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Triple Dog Dare!

Pick 3 things
Do them
Post your TaDas!

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.

Coleridge wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and "Kubla Khan", as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical works were highly influential, especially in relation to William Shakespeare, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking cultures. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including "suspension of disbelief". He had a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson and American transcendentalism.

Throughout his adult life, Coleridge had crippling bouts of anxiety and depression; it has been speculated that he had bipolar disorder, which had not been defined during his lifetime. He was physically unhealthy, which may have stemmed from a bout of rheumatic fever and other childhood illnesses. He was treated for these conditions with laudanum, which fostered a lifelong opium addiction.

Coleridge had a turbulent career and personal life with a variety of highs and lows, but his public esteem grew after his death, and he became considered one of the most influential figures in English literature. For instance, a 2018 report by The Guardian labelled him "a genius" who had progressed into "one of the most renowned English poets".

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan

Good morning everyone and happy Sunday!

Helia,.so glad you had a good time with your DFriend. Safe travels today!

Dogged ,that was an ingenious way of dealing with the extra bread!

Yesterday evening I decided to unplug the hardest for the landline that's been sitting in the kitchen unused for a year a d out it ready to be returned. Then I had the idea of moving the chargers for the cordless hoover to that spot. That involved moving everything out from the cubby hole (I made the most of this and gave the floor a good sweep) and then tying a piece of string on the end of the charger to pull it through the the small hole in the work top (originally made by the kitchen installer many years ago to accommodate the cable fro. The phone!)next to the wall. (Tedious, but it does mean the cable is safely out of the way, so it looks better , and shouldn't be a temperature to little paws! : ) I'm now waiting to see if DH notices!

Church today, then coffee with DF E, and Ibe also been asked any a mutual friend to see if I can help E.with her new phone. ( Something to do with the 3G switch off) If I can't sort her out the manager of the retirement complex will take up her cause with the phone company on Monday (Under the legislation, vulnerable elderly people cannot be made to have a smart phone if they don't want /can't manage one - there are at least a couple of models over here with big buttons that just do texts and calls. ) Either way, she still has her landline, so she's not totally cu off while we sort this out.

Ha e a good da,y everyone!

To do:
Cuddles and snack for Matilda, Jude and Freddie
Bible reading and meditation
Update latest Waitrose order
Cup of tea
Get up!
Scrub out litter trays (DH)
Change sheets on bed
Shower/wash hair/moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
S/S bathroom
Physio exercises
Get dressed in casual clothes
Give everyone fresh water
Cat breakfast and meds /supplements
Breakfast and meds /vitamins for me
Hang up towels that washed overnight
Hang up sheets to dry
Quick kitchen clean up
Load DW
Quick PUPA downstairs
Quick dust and Hoover downstairs
Change into smarter outfit
OTD to church
Coffee with DF E
Back home again, change back into casual clothes
Meat in oven
Coffee with DH
Put potatoes and veg to roast
Put up my vitamins and supplements for the week
Weigh out Jude's and Matilda's dry food for the week
Quick PUPA upstairs
15 minutes in tiny front garden
15 minutes in back garden
Dish up lunch
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Head rubs with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Play with Freddie, Jude, Matilda
Fold laundry and PA
Run DW when full
Unload DW
Post list with my plans for the week
Clothes laid out for tomorrow

Extras:
Polish bag
DEFRA consultation
Photos?
Sewing project?
Ask DH to install smoke detector
Email church commissioners re pastoral reorganisation

Happy Sunday!

kittykatt, the big question of the day however is - what is your Sunday lunch menu?

I have a question for you USA (especially southern) SHEs - if cornbread is to be eaten with a soup or stew, do you still put sugar in it? Cause the recipe I have in my Southern cookbook (it's by a woman who moved to Czech Republic in the 1980's and adopted her Cajun/Creole/Southern family recipes to locally available ingredients) calls for 1/2 cup of sugar. I only used 1/4 cup and it just tasted off with the Mexican bean soup. But maybe it's because unlike in USA, we do not use sugar in bread at all and so we are just not accustomed to it?

Anyway, I did like the cornbread, just not very much with the soup (which turned out delicious and exactly like the soup I used to buy in a food court close to my previous job - the fast food joint no longer sells it and I miss it very much so I am glad I can now make it at home!). The kids liked the cornbread, but not the soup. You can never win in this household! BTW DS loves cheddar and hates gouda, and the twins love gouda and despise cheddar. I really can't win!

It's gonna be another lovely day for gardening! I am making progress, not overly quick, but I cleaned out the veggie patch and spaded it, working in a generous helping of granulated manure. Left the big chunks sit overnight, today I will rake it and maybe add some compost over the top, geting it ready for planting. I also need to handle laundry, change bedding all around the house, oversee homework and dig into filing / paperwork. Gonna be busy, but am I not always?

TaDas
- breakfast and coffee
- dressed to shoes
- internet time

ToDos
- morning routine
- 3 room rescue - kitchen, master bathroom, master bedroom
- 30 on laundry

Braindump
routines
- midday routine
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- lunch
- dinner
- bake something sweet
organization
- DBD's make-up work for school
- DBD's speech therapy
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- homework and backpacks
- plan for March
- order new steam generator
- order new contact lenses
- go over insurance proposal
cleaning
- strip and remake all beds
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS13's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
- spiff up office
laundry
- load of towels
- load of linens
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside
- start seeds
- prune fruit trees
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyards
- start cleaning out the carpool
- seeding plan for veggie garden
- start fertilizing trees
- start fertilizing roses
- prune roses
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading

◕‿◕ * * * Good Morning! * * * ◕‿◕

I was so busy yesteerday I forgot to post again. I kept an eye on kids during the afternoon, helped by some video games , cleaned the Entrance and Dining Room zone, I also watch the rugby - Six ation Tournament - a great game between Scotland and France, very good rugby is a pleasure to watch. Then we had a nice dinner with DNeighbours P and M and their son, and Dneighbours M and N and their daughters were invited too. I need social time, and they are friendly people, with common challenges : dealing with kids and jobs, and wanting to change jobs, going into training or transitioning.
Now we have to plan to return the invitation (both families together is 11 people), make our LR presentable, find chairs and plates and meal ideas... I like the challenge, but I would like it if it wasn't so... challenging. Thank you all for the advice !
helia probably our house looks worse to us than to visitors, but still, ...you wouldn't want to sit on our couch. (very glad you could have time with a great friend!)
Bama "walking around" in our LR with food isn't really doable, due to limited space. (sorry the flies are back, they can be so annoying)
L.Ann, yes, weather permitting we can probably have drinks and starters while in the garden (but not enough seating outside either). We will not return the invitation before at least a few weeks anyway.
Dogged Yes I'm thinking about a kids table. About bread : we freeze sliced bread, and defrost it with a few seconds of microwave and light toasting. Not sure it works well for all types of bread though.

Kittykatt, thanks for the start. Another English-speaking poet I don't know much about , nothing more than "Oh I heard his name". (It wasn't the case for Shakespeare or Tennyson though). I too want to know your Sunday menu.

trissie, good luck with your busy Sunday, I hope you can find time for your gardening projects ! MrNG will be gardening too. I may join him, the dandelions have started (again), so I'm on the warpath. As for a buffet dinner, I think we would rather have the children at a "kids table", coffee table, and the grownups seated around an extended LR table fos ome sort.

TADAs
late wakeup, checked news in bed
breakfast all together
reviewed the menu plan because some things needed thawing that won't be thawed early enough for lunch

TODO
time in garden
cook easy lunch (change of menus)
convince kids to get their homework done
and more things

Frenchie, my "buffet suggestion" was more along the lines of "things that people just scoop on their plates" instead of "served meal" - like, a large pot of chili and such. Good luck getting kids to do homework, it's on my list today too!

TaDas
- morning routine
- 3 room rescue - kitchen, master bathroom, master bedroom
- 30 on laundry
- lunch started
- strip and remake master bedroom bed

ToDos
- finish lunch
- strip and remake DBD's bed
- fold and put away laundry from airer

Braindump
routines
- midday routine
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- lunch
- dinner
- bake something sweet
organization
- DBD's make-up work for school
- DBD's speech therapy
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- homework and backpacks
- plan for March
- order new steam generator
- order new contact lenses
- go over insurance proposal
cleaning
- strip and remake all beds
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS13's room
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
- spiff up office
laundry
- load of towels
- load of linens
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside
- start seeds
- prune fruit trees
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyards
- start cleaning out the carpool
- seeding plan for veggie garden
- start fertilizing trees
- start fertilizing roses
- prune roses
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading

We don’t do cornbread very often… maybe because DD33 is not really a bread eater and if we make it I will eat it all. I don’t put sugar in it but sometimes serve it with honey if we want it sweet. We usually eat blue corn chips with soups and chilis. I am moving slowly with the time change and the fact that my friend had her grandkids overnight and couldn't walk this morning.

1-dress and pick up bedroom
2-mop bathroom floor
3-laundry reboot

4- walk

Menus
Sunday-Middle Eastern chickpea bowl
Monday-black bean and turkey chili
Tuesday-shrimp tikka masala with rice
Wednesday-DD33 out w/PS/me leftovers
Thursday-chicken burrito bowl
Friday-spicy coconut turkey curry soup

Events
Sunday-
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9-3:15, DD33 shot@3:30
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9-3:15, cooking @6:30, breakfast out w/friends 8:30
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9-3:15, PS for DD33 3-8, 11 radiologist appointment
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9-3:15
Friday- Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9-3:15
Saturday-bball tournament

Weekly House Blessing-mop bathroom
Detailed cleaning of dining room-scrub dining room floor
Detailed cleaning of kitchen-scrub kitchen floor
Death book-update DD33’s pages, call lawyer for appointment to review will and DD33’s POAs
Phone calls
Taxes-finish DM’s income so I can figure out what I still need(last paper done on 2/28)-emailed

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for me and dog and DD33
-diet site
-read a bit
-start laundry

Hmmm, I'll have to look up what blue corn chips are, L.Ann!
Safe travels today, helia!

Never posted my next three - well never hit the post button, but I did them anyways, so now I need to come up with a different set

TaDas
- finish lunch
- strip and remake DBD's bed
- fold and put away laundry from airer
- load of towels running
- midday routine
- 30 on laundry
- check what remains to be done from DBD's make-up work
- running a load of winter blankets - the twins want to inter-season ones now

ToDos
- 1 hour in the garden
- afternoon routine
- deliver folded and ironed laundry

Braindump
routines
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
organization
- DBD's make-up work for school
- DBD's speech therapy
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- homework and backpacks
- plan for March
- order new steam generator
- order new contact lenses
- go over insurance proposal
cleaning
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS13's room
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
- spiff up office
laundry
- load of linens
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside
- start seeds
- prune fruit trees
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyards
- start cleaning out the carpool
- seeding plan for veggie garden
- start fertilizing trees
- start fertilizing roses
- prune roses
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading