Apple muncher's number crunching

teapot2

Yay, and breathe🥂

apple_muncher

I finally did a little gardening today, and took a load of garden waste to the tip. Very satisfying But still loads to do...

Pip is staying over at a friend's house tonight - a rare event indeed. A friend suggested me and dh go out for a meal, but it just feels like too much of a palaver, especially ensuring it is gf. So we're having hm fish + chips and watching a film. Rock and roll!!!

apple_muncher

I picked up pip at 8am (! - their choice) so I got up just after 6 and went to the gym first. They are having a super quiet day in their room, only emerging for meals .

I've cleaned up a couple of toys, taken photos and posted them on gumt. They're cheap, so I hope they go...

Karmacat

apple_muncher said:

A friend suggested me and dh go out for a meal, but it just feels like too much of a palaver, especially ensuring it is gf. So we're having hm fish + chips and watching a film. Rock and roll!!!

That's exactly what I'd do 🤣 with dietary needs, eating out can be much more trouble than its worth hope you really enjoyed it.

apple_muncher

We did, karma! Just as well we'd opted not to go out, as dh had to pop back out again around 8pm to finish locking up after an event!

apple_muncher

I've just done a very satisfying 20 mins in the back garden. After the rain, it was easy peasy to pull up the 5 foot high but shallow rooted weeds and fill a bag for life. I had to forge a new way through the rasps to get to some of them, so have ended up with the inevitable scratched, stinging and sore forearms. I've soaked them in a sink of cold water with a few drops of tea tree oil which has helped. Bizarrely, the smell reminded me of turps !

I picked some big juicy ripe rasps this morning - about a dozen - and stewed them in a glug of apple juice with an oldish apple, 7 goosegogs (half the total harvest this year - the flies/bugs munched the plants) and 3 plums. At the end I threw in some sultanas and some oats to soak up the juices. Yum!

I've been catching up on karma's thread (since mid-April, but I'm still not yet up to date!) and have been prompted to reserve the Getting Things Done book on b0rr0wb0x - available mid-August.

Karmacat

There's a lot of rabbiting on my thread 😁

Your fruit and carbs sounds lovely this morning!

apple_muncher

There area lot of foxes on your thread!

Karmacat

apple_muncher said:

There area lot of foxes on your thread!

Yes there are 🤣  

They're all skinny as can be, so not many rabbits in that respect 🤣

apple_muncher

Today has been a day of getting things done.

A good morning gym visit - after waking naturally.

The back grass mown.

2 laundry loads done and dried outside.

The old storage box emptied and sorted and partially dismantled. Stuff to keep put in suitable receptacles until the new storage box is assembled. New storage is also a bench so the old rotting wooden bench can soon go.

A mini bonfire in the fire pit got rid of the old rasp canes and other bit and bobs.

I showered and re-dyed my hair with a 2nd dose of the Big Pink.

I rehoused a bin bag of stuffing into my wardrobe, thus freeing up space downstairs. Plus I tidied a few bits and bobs.

I finished off listening to my audio book whilst doing stuff outside.

Very much a ta-da day.