Put away your purse & become debt-averse

ziggy2407

Baileys_Babe said:

ziggy2407 said:

Having just come out of hospital (I had another heart attack) 

Sorry to hear this @ziggy2407 I hope you make a full recovery.

Thanks lovey, I'm hoping so just got to do as I'm told now for a while again.  Popped onto "small things" and its very quiet.

Hope you're all well.

Baileys_Babe

ziggy2407 said:

Baileys_Babe said:

ziggy2407 said:

Having just come out of hospital (I had another heart attack) 

Sorry to hear this @ziggy2407 I hope you make a full recovery.

Thanks lovey, I'm hoping so just got to do as I'm told now for a while again.  Popped onto "small things" and its very quiet.

Hope you're all well.

I pop on occasionally, most of our old gang either only post sporadically or have disappeared from the thread completely ☹️ I hope they are all keeping well.

We are well, OH now works from home full time 😀 which is a huge change from working away 3 consecutive days a week.

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Hi baileysbabe and ziggy 
i used to go on the "small things" thread but think i stopped using the forum so much for a while and now i mostly use the NST thread.  
Plus i like to follow a few diaries including this one  
Deni 

Baileys_Babe

Deni_debt-free_dreamer said:

Hi baileysbabe and ziggy 
i used to go on the "small things" thread but think i stopped using the forum so much for a while and now i mostly use the NST thread.  
Plus i like to follow a few diaries including this one  
Deni 

Hello @Deni@Deni_debt-free_dreamer 👋

foxgloves

Oh my goodness, what a lovely lot of comments & discussion to read. Thank-you everyone for contributing. I agree with each & every one of you about Covid levels & this awful government just drifting along until they finally have to act, too late as usual. I'm not advocating Lockdown - even last time, I thought non-essential shops & businesses could have stayed open with the proviso that effective safety measures were in place. I do agree it is our choice to wear a mask & we can do so without it being compulsory, but I'm not safe if I wear one, I'm safe if OTHER people wear theirs, & I think this is the general misconception among too big a proportion of the population. There were some people from our region interviewed on local TV last night, about whether there should be more restrictions such as compulsory mask-wearing. They had stopped wearing facemasks & thought it should be personal choice as to whether people decided to wear them. We were both yelling at the telly (because of course people 40 miles away can hear us when we yell at the local TV news) 'That's not the point!' By making a deliberate choice not to wear masks in crowded indoor spaces, they are taking away my choice to do all I can to avoid getting ill with Covid. Government setting a very bad example - advising us the plebs that it is probably wise to wear masks in crowded indoor spaces, then all of them cramming into parliament with barely a handful of masks among over 300 of them. Then there were the news picture of a crowded meeting, not a mask in sight. I'm afraid their defence, that it's ok because they are work colleagues just doesn't wash with me - they all go home to families, meet constituents (well not ours - he lives a couple of hundred miles away), go out & about just as we all do. Mr F & I have continued wearing our masks in shops, in a recent concert, in cafes (until we are seated) & everywhere else. He wears one every day at work, although well aware that the danger is from all the customers who no longer bother. We will need to learn to live with Covid because I don't think it is going anywhere, but there should not be such complacency with the infection rates so high at the moment. As my sis pinged me earlier today......official line is 'No restrictions', so we will likely be seeing some very soon. 
I must say that the walnut whip comments helped to lift my spirits. My mood did dip rather low last night. I think I am just longing to get back to having my furniture back in at least vaguely the correct rooms. Ah well, I do feel very grateful that we've been able to have this refurbishment - this year's work will soon be finished.
F x

foxgloves

....and for today's diary post, m'dears.....not a lot of frugal activity tbh, but no money spent either. Very busy  - two decorators here today applying the wall rock. The stairwell looks 100 times better just with that on, before the paint has even come out! We've also had the flooring people over to skim a section of floor ready for the new vinyl to be fitted tomorrow. I don't think I've ever felt so excited about new vinyl - it isn't a subject generally to set one's heart alight, is it? I think it is because it means we will be able to put everything back into the conservatory (which doubles as our dining room) & that will mean another room coming back into use. 
So when not liaising with workmen about the above, I have also baked bread & prepped & poached a big bowl of our pears. Mr F is on a later shift today, so I decided it would be a good day for smoky black bean chilli. It went into the slow cooker at 11 am & all I need to do when Hungry Horace gets in is to get the tortilla wraps out & grate some cheese. My order arrived (from the Emporium which sounds like where you would go when you need a new body :-) & so it was nice to take delivery of another couple of little items to add to the presents stash as well as to have a new moisturiser before the old one runs out - I may be advancing rather swiftly through my 50s, but I would prefer not to succumb to wrinkly old prune any sooner than necessary! My Nan & Mum both had lovely skin well into their old age so I am determined not to buck the family trend!
Well, I must sign out & have a good tidy up now - that's the other thing about stuff all being in the wrong place & not having daytime access to the stairs atm.......piles of assorted gubbins start building up & effectively just get shunted from place to place. The only upside about this, is that as the ironing is upstairs, I haven't been able to do it. Now that's a result! (please note that nobody will win any favours by reminding me I could quite easily pop upstairs & do it in the evening when the workmen have gone home :-)
Take care, all of you,
F x

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

afternoon foxgloves and friends

totally agree with all you say foxgloves.  i work in the public sector and often work with elected councillors.  In the office the staff all wear masks when moving around, the 2 leading councillors who are most often in the office do not.  A few weeks ago one of them even leaned over my laptop to look at something without a mask - i was fuming !
I am really scared about the impact on the NHS as there is such a backlog for non Covid problems. 

I really want a walnut whip or 3 now

love Deni 

Baileys_Babe

I agree about wearing masks. The 4 of us wear masks when out and about. We meet friends and family outside if possible, whatever the weather on the rare occasions we meet inside we make sure there is plenty of ventilation. Lots of hand washing, hand sanitizing, distance, masks, ventilation, regular LFTs and vaccinations. We are doing our bit to not become infected nor pass it on I just wish more people would.

Elisheba

I wouldn't dream of suggesting you could do ironing in the evening @foxgloves I'm a big believer in ironing avoidance. I bought an iron and ironing board about 2 or 3 years ago, as I'd lost the old ones to my ex in the divorce, and I still haven't used them 
Its not that I don't have some clothes that need ironed, its just that I deliberately don't wear them as I can't be bothered ironing them    And this included before Covid, when I did go into the office regularly and make more of an effort.  

amber03

We have a lot of work to do on the outside of the house, the problem is trying to get anybody to do the work. We have emailed and left messages on answerphones but they either don’t reply to you or say they will turn up and give you a quote and then don’t.  One person has told us they are fully booked up till May next year.x