Extending our house without extending ourselves beyond our means

debtfreeoneday

Glad you are doing ok during this time.  Are you having luck getting delivery slots, my luck ran out last week, so we will need to go out in the next 2 weeks for the first time in 8 weeks!

Crochet is definitely on my to do list during this time!

PurpleFairy26

@debtfreeoneday delivery slots are much harder to come by. I'm on the vulnerable list and mr S and mr A are still nada even with the priority access. I have today kindly been given access to Mr W as priority. No delivery available (but wouldn't expect any in middle of the day) there are loads of click and collect but nearest store that does it is 20 miles away so not sure that works. 

Will just keep trying them on rotation and now and hope for the best. If one of our family would go for us, but they are a minimum of an hour away so not ideal.... something will come up. Hope you manage to get one too. 

@savingholmes yes I'm so glad I can cook (as is my family!) those who only eat a narrow diet may be struggling in these times. Hope you're doing ok. 

brizzlegirl

All sounding good. My 2 are crafting too. Ransoms is another name for  wild garlic. Can you get some more? It’s amazing stuff x

PurpleFairy26

brizzlegirl said:

All sounding good. My 2 are crafting too. Ransoms is another name for  wild garlic. Can you get some more? It’s amazing stuff x

Aah, that makes sense. Thank you. I’m hoping I’ll get some more in next weeks veg box but I’ll also look out for it on our walks. I’ve a spot where I think it might be growing. It’s fabulous isn’t it. I put the last of it in some homemade pesto. 

Crafting activities are definitely helping in these strange times. 

savingholmes

I've had to put crafting on hold in favour of the garden - otherwise I will completely run out of space to put stuff - especially because DS is now home from uni just at the point we expected him to fly the nest permanently!

PurpleFairy26

More productivity here. Showed DH how to work YN AB 😜 and he opened 2 regular savers last night. First time he has ever been so proactive in these things. We’re going to drip feed them from savings, I know the rates are no where near the dizzy heights of 8% but better than 0.1% or whatever the standard savers are. 

One was opened online, the other needs some paperwork signed. 

Have got decent amount of knitting done in the last couple of days. Hoping to finish the leg today if I can get clocking away but we may have games night after dinner which will divert my attention. 

Another job done off the lockdown list. We’ll have to start a new one if this carries on....

hoping tomorrow DH will get in loft, some stuff to go up and one item to come down so I can do something else on list. 

Friend ran an errand for me today, so thankful for good friends both near and far during this time. Spent a little bit of budget earlier in the week sending things to a couple of people far away to cheer them (all shielding so cant go out) 

foxgloves

You seem to be achieving loads, PurpleFairy. I wish a whole load of items could come down from our loft, but not a lot of point atm when we can't get to the tip to get rid of them or to the charity shops or anywhere else which might relieve us of some of our lofty junk.
Never mind, there are plenty of other jobs to do.
F x

PurpleFairy26

Thank you foxgloves I’m just trying to keep busy as it feels like something I can control in all of this. Plus it’s useful to get through lots of things 🤣 

managed to get a decent amount of knitting done but not all of leg as I went for a walk after dinner which did me the world of good. Used 1 of the 2 cut tubes of moisturiser up and a small pot of Christmas ham from freezer on tea (ham not the moisturiser!) 

also chopped a pepper on its last legs and froze along with half a jar of anchovies which will come in useful as pizza toppings or to add to a pasta dish at some stage. 

1LuckyLady

Hey PF,  I saw you comment on another thread about homeschooling (can't remember which one!)  I saw this on fb today,   https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3329771763699786&set=a.405493189461006   BBC bitesize homeschooling  looks like it might be worth a look.  I'm hoping that my kids school follow this as it would definitely be a better idea to keep ds2 on track.  

PurpleFairy26

This morning has been productive already. I've reconciled the just for points CC (pleased to see £20 of vouchers heading my way soon) and reconciled banks. No more money due out before payday on Friday. 

YN AB is all straight and checked against my spreadsheet. 

Yesterday we managed to move a couple of items of furniture around and DH spent lots of time in the loft. Still lots to do up there but looks loads better already. 3 items bought down to repurpose. Can now do some more items from lockdown list, but we won't be pressing to hard with these until the weekend due to some schooling required now holidays are officially over. If we can do any, it will be a bonus. 

Will dig out another moisturiser to start using. I having bought any for years but often get kindly gifted them. It's nice choosing and seeing the stash go down. 

Seedlings need watering today and a bit of washing to do. Yesterday I washed my flip flops in with a load of washing. They came up like new! It's amazing, not sure why I haven't done this before.