It's nearly six weeks since I mentioned maulifuffing but I'm sure many of you have been doing your best for the great sisterhood. (New readers may not know that maulifuff is an old Scottish word for a woman devoid of energy, who would happily do nothing for hours on end or a woman who appears to keep herself busy but achieves nothing. The masculine equivalent is maulibum.)
Even longer ago I said one of my hibernaculum projects would be to sort the dining room. In the proud tradition of maulifuffs the intention was good but the activity was zilch. Or rather, there was a lot of activity in dumping more and more stuff in there.
So, for the next seven Mondays, I shall do a maulifuff report of how little I have achieved. On present showing, it will be very little. But I may raise a few rueful smiles.
I shall watch with interest! Sometimes it seems to me that the only way I'll ever have a lovely tidy room is to build on a new one and leave the old mess behind!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant idea!
DeleteI can see you are at the point where you wish you had not started.
ReplyDeleteI started in November then stopped so I shall count it as a new project.
DeleteThe weather in January and February has definitely encouraged my maulifuffing tendencies. I've no energy for housework when the sun refuses to shine for weeks on end.
ReplyDeleteWell done. Great maulifuffing.
DeleteI keep blaming the weather for my maulifluffing but I really must start to get myself into action. Two weeks of the dreaded lurgy and cough certainly haven’t helped! Catriona
ReplyDeleteEvery day of inaction gets the maulifuffing equivalent of Brownie points!
DeleteOh my! I have a sewing/guest room in the same dilemma! We will do it together!
ReplyDeleteMine's a sewing room/dining room but if you will, I will.
DeleteI have certainly been maulifuffing a lot lately but only after my housework has been done. Thanks for providing this word - an excuse par excellence for my inactivity.
ReplyDeleteMargaret NZ
I can maulifuff even when housework needs to be done.
DeleteEven though I have got the floor cleaned up enough to walk into the sewing/craft room, there is still so much to do in there. I am not sure if I really want to do anything more in that room.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Maulifuff for a few days. You might enjoy it.
DeleteI am right there maulifuffing with you, Mary! Dealing with sciatica pains that are keeping me from doing much even if I wanted to!
ReplyDeleteHope the sciatica improves soon.
DeleteI am definitely part of the sisterhood, I stand at the sewing room door and think maybe tomorrow I'll make a start. It has been so hot here for months but March should see the weather gradually cool down and more MIGHT get done. From Shirley in OZ
ReplyDeleteNo rush to do anything - that's a maulifuff motto.
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