The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

Pippilongstocking

Happy twinkly tree!

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Up and at it, Monday morn

I've a few bits and bobs to do today. I've sorted out the 'to be posted' cards and so they can go off. I'll need to get stamps, but can use the vending machine if nec. Or I can wander off to see the vaguely nicer post office staff across the way - we'll see.

I've my menu plan to sort out. For a bit longer than a week, so that I know where I'm at.

DH is still not feeling up to par, but is moaning about it slightly less. For that, we must be grateful. And we must be grateful for GP's surgeries and appointments therein

Can't think of anything else :money: so best vamoose.

Greying X

WannabeFree

Have a lovely day Greying x

Greying_Pilgrim

Thanks WannabeFree - backatcha, lovely

So I made it back from the high street unscathed I managed to join the short queue for the postal vending machine and got what I wanted, so those cards are now 'in the system'

I remembered I needed a calendar and after :rotfl: at the £2.50 price tag for the one I wanted in w1lks, got exactly the same item (different design, but exactly the same) for 79p in h0me bargins........ I got a chrimbo card for BG to give to their daddy, and some 'gold' coins (gee, when did they get so dear!) for stockings and some fruit from HB.

Right, to lunch!

Greying X

WannabeFree

Reminded me I need fruit for stockings!

I am hoping to avoid the shops totally now until the new year. Everyone is just bonkers! x

mcculloch29

I do wish we had a HB, our town centre was sold off by the[STRIKE] corrupt [/STRIKE]Development Corporation many years ago. We have London landlords, and at one time our rental charges p.s.f. were higher than Oxford Street.
At least we have W1lko's and A!di, plus Poundw0rld. And C@rd F@ctory.

20 years is really impressive for a set of lights, Greying, I think one set of mine managed about twelve years, a subsequent set seven, the next set didn't even last one whole Yuletide period.
The problem is, if the set goes when my tree is up, that's it, we remain without lights, as the tree takes hours to decorate.
Last year a string of battery lights from Wilko's stepped in to provide just a little bit of festive glimmer. This most recent set provide enough illumination to read by.

Greying_Pilgrim

Ah ha! My dear mcculloch - I fear I may have unintentionally misled. As whilst the twinky lights are - most definitely - 20 years+ in age, they have only, to this point, been used a handful of times. I did purchase, some years ago, some replacement bulbs - I wonder if you can still get them now? and I replaced one bulb before use this time, it hadn't blown per se, but was just sort of glowing (imagine the candle wick, just after you've blown out the flame). It didn't interrupt the other bulbs, but I changed it anyway. I wonder, had I had a tree every year to decorate, whether I would be still using them? One thing that struck me was how 'expensive' they were - £9.69 instead of £12.99 - from bhs, for 40 lights, over 20 years ago! Compare with the w1lks prices now! The only point in my favour with my 'old' lights is that I have consistently stored them in the holder/packaging in which they were sold. Which may have helped. Oh, and because I am a pillock, I put all the baubles on, before the lights..................... :wall:

WannabeFree - thankfully, whilst busy, the high street remained calm and in good humour for the most part. I too hate shopping when folks are of the mindset that they are purchasing for armageddon, or at the very least a siege. And especially when humour vanishes and tempers start to rise. There is simply no reason for it. I'm grateful that I'm pretty much done with my 'seasonal' shopping now. If I venture to the high street again, and find myself in the midst of 2 parents arguing over the very last 'cauliflower patch dolly' or whatever the latest toy/doodad is, then I have only myself to blame..........

Greying X

apple_muncher

I do giggle at you confessing to your crafting errors. And then confessing to getting it wrong again:rotfl:.

UncannyScot

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Oh, and because I am a pillock, I put all the baubles on, before the lights..................... :wall:

Greying X

Erm, actually that is not so daft... I do this too, if there is a fault with the lights it means you can just take em off again and fix it without upsetting the rest of the decs on the tree

Greying_Pilgrim

Good evening :hello:

apple_muncher wrote: »

I do giggle at you confessing to your crafting errors. And then confessing to getting it wrong again:rotfl:
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Ach love, 'tis driving me bonkers! Haven't touched it all day today - putting myself under more pressure to get it completed! :doh: Apparently, there is some sort of new fangled invention called........ :think:.... Shops! Where you can buy things, instead of tying yourself in knots..... literally! :rotfl:

UncannyScot wrote: »

Erm, actually that is not so daft... I do this too, if there is a fault with the lights it means you can just take em off again and fix it without upsetting the rest of the decs on the tree

I think you are just being kind Bless you I'm sure decorating 'experts' would recommend lights on first.... although in my defence, I did check mine worked first.......... <

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smug......... :rotfl:

Tea was nice and simple; baked tattie with cheese, or baked tattie with a cheesy 1 egg omlette, depending on appetite. The tatties got baked in the oven with the cake I made - spiced fruit cake, that used up 2 of my 4 remaining 'roadside' eggs that I picked up out and about on my trails. Wonderful value for money they were - large (every single one), none cracked and a bargain at £1 for 6. They are now all used up And I won't be going that way for quite a while Considering 'lack of appetite' is being bandied about in these here parts, I'm somewhat surprised a third of the cake has been munched already....... (having partaken of a slice of myself, I admit, for inspection and 'standards' purposes........

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

the NHS

good ingredients

bumping into an inspirational lady and remembering how life can turn upside down, when you least expect it......................

I truly am grateful for the life I lead and the blessings within in - for me and mine.

Greying X