Put away your purse & become debt-averse

Onebrokelady

marionmgcars said:

Hi, I decided to read this thread from the start, and was at page 40 and had to close computer down,   is there any easy way to get back to that page, rather than starting at page one and progressing a few at a time ?  thank you

I don't think there is anymore, there used to be a search box and you just put the page number in and it would take you straight there,I've been solving the problem by hitting the thanks button on the last post on the last page I read and it will normally take you straight back to that page,I hope this garbled reply makes sense 😂 

Onebrokelady

Foxgloves your daily productivity puts me to shame, I'm haven't really achieved much at all in May. I think I need to set some goals and get some lists written so I at least know what needs doing😀

I hear you on having to undo work to take care of a mistake,I did that with my sewing the other night and had to undo it all. I do find nowadays that I can't watch anything while I'm sewing,I sometimes listen to podcasts but I become aware that I'm not actually listening so miss bits of it. Music is ok as for some reason that doesn't distract me so much 

foxgloves

Marionmgcars - I don't know if finding a specific diary page is possible since the system update. It certainly used to be..... as OBL said, it was just a case of typing the relevant page number into a little box. As nobody is likely to sit & read a diary all in one go, I'm thinking there ought to be some method of bookmarking, but if there is, I don't know what it is.
F 

foxgloves

Evening m'dears,
Up at 5.40 this morning. Simply pinged awake & could see no earthly point in remaining in bed. Had a wander down the garden & could see the spinach was desperate for cutting, so popped back for the colander & made chickpea curry in my slow cooker as that recipe has a decent wodge of spinach in it. Well worth doing as it made 4 portions for the freezer and also saved the spinach from bolting. Perpetual spinach is a useful thing to have in the garden. As the name suggests, it keeps going..... I sowed mine this time last year..... but you have to cut it. If you don't, it will bolt, go spindly & give up.
Once the slow cooker was on & overnight laundry pegged out, I went back out to clear enough of our final big raised bed to plant out the 4 remaining courgette plants. I really feel as though we're nearly there now.....just 1 & a half veggie beds left to plant.
Oh, I forgot to say yesterday when I was talking about my theme/goal for June being self-care, that the idea is to achieve this without spending any money. I have plenty of stuff here at home & the only types of exercise I enjoy are free. So today, I've eaten healthily. I stopped my garden labours for a proper lunch break & watched a TV programme, which made a nice change. I also treated my myself to a properly thorough double face cleanse followed by a face mask. It's one of those masks which doubles as a scrub, so I'm feeling nicely exfoliated! I've also made a conscious effort to drink more water..... not the recommended 8 glasses, but I managed 4, which probably helped to dilute some of my daily caffiene fix! 
Take care all, 
F x

cbsexec

If you bookmark the threads you like (like I have this one) it takes you to the last entry you read when you log back in.   Even works if you start reading an old thread.   I actually think it works better now than before.   Hope that helps 

foxgloves

Thanks cbsexec, that's really helpful. I thought it ought to be possible but didn't know how to do it.
F x

marionmgcars

thanks for your help cbsexec, I can enjoy hopping in an out of the threads now. Mx

foxgloves

Hello Sunbeams,
Another hot sunny day today. I woke at 4 a.m & despite my best attempts to return to some sort of restful sleep, managed to re-awaken at 6.00 with a shocking crick in my neck, so I got up & had a stroll down the garden instead. Not impressed to find that Captain Beaky had kicked a surprising amount of soil out of the big hydrangea pot, so fetching the broom was my first task of the day!
Overnight laundry pegged out and I also hand washed a top which very slightly shrank last time I washed it and tried out my sister's 'shrunken top stretching remedy'. I can't say it is going to work, but thought it worth a try. Since the top shrank, my waistline has expanded (grrrrr!) so I still think there is going to be a simple problem of slightly too much Foxgloves & kind of not enough top. 
Priority job today was to weed out the greenhouse bed & get my basil plants planted out in front of & in between the tomato plants. My basil seedlings looked really iffy at one stage, so I sowed extra for back-up. Naturally there is nothing like doing this to ensure that every single one of them then decides to rally & grow like mad, meaning I ended up with too much. I have planted the surplus into a big clay flowerpot by the greenhouse door. Then, as I was moving something on the conservatory window sill, I spotted an additional pot of basil seedlings which I'd forgotten about. Well, it looks as though it's going to be another good year for home made pesto, so I shall start saving useful sized yoghurt pots for freezing it.
I've had a lovely chat with my sister on Skype and sorted out a bit of admin. I'm going to make a fish pie later, but this afternoon, I've actually managed to get pretty good wi-fi in the conservatory, so I'm going to bring an online project to do in here while I have the french doors flung open to let the air in. I'm also turning a sewing project over in my mind. My sis (very good at dressmaking) talked me (very reluctant dressmaker) into a challenge based on that round in the 'Sewing Bee' TV programme where contestants have to turn an old garment into something new to wear. I don't know WHY I agreed to this, but I did, & as one of the rules was that we are not allowed to buy in anything new in order to complete the challenge & can only use what we have in stock at home, I am thinking that I will alter a dress I bought from a charity shop a couple of years ago (& have zero chance of ever fitting into barring a miracle!) into a maxi-skirt. I think there will be enough fabric left from the bodice to make a hair band too, I'll see. I'm not going to start it today, but I'm turning it over in my mind, which is a start.
Right......time to get cracking......although I will be firing up the coffee machine on route.
Take care, m'dears,
F x

Blackcats

I've been interested in hearing about the thrifty knitters of the past.  When I was little my nanny (Not the Mary Poppins type of nanny but the grandmother type of nanny) did all the knitting of my garments.  I think she had one or two knitting patterns - a polo neck, a v neck, a cardigan and a tank top - we loved a tank top in the 70,s 😁).  I have a series of school photos which show first of all me in a yellow polo neck, then the same yellow wool re-appeared a year later as a v neck jumper and then the next year as a yellow tank top with a purple stripe.  I remember helping unravel the wool and roll it into balls for re-knitting.  The purple stripe in the tank top was because purple was Donny Osmond's  favourite colour so I was prepared to impress him in my hand knitted yellow and purple tank top if he ever passed through my home town.  

A huge treat was going to the wool shop and choosing new wool - my Nan bought a couple of balls and the rest was on lay-by and a new ball bought when needed.  Happy memories 🙂

Baileys_Babe

My Nanny (Grandmother type) was a fantastic knitter. She knitted for us when we were children and would knit what we requested in our teens and twenties intricate patterns etc. She knitted less as she got as she found the garments too heavy, but carried on knitting for charities. When me and my Sister had children she resumed knitting with great enthusiasm as the garments were so much lighter, we just had to update her colour palate as it was still very dated for babies and toddlers, but not anybody else.

Nanny tried to teach me to knit many times without success but my Sister learnt and she now supports dd