Organisation

St Thibaud

I'm a great list maker. I have to be, it's the only way I find I can organise myself.

Back in my previous life I had lists of jobs to be completed by the end of each day, week, month or sometime, never. My stock phrase was, and still is 'It's on the list'.

These days the chore list is as long as both of mine and Jon's arms put together. The other day Jon tackled item #152: getting logs in from the edge of the field.

Now the hay has been cut it was a little easier for him and he decided on a slightly cooler day than we'd had of late to go and unearth a stack of logs we'd found hiding in the hedgerow. He came back 15 minutes later dripping blood from his arm all over the kitchen floor.

Yes, getting wood in is as easy as falling off a log. Literally.

Anyway, having unearthed them he took Millie Mehari down there to collect them and drove them up through the field closer to home.

Job # 387: Move logs into garden and stack them.

Another thing that is my lifeline is my little notebook where I keep track of meals we have shared with friends. As our circle of friends is fairly small, I need to keep track of recipes I have tried so that I don't give people the same menu twice! I can also make notes on whether dishes have worked or not, and if someone doesn't like, say, pineapple for instance, then that gets noted too.

It makes me sound awfully well organised doesn't it? Well, I'm not.

The trouble is that I have three little notebooks on the go besides my 'foodie' book. These three all contain bits and pieces of useful information - the telephone number for the English-speaking helpline of France telecom for when my French doesn't feel quite good enough for an argument - the make and model of various fridges we looked at some months ago which I now need again as the fridge is suffering from teminal rattle and over-frosting - website addresses that have been recommended.

Now, if only I could find each of these things when I really need them, I would be well organised but only one of these three little books appears at any one time and I can never find the one I really want.

Just which one did I chose to write the time of daughter's flights next month????