Put away your purse & become debt-averse

Sun_Addict

Man flu? 🤣

Cheery_Daff

foxgloves said:

Thanks all - He had a negative test, I'm pleased to say. If he still has symptoms this weekend, he's going to double-check by testing again.
F x

Good stuff. Although I tested negative on the first day (and felt dreadful) but tested very strongly and instantly positive the next morning so keep your distance and get the sanitiser out anyway!

foxgloves

Hello Sunbeams,
I'd have got my diary post done by now, had I not dropped peanut butter down the front of my bra - naturally had to go & sort that out before things got messy. 
Mr F's day off today, which is just as well as he was still feeling grotty. He did another covid test & it was negative. He's a really bad patient.....not the man flu'-type, but more that he simply can't believe that any germs have had the actual termerity to invade his system & not be successfully fought off with his super-special better-than-anyone-else's immune response T-cells. But he's definitely picked up something, as couldn't even face breakfast first thing. I think he's probably picked up some sort of virus while out on a couple of community outreach visits earlier this week. 
 We'd planned to go into town today for grocery shopping & I was perfectly happy to drive in myself. but then we remembered that there's a cycle race in the town centre this afternoon/evening & everyone would probably be out in force doing their weekend shopping before all the road closures. Did an online order instead & I took myself off for a pootle around the farm shop where I bought a Christmas present!
Other household stuff: Not a lot......changed bed linen, but will wait for full load to run the washing machine, 
Garden pickings: Another cucumber (our 15th!)
Annoying jobs: 1 (which took ages, as it involved patching a vintage door curtain in an attractive way as I could manage without spending any money & also re-hemming it. Now done & re-hung, looks much better)
As the economic situation is so worrying, we have decided to hold off buying a few bits & pieces we'd intended to get in the sales because we discussed it & both feel that we don't want to spend the money in our House & Garden Pot 'because it's there, therefore we can afford it', then find that we have some kind of greater unforeseen need & end up dipping into savings, another Pot or (heaven forfend) a credit card. So the new garden bench I was planning to look for in the sales is on hold & we are going to move my pondside bench down to the new refurbed shed corner instead......it'd be moved onto hard-standing at the end of September anyway. The new kitchen compost caddy Mr F has been wanting because ours is now 'horrible & stinks' succumbed to a bit of hard work with that pot of pink goo we were talking about a while back & came up as good as new. The bathroom curtains have been soaked in soda crystals, washed, ironed & re-hung & although I do want to sew some new ones, I am struggling to find the fabric I want at a price I want to pay, so am going to make do with the existing ones atm. I had also been planning to buy 3 or 4 large pottery plant pot holders for the conservatory as mine have been outgrown by their large occupants, but the size & type I want don't seem to be available for under £20 each, so I instead I'm going to trawl the local charity shops regularly, plus the weekly flea market if I cycle in on the correct day & see if I can gradually put together a nice eclectic mix of 2nd-hand ones. Oh, & despite moaning approx 93,000,000 times every time he uses it, even Mr F is in complete agreement that we should continue to use Mum's old vacuum cleaner until it finally takes itself off to the great broom cupboard in the sky before we buy a new one.
 I think with the energy price cap horror stories all over the media atm, we won't be alone in thinking thrice before we buy. I need to get right into that thrifty groove-thing & stay there for the foreseeable future. 
F x

foxgloves

Soot & Ash

Sun_Addict

Such handsome boys 😻

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Hi foxgloves
Lovely pictures of your cats, thanks for posting 
I have looked for that pink stuff as i decided i should clean my oven - i saw a tub but it didn't say it was suitable for ovens - is there a specific one for ovens or is the general tub suitable.
I bought a dress in a CS yesterday but it didn't suit me so i returned it, I'd also seen a blanket i liked but it wasn't there today so I was saved from myself!  I don't think i really needed it, I would like one for my bedroom but it wasn't the right colour so not a wise or necessary purchase. 
I had my gas boiler serviced this week and the very kind man fixed my up & over garage door (he needed to use it to access the meter) , he also bled the radiators so i feel ready for winter now !  
Hope Mr F feels better soon, I don't think he would succumb to ordinary flu, he would surely have Epic Man-flu 
love Deni x

Humdinger1

Utterly beautiful! Soot has a slightly menacing, even sinister look but it in no way detracts from his beauty! Agree @foxgloves re spendiness...I found myself saying to DH that we should shop from home first, which has always been his philosophy.  Thank goodness we've all had our LBMs; I feel for the people who are not yet in that fortunate position.  This will make you laugh;  I hear (from a certain satirical magazine) that the London Fire Brigade has traced all those fires on their patch back to...Mr BJ's underpants.  I'll leave it there love Humdinger xx 

penny_less

Ash and Soot are growing into the most beautiful cats
To me, Soot’s expression reminds me of the one our now sadly departed black cat used to give me- in my mind he was saying ‘I love you’ though!
Either way, they are adorable x

Whatlifeis

They’re gorgeous! Thanks so much for posting them. And your immaculate flower bed reminds me that I really should get out and weed my garden

IzzyBee

Beautiful cats 🐱