make do and mend for tougher times

savingqueen

smileyt wrote: »

Does anyone else feel whacked after being in company? I've just been to a meeting, which was interesting, and I love some of the people there as we take the mickey out of each other, but I've come home and I feel as if I could sleep for hours. This happens most of the time when I've been with a group of people, no matter how much I enjoy the activity we might be doing. I seem to need extortionate amounts of down time. People think I'm incredibly bouncy and sociable and funny but it takes a lot out of me as in reality I am an introvert and refuel by having peace and quiet.
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thats me too smileyt. I am sociable, love chatting and being around people but I can't do it all the time. I try and plan my days to allow for downtime between social stuff, often without really thinking about it. Also some days I'm just not in the mood for seeing folk. I need a good balance - too much time on my own or just being indoors with family drives me mad and I start to loose confidence socially BUT too much time with others is exhausting and I find myself needing to retreat. I think I am a sociable introvert, if that's possible. One good thing about getting older is you have yourself sussed good and proper!

right off to the blanket show as my dad used to say when we were kids, night night
sq:)

lisakay_2

SpikyHedgehog wrote: »

Lisa, do you put conditioner on the girls hair? Mum never used it on our hair, but I noticed the difference when I started using it, & when DS1 had long hair, he'd been grumbling about it tangling until he started using the conditioner I'd got him... He has eczema, & has to be really careful about what he uses, so I got him the Simple one, & it helped. I also find my hair tangles more when I have split ends...

yep, use conditioner, but they definitely need a trim. both girls have fine blonde hair down to their waist. I normally have it cut way before now but seem to have lost touch with my barber friend who normally trims it for us in return for tea and a chat, and my other friend has lost her scissors!
the girls have never been inside a hairdressers and i haven't seen the inside of a salon in 7 years ( i normally trim my own, but dont trust myself with the girls :eek:)

Off to bed now to hit some zzz's ready for another busy day tomorrow.

grandma247

WSC thanks for the reminder about croft mill. I remember seeing ads in my sewing and knitting mags from years ago. I think I will ask about picking up an order because the telephone area code is local to me.

mcculloch29

I've been printing off vouchers late this evening, the one for 500 ml of free Coke has been extended to midday Tues.

fuddle

My dad used to call going to bed the blanket show too

It's going to hoy it down i.e. pour of rain.

I wish you could use voucher codes online when I do my grocery shop to be delivered, although I doubt I buy anything that would be included now. I buy basic cooking ingredients and tins.

I've been reading DD's new school pack and note she can take 20p daily to buy a piece of fruit. Excellent, other than that's £4 per month. Is 20p cheap for a piece of fruit or am I best of sending her with a piece from home? It does sound cheap.

My curtains are very long. I was thinking of washing them to shrink them and then take them up. I'm worried that they will shrink width wise too though. There's 4 curtains going around a bay window and not a lot of spare material.

Also, instead of lining them for winter, I was thinking of getting some of those suction hooks (the kind that you use for putting christmas lights on the windows at christmas) an hooking fleece on there at night. It should work, I think, in theory.

Last day of the hols for eldest then of to her new junior school tomorrow. My girls are growing up.

prepareathome

Well like Christmas here this morning with Royal Mail Post van Delivery Driver playing Father Christmas arriving with a massive sack, about 7ft long and 3ft wide clear plastic( that will be going in among garden stuff, very useful as a good thick plastic).

Driver told me the computers at local sorting office were down and that is why I never got my redelivery. I said mmmmmmm funny main place didn't know, and doesn't account for other parcels that are overdue turning up today. Wasn't getting at him, not his fault but was hoping he would go back and say how I did not believe a word of it.

It is totally like a year ago when kindle didn't turn up when eventually it was brought by same delivery driver in van with a whole lot of other parcels which were well over due like kindle. That time I was told someone had decided as I was getting a few parcels they would keep them and deliver them altogether, which was wrong of them, today its computer that gets error. Last year like this it was one expensive item (kindle was birthday present from hubby) and lots of things around a few pounds).

Well everything outstanding arrived, just have the things I ordered over weekend to turn up hopefully by normal postman later.

Found out the special delivery was my new biobulbs - in past bought one make but found this make does them in higher wattage 30w so that will be even better for days when I crave the light or need really, really bright light for something like sewing.

Isn't it typical at last Ghillie Kettle arrives and its pouring out there, still warm but pouring. Once pain meds kick in will wrap up and try it. I have my Maya Firesticks so will use one along with sadly wet sticks, although might find some dry under trees at bottom of garden as it forms a strong canopy against rain and sun. Photos will follow.

To ensure I did not miss deliveries since Friday (apart from Sunday) I have been setting alarm for 6.55am then every 30 mins so didn't fall into a to deep a sleep and miss him. Driver knocked, not loudly at 7am on the dot, he knows there is a doorbell but I find hardly anyone seems to use it these days. If I had been asleep I would never have heard him, but was just resetting alarm having woken at 6.55am. Had a feeling when things came would be early and not much noise would be made to try and deliver them.

Ghillie looks fantastic, the way everything fits in base all nicely and it all fits inside a nice duffle bag for easy carrying. The place I bought it from is a new seller on ebay who only sells Ghillies and is cheapest by far when I was looking last week. I know I took a chance with a newbie but then how will people every build up a good score unless people take chances. I give them full marks as not their fault it was not delivered next day as promised.

Today is a definite day where my lamp daylight bulbs are coming in handy its so dull out there yet I feel as if sitting in sunshine.

For all those with little ones and not so little ones going back, enjoy the peace. Its times like this and at beginning of holidays I really feel on the scrap heap not having children at home

Hugs and Love to all xxx

Pooky

Fuddle - depending on the curtain fabric, they may shrink slightly when washed. To take them up, take the header tape off, cut the curtains to the right length (include a bit extra for turning on top) and the re sew the heading tape on.

I used to work for a big department store in the homeware section and had an agreement with the manager that I could offer my services for curtain altering when people brought them in store. I sold one lady an entire house worth of curtains, she paid over £4k for them and every pair needed altering, she gave me the measurements and when I gave her the curtains back she complained to the manager that my sewing was horrendous and the hand stitching on the bottom seams was dreadful. I had to explain to her that I took the curtain up from the top and if the bottom seams weren't to her liking then that was the fault of the manufacturer not me. She flounced off without a word of apology, apparently she was very well known for complaining about everything in the hope of not paying.

fuddle

Pooky wrote: »

Fuddle - depending on the curtain fabric, they may shrink slightly when washed. To take them up, take the header tape off, cut the curtains to the right length (include a bit extra for turning on top) and the re sew the heading tape on.

I used to work for a big department store in the homeware section and had an agreement with the manager that I could offer my services for curtain altering when people brought them in store. I sold one lady an entire house worth of curtains, she paid over £4k for them and every pair needed altering, she gave me the measurements and when I gave her the curtains back she complained to the manager that my sewing was horrendous and the hand stitching on the bottom seams was dreadful. I had to explain to her that I took the curtain up from the top and if the bottom seams weren't to her liking then that was the fault of the manufacturer not me. She flounced off without a word of apology, apparently she was very well known for complaining about everything in the hope of not paying.

Some people! :mad:

Hey pooky what a good idea Now I know about it, it seems such a logical thing to do. I never would have thought of that, thanks

prepareathome

Fuddle thanks for being concerned over the chimnea and carbon monoxide.....I will only be putting it in fireplace,if it fits, after I have had sweep out to not only clean but to check the chimneys and remove horrible gas fire. Until then no way would I use it indoors.

Post van man just been again with one of the things I ordered on Saturday as they forgot to give it to roundsman he told me. Jeepers VIP treatment. Its the Ladybird 'Let's get crafting tin I found reduced in Am'zon deals of the week, handy for keeping DGC occupied plus tin is a great size for things to put aside for emergency like my Maya Fire Sticks etc. Unfortunately price has gone up again I paid £3.89 for it.

So now just wait and see what my normal delivery man brings me, should I hope be microwave pressure cooker and BNF book.

Just putting feedback in both Am@zon and Eb@y and cannot find my solar shower order, it arrived in Am@zon box with lightbulbs but order is not showing up at all, yet I did order it and its paid for, weird. So cannot leave the feedback, it was on £2.95 and will be tucked away for ultimate emergency.

Gosh its getting even darker out there, rain coming down constantly and yet still not cold at all, but definately a day I am glad will not be going further than garden - is a good day to try out Ghillie:D

Hugs and Love to all xxx

lilmisskitkat

fuddle wrote: »

Also, instead of lining them for winter, I was thinking of getting some of those suction hooks (the kind that you use for putting christmas lights on the windows at christmas) an hooking fleece on there at night. It should work, I think, in theory.

Lurker butting in here, sorry

We do this with a large piece of blackout material for our bedroom window as it's not worth paying out for a blackout blind when DD2 will be going into her own room soon (if it ever gets done!). Works really well

K xx