Put away your purse & become debt-averse

Pixiehouse55

Hi everyone. Hope you are all ok with the virus still hanging around?
 What do you put in your chutney Foxglove please? Thanks 
Well Boris decisions on Sunday means we will probably get loads of people on the beach here.  Can see further cases at this rate.  Not done much as my neck shoulder etc playing up. My spinal surgeon phoning at 9am for my 6 month checkup. Could be interesting.
Right sleep time (hopefully)
Night all keep safe 

foxgloves

Pixiehouse - Yes, I think more people will head off to the seaside now, though they may not, if there are no facilities open.
Re chutney - it's Sophie Grigson's spiced carrot & garlic chutney recipe from the old tv prog from years ago called 'Feasts for a fiver' - it's bound to be online. Loads of carrots & garlic in it for starters but everything else is pretty much store cupboard ingredients. Worth a go if you like chutney.... & garlic.
F

ladyholly

I live at the seaside too and our council have plastered facebook saying the town is closed but guess what they are opening the car parks and closing the beach to dogs. However we still have to wait another 8 days for the  tip to open but then that doesnt contribute more money to them. Yes I am cynical about our money grabbing council.

foxgloves

Hello diary readers, 
Another chilly day here today & I'm informed by Mr F that temperatures will fall away to minus 1 overnight, so I have left pretty much everything shut up in my greenhouse. Quite a busy day. Made bread, then listened to my audiobook while I stayed in the kitchen & used a bag of various frozen fish trimmings to make a fish pie for dinner. Then I tackled the ironing pile.... one of my worst domestic tasks & there was a lot of it. I think it had been breeding in the basket as it was splurging all over the futon by the time I went in to fetch it.
I did get out in the garden for a couple of hours this afternoon. I tidied up the flowerbed which joins onto the new patio & replanted an area which was looking the worse for wear after the excavation. Mr F gave me a hand setting up a new bird feeding station. We haven't needed to buy anything new for that. We just moved the feeder pole so we can see it better from the window, I scrubbed out the birdbath which looks much nicer now it's clean & re-sited where I can easily get at it for topping up. Then we made a little groundfeeder table by half sinking a couple of old bricks into the soil so that they don't show & laying a small leftover sandstone slab from the new patio across them. I put some songbird mix out before we came in & they were on their new little table in no time, including one of our baby blackbirds who was nearly off the scale of bird dinner excitement when he found a dried mealworm all by himself! The 'old' me would have bought all new bird feeders, doubtless a new shiny pole & new everything else because that's how I was, but the truth is that we don't need to replace any of it. It just needed a good scrub & to be moved to a better place for a bit of a new look. Cash therefore saved & not spent!
I'm intending to knit my purple jumper, then watch 'Sewing Bee' - my sister will doubtless want to discuss the 'who got sent home' decision in forensic detail when we skype tomorrow!
Hope you are all 'being alert'.
F x

foxgloves

I think councils are having to generate more & more income though, Ladyholly, because there have been cuts to local council budgets from central government of around 50%, & that drop in funding just isn't sustainable.
I wonder if people will flock to the seaside, peaks & lakes this weekend & at Bank Holiday. It will be interesting to see what happens. My feeling is that if basics like public loos, etc, aren't open or cafes, then they may decide not to bother. We shall soon see, anyway.
F

HairyHandofDartmoor

foxgloves said:

I think councils are having to generate more & more income though, Ladyholly, because there have been cuts to local council budgets from central government of around 50%, & that drop in funding just isn't sustainable.
I wonder if people will flock to the seaside, peaks & lakes this weekend & at Bank Holiday. It will be interesting to see what happens. My feeling is that if basics like public loos, etc, aren't open or cafes, then they may decide not to bother. We shall soon see, anyway.
F

It would put me off going anywhere if the toilets were shut as I have a weak bladder! I can take food and drinks with me but I don't want to pee in a bush 😱 🤣.

Pixiehouse55

Hi Foxgloves. I will check out her recipe thank you. Always good to try something new
Not much done here today. My spinal surgeon phoned me this morning, I always feel like he's in a hurry and not listening to me and then physiotherapist phoned me this afternoon. Wasnt in the mood for doing much after that so I sat and done a bit of knitting and reading

Take care, stay safe 

Pixiehouse55

Oh and I potted on some Tomato plants
Also have some teeny teeny brussel sprouts to pot on

foxgloves

Good luck with your veggie growing, Pixiehouse55.
I've never had a medical consultation by phone. I expect  Drs are just as limited by time pressures with those as they are with face to face appointments, aren't they?
F

foxgloves

Well, I am trying to maintain routines as much as possible, which means that today I need to do my mid-month budget check-in. I could also do with doing a couple of financial things in town this week, so will check what is open & when.
Coffee first though & plenty of it.
F