Clearing up after Christmas.

I've spent yesterday and this morning clearing away all the Christmas stuff and arranging some new bits 'n pieces, mostly purchases from our holiday. This is the Cath Kidston jug that I bought in Lyme Regis...

And this chicken pottery I bought in a giftshop/tearoom in a place called Abbotsbury where we stopped one day for a walk and popped in here for some homemade cakes and rolls. Mmmmm. I'm using this to keep my camomile tea bags in.

This is part of a tea set I bought in a charity shop in Bridport for £2.50!

And these hyacinths I bought in Tesco yesterday for £2!

I've got fish chowder in this 'ere slow cooker for dinner tonight.

It was absolutely freezing in bed last night, even with the heating on. Everyone seems a bit tired and 'off' today especially hubby who appears to have 'man-flu'. He is irritated with me being irritated about so much rubbish and clutter everywhere. I popped next door on Sunday to thank my neighbour for looking after our chickens. When she opened the door I couldn't help but notice how smart her hallway is... no coats and shoes to be seen and she has a carpet which isn't filthy from people trudging in and out with dirty shoes on. How do people do that? (She has 3 kids, too, although much older than ours).

More snow is forecast. Mr Sainsbury delivered my shopping this morning, loads of stuff to keep us going.

Grouchy!

I'm very tired again today. This morning we were all still asleep when the alarm went off at 8am. I'm usually up before the alarm goes off but not today. I did get going eventually though, enough to get a parcel sent off to my brother in Australia. I took it to one of the Post Office services at the local pub, a lot less stressful than going to the P.O. in town. I had a bit of a cleaning blitz in the kitchen too, scrubing down the work surfaces and tiles with a mix of bleach and bicarb of soda. The oven badly needs doing but Hubby said he'd do that soon! But I'm back to being tired again - very irritated by the phone constantly ringing and it's just people in call centres and sometimes they rig it so that when you pick up the phone, it calls them so you end up paying for the call. They ought to be prosecuted! Trying to help Honor with her homework is very draining too. I wish Primary kids didn't get homework.

I'm starting to get niggling pains with my teeth, too. Just in time for Christmas. Boo!

Finished.

I've finished clearing Henry's bedroom and Hubby managed to put together the bed-in-the-box

from Homebase even though on one of the poles the holes were drilled on the wrong side! I've put little xmas trees in both their rooms as we're not having a big tree this year.

Clearing out.

My father-in-law came round this morning to help with replacing the old skirting board to match the new door (see pic). Meanwhile, getting down xmas decorations has lead to clearing out and reorganisation around the house. Why? Cos it just does! I'm fed up with trying to change the sheet on Henry's midi sleeper bed and I thought it would give him more space in his room. More space to accumulate clutter. He doesn't play under there, not enough room. So Hubby and I have agreed to replace it with a normal bed. It is such a tiny room. I have cleared everything out for now and will try to work out a better system for it (getting rid of lots of 'stuff') in the process.