es) at 6pm! To help preparing supper.
Don't get me wrong, though. Wife is a great cook, but I need something to occupy my time. And She just loves reading.
Happy birthday, Jo!!
Quite a full and productive morning Tim. I enjoyed seeing a little snatch of your day. Wish I could manage to get up at 6.00 a.m. Always mean to but during these still nippy mornings my bed is too warm and comfy. Seen some of your cooking results and they always look delicious. I would eat at your house anytime. :) busy_lizzie
Hi Tim! what can I say, a full morning! ;D
very impressive Tim
But I bet you can't do two things at once though!!! ;)
;D
Inspiration to us all Tim!!! You have just described my perfect retirement!!!
;D
please tell me if im being cheeky but you mention caulflower cheese iv never had any luck cooking it for my oh (he never likes it ) please could i use you recipe ( would you send it to me ) i would be most gratefull thank you very much iv use web site metods ,packets,etc but es fussy and never likes it once again tanks a lot for you help
My sunday am would be that full and productive Tim, if only it was more than three hours long ;D ;D
0900 - 0915 - Sow more seeds ???
How many do you sow in 15 mins?
It takes me half an hour just to assemble the various bits required! ::)
Yes Tim, I am left in simple awe how you manage to squeeze so much out of your day ...
Tim. My son sometimes says to me that I am busier in retirement than when I went to the office all day!! I don't rise as early as you but I don't retire until about 11.30pm then always read for an hour.. Still I enjoy being able to do the school run when required and helping the kids when they need help which obviously I couldn't do when I worked.. You certainly have busy mornings.
Lorna.
Wowzers Tim, Makes me so exhausted reading it, I am ready for bed!
We are awake at 6am, because the three urchins (step daughter weekend) get up at that unearthly hour. The we lay in bed and listen to them play for a while. There is something incredibly pure about hearing kids play, and laugh and make up games....
Then finally at 8am we stagger out of bed to make pancakes and waffles for breakfast. After that, my day is a blur of 'Mum', Mum, he is hitting me', 'Mum, can I have a drink', 'Mum, make her stop!', 'Mum, I'm hungry', 'Mum, what's for lunch', 'Mum, MUM, where are you',' Mum, I need you', 'Mum they are fighting again', and so on...you get the picture! However, my darling clever Ava built a rather splendid wooden toy box for the conservatory today so we don't have to have crates of their toys stacked up in there and it can look neat...................except for all of my seed trays, and compost, and seedlings, and seed packets, and watering cans, and compost on the floor, and so on and so forth! ;D ;D ;D ;D
So you’re not into “Multi Tasking†yet Tim? ??? 6am alarm bell rings, (didn’t hear it) ::) 7am heard it but put it on sleep time, ;D 7.30am woke up wondering when the alarm will go off. :o
8.00am Panic stations dropped me Jim jams, jump in shower whilst wet shaving, look in A4A. :D
8.30am walk dog whilst controlling grandkids on their way to school on lead. :-\
9am walked dog back home whilst smoking a f*g and reading the Times, look in A4A. ;D
9.30am cook breakfast whilst getting washing in off the line and putting Jim jams etc in washing machine, look in A4A. :P
9.45 put burnt toast on plate whilst answering door to postman whilst prying dog from postman’s trouser leg, look in A4A. :D
10am time for a little telly whilst doing the ironing and letting the dog out because he wants to, look in A4A. ::)
10.45am nip to the shops pay bills, whilst answering mobile phone, buy food.
12.45pm back home, prepare lunch whilst washing up breakfast dishes, chat with wife whilst eating. :-*
2pm relax up plot with dog put a few spuds in, sit in shed eat drink and pat the dog all at the same time. :o ;D
Phew! Don’t know you’re born.
gosh roll on retirement....can't wait to have such a relaxing day
Only 2 trays, Amazin. Just finished disassembling 5lb of chicken wings & into the bottom oven, for the hoard who lunch here today.
Emma, of course, only cat-naps? Here until 2am - up at 6!!
Multi-tasking? Plenty on the roads today - doing the roundabout with mobile in left ear?? Dog hairs in my wine, Roy?? But I do like the idea of children on the lead.
An electric razor is a boon when dealing with the Postman!! Hope your Wife appreciates the 7 minutes she gets?
loulou - mail me your recipe & I'll see how I can help?
PS Thanks for reminding me - dustbin day today. Take them all down to the yard gate. Given my age, they take them from there.
We are doing our bit on the glass recycling front, but the awful clatter when the bottles get tipped in..................we look the other way!
Quote from: tim on April 03, 2006, 07:13:21
the awful clatter when the bottles get tipped in..................we look the other way!
Thought you'd signed the Pledge, Tim? :o ;D
Oh - noticing, aren't we??
And so early in the morning!
No - I signed nothing. Just gave it up for a month. Would have been for good had I not been put on hold for a prostate check. Looked at the possibilities. Didn't like them. Went back to God's tonic for the 3 months' wait.
So now? I've got quite used to it!!
i think i'll have breakfast at tims..help roy take the kids to school,nip over to ej's and give her a hand.back to tims for lunch(well,someones got to help him with the uncorking! ;D)nip back here to sow some more spuds feed the cats,rush over to loulous and make tea for her ol' man,run to amazins and sow someseeds,back to tims for tea,...who've i missed?
tim-just how many people do you feed for goodness 'sake??!
it all sounds perfick!i was going to outline my day but i didnt want to send you all to sleep! ;D
kitty - I always buy screw tops - no fool!!
Feed? All comers. Typically - every so often - up to 13 - when 2 families join us. Mostly, at weekends, only 8.
only 8!!
BTW Tim, your yorkshire pudding recipe was such a triumph that I was forced to eat 3 of the monsters
on my roast chicken dinner!!! :-X :-X
Debs ;)
This week???...
I will mostly be eating salad ;D
Quote from: EJ - Emma Jane on April 02, 2006, 22:15:59
There is something incredibly pure about hearing kids play, and laugh and make up games....
;D ;D ;D ;D
That reminded me of when our kids were little (Both in 20's now). We used to wake up in the morning to hear my son singing to himself in bed in the next room. Lovely memory, thanks for bringing it back. His favorite was;
'I jumped aboard the pirate ship, and the captain said to me' etc. etc. etc.
I must remember to bring up this subject with him now he's home from uni, and is unaware of mornings!
Brian
Mine's just turned 10 and I love the fact that he burbles away unselfconsciously to himself all day long - you can always tell when he's in the loo cos there's the sounds of some epic fight (plus dialogue for all characters) or a song or animal noises he's trying out (you get the idea) ;D - all at the top of his voice of course.
(If I ask him how his day at school was, though, I get a muttered "s'ok, s'ppose" followed by silence ;D)
I'm fortunate that I have now retired. No more getting up at 5am to start a 6am shift. I really make the most of it these days. ;D ;D
6am I get up for a quick trip to the bathroom and then back to bed and a bit more sleep.
7am OH's alarm clock goes off and I snuggle down the bed and nod off again as he gets ready for work.
7.30am Sons alarm clock goes off and a smile comes over my face as I realise how lucky I am to have retired. ;D ;D
8am Dog arrives on bed, OH and son go off to work, I snuggle down for another half an hour or so with dog snoring on the end of bed. ::)
8.30 to 9.15am I get up, pull back the curtains and having binoculars handy, scan the back garden for birds, having frightened most of them off the feeder by drawing the curtains back. :D
9.15 Feed cat, dog and myself, checking A4A and other mail on computer.
9.45 - 10.45 Check on chickens and greenhouse, tidy up kitchen then get showered and dressed. Check A4A for those I didn't get round to earlier.
11 am Out in the garden digging, weeding etc.
1.30pm Lunch. Still need to read the rest of A4A as I have only got down to the Swap Shop by now.
2pm. Out in the garden again, working.
3pm. Watch old Gardeners World programmes on TV.
4pm. Cup of tea. Pot on any plants.
5pm. Cook evening meal.
6- 7pm. Eat evening meal.
7pm. Catch up on the rest of A4A forum, play computer games or watch TV.
10.45pm. Run off a Sudoku from the Internet and get ready for bed. Do Sudoku.
11.30pm. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
pailine, you and i are going to fall out.... :P
;D
Grrrrr cant wait to retire...I whizz up to the plot before my late shift and then just as the sun comes out and all the other plotties are having a well earned cuppa........ I AM OFF TO WORK!!!!
It's just wrong!!
:-\
Nice to know a little more of people. Smile with the smilers & gnash with the workers! I just hope that all live long enough to get their just due of retirement. Rich or poor, it's worth the wait.
It's not about not having to work - on retirement, I went straight into framing & teaching for 28 more years. It's about living - & working - at home & dictating your own life.
Finally put the shutters up 3 years ago. If we didn't have a biggish garden - & you-all - I would go mad!
No1 son might have seen that coming - hence the PC 3 years ago!! It has brought so much of our family together, from all over tha world, & I've sent our American cousins the first photos of their grand & great-grandparents that they had ever seen!! Small world, courtesy of Microsoft?
I think I'd be breathless doing all of that!
My parents looked forward to retirement - Mum so she could do nothing if she could (!) and Dad so he didn't have to do a job he loathed any more.
I had always worried about the 'retired man' effect, where a chap retires, and without something to do or his work (aka status in society) to keep him occupied, he expires inside a couple of years. So Mum and I conspired - she bought him a greenhouse and I bought him a computer! Since then, there's been another PC, National Trust membership and after 9 years he's happily gardening and they are both toddling about the countryside seeing places and... :)
My day's a bit crazy, not being retired. I'm emphatically not a morning person, so what possesses me to get up at 6.30am and go to work for 8am in order to leave officially by 4 (ha! More like 5.30) can only be the increased chance to get into the allotment while there's still daylight! That and a home-working husband who is so morning-orientated that he virtually passes out at 10pm and wakes on the dot of 6... ;D
Now if only he'd cook *me* dinner every night!
moonbells
moonbells, i'm not a morning person, but why is it when the bloke gets up he thinks you should be up, yet when they fall asleep on the sofa at nine/ten and you make a noise they go balistic cos 'they're trying to sleep!' and when you mention you don't want to get up yet (nicely i might add) they reckon you've got the mardies on!!!
blokes, humph!