Shattered!

If you have ever listed anything for sale on eBay, you will know it can be time-consuming.  I have just surfaced from listing 6 chunks of antique furniture and I took about 80 photographs overall today of the various things I need to get listed this weekend (there is a special deal on over selling fees).  I am finally clearing out ALL my remaining horsey things, and need to shift a few book bundles too (if they still sell).  

So, this afternoon, rather than watching the National Hunt racing (though that's been recorded so I will catch up on it tonight), I have been polishing, photographing, measuring, making measurements have metric and imperial equivalents and then cubing them so I have a size/price for the courier plus making those eBay listings (which also require research as to pricing, wordage etc). 

The little yew-wood drinks trolley which hopefully will go to a new home soon.  (The mare and foal are staying though!!)

The day started with scrubbing out the inglenook downstairs in (what was) mum's kitchen, putting antique lighting and lightbulbs away in the cupboard, scrubbing the flagstone floor, vacuuming the carpet, and brushing the walls and sweeping and scrubbing the inglenook floor.  All that so I could use the inglenook to stage a couple of bits of furniture.  I have quilts and blankets to photograph and list tomorrow, but that's another day.  We need to get rid of a lot of furniture (and "stuff") before we can put the house back on the market, so we have rooms which - though they won't be minimalist - you will be able to see as they should be presented.

I did finally get around to making more soup today (been planning it two days now).  Chicken breast chopped and fried, and then the last 1/3 of a still very fresh packet of stir-fry mix from Sainsbury's (I couldn't face it 3 meals on the trot for tea!)  I added some spicy seasoning (Cajun I think) and it tastes very toothsome, though I say it myself.

The frogs have just about finished doing their thing out in my ponds, and there is masses of frogspawn to show for it.  I hope the tadpoles survive and don't all snuff it from a virus or something like they did a couple of years back.

I have now awarded myself the evening off - my Period Living magazine arrived today - which reminds me, I need to cancel my subscription as I only took one out to get the free Emma Bridgwater mugs . . .

ADDENDUM - having stripped the bed this morning and got all the bedding washed and dried, I had forgotten we hadn't made the bed up with fresh linen.  Nor had I ironed the warm flannelette set from last week I was intending to use (in preference to the lighter more summery duvet sets I have in the coffer).  So I had to iron that, and the sheet, then vacuum the bed (dust mite eradication) and then we made the bed up fresh.  I think I shall fall into it later!