I can't keep up with all my jobs, and spend my time playing catch-up. Consequentially I have a List (usually only a mental one) of all the stuff I really ought to be doing instead of sitting here talking to you lot (only joking)!

My list is in three chunks, with the urgent bits at the top, and the less important bits at the bottom. The trouble is that things keep wandering up the list, so some things are perpetually getting put behind other tasks until they too become urgent!

I'll bet lots of you have similar lists, so I thought it might be fun to see what sort of things people are "trying to get around to". So post your lists of panic, whether for a lotty, a garden or your annual jammaking frenzy!

Check when to summer prune apples and pears
Check for next steps with veg beds
Get irrigation order off
Get sun loungers out
Knock back weeds under electric fence
Reposition fruits on giant pumpkin and pinch out side-shoots
Cut off lower leaves on tomatoes, thin growth on determinates
Harvest, blanch and freeze chard and carrots
Lift shallots and spread to dry
Finish concreting in Harry's swing
Order play sand and gravel/woodchips (ring NatureWorks)

Carpet tunnel and use offcuts for pumpkins
Finish erecting new fencing
Lay piping and drippers for fruit trees
Update blog
Sow last early carrots??
Put out snagging lists in each room
Sort out shutters for windows/new gate
Plant out lawn chamomile and alpine strawberries

Clean out shed, greenhouse and garage, organise
Membrane greenhouse
Dig off remaining side bank
Clear around smoke bush
Plan rear garden and start work
Plan edible hedge and get ready to order
Mark edible hedge on ground and dig in compost
Membrane area around tunnel
Prepare soft fruit beds
Choose and order any soft fruit
Prepare orders for remaining fruit trees, kiwis
Dig out old apple tree
Fix composter
Turn compost and start it
Clear weeds off woodpile, any usable wood to logpile
Cut up log pile, any redundant wood to woodpile
Any stumps to chicken run

Think you scared everybody off!!

Actually I did reply to this a few days ago, but my internet connection bombed out in the middle of sending and I couldn't be bothered to type it up again!!!

One holiday we went on I had a list for everything. So in the end I made a list of my list.

Davina

sell old wheels
arrange insurance for new one
and MOT
liase with garage while work done on new one
wash caravan ready for BGG
install batteries for BGG
make up charging circuitry board for turbine
get 2 section ally scaffold pole for portable mount
walk dogs
work out final details for "greening a school"
and a long report on a huge house's potential for renewables
deal with hundreds of sales of "Wrens" from webshop (I hope!)
visit local small town for shopping
return aged parent's dog following walk
make list for BGG
cook dinner,
brew huge pot of chai
drink, and collapse!

My lifestyle is positively blissful compare to these lists!!

Get breakfast for 5 year old son.
Walk dogs.
Check veggies on patch.
Check SSish site for updates.
Entertain son with trips out, splashing in the pool or playing games.
Get lunch for son.
Walk dogs again.
Do some weeding or planting out for 10 mintues before scurrying back into the cool of my house.
Take render of old wall. General tidy up of house.
Check SSish site for updates.
Entertain son again, probably in the pool.
Feed dogs and walk again.
Feed son.
Pick veggies for dinner.
Feed me and hubby.
Water garden.
Put son to bed.
Check SSish for updates!
Watch TV with freezing cold Stella or 2!

Its hard life but someones gotta do it lol

My list has things in it that I should have done years ago

There is always stuff to do with the site to do.
water plants
get a job
update dot tv site
create an easier environment on the dot org site
create mylocalturbine.com
check the main site for mistakes and format errors
anwser emails
Set up pages for course and campaign pages
up date the co-ops page
check this forum
tidy house
write article for Irish newspaper
put up more photos on the site.
weed allotment
put wood around allotment
turn over compost heap
write jobs to be done in July (or perhaps will have to be august now as it has got too late)
Post up some new recipes
chase up the bags (still not arrived)
Contact business to sell targeted advertsing to them

there is more than that - but htat will do for now.

Crap! And I took most of the entries out of my list that weren't to do with SS stuff! I've done the carrot harvesting and the weeds, but day-to-day stuff has kept me off the rest... *grits teeth* But the playset shall be done tonight, oh yes it shall!

Todays?

Wake up
Feed son
Make some rolls
Eat bacon sandwiches
Post rubbish on internet
Go on holiday

Byeeeeeee

AAArgh! Not onloy are you going on holiday but it's raining on my concrete!

no rain here - have a great hol Jo - tried to call you but must have missed ya.

List... yoikes.... would take me all year to type it out!! Will get round to it though eventually. It's on my list of things to do

Hmm, I'll add "write a list" to my list...

I'm a bugger for writing lists.

What I should be doing:

Saw something in a magazine/book about pruning redcurrants.
Pick goosegogs, whitecurrants, redcurrants.
Deal with strawberry runners.
Train the squash thing - thinking of tent pegs which I would have to buy(any other suggestions)
Pile some strawy horse manure up for rotting down
If my module tray of leeks has survived the week without water, transplant them in the plot.
Put advert up on freecycle for planks/boards for making raised beds.
Clean pots rather than just reuse them while "dirty".
Learn how to prune - gooseberry bush laden but partially inaccessible.
Sort out filing system for seeds.
Sow some of the chinese veggies, and winter radish.
Check for french beans.
Update my blog!
Do some creative writing for an Open University course.
Listen again to GQT.
Find the article in the marshall-cavendish bit-part Grow Your Own on gooseberries - re propagating from seed.
Entertaining son

What I have been doing:

Playing a miniclip game http://www.miniclip.com/games/bloomin-gardens/en/
Playing Runescape.
Dealing with some of the strawberry runners.

Maybe you can help me out, multiveg. My 8-year-old computer-game-addicted son wants to play Runescape.I said I'd find out more about it and then decide.

Is it free or does it cost money?

It is suitable for 8-year-olds? I let him play PS2 games with up to a 12 rating (reluctantly - there are complicated reasons why) as long as they don't show graphic violence to human beings. He can zap zombies and trolls and aliens but I don't like games where you hack human beings with a sword or shoot them with a revolver. The violence (and any sexual or other adult content) is really my main concern. Don't worry about how complicated or difficult it is. He plays Civilisation - Alpha Centauri which is a fiendish strategy game for adults, he taught himself how to play when he was 6.

If you can help me decide whether this is suitable to let my son play i'd be grateful, and you can feel good that you haven't entirely wasted your time after all!