Put away your purse & become debt-averse

foxgloves

SSDD23 - Oh you poor thing, lol - you definitely need a coffee now. It still amazes me that people find my activities entertaining, as I feel I lead such a mundane life, really. .......let alone sitting down & reading a lot of it in one go! If something massively exciting ever does happen to me, I will be sure to include it in a diary post to give everyone a break!
Just about to make a tuna & bean salad and then get out into the garden to do a few 'brightening up' jobs now that we've moved into the late summer season......you see, I said my days were uneventful!
F x

Onebrokelady

Foxgloves,I love reading your diary and it certainly doesn't come across as mundane. I find it inspiring and it always cheers me up to read it. Your attitude to life and how to live it is lovely xx

Baileys_Babe

I think doing the building and improvement work soon rather later means you get to enjoy the benefits of your restored home now as well as increasing the value of the asset in future, to me sounds like a win whatever way you look at it  

PrawnChorus

Delurking to say I also look forward to your diary every day Foxgloves. I read it all in one go a few months ago and it was honestly more entertaining than any book I’ve read in a long time. I just love reading it 

foxgloves

Awww, what kind words, OBL & Prawn Chorus. I think I'm having one of those weeks where I just feel a bit faded & boring. I guess we all have them. I haven't had any chocolate for ages so I'm going to put it down to that, lol!
F

Toni'sfriend

You are never boring. I love reading your diary too.

foxgloves

Thank-you, Toni'sfriend for your kind comment.
F x

foxgloves

Well, hello m'dears,
I'm bringing you tonight's diary post from my living room - the wind is rattling the chimney as though it is already autumn & I am already ready for bed. Not because I am intending an early night, but because I thought my dress smelled of tomatoes. It's quite a long swishy one & I think it has been doing a bit too much swishing while I was in the greenhouse earlier....either that, or there genuinely is a tomato actually following me around today!
Absolutely zero to tell you in the way of interesting stories today - I haven't spent any money, so that's always a plus for people who are supposed to be saving - other than that, my day went like this:
Got up & came downstairs at exactly the time Mr F was getting out of the bath, so I jumped in rather than pay for another tub of hot water later on. That was when I noticed a layer of volcanic ash over every surface of the bathroom. This being the Midlands & active, indeed any, volcanoes being distinctly absent, I investigated further & discovered it was fluff shreddings from our new towels. Despite being washed before use, they had still managed to do a vacuum-cleaner-needing level of shredding. Did the ironing, then decided I'd better go for my walk. I won the steps contest I did with the Beloved yesterday. He did over 11k steps, but Yours Truly did 13.5k, The ongoing 30-day step challenge from my magazine has increased to 9k steps a day for all this week. I was doing a circuitous route around the village when a woman stopped me  - Wouldn't it be great if she offered to sell me a handful of magic beans? But of course she didn't. She asked me if I had seen a rabbit while I'd been out on my walk as theirs had escaped in the night. I hadn't seen any rabbits but promised to keep a look out. I spent the rest of my walk peering up driveways & in front gardens looking for said beast  & it occurred to me that I hadn't asked the woman what it looked like. I was pondering whether I ought to go back & check but then I thought that is ridiculous! If I do see a rabbit, it is almost certainly going to be the missing one, whether it is black, white, brown or sky blue pink! Then for the length of an entire road, I was working out what I would do if I did see the rabbit. Would I be able to catch it? How would I transport it back sveral streets to its home. I only had my flowery backpack-style handbag with me, but decided that if I took my water bottle out & carried it & wore my sunglasses to free up some space, I could probably fit a rabbit in the top & sort of fasten the flap over the top of it so that its head & ears would be sticking out in the fresh air. By the time I'd walked for another 20 mins, I was downright disappointed I hadn't been the Special Bunny Finder........but I had done my whole walk without even thinking about it & added a whole load of steps to today's total. Perhaps that's what I need for fitness motivation - I need to be a person out on an intrepid mission! 
A pleasant session in the garden this afternoon - emptied out a tub of spent allium bulbs & replanted with a heucherella (treated myself from my 'Personal Spends' a few weeks back), cut back some overgrown perennials in a border, moved some pots around to fill late-summer gaps, sowed some mizuna, watered the greenhouse veg & did a bit of weeding. 
Apart from finishing a stripy mitten (still yarn stash-busting), that is my lot for today.
Wishing everyone a peaceful evening,
F xx

1LuckyLady

I thought you said you had "zero" in the way of interesting stories today!! I smiled all the way through reading about how you'd deal with the rabbit if you found it!  

ziggy2407

1LuckyLady said:

I thought you said you had "zero" in the way of interesting stories today!! I smiled all the way through reading about how you'd deal with the rabbit if you found it!  

So did I @1LuckyLady, I also think we need to see some of these stash busters - I definitely need inspiring