Cheery's buttling diary: tea in one hand, plant pot in the other, running shoes on

stepuptothepl8

January?!? Which one? Are you on track with the training?

Cheery_Daff

Er.... :rotfl: I've done slightly more than I usually do but still not really enough it's a little local trail race thing over near my sister, not many of us doing it so I'm pretty likely to be last (as usual...) :rotfl:

How's your running going? Weren't you training for a half or did I make that up??

rtandon27

Running?
Outside?
January?
Cheery you are a brave woman!!!:eek:

I'll settle for a machine inside the gym an audio book on the go to make the time go quicker! :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Morning :hello:

RT I will indeed have an audio book (or rather a radio 4 podcast ) but I'm trying NOT to renew my gym membership! I do much prefer running outside anyway, tis glorious out there today :j

Tis a lovely sunny day here and so far I've mostly idled it away on the internet in my PJs :eek: Naughty cheery. So, a plan

* get dressed and go for a run - free exercise
* collect parcel on way home - think it's my sister's Christmas present
* make biscuits for friend's birthday (which was early December... but she won't mind!)
* cycle to collect parcel from shop in town - paid for with vouchers for making a complaint - tis my new bike light to facilitate extra free exercise :money:
* meet friend for a cuppa in a cafe (not remotely money saving but I suppose at least I'm not meeting her for lunch! :rotfl: )
* cycle home
* make a nice stew - make enough to stash some in the freezer
* might also stick the breadmaker on to take to a new years thing tomorrow
* go to a party at a friend's house



A nice plan for the day - but it does rely on me getting out of the door for my run pretty swiftly else there might not be time for everything! :eek: :rotfl:

stepuptothepl8

Am suitably impressed!! I've signed up for Bath half in March, and I'll do the Brizzle one again in September too. I really want to up the training this time; the Bristol one was very slow last time, and I do want to be a bit quicker. Training on my own though, which means I mostly battle with my head

Cheery_Daff

Yep, I usually train on my own too. Usually my idle side wins, which is why I often come last :rotfl: Hopefully you will do better! :j :j

Today's run has been abandoned I just CANNOT find my bike pannier. I looked all over for it yesterday, and I've been doing the same today and it still hasn't appeared. I mean, I know the house is in uproar but I've literally turned out every cupboard and pile and looked under everything I can think of. I was harbouring hope that was in the car, but we emptied that completely yesterday and it wasn't there.

The only place left is the cellar :eek: I did a brief surface look in there yesterday but I'm going to have to venture in again. Surely I can't have PACKED both of them in boxes?! :eek: I'm pretty sure I've had them fairly recently - but where have they gone?!

Aarggghh! I HATE losing stuff! I could just use a rucksack of course but I'm trying to remove obstacles to my cycling not add them! :eek:

Grrrrrrrrr.

And now I'm annoyed at myself that I've missed my run too entirely my own fault!

Cheery_Daff

Evening chums :hello:

Nice day here after my frustrations this morning still vexed but I am trying to let it go :rotfl:

Cycled to town, collected my bike light from the shop :j it's ace then met my friend and her daughter for a cuppa. Ended up not spending anything as friend insisted on buying my tea as I'd bought her lunch before Christmas :money:

Cycled home from town which didn't take as long as expected :j ALL uphill though and I had a slight altercation with a taxi driver :eek: he overtook me, then stopped, so i overtook him - but he started crawling along as i was alongside him, and there was a car coming the other way, so I had to swerve back behind him and get off :mad:

He was most apologetic but then proceeded to crawl all the way up the rest of the road (looking for a house number) at a speed too slow for me to go behind but too fast for me to go in front, so I just had to walk :mad:

Ah well, home safe and warm and feeling more confident about getting around on my bike which bodes well fir frugal January :j

Off out to a party tonight where apparently there will be a curry so no need to cook tea :j

Greying_Pilgrim

Hey Cheery - looking forward to following your adventures into an ultra-frugal January. Hope that 2017 proves to be an all-round brilliant year for you too - and that the bike panniers materialise pronto!

Thanks everso for all your support over 'at mine' in 2016. Very, very much appreciated.

Greying X

Cheery_Daff

Happy New Year cheerful MSE chums! :hello: Hope 2017 brings you most of what you could wish for (wouldn't do to get *everything* now, would it?? :rotfl: )

I am starting the year off in fine fashion - stayed up til 4 with some friends at their house high on a Welsh hillside, and now they're all asleep (having drunk far more than me) and I'm wrapped up in the (freezing) conservatory with tea and toast and a book :j (there is a nice warm house! Which I will return to shortly but the view is better out here )

Not muh view mind as it's been p*ssing down for HOURS now, but there are many small cheerful birds on the bird table, so I'm enjoying watching those :j

Off to do some more pondering about my (many, varied, ambitious...) plans for the year

Hope you're all starting the year as you mean to go on :j

rtandon27

Morning Cheery! - You are sounding your buoyant self this morning!:D

We started the new year being nice to each other (on purpose) :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: & decluttering leftovers into impromptu brunch - also tackled a bit of a kitchen tidy!

Now to do some forward planning for the first & second months of the new year!