Finally Debt Free After 34 Years, But Still Need to Live Frugally

milann

We have planes going over every minute or so - on the flight path to Manchester. I have noticed it’s a lot quieter. We have a young couple next door on one side - they have spent the last couple of years knocking down and rebuilding every wall in the house (or that’s what it feels like). But it’s stopped now 👍 The other side is a family with a teenager and tweenager - it’s a constant kicking of a football - he had just started to go out to the local park giving us a bit of respite from the ball coming over every 5 minutes.....now poor lad is confined to the garden again.....so our garden isn’t particularly peaceful either. I do love the model train track we have though. I’m wanting to be doing a bit to that over the summer.

HairyHandofDartmoor

You have to try and be a very tolerant neighbour sometimes don't you? Sigh. Your model train sounds lovely Milann .

Sun_Addict

We are on the flight path to East Midlands Airport so the skies are rather quiet at the moment. 

HH I might be classed as a neighbour with a dog that barks a lot 😱

HairyHandofDartmoor

Sun_Addict said:

We are on the flight path to East Midlands Airport so the skies are rather quiet at the moment. 

HH I might be classed as a neighbour with a dog that barks a lot 😱

Oops 😂🤣.

elizabethhull

HairyHandofDartmoor said:

teafor2 said:

Keep posting HHD, it's always nice to come on here and catch up with what people have been doing. xx

Thanks TF2 . As long as I'm not boring everyone to tears .

Absolutely not !
In fact, having followed your blog for some time now, I find it's quite addictive. It's also lovely to read other contributors - you learn surprising things !!

HairyHandofDartmoor

elizabethhull said:

HairyHandofDartmoor said:

teafor2 said:

Keep posting HHD, it's always nice to come on here and catch up with what people have been doing. xx

Thanks TF2 . As long as I'm not boring everyone to tears .

Absolutely not !
In fact, having followed your blog for some time now, I find it's quite addictive. It's also lovely to read other contributors - you learn surprising things !!

Thank you Elizabeth . I love people coming on to talk to me too .

Seasidegal58

Happy belated birthday Hairy!🎂🎂🎂.   Your day sounded really nice with your family around you. 

My walls in my flat don't back onto neighbours but a young  girl in her twenties lives in the flat above me and likes her music!  I find it's the bass thumping that I can hear. I had a word with her the other week and she turned it down but the walls are thin!  We're both now working from home and I have found if I put on Magic radio in the living room it drowns it. I seem to work quite well with it on too!😁

HairyHandofDartmoor

Seasidegal58 said:

Happy belated birthday Hairy!🎂🎂🎂.   Your day sounded really nice with your family around you. 

My walls in my flat don't back onto neighbours but a young  girl in her twenties lives in the flat above me and likes her music!  I find it's the bass thumping that I can hear. I had a word with her the other week and she turned it down but the walls are thin!  We're both now working from home and I have found if I put on Magic radio in the living room it drowns it. I seem to work quite well with it on too!😁

Thanks SSG . We'll all need to be very tolerant with our neighbours during lockdown. 

HairyHandofDartmoor

I celebrated being out of quarantine with a walk in the park today 🌳. It was lovely to get some fresh air and see evidence that the world is still out there. When I got into the park the main path had several people on it so I took a more minor path which was empty, although I had to swerve onto the grass to avoid a jogger 🏃‍♀️. It was easy to avoid people if you walked on the grass, as I did, but the paths were quite busy and I saw two familes pass each other on the path with only a couple of feet to spare 😱. I stayed about twenty to thirty feet away from people by cutting across the grass and zigzagging around. I really enjoyed my walk and seeing the trees in blossom, it felt very springlike 🏵. I hope they don't stop us going out for exercise as my park walk made me feel really cheerful and uplifted 😎.

On my walk I saw some rainbow pictures and teddies in people's windows which looked nice .

After lunch I decided to crack on with the weeding and spent all afternoon on it. I weeded half of the wall and it looks much better, plus I weeded a couple more pots. There's lots more weeding to do as I need to finish the wall, weed three borders and finish weeding the pots, but I'm making progress 😀. Once the weeding is finished I can think about acquiring some flowers and making my pots look colourful, plus there's a few plants that need re-potting into bigger pots. I also need to give the whole garden a good sweep and hose down the paths too. 

I enjoyed sitting on my garden bench for short rests inbetween weeding and relaxing. It was much quieter today out there. It was a bit colder so our noisy neighbours were indoors, apart from coming out to hang out washing. 

I hope everyone is having a good Saturday and keeping safe .

foxgloves

How nice that you got a walk in the park today, HHoD. I've been in all day today & I think some fresh air would have done me good. Maybe tomorrow. It's much colder here today, too. I went down to cover up some greenhouse plant babies about an hour ago & I was shivering when I got back inside. Am by the fire now with snoozy cat.
F x