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Re: 5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3
The 2 colleagues who were teaching 10 - 1 were both ill (sickness bug going round) - the good bit was I was able to pull together my session I would have done in 3 weeks' time and deliver. For t…6 -
Re: Weekly Flylady Thread 9 February 2026
dental appointment made for tomorrow for what I now believe is an abscess. wasn't my first thought though. wm and dw locked and loaded just watched the end of a documentary about Victoria Wood. …7 -
Re: CrazyBee wants to be Mortgage Free!
Good luck for your appointment today Bee xx2 -
Re: My Off-grid and need to be frugal diary
It’s been snowing here again today, but the snow melted as soon as it hit the ground. I had mislaid a bag of extra warm socks and I’ve been looking for them for a couple of days. I asked DH if he’d s…2 -
Re: 5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3
Happycas please can I have details of the compression gloves too. Not posted this week yet so a few from the week. It was a non working Monday- always good and there were enough dry spells to spend t…6 -
Re: Why can't Email Addresses be portable?
Depends what you mean by portability. I've had my original Hotmail address for (just about) 30 years and my first Gmail for 25. Not really portable since either company could announce that they …2 -
Re: Investing in Us: Holidays, Health, and the Road to £150k
I'm up, showered, dressed, cup of tea had. I start at 9 today and finish early this afternoon so a nice short day. I CAN do this, and I can do it without tears. I had another bad night sleep 🙈 …9 -
Re: 2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution
@brambling your friend might warm to the home once she gets over the newness of it. My in laws and my husband’s aunt were all in the same care home and didn’t like it to start with but were better in…18 -
Re: 2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution
Daily To Do List - written the night before Sort out sleep patterns - initial targets: bed by 03:00, up by 10:30 Don’t put it down, put it away + deal with mini tasks as soon as they are noticed e.g.…21 -
Re: Thank god we paid the mortgage off
Thanks watty1 and beanielou, it’s good to know there are others who struggle too. I got sick of going to the drs and them telling me I was depressed and offering antidepressants. I knew I wasn’t as i…6
