Tales from The Shire

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I tried to quote, but apparently I'm just not clever enough....

Fortune, I think you're overestimating my front garden (and gardening abilities) - but this might be the year that we actually do something about it! It usually gets mowed once a month (mostly moss anyway) and has very weedy borders. If we do get it sorted, it will at least be something positive to take from the current situation! I like the idea of mixing edibles into your wild bits - you can go foraging in your own garden!

"My sister is a nurse and she says a lot of people are just not getting it.  They have a 'if I get it, I get it' attitude.  She says she feels like shouting "IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU" at them.  I think people will only start to take things more seriously when the numbers go up."

Yes, this is very true. I do not understand what is so hard to understand!!

Fortune_Smiles

beanielou said:

Hope you get some of the things you need/want in your online shop tomorrow 

rtandon27 said:

Fingers crossed for you delivery tomorrow Fortune!
Ours is not until Friday so we are creatively eating from the freezer & stores!  OH is craving cheese - should I plan in the frozen camembert I found today or make him wait until Friday when the cheap and cheerful stuff is supposed to show up?😅
Brunch today was a bowl of noodles with the last bits of chicken roast and some shredded cabbage.  Dinner was a freezer dive which resulted in chicken pot pie with roasted root veg. OH proclaimed it one of the best dinners he'd had in a while. Didn't have the heart to remind him he did the original cooking!

South_coast said:

LOL at Mr F, that's the kind of man-logic my BF would apply 😂

Thanks guys.  We got most of the items I ordered.  Felt bad for the delivery guy though - he looked exhausted.

Fortune x

Fortune_Smiles

As clean as a supermarket shelf 

We did get the majority of items in our grocery order today.  A few substitutions but all sensible.  No toilet roll, hand soap, paracetamol, lentils, tinned tomatoes or passata though and some items were capped.  I have written to T£$co as the delivery driver told me that people were queuing to get into the shop when it opened at 6 am then clearing the shelves.  By the time the staff start picking for on-line and click & collect orders there is nothing left.  For elderly people or those with health conditions who are self-isolating, we are reliant on home deliveries and can't queue up with everyone else.  We still need to wash our hands and wipe our bums though!  There must be a fairer way of doing things.

I am counting my blessings today though.  Some information about my pension arrived in the post.  I'm now able to go on line and calculate what my pension might be worth if I retire at 55, 56, etc.  I logged in and had a play and the figures were better than I expected.  It's very likely I shall start taking my pension next year.  We'll then have a further year until our fixed rate ends and we can re-mortgage.  After that Mr F will probably become self-employed and work part time.  Current crisis allowing of course.

Lunch today was a lentil spaghetti sauce from one of my cook books (might as well enjoy the lentils and pasta whilst we have them) and supper was leftover soup from yesterday.

• Today I am grateful to have toilet rolls left in the house
• I'm happy that Mr F will be able to stop traipsing around the world soon
• my moment of joy was a mug of hot chocolate with a drop of Bail£y$.

Night all

Fortune x

Jessy103

Glad to hear you got most of your shopping, fortune and hopefully things will calm down soon and you'll be able to get the rest shortly. I also had a hot chocolate this evening but no Bailey's, I dipped a digestive biscuit in instead

beanielou

Promising news on your pension 

rtandon27

Hooray for a relatively good delivery!
Our shop comes tomorrow - fingers crossed we get some ham - OH is feeling desperate after a week without  (We do have other food in the house btw!) I'm not going to hold out hope for tinned tomatoes or lentils though!
Somehow I managed to get a second delivery for early next week which is great as with the sudden s@insbo rationing, the extra items we ordered for our elderly neighbours may not arrive tomorrow.  I'm happy to share what we get and then have another order and share it out again, but it is truly frustrating that there are shortages to begin with.  As you say fortune, it is unfair for those who have to self-isolate for health & age reasons!
Hats off to our veg box service, who have promised to fulfil all pre-existing recurring deliveries - they even let me up the order to a larger box when I explained that we were also shopping for our neighbours! It's that type of customer service that keeps your customers loyal

Fortune_Smiles

Jessy103 said:

Glad to hear you got most of your shopping, fortune and hopefully things will calm down soon and you'll be able to get the rest shortly. I also had a hot chocolate this evening but no Bailey's, I dipped a digestive biscuit in instead

It's good to have a little treat at the end of the day to look forward to isn't it Jessy.

Fortune x

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beanielou said:

Promising news on your pension 

Thanks Beanie.  We'll still need to bring in some income but not as much as we thought.

Fortune x

Fortune_Smiles

rtandon27 said:

Hooray for a relatively good delivery!
Our shop comes tomorrow - fingers crossed we get some ham - OH is feeling desperate after a week without  (We do have other food in the house btw!) I'm not going to hold out hope for tinned tomatoes or lentils though!
Somehow I managed to get a second delivery for early next week which is great as with the sudden s@insbo rationing, the extra items we ordered for our elderly neighbours may not arrive tomorrow.  I'm happy to share what we get and then have another order and share it out again, but it is truly frustrating that there are shortages to begin with.  As you say fortune, it is unfair for those who have to self-isolate for health & age reasons!
Hats off to our veg box service, who have promised to fulfil all pre-existing recurring deliveries - they even let me up the order to a larger box when I explained that we were also shopping for our neighbours! It's that type of customer service that keeps your customers loyal

Fingers crossed for ham!    Hooray for the veg box service - we're in the same situation with ours as we have a recurring order.  I sometimes cancel a box if I haven't used everything up from the last order but I think I'll keep it weekly from now on and pass anything spare onto others who need it.

Fortune x

Cheery_Daff

Good news about your pension Fortune! And good to see you keeping busy and occupied, must be rather difficult.  

We're all rather curtailed now aren't we so it'll be interesting to see how things pan out. Feeling very fortunate right now that we have a bit of outside space around us and whatever else happens, we're not feeling too shut in (not yet anyway). Keep having shivers of horror at how mad we would have gone had this all happened when we were in our old house with our shouty neighbours Feeling very fortunate to have somewhere safe (and quiet) to live and a stable job and our health right now. xx