Put away your purse & become debt-averse

DawnW

foxgloves said:

Have definitely woken up with Lockdownitis this morning. Hoping a bucket of coffee will help me turn this around. The day is yet young........
F x

Same here, but at least I have just done a route march with the dog. Definitely need more coffee.

Tescodealqueen

foxgloves said:

Have definitely woken up with Lockdownitis this morning. Hoping a bucket of coffee will help me turn this around. The day is yet young........
F x

Not sure if it's the weather or the confirmation that we are here for a good few weeks. I think it is generally taking its toll now and the rain isn't helping. My dad was the same during my morning phone call to him

Onebrokelady

Me too I woke up at 8ish but was still really tired, my alarm went off at 10 and I made myself get up but I'm sooooooo tired today. I made myself take B for our walk through the fields thinking that would wake me up but it didn't work. I was supposed to be going into town for some much needed shopping but I just haven't got the energy. 

Dottles1

Sorry to hear that Foxgloves, you are always so positive but it hits us all at some point.  It's been a long haul and not going anywhere soon so I guess it's inevitable.  Hope it clears soon but until then coffee and a curl up with your book might just help.  Sending hugs 

foxgloves

Aww, thanks Dottles. I am generally quite a positive person, & when I do find myself in low mood, I know it will be fairly temporary.
DawnW, OBL & Tescodealqueen - Yes, I think we are all ready to see some progress now.
And hi to everyone else too, who might be dropping in today...... I can't say I've had a very productive day. I've done the ironing, put dinner in the slow cooker, labelled all my jars of marmalade, fed my sourdough jar, tidied & started learning a new piano nocturne.
I enjoyed chatting with my sister on our weekly skype call & we arranged to swap a few magazines by post. I've also thought about February's budget (yesterday was my Big Budget Day) & decided that if we stick to everything (& let's face it, we're not exactly going out atm), then I can sweep an additional £300 into savings this month. I'd briefly considered £400, but then returned to Planet Reality when I remembered that our car tax is due this month.
Well m'dears, I've got the fairy lights on, the stove is lit, & despite Lockdownitis, I've progressed well through Day 3 of Project No Longer Looking Like a Sofa!
Be cosy, 
F x

Baileys_Babe

Reading about what you have been up to today, I'm not sure you had lockdownitis you just knew the dreaded (well to me anyway) ironing to do today 🤣
I don't think the weather is helping with lockdowns, brighter drier weather would help tremendously.
I hope @foxgloves and everyone reading is feeling better tomorrow.

foxgloves

BaileysBabe - Well, I'm sure the thought of my big ironing pile didn't help. It's definitely not one of my favourite tasks, that's for sure!

foxgloves

Morning Snowdrops!
While not back to my usual levels of bushytailed brightness, I don't feel as 'so what' about life as I did yesterday. I slept well, was supplied with wholemeal toast & peanut butter plus a suitably large coffee by the Beloved nice & early & just decided to go about my day as normal. 
It's been quite useful so far. Friday is my weekly cleaning day, so I had done all that by coffee break time, as well as emptied all the bins. I didn't really have any plans for the rest of the day, but I decided after my 2nd caffiene fix that it would be useful just to try & move on a few things which have been (or look set to be) hanging around. I noticed we are getting low on flour while I was mixing up a sourdough loaf this morning, so I emailed our local windmill about the possibility of another flour order. I've also emailed a couple of my marmalade customers (I sell a few jars locally for charity.....I used to be the charity when we were debt-busting, lol, but I like to donate any little bits of cash from sales to charity now) having worked out how much I can sell & how much I need to keep for our own pantry, for gifting, etc. I've written a list for town tomorrow - mostly fresh fruit & veg from the market & printed off some free resources for the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch, which takes place this weekend. We do it every year & it will feel like a bit of normality, as well as being a free activity we can do while stuck at home. I was pleased to receive a present I ordered for my nephew's birthday with today's post & was all set to get it wrapped, but when I opened it, it is not the correct item. Grrrrrr.....how difficult is it to put one single correct item into a parcel? I've sent a bit of a terse email, asking for the correct item to be sent asap, as I don't have a lot of turnaround time for a birthday in the 1st half of Feb, as I will need to wrap the item, box it with the others & post it on to the birthday boy. Infuriating!! A large parcel also arrived for Mr F. I wonder what it is.....I bet it's some rare nerdy box-set, although I don't care what it is, as long as he's used his 'Personal Spends' money to pay for it, which he will have done :-) 
We heard from our dentist yesterday that they are operational again, so have booked in. Even that (& I'm a bit of a dentist-phobe) felt like something a bit normal. The garden work we needed to liaise with neighbour about is all booked in & we will be paying half each, so that's another annoying lingering thing on its way to being sorted out. Oh, & I've chased the firm that is coming to re-do our failed shed roof to pin them down to a specific week if not quite yet a date (needs a dry day), so I do feel I have moved a few things forward today. 
It's Mr F's cooking night tonight. My contribution was merely to remember to take some haddock out of the freezer, so I am going to enjoy some leisure time this afternoon. I'm thinking I will progress writing up a huge family history project, read some more of my book & treat myself to a soak in a tubful of bubbles with a face pack & the works.
Keep on keeping on, m'dears,
F xx

foxgloves

More FREE cheery things..... just popped down the garden to empty compost bucket. Peeped in one of the  bins & it is full of rich crumbly compost ready to spread on the beds in our veggie garden. So that is Free Cheery Thing #1. Others are:
#2 Rhubarb shoots poking through so have covered with forcing crock for an early crop.
#3 Lots of snowdrops coming into flower. As I've said before, all the ones under the old pear tree came from a little pot Mr F bought me for Valentine's Day the first February we were in this house. That was better value than a bunch of cut flowers for sure!
#4 Two of my hellebores are flowering & a third one is in bud. It was lovely to spot that bud because it's on one of Mum's hellebores which I saved from her beautiful garden before we put the house on the market.
#5 I spotted several more self-sown foxgloves which I can move to fill up gaps in my flower borders.
I am really looking forward to some dry days when I can get my new funky little wellies on & get out there. Gardening keeps my head in a good place.
F 🌸 🌸 🌸 

Onebrokelady

Glad to see you have had a slightly more bushytailed day today. I listened to a podcast today about happiness and what makes a happy life, one of the things that makes for a happy life is giving or doing things for others, so selling your marmalade counts as one of those things, obviously it goes without saying that getting outside in nature is a good way of boosting happiness along with doing something creative 😊
I have Hellebores in my front garden that I bought for my 50th birthday,we went for a lovely day out to a National Trust place and they were selling them so I bought some to remember the day, that was 8 years ago in June and they flower every year. I smile every time I walk past them and still get excited when I see the first buds, I can't remember which ones they are but there are two purple ones and a white one. I am waiting for dry weather so I can get on and tidy my garden,it was neglected back in September/ October when I usually give it a good tidy before winter,I couldn't do it this year because I was too ill but I'm determined to get it done as soon as it stops raining all day
I used to do the big bird watch every year but lately I don't get many birds in my garden due to too many neighbourhood cats, I have a feeding station which I've just bought some bits for and Im going to put them out as soon as they arrive. I love having wildlife visit my garden 😊