Those things you do not necessarily want to do but need to do to keep the household running.  It has been a week of necessary chores here, in a week where I have not been firing on all cylinders.   I had a bit of a backlog with washing again and have concentrated where I can on this, in the past week.  That is when I remembered to deal with it.  My memory is a bit unreliable just recently and I plan on doing specific things and then by the time I have realised it is a good couple of days further on.  I hardly use my mobile these days either (which I think is perhaps not too bad a thing in the longer term), but it does mean that often if I do get a message or a call I am late to receiving them.  Must try and do better in the longer term. There has also been some ironing although there is more to do on that score! Equally the dishwasher has also been on quite a bit.  I am careful what I put into the dishwasher and overall it does help me a lot, alth...