A Singularly Lonely Christmas

LavenderBees

Need2bthrifty wrote: »

:shocked: Oooo....all this talk about toxic relatives and gardening caught my eye :silenced:......but then realised it was gravel you want removed

Hmmmm.....now there's a thought... A lucrative little sideline, perhaps...

:rotfl:

Need2bthrifty

LavenderBees wrote: »

Hmmmm.....now there's a thought... A lucrative little sideline, perhaps...

:rotfl:

Just call when you need me

skipton

boddy wrote: »

Im afraid Im not much of a gardener but do have some buddelia in for the butterflies. A couple of shrubs and some lavender and rosemary. A yellow rose bush in memory of my mum.

Bare feet on the ground is a very grounding thing to do. Connects us to our Mother Earth. I've always thought when out in the countryside/hills that it was food for my soul.

Boddy I was going to post about grounding and beach walking with bare feet. We've just invested in a grounding/earthing sheet for our bed. It wasn't cheap but it has been worth every penny.

This link is for the book
http://mercola.fileburst.com/PDF/EarthingBook.pdf

Pages 10 and 11 lists what earthing does. I could add a few more. The main one for me is waking up and being able to go back to sleep quickly instead of laying awake for hours and apparently I snore!!! :eek:and it has stopped this. We have some friends who have just bought a sheet and it has stopped hubby snoring too. :T

https://www.chargeplay.com/q/?s=ashbrj#sthash.owoykjG1.dpuf

This is a video about a whole town in Alaska that carried out an experiment with grounding sheets. Its well worth watching the trailer for free but unfortunately the full version is no longer available for rent as it is going into cinemas I think.

LB you're going to have to get a PA to help with all the postings so you have time to do all you've planned this year.:rotfl:

boddy

Skipton Thanks for the links.

LavenderBees

skipton wrote: »

Boddy I was going to post about grounding and beach walking with bare feet. We've just invested in a grounding/earthing sheet for our bed. It wasn't cheap but it has been worth every penny.

This link is for the book
http://mercola.fileburst.com/PDF/EarthingBook.pdf

Pages 10 and 11 lists what earthing does. I could add a few more. The main one for me is waking up and being able to go back to sleep quickly instead of laying awake for hours and apparently I snore!!! :eek:and it has stopped this. We have some friends who have just bought a sheet and it has stopped hubby snoring too. :T

https://www.chargeplay.com/q/?s=ashbrj#sthash.owoykjG1.dpuf

This is a video about a whole town in Alaska that carried out an experiment with grounding sheets. Its well worth watching the trailer for free but unfortunately the full version is no longer available for rent as it is going into cinemas I think.

LB you're going to have to get a PA to help with all the postings so you have time to do all you've planned this year.:rotfl:

Thanks for this, Skipton. I won't have time to read the book, BUT all I would say is that I always feel better physically and emotionally when I have been gardening/working on my lottie or walking bare foot on the beach. There will be lots of different factors contributing to this, I reckon - sunshine, good company, being creative etc. However, without a doubt, touching the earth helps the soul as part of this.

It's a good thing my body is well trained to wake at 6am, as my alarm didn't go off today. As always before going back to work, I slept badly, but woke early. I've finished making another batch of chicken stock, played battery ball with youngest cat, and now need to go back to bed. It's going to be a hard day...but I will not whinge, I will not whinge....I will NOT....I probably will... :rotfl:

Have a good day, all

LB xx

calicocat

Right,

Have started the NY resolution plan.

Have been to the garden centre Boddy suggested. This growing things malarki isn't cheap is it..?!. Anyhow, have got rocket (how stupidly small are those seeds?), spinach (a far more sensible sized seed), and Dill. The containers I got didn't have drainage holes in so smashed some in with a hammer and screwdriver. Have put soil in, let it soak up a bit of water and broke it up so it's very fine.....and have sown some seeds. possibly not at the right time at all, but, if I don't do it i'll not learn.

The garden centre was nice, and has 2 certifiable springer spaniels that appear to live there and hurl about the place like they are on speed, so that was entertaining.....i like an entertaining garden centre.
One of the blokes in there had about as much idea as me though so gave conflicting info to the woman.....i suspect his head may be a bit like the springers....lol.


SO......the seeds of a new year are sown. I hope the real seeds work as I have a tendency to murder plants unless they thrive on neglect. Have potted up the mint I had shoved into a glass of water and had grown roots, the healthy slimming soup now going to be portioned for freezer, as is stock, and I have made plans to meet with people in the next 3 weeks.

A few boxes ticked there.

Haven't been for a walk unless you count garden centre, but have been up and down stairs with ridiculous amount of xmas stuff boxes so that counts as exercise for today.


Hope going back to work wasn't too vile LB, but suspect it may have been as it interferes with pottering.

Hope others have managed to get on the road with their new plans for this year.

LavenderBees

calicocat wrote: »

Right,

Have started the NY resolution plan.

Have been to the garden centre Boddy suggested. This growing things malarki isn't cheap is it..?!. Anyhow, have got rocket (how stupidly small are those seeds?), spinach (a far more sensible sized seed), and Dill. The containers I got didn't have drainage holes in so smashed some in with a hammer and screwdriver. Have put soil in, let it soak up a bit of water and broke it up so it's very fine.....and have sown some seeds. possibly not at the right time at all, but, if I don't do it i'll not learn.

The garden centre was nice, and has 2 certifiable springer spaniels that appear to live there and hurl about the place like they are on speed, so that was entertaining.....i like an entertaining garden centre.
One of the blokes in there had about as much idea as me though so gave conflicting info to the woman.....i suspect his head may be a bit like the springers....lol.


SO......the seeds of a new year are sown. I hope the real seeds work as I have a tendency to murder plants unless they thrive on neglect. Have potted up the mint I had shoved into a glass of water and had grown roots, the healthy slimming soup now going to be portioned for freezer, as is stock, and I have made plans to meet with people in the next 3 weeks.

A few boxes ticked there.

Haven't been for a walk unless you count garden centre, but have been up and down stairs with ridiculous amount of xmas stuff boxes so that counts as exercise for today.


Hope going back to work wasn't too vile LB, but suspect it may have been as it interferes with pottering.

Hope others have managed to get on the road with their new plans for this year.

Yay! Well done. I'm impressed :T

I've made my whole team have the "we will not whinge about work" rezza...it simply means we whinge but then state afterwards "that's not whinging btw, it's a fact" :rotfl:

I may have to introduce a whinge fine tin for inadvertent whinging that we can categorically state is NOT a fact...I'm holding off as yet, as we'll all be bankrupt very quickly. :rotfl:

Is it the weekend yet?

lovelife79

Got to say I'm finding reading about all your plans is giving me the get up n go to start thinking of my own various failed attempts at hobbies. I start well but am lazy and lack the consistency needed to develop skills.

So 1st things 1st going to clean kitchen (it's manfriends turn but he playing computer games and I can't leave it anymore. It's just last night's dishes but it's bugging me:rotfl: )

Then I'm going to look out fabric. Said I'd make bumpers for cot for sisters baby. Baby girl is here. Bumpers are not. Still she's just in her Moses basket at the moment but if I get it done soon I'll feel I'll have accomplished something plus I want to make a fold up baby changing mat. This I've made before for a friend and she loves it! All her other friends are well jel as its a bit bigger than normal so lots of room

So thank you for inspiration people.
(Hmmmmh maybe should wait to say thanks until it's all done )

paulineb_2

Home. Walked home from my mums house, two and half miles, a bit earlier than planned as DPD changed my delivery to today. Bus fares around here are a bit hit and miss if you dont have a bus ticket which Ive not renewed yet, I paid 1.20 from mine to my mums on NYE but if I had broken my journey which I probably would have needed to do today given that its a sunday service, two pendantic bus drivers might have charged me 2 x 1.70 so I thought walk it. Its downhill most of the way.

With two heavy bags I only swore when I got to about 5 mins from my house.

New year was neither happy nor sad for me, just the way it was. Will be glad to get back into a proper routine of doing classes and fingers crossed my own classes that I teach will start a week on Monday.

Am going to see Depeche Mode in Brum at the end of the month, saw them in Glasgow in November, why I didnt go and see them years ago is beyond me, the best gig I have ever seen in my life.

Its a real dilemma, I cant work out whether Dave from depeche mode is finer looking now than when he was in his 20s.

If I could draw, Id have a home made banner saying marry me dave at the next gig.

Id like to grow up one day but its not going to be happening any time soon I fear.

melanzana

paulineb wrote: »

Home. Walked home from my mums house, two and half miles, a bit earlier than planned as DPD changed my delivery to today.

With two heavy bags I only swore when I got to about 5 mins from my house.

New year was neither happy nor sad for me, just the way it was. Will be glad to get back into a proper routine of doing classes and fingers crossed my own classes that I teach will start a week on Monday.

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Best of luck with the classes!

Can I just pass on a tip that has really helped me?

Whenever I go out for a walk where a shop in on the way that I might like....

I throw my lightweight wheelie haversack on my back. It's part of my routine now.

So, if I need to buy something and it's heavy, I buy it, and don't worry about the weight, the wheelie haversack takes over on the way home!

Get some fresh air, get a bit of shopping and wheel it home.

Got it on Amazon for about 20 quid and it has paid me back in spades.

We don't always need buses or cars!

Happy new year.