Put away your purse & become debt-averse

foxgloves

Just to say that while I quickly abandoned secret jogging on the spot (too energetic by far for me!), I DID win the steps challenge. Late in the evening, Mr F said 'How the hell did you get over 3,000 steps ahead of me?" 
He wanted a re-match this weekend, but I declined as it's going to be way too hot, so we're going to do another weekday one next month when it's cooler.
F x

Humdinger1

All together now: 'We are the champions '! Bit hot to dress up as Freddie Mercury though on reflection....

Cheery_Daff

Ha, well done!! Don't fess up to your tactics, you'll still have a fighting chance next time!

Four_Seasons

Hi Foxgloves, thank you for so many chuckles on your step challenge I have really enjoyed them.  This week has been especially tough after a really happy day at a family wedding a few days later my daughter had a suspected heart attack, she is 49!! Although I dont post too often I love to read how everyone is getting on and if I there is a few laughs thrown in all the better. 
Have a lovely weekend, try not to melt x

Sun_Addict

Four_Seasons said:

Hi Foxgloves, thank you for so many chuckles on your step challenge I have really enjoyed them.  This week has been especially tough after a really happy day at a family wedding a few days later my daughter had a suspected heart attack, she is 49!! Although I dont post too often I love to read how everyone is getting on and if I there is a few laughs thrown in all the better. 
Have a lovely weekend, try not to melt x

Hope she’s ok @Four_Seasons. I know a few people recently have had heart attacks relatively young and fit and healthy. They’re ok now, have had stents fitted.

Sun_Addict

@foxgloves I have today, for the first time in my life, discovered the hidden treasure that is the shop rhyming with toys 😆 

foxgloves

Thanks for all your positive comments & motivation with my steps challenge. We are defo doing another one in September. I suspect I will be well & truly trounced in revenge!

@Sun_Addict - Hurrah for finding a branch of the shop which rhymes with toys, lol. We have also been in there this morning. Mr F was keen to buy some waterless car-wash in case of a hosepipe/carwashing ban, & had heard they had it for considerably less than the shockingly priced £30 branded variety he'd seen. And indeed they did....large bottle purchased for just fractionally over half the price. So he was a happy camper & bought a few of their cheap microfibre cloths too.
Glad you managed to get out on your little shopping jaunt. Think you defo need one every month minimum.
F x

foxgloves

@Four_Seasons -Sorry to hear about your daughter. What a shock, & at a young age. I hope the Drs can get to the bottom of what caused it. I have certainly heard of people only in their 40s & 50s needing to have stents fitted. Hopefully she is in good hands with a treatment plan/tests, etc.
F x

foxgloves

Afternoon Campers,
Ohhhh, it is horribly hot. No marching up & down the garden or step-building hoeing & sweeping for me today, thank goodness. We are both having an afternoon of leisure. Small money-saving wins today:
*Grocery shopping on budget. Am pleased with this as we did stock up on pasta (on offer), Quorn (ditto) & also visited the new eco-refill shop for a few items. It is going to be a useful shop. I bought a large refill of washing-up liquid plus containers I'd brought from home of salt, tarragon, curry powder & ground coriander, which came to (if I remember rightly) £3.29. In fact I queried the price & was told it's correct...."remember you're not paying for packaging".
*Made a batch of garlic flatbreads.
*Mr F has mended the latest leaks on our old water butt. It's on its last legs but he was keen that if we do get some decent rain on Mon & Tues, we need to be saving what we can.
*Still gathering seed for sowing next year. Sorted & packaged saved calendula & poppy seed today & cut seed heads from a pretty white mallow for drying. Also packaged some hollyhocks seed - spotted a beautiful row of deep cerise ones planted at the side of a local supermarket carpark. Loads of seed pods so purloined 3 ripe ones for sowing at home. 
But that's the limit of my activities today. I'm intending to read my book out on our shady courtyard & maybe watch a film later.
F x

teapot2

Hi Foxgloves, just wanted to pop in and say thanks for your recipe for the pickled courgettes and onion last year.  I made a few jars of it last summer and am just coming to the end of the final one.  Good accompaniment to lots of different meals and a yummy way to get one of my 5 a day esp in the winter.  Will have to make some more soon and use up the courgette glut