Travelling On

Karmacat

I'll be good I haven't really done much since my last post - 45 mins in the garden, and I finally cooked rice (polenta will be tomorrow) and made it saucy, it was nice.

The other thing I'm thinking of is the "30 different things a week" (please ignore if you'd prefer): oats, linseed, pumpkin seeds, ashwagandha, turmeric, mixed dried fruit, peanut butter (breakfast, pretty much the same every day, 7 items).  Lunch: broccoli, pasta (is that a thing?), feta cheese, pesto, sweet peppers, walnuts in the HM cake (6 items, possibly); and this evening rice, green lentil, red lentil, cannellini beans, chickpeas, tomato (6 items).  So, 19 items in one day.  I'll take that 😉 

Karmacat

I got my council run healthy walk in before the rain got going - unfortunately talking to somebody who was .... a fantasist, shall we say?  Getting an ex-SAS soldier round to Do One on my barking-dog-neighbours was the least of it 😏 interesting times we live in!

Took delivery of the supermarket shopping in the pouring rain - its surprising how few times that's happened, but all the exercise of moving all of it twice, and some of it three times, means it doesn't matter if I'm a bit soggy.  Frozen and chilled are cleaned and in the fridge freezer, apart from one unlucky bag of frozen broccoli that split open and got taken back to the supermarket in disgrace 😃

Shattered now though, I had a *terrible sleep - I'm definitely going to take a herbal tablet tonight, early on - driving lesson tomorrow.  So the rest of the day is a balance between taking it easy and making sure I do enough so that I can get enough sleep.


ETA - extra foods in the 30 a week food challenge: potatoes (okay, oven chips), sweetcorn, beetroot and barley for both days, its in the lentil and chickpea mix.  New total: 23 items in 2 days.

Cheery_Daff

Excellent work on the range of foods - is this the 30 different types of plants thing?

starnac

My FIL does a council run healthy walk where he lives too. Be careful though. That's how they get you He started with one council run healthy walk a week and is now out every single day on different walks organised by different people! It keeps him active and he has made many friends through the scheme so I'm not really complaining. 

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff said:

Excellent work on the range of foods - is this the 30 different types of plants thing?

It is!  I'm slowing down massively, and I'm out all tomorrow, but I'm sure I'll get it to over 30 by the end of the weekend, comfortably within the 7 days.

starnac said:

My FIL does a council run healthy walk where he lives too. Be careful though. That's how they get you He started with one council run healthy walk a week and is now out every single day on different walks organised by different people! It keeps him active and he has made many friends through the scheme so I'm not really complaining. 

😃  I used to go to this one - when I could only cope with a half hour stroll, and it knocked me out for the whole day.  It's the only one I could walk to and then walk, so no problems with doing more 😃  I'm pretty sure I'm sticking at one a week, though I *may* eventually do one of the longer ones once a month, since it sets off from the same village common.

Driving lesson today was brilliant - went past roadworks controlled by a traffic light, over a wiggly junction across a main road, through both the high streets of my local town, though when I'm tired I still tend to wobble within the lane a bit 🚙 **quivers**

I'm going to the British Museum on my own tomorrow - sister is coping with what she **has** to do, but no more, and a London trip is definitely excess.  With paying for the ticket as well, rather than piggybacking on her membership, that means its £40 just for the very basics of ticket and rail ticket, but there's nothing else to pay for, I bring my own food cos of all the gluten free/vegetarian/cow dairy allergy rubbish.  

Just went to fetch the bag I use, which is in the 2nd bedroom - the door's been closed for a few days, and the whole room is slathered with fruit fly type flies 👀 really horrible.  I don't think I have the energy to cope with that today, so it'll have to be Saturday, no matter what.  I think it's partly because of the blown double glazing: might be the kick up the arras to get it renewed 👀



ETA - £150 on the premium bonds  

beanielou

Glad that driving lesson 
Boo to the fruit flies.

rtandon27

Wow KC - great win!

Ramouth

Could they be flying ants?  The ants under my parents back steps flew yesterday so we are definitely in season and I know you do have ants in your garden

Karmacat

Ramouth said:

Could they be flying ants?  The ants under my parents back steps flew yesterday so we are definitely in season and I know you do have ants in your garden

Thankfully not, I don't think - I also think they'd be worse than fruit flies (ewww, I'm all itchy now) 🤣🤣🤣  I'm familiar with the shape of both, but also, most tellingly, I had some seedlings in there that I let die - and every plant or seed in my house except the aloe vera and the spider plant, gets fruit flies on them there must be something dreadful about my watering regime.  So the first thing to do is to get those dead plants out of the door.  Next year, I'll plot for a cold frame in the garden, I've got wood, and a big piece of old double glazing that will be perfect for the roof.

But thank you for the feedback, Ramouth, you're right, I *do* have lots of ants.  I don't think they've made it up to the first floor, but its something to watch out for **shudders again**.

Anyway, yesterday was brilliant, though the trains and the museum itself were really packed out.  Greece is my favourite culture, though I've never studied it as such, and I hadn't twigged quite how long the Graeco-Persian Wars took.  Alexander was tail-end Charlie, barely got a look in!  

Today - gird my loins and take care of that 2nd bedroom.  If that takes a lot less time than I thought - check out the cleaning the shopping from Wednesday, life has been busy since then and it's still sitting there.

teapot2

Hi KC, glad you enjoyed your trip to the museum despite the crowds. 

Re the flies, there is a species of little fly not unlike fruit flies which breeds in the compost of indoor plants.  They are harmless but a bit of a nuisance.  You can buy yellow sticky papers which they are attracted to [I had to do this one year when I grew peppers indoors].

If you water from below ie in the saucer, that deters them establishing somewhat as they thrive in the damp soil if you water on the top of the soil.  Apologies if you know all this already!! x