My journey to a debt free life

Onebrokelady

Sun_Addict said:

I haven't seen the A word, everyone says how good it is so will look out for it on catch-up.  Mr SA tends to hog the TV in the living room at night and he only ever wants to watch programmes about hospitals although I did persuade him to watch another episode of Little Fires Everywhere last night. Don't talk to me about polystyrene, I have the stuff - still got loads from my desk packaging, keep slipping it my bin a bit at a time, going to take weeks to get rid of it all.  I did read somewhere that you can break it up and put it at the bottom of garden planters for drainage which is a good idea to make use of it.

It's well worth watching,I still haven't started Little Fire Everywhere but now we have figured out how to get the first episode to play I can start watching it now

Ive used polystyrene for drainage in plant pots before and it did work, this was massive pieces though,I managed to break them in half to fit in my wheely bin but it was a pain in the neck 

Onebrokelady

Just popping in for a swift visit before work, I'm dicing with danger today and leaving slightly later, the bus I normally get gets me there with twenty minutes to spare so I'm going to try the later bus to see what time that gets me there 

Ive just taken B out and I'm now having a quick coffee before I go , it's very grey outside so I reckon it's going to be a wet day 

Willowtree222

Hopefully it'll get you there on time..Fingers crossed anyway x

Sun_Addict

I watched the first episode of the A Word yesterday on BBC iPlayer, enjoyed it. My DGS is undergoing tests for Autism and I could see the similarities in behaviour. I don't know if DS watches it but will recommend it to him. Hope you made it to work on time.

foxgloves

Hi OBL - What a nice stylish mask! It looks a different pattern to mine. I used the pattern where you start with a rectangle, then double it & put pleats in, and it has a pocket at the back to insert an additional layer. I do have a sewing machine though. I don't think I'd have made ten if I'd had to hand sew them. 
I've watched the earlier series of the A-Word, but only the first episode of this one, so I could do with catching up. It isn't my favourite programme by any means, but it is nicely character-driven drama and I do like the growing theme that they all accept Joe for who he is, rather than initially, when the storyline was more about them hoping he could be sort of trained out of some of his traits. Christopher Eccleston is very good in his role - that character makes me laugh, and the lakeland scenery is beautiful.
We're enjoying 'Cardinal' at the moment......it is hard to imagine all that snow, as we freak out here, don't we, if we get mroe than about 2cms!
F x

Onebrokelady

Nicnak said:

Hopefully it'll get you there on time..Fingers crossed anyway x

I left the house ten minutes later than normal and still managed to be in time for the bus that gets me to work too early 😀I forgot it sits at the bus stop for ten minutes after I get on it so it was still there🙄

Onebrokelady

Sun_Addict said:

I watched the first episode of the A Word yesterday on BBC iPlayer, enjoyed it. My DGS is undergoing tests for Autism and I could see the similarities in behaviour. I don't know if DS watches it but will recommend it to him. Hope you made it to work on time.

I was still early 😀  I think The A Word gets better with each series, obviously Autism is a spectrum so there are greatly varying levels of behaviour, I also like the stories of all the characters around Joe 

Onebrokelady

foxgloves said:

Hi OBL - What a nice stylish mask! It looks a different pattern to mine. I used the pattern where you start with a rectangle, then double it & put pleats in, and it has a pocket at the back to insert an additional layer. I do have a sewing machine though. I don't think I'd have made ten if I'd had to hand sew them. 
I've watched the earlier series of the A-Word, but only the first episode of this one, so I could do with catching up. It isn't my favourite programme by any means, but it is nicely character-driven drama and I do like the growing theme that they all accept Joe for who he is, rather than initially, when the storyline was more about them hoping he could be sort of trained out of some of his traits. Christopher Eccleston is very good in his role - that character makes me laugh, and the lakeland scenery is beautiful.
We're enjoying 'Cardinal' at the moment......it is hard to imagine all that snow, as we freak out here, don't we, if we get mroe than about 2cms!
F x

Thanks Foxgloves,I didn't think I would be able to make the pleated ones, I found this one on YouTube, it's really easy to make there isn't a pattern as such ,you just draw a circle round a plate, you then have to fold it  and cut it before sewing it up, I picked this style because you don't need a sewing machine to make it 😀

I love Christopher Ecclestone in this programme and it was the fact that he was in it that sparked my interest. I do have a bit of a thing for him 😍😍😀

Onebrokelady

Yay I got to work on time on Wednesday 😊 it was an ok shift, a bit boring but I got to leave early so that's a bonus 

Yesterday was one of those wet, grey miserable days where you just want to stay indoors and read a good book so that is what I did for most of the day, I did walk B and sort the chickens plus chucked a load of washing in the machine but nothing else was done, I was really tired when I got up so didn't want to go anywhere

I did have to nip out and rescue the 🐓🐓in the afternoon, they were pootling round the garden when we had a sudden heavy downpour with some thunder mixed in, I didn't want to end up with fried 🐓🐓 so had to quickly round them up and put them away, I gave them some of my muesli to cheer them up 😀

Today I've been at work all day so haven't done anything else. I'm a bit miffed at my bus company at the moment. They have changed lots of the bus routes, so my bus now doesn't stop in the High Street, normally I either walk into town and get to my stop with about 2 minutes to spare before the bus goes or I get a bus from the hospital which stops in the High Street and I then have to run to the next stop to jump on my bus before it leaves, it's a very tight time frame to get from one bus to the other. From what I can see they have taken my bus out of the High Street altogether and moved it to the bottom end of town, so now the hospital bus goes to the High Street and I then have about an 8ish minute walk to get my connecting bus,my connecting bus leaves one minute after the hospital bus gets in so I will always miss it😢 I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet but it's going to be a pain in the neck trying to get home now .
I can get the Hospital bus down to the train station then I have a twentyish minute walk (with two large hills ) to my house, it just adds time onto a very long day, I leave my house at 6.30 to get to work at 7.10then it takes me another 40 minutes to get home again, some days I don't get home until 9 pm 😟

im going to have a look at the time tables to try and figure out the best way round it 

Drawingaline

Bus and train companies seem to do that a lot. My hubby takes two trains to work (in normal times) and has six minutes to connect in the morning. Then it shifted to two minutes which just isn't doable as he goes into a large hub with many platforms so too far to walk/run. It was back to doable before lockdown, but imagine when he finally gets back in the office it will be all over the place.