Cheery's country living adventure

Cheery_Daff

Oh goodness me, I do apologise, it wasn't RT it was pyxis! I'm so sorry! RT you were the RT I was thinking of, but it just wasn't actually you who'd done it    How did we manage without that little rolly head??   

I think it's ok to worry about your own problems KC. While I do think it's important to acknowledge our privilege and good fortune when we have them, I don't think that means none of us can be sad because there's other people worse off. If we applied that rule to the extreme, then only one person in the world could be sad at any one time (and we'd spend an awful lot of time trying to work out who that one person was). So yes, of course don't go telling people you have the worst situation in the world if clearly you don't, but actually I think it's fine (and inevitable) that all of us are going to feel frustrated, angry, vexed, badly done to, sad, etc at various points - even over fairly minor things. 

Pyxis

Love from Pyxis 


A few more are here:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/76975005/#Comment_76975005

rtandon27

My favourite smilie!  Thank-you Pyxis

Pyxis

rtandon27 said:

My favourite smilie!  Thank-you Pyxis

It’s my favourite too...see my signature! 

themadvix

Thank you Pyxis!   

Karmacat

Pyxis, you star (star jumps, see!)

Cheery  - very, very good points on the whole issue of worries when we're comparatively so well off.   I love the whole one-person-in-the-world, thats really good

Cheery_Daff

Evening chums 

Not much to report, just popping by. Enjoying these enforced No Spend Days - I never was any good at them and now I'm having several in a row! Also enjoying not nipping to the shops every day or two - I always preferred a weekly (or less frequent) big shop, but also always ended up popping in for something on the way home from work or whatever - something I never enjoyed but often found myself doing. Not now though.

Life is pretty uneventful here, thank goodness. I had a nice morning reading a book and looking out of the window, so very rarely make time to do that and it was lovely. Then I went for a run - trying to keep up with the plan from my running group as we're still in touch virtually and I don't want to lose the fitness I've gained! Did a different route today, just over an hour, and goodness me it had an enormous hill in it. Not much I can do about that at the minute given I can't drive anywhere flat! 

Then I've had a slightly frustrating afternoon trying to fix Mr Cheery's bike - he snapped the chain last week. Managed to fix the chain, but it took forever to figure out how the chain reattached to the bike, and then I couldn't get the gears to function properly. Eventually gave up - I was in an outbuilding out of the wind but it was still freezing. 

Just run myself a leisurely bath to lounge around in.

Hope you're all doing ok! 

I'm thinking of taking a bit of time off work soon, once we get closer to Easter. Nowhere to go of course! But it'll be nice to spend some more time with Mr Cheery and getting house and garden stuff done while we're in solitude, rather than him knocking about on his own and me staring at a computer screen. We'll see.

Anyway, that bath's not going to have itself, best get going!

Fortune_Smiles

Sound wonderful Cheery.  I find I'm doing everything at a more relaxed pace and being more 'mindful' in the process.  It's like having your reset button pressed 

Fortune x

Cheery_Daff

 Certainly is Fortune (for those of us fortunate enough to be trying to battle children/ working from home/ Caring/  financial worries etc of course). I'm going to be thinking very hard about what activities get put back in once all this is over...

PurpleFairy26

Sounds like a lovely day cheery. Enjoy the time away from your computer whilst you can.