Today I shall be Mainly...

[Stanley]

"I don’t envy them unpacking those rooms full of boxes today."
That made me smile wryly Sue. In my experience some boxes can hang about for months!
I made the same comment about the flitting in Pennine Weather, I'm glad you got away with it.
I am sat down having a breather after two hours in the shed. I shall have a walk, breakfast and then post in shed matters. It's nice to sit down!

[Marilyn]

I love packing, and unpacking. I am always very organised and have moved many times. I just hate moving day itself...very wearying...always a long day.

[Stanley]

Include me out Maz!



Two hours in the shed and I now have 4 bearings that I have confidence in.

[Sue]

I love packing, and unpacking. I am always very organised and have moved many times. I just hate moving day itself...very wearying...always a long day.

I think that is Claire and Adam . They had done a lot of sorting and throwing before they packed. Everything was labelled with contents and room. They have however decided to put a coat of emulsion on all the walls this week before they unpack properly. They have a week off work to do that, which is all the more important as they both work from home for the environment agency and they have to set up two office spaces ASAP. The main urgency being Claire has two online internal job interviews for promotion on Thursday. She was supposed to give a presentation but when she explained her circumstances they have cancelled that for all candidates saying it unfairly disadvantaged her. Claire and I unpacked a few things and Bob plumbed in the washer, the dryer and the dishwasher but lack of time, space and everyones fatigue soon won.

[Stanley]

I once read somewhere that as a life event, flitting is up there with divorce and bereavement. I'll go for that!
Looking forward to the shed this morning, more work on the bearings. Amazing how much time you spend on each little part of the engine....

[Marilyn]

Flitting means something different here. Flitting means leaving the house suddenly, generally during the night or pre dawn...hence the term “moonlight flit”. It means you have skipped off and not paid rent owed. Flitters don’t clean the house either and generally leave unwanted junk behind.

[chinatyke]

Flitting is the common term round here for moving house and does not have any negative connotations. We have moonlight flitters here too, Marilyn, and "doing a moonlight" isn't good!

[Stanley]

It's just a common alternative term for moving house here also China. No negative connotations.

[Marilyn]

Moving house here with no connotations is “upping sticks”.

[Sue]

Flitting means something different here. Flitting means leaving the house suddenly, generally during the night or pre dawn...hence the term “moonlight flit”. It means you have skipped off and not paid rent owed. Flitters don’t clean the house either and generally leave unwanted junk behind.

And here, I have never heard it used as a term for normal planned moving

[Sue]

Morning

What a day it was yesterday. My day was filled with my Christmas card project and I became very creative recycling old watercolour paintings that I no longer want. I only intended spending a few minutes clearing the table in my sewing room so I could put up my overlocker sewing machine, but got completely side tracked into craft. Nothing more to say except it happily filled my day. At the same time it meant some further sorting of my art stuff happened.

Today is a better day and would have been a good day for our weekly lunch out with Wendy and Keith, but Bob is busy. He has an online U3A photography class today. He spent the day yesterday taking photos for it on the theme of THREES and took a superb one of raindrops on the conservatory window. In the afternoon today he is doing the last big clear out of his friends workshop. Tomorrow does not look a good day for being outside so lunch may have to be cancelled this week. Oh for the end of these restrictions! We are hoping that the new rules on postcode or ward may benefit us.

As for me, I suppose , that today, I will do the sewing I did not do yesterday. My latest self challenge is to make myself some pilates leggings. I don’t need any at the moment but thought I would give it a go. A pattern and the proper fabric is twice as expensive as buying some so I am going to adapt a pattern I made for stretch trousers last Winter and have bought some cheap stretch cotton fabric off ebay. I like cotton for yoga, as my legs are less likely to slip in some of the one legged balance poses. I also do not like ankle length leggings as they are too hot. This combination of cotton and shorter leggings is not easy to buy so there is method in my madness.

I hope Claire didn’t discover any leaks in her new home yesterday.

Have a good day everyone.

[Stanley]

As usual you sound sorted Sue.
Again as usual I am taking the weight off my feet for five minutes after an hour and a half in the shed. I shall enjoy the fact that it isn't raining and have a nice little walk. Then breakfast and a bit of posting in shed matters.

[Marilyn]

No Sue...moving house is moving house...flitting is another matter here, as I tried to explain. Flitting is “dodgy” behaviour. Landlord comes along to find the premises empty ( and dirty) and he is owed rent.

[Wendyf]

No Sue...moving house is moving house...flitting is another matter here, as I tried to explain. Flitting is “dodgy” behaviour. Landlord comes along to find the premises empty ( and dirty) and he is owed rent.

I think that is what Sue said Maz and I agree, flitting referring to a sudden, unplanned move and a moonlight flit being one where debts aren't settled!

[Sue]

No Sue...moving house is moving house...flitting is another matter here, as I tried to explain. Flitting is “dodgy” behaviour. Landlord comes along to find the premises empty ( and dirty) and he is owed rent.

Thats what I said, or thought I said. I have never heard of flitting as moving house before.

[Wendyf]

I hadn't heard it till we lived in Scotland.

[Sue]

I have just phoned the dentist as the fluid filled lump keeps appearing and disappearing very few days. I asked for advice if I should see the dentist or my GP. The receptionist said could I wait till next week for an appointment. I said ‘of course, unless its cancer’ the dentist is phoning me today !

[Marilyn]

It's just a common alternative term for moving house here also China. No negative connotations.

Oh....that’s why I got confused. And China agreed with Stanley.

[plaques]

Flitting was a common term when I was young. The majority of people rented houses and would move across the road if the rent was 6p a week cheaper. ie: having little possessions they would flit from one place to another. Moving while owing rent was a Moonlight flit. Flittermouse (a bat) lightly moving about.

[Marilyn]

So we all agree. Flitting is not something most people do. Flitting has negative connotations.
Thank you. That is what I thought.

[Tripps]

My take is that 'flitting' is just a word meaning moving house. I'd say it was working class sort of a word. I doubt our dear Queen uses it when she moves to Balmoral.

A 'moonlight flit' is a sub category.

Good example of the moonlight - see the film 'A Taste of Honey'. Dora Bryan and Rita Tushingham give a good demonstration. It's on Talkng Pictures TV quite often.

[Marilyn]

I have moved house many times. I have never flitted.

[chinatyke]

I have moved house many times. I have never flitted.

I have flitted many times not moved house!

I meant flitting was the common word in the Colne area not where I am now; I've no idea what it is called in China!

[Sue]

I have neither flitted nor moved house in many a long year, 47 to be exact. Though I have bought, sold (and furnished ) other houses , but not packed up a whole house since we moved here in 1973. It wasn’t hard then , we hardly owned anything.

[plaques]

Wednesday afternoon activities didn't go down too well. Started off pretty mundane with edge clipping and trimming the odd bush then moved on to mowing the front lawn. Disaster struck. Spotted some weeds in a corner of the border so with rake in hand started to drag them out but inadvertently stepped back onto a wasps nest. They attacked without warning, millions of the little buggers intent on inflicting as much pain and destruction as possible. Stung five times on the ears and nose. Unfortunately with all this flapping of hands and avoiding the kamikaze wasp attack I momentarily lost my concentration and forgot I was holding the rake hitting my nose with the rake handle and wondering where the blood was coming from. At the end of this skirmish three of the blighters paid the ultimate price but in truth I think the won the match.
The pains going now.