Cheery's country living adventure

rtandon27

Fortune_Smiles said:

rtandon27 said:

You turned down 20p cake!?! 😱

I don't even like cake & would have taken up that offer - LOL

You don't like cake 😱😱😱

Fortune x

I know Fortune - I'm weird that way, sugar gives me brain fog - given a choice between a savoury & a sweet, I always pick the savoury!  A lovely piece of spinach & feta Spanokapita pie is more my thing - LOL - 

Karmacat

Ooh, spanakopita ... yummy.  I can manage to resist sweet stuff as long as it isn't in the house, and it doesn't ping my addiction in the same way outside.  So spanakopita ... the food of the gods (the Greeks, anyway

rtandon27

Karmacat said:

 ... the food of the gods (the Greeks, anyway

...and who in their right mind would turn down a greek god? 😂😂😂

Karmacat

😂😂😂  I like that!

taka

Arghhhh now I want Spanakopita AND cake!

... Wouldn't say no to a greek god either! :

Cheery_Daff

you lot and your cake debate! 

I confess I DID have some cake today (and it cost well more than 20p unfortunately!) Had a nice couple of days though after a rather dreary first week of holiday. National Trust place on Monday, then yesterday I met up with my sister and had a lovely walk along the beach, and then met my mu for lunch. The sun even shone for a while!! Today a friend and I have been for an amble around Chatsworth gardens, and then to a (non-Chatsworth) cafe. The rain has set in again now, but it did at least wait until we were in the cafe! 

No more big adventures planned for my time off. We might have a visitor or two over the weekend, or we might not, not sure of their plans yet. I swept the chimney in the study the other day so I'm all set for cosy fires in there when work starts again, and I might light a fire in there tomorrow and watch a film or two if the weather carries on like this... 

Nothing much financial to report. Got tea and mum's cake half price yesterday, but have spent a fortune today - £14 to get into the gardens (including parking), £5 on lunch, another £5 ish on tea and cake, £13 on early Christmas presents (!!), and £6 for a bowl (we only have two and it's quite inconvenient ) Need to stop spending now! 

Had several reminders from the veg box man - we only had one on Monday and I'm neglecting the garden produce trying to get through it so I've cancelled it for a few weeks while I catch up with myself. 

Lovely wandering round Chatsworth kitchen gardens this morning though - lots of inspiration there for growing all kinds of things next year... 

Not sure what else to tell you really! Might pop back in later when I've thought of something useful... 

themadvix

I think £6 for a bowl was money well worth spending if you've only got two! We regularly get through 6 in a day, depending on what we eat/whether we have pud! 

Cheery_Daff

I confess we just tend to use the same bowl for everything throughout the day, mostly just not even washing up in between...  

Anyway, not got any set plans for tomorrow, so thought I'd make a list to give some structure to the day. Weather's looking pretty grim again so definitely not going to be a gardening day sadly... we're starting with 68% chance of heavy rain, rising to 93% by lunchtime... So... 

7.30-9.30 - Starting the day
- let chickens out (yes I know that doesn't need to be on a list, but I want to be able to cross it off!)
- workout
- breakfast
- shower
- tidy bathroom (pick up and fold clothes, hoover, clean sink etc)

9.30-12.00 - Plotting and scheming and errands
- wrap friend's present and put letter in envelope
- take both to post office
- cafe trip with Mr Cheery (and notebook to plan final third of the year ) 
- possible trip to town for fruit etc

12.00-2.00 - Lunch and sitting down
- make and eat lunch
- see if LPG people have replied to email
- banks & YNAB 
- possible blog post

2.00-5.00 - Activity time!
- measure and cut wood for kitchen ceiling (doing things in stages...)
- possibly attach battens to joists
- sort out piles of clean washing in bedroom
- hoover bedroom
- start sorting out clothes in other upstairs room
- clean out chicken house and put new feeder back in the run
- clear up chimney-sweeping mess in study

5.00-7.30 - Transition to evening
- shut chickens in run, and later in house
- make and eat tea (possibly with a couple of extra portions for the freezer)
- hoover downstairs
- washing up and clean kitchen

7.30 - Evening cheerfulness
- No particular plans, might write a letter or two, finally get round to watching some of Gardeners World, have a bath... 

We'll see how that pans out - I know how over-ambitious I am sometimes with my lists... Feel like at least some of these things are achievable though - after all three of them involve eating meals and I think even I can manage that!  

Baileys_Babe

When I read "plan final third of the year" my first thought was @Cheery_Daff is ahead of the game, then I realised it starts next week 😱

Cheery_Daff

Ha, yes BB, it's quite a shock isn't it?! I must confess I'm forever plotting and scheming and making new plans but September is one of my favourite times to do it, new term, still enough of the year that there's a possibility you might get some things done 😂