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doingitanyway

Rubbish weather. As soon as the weather improves I will be out in the garden. You have inspired me

greenbee

I have 9 pots that I haven't planted yet and it's WAY too wet out there to do anything about it today. They'll have to wait until next weekend.

redofromstart

Not a hugely productive day, a rare lie in and then lunch out and a walk.

Garden fritter, van muewen have an offer (today only) if you buy anything then you get 48 lavender plug plants free (in the offers bit of the basket if you buy something else) so I got those, and an on offer pack of 144 perennial plug plants for £12.93 including delivery. It's a triumph of hope over experience, last year they arrived in nice condition, got potted on and then died when we were away, along with everything else.

greenbee

You know the answer. Don't go on holiday

I'm not ordering anything else until I've planted what I've got...

I did put up a set of shelves in the utility room (they're straight, and have stuff on, and I have more space). And a couple more pictures. And a metal grid thing for hanging stuff on in the kitchen. So things are improving. I have another set of shelves I want to put up in the kitchen, some coat hooks to go up in the utility room and 5 blinds to do. I expect the builders will decide to return my calls about 5 minutes after I finally get it all done...

Need to think about the greenhouse and decide whether to persevere with the second-hand one or give up and order a smaller one (with polycarbonate rather than glass) with a side-opening door which will fit better in the space and probably be easier to put together.

redofromstart

sashybo wrote: »

Did you try something new? Have you watched "And Then There Were None" ? It's on iplayer & Agatha Christie, DH & I thoroughly enjoyed it, we have watched 2 of the 3 episodes.

Well done on the gardening, wish the weather would warm up so I can get my seedlings either planted out or into the greenhouse. Sweet peas are taking over my spare room. :eek:

It took me so long to sort the clean washing that I ran out of time to iron, but I hadn't seen the AC option so I watched the first part yesterday and that will cover the next two lots of ironing too. Thanks for the suggestion.

I need to sort the greenhouse so that I can use it. Its fully glazed again now but full of weed seeds.

DIA Hope you managed to get outside, the weather wasn't great and its still cold today
Cumbria thanks
HHOD I have the box set of the 80s BBC ones, and I watched them before I read the books so they don't annoy me by not fitting my image of her.
Greenbee, its difficult if the shape isn't ideal. You would still have to build a new one. I would have a go at building the recycled one, or make the decision to put it on freecycle and get it out of the way.

redofromstart

Forgot to do my March update:

1. Mortgage overpayments - only a small one as my income was minimal, but a rounding down to the next hundred is better than none at all.
2. Ditto with the savings, we gained a few pounds of interest and continue with the fixed payment into the regular saver but otherwise just some rounding of numbers to make things tidy.
3. Clothes, few more bits out and £6.50 spent on top and vest top from Borden
4. Looking after me, two tubes of handcream finished and one of lip salve.
5. No progress on book, self sabotaging with gardening book idea

mummytogirls

Well done on the OP redo xx

greenbee

Think of the gardening book as writing practice

moneyonmymindsam

"otherwise just some rounding of numbers to make things tidy"

That did make me smile :-) Flylady money lol

redofromstart

I do like my numbers to be rounded off Sam, and its amazing how these bits add up. I used to have to round down to the nearest whole number every time I looked at the bank, and that was the emergency fund that paid the mortgage when the second famine hit. It was a passbook only account and I hadn't a clue how much was in it till I went to get it out

Greenbee that is what I am telling myself, but in reality its just something else to procrastinate about.

Rained all day, 4k steps, a record low for me I think. Fridge tidied, and made leek potato soup, shepherds pie and chilli as a result. Too wet to go outside.

OH finally had the last dentists trip and associated last (and biggest) bill so I have transferred the money for that back out of savings. I do hate taking money out of the savings, even if it was only in there for the interest.

£1.98 of Am credit frittered - 99p on MP3 of Eurthymics Tell Me Why, and 99p on a Georgette Heyer on the Kindle (Reluctant Widow). Slow delivery credit used so opportunity cost rather than vouchers or real money.

No surveys, and very little done on SBs. Did update Linkedin and enquired about the location of a 'maybe' role.

New favourite song, Tracy Chapman, All That You Have is Your Soul. Seems quite apt for a few of us at the moment.


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Also, thinking of sashybo and her poorly little cat tonight.