Cheery's country living adventure

Chiglepig

I've planted out more seeds, cleared some more ivy, and sat in the greenhouse for a while for the sheer pleasure of being toasty warm 😁😁

I love doing that too, Cheery, I've got a radio and a fold up chair in the greenhouse and often just sit there when the seeds and potting-on are all done. And as greenbee said - your out door work IS exercise - I mulched a tiny border last week and felt it in my waist and thighs for at least two days after!

rtandon27

Chiglepig said:
... as greenbee said - your out door work IS exercise - I mulched a tiny border last week and felt it in my waist and thighs for at least two days after!

So true Cheery, I've never ached so much as when recovering from a full day of clearing ivy - took 2 full days to recover, better than any workout 😁

Cheery_Daff

Thank you all 😊

Some excellent suggestions 😊

SC - thanks for the hay reminder... 🙄😂 I'm not planning to cut the whole field at this point, just the bit I didn't do at the end of last year,  otherwise it'll start to get tussocky and even harder to cut... I'm trying to hire a mechanical scythe but it's proving rather difficult to get hold of one! Still working on this - it may just get left to get tussocky after all...

Greenbee, RT, you're right of course about outdoor work being exercise... I always just feel like I should be doing something more consistent or energetic or something to build up my strength... The running group will start again at some point and I'd love to go back with them, but obviously that's a little way off yet. You're right too about eating taking priority - eating better will give me more energy, which will make other things seem easier.

TDQ, that sounds like the most exciting dy out any of us have had for a while! 😁

Chigle ooh, you've reminded me - I did have a wind up radio somewhere but the aerial snapped off. I've got a DAB one, but that just eats batteries and will be plugged in in the new kitchen 😁 I've been listening to podcasts on the phone, but maybe I'll investigate a new wind up radio at some point...

Ok. How's about this for a plan.

* Focus on healthy eating. When I cook I'm doing Joe Wicks meals, so just need to edge 'porridge for lunch'and too many snacks back out, and I should be ok.

* A couple of small, 5-10 min yoga sessions through the day, which will help with sitting at desk posture, and mean I don't have to put special time aside later.

* no trying to fit in special exercise for now- focus instead on just generally being more active, getting the outside jobs done etc. Try to finish work by 5 and have some time in the garden before it goes dark.

* ceiling & decluttering when it's dark. Mr Cheery has done a few tip runs, but is still quite weak at the minute, so we've mostly been going together. 

I rejigger my MB set up this morning - I'd been doing it on the laptop, meaning I couldn't do anything else on the laptop at the same time (it's prone to tantrums...). Bought a tablet ages ago, partly for MB, but it's a bit fiddly switching between tabs to log stuff. Dawned on me this morning I can use tablet for playing, and log stuff on laptop - idiot 😂 So I had the tablet spinning away beside me while I did banks/ynab and imported a load of pictures from my phone. That should speed things up a bit!

Right. Work, and I'll stop in a bit for some stretching 😁

Thank you all, MSE-ers are the best 😁

Cheery_Daff

So I did a seven minute 'yoga break' video earlier and it was lovely - perfect for a break from sitting at desk 😊 Going to do another one in an hour or so. 

Had a brief lunchtime nip to the tip with Mr Cheery - he'd got everything ready and in the car but has been rather dizzy the last few days and not sure about driving til it passes 🙄 Didn't take long to empty everything - and we spotted someone throwing away a sink, which we've managed to snaffle as it's much better than the one currently in our kitchen 😁 Nothing special, just stainless steel, but it has a bigger drainer and a little extra sink in the middle, and is reversible so we can swap the sink/drainer round. Might find something better before the builders get here, but it was free, and we had to decide quickly before it got thrown in the skip! 

Not exactly an MSE trip mind you - stopped at the village shop for milk (and a freddo) on the way home and impulse bought a locally grown rose bush 🙄😂 I'm going to plant it near the new kitchen windows so we'll be able to see it from the new table, and the smell should waft in 😊😊 

Did some YNAB rejigging this morning - I've closed two accounts and transferred dosh to premium bonds but hadn't reflected that in YNAB, but it's done now. Not surprising I almost ended up overdrawn at the start of the month - I had £600 gas bill, £400 car insurance, £200 house insurance etc all go out within the space of a few days 😮 Combine that with forgetting to replace the £1000 that I'd previously transferred to savings and it's a minor miracle things weren't in a worse state! 😮

Right, back to work!

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, and we've just had the latest batch of covid study vouchers, so I've transferred both that and the premium bonds winnings to the Kitchen Offset Fund 😁 £105.50 in there now 😁

Karmacat

Wow Cheery, it's all change here!  Amazing stuff!  The post you started with was absolutely spot on - now you've prioritised your priorities, it will feel much more doable, I'm sure.  

And okay, the rose bush was an impulse buy - but roses have been around for a long time, bees like them, you can dry the petals for confetti or in the house, you can make rose hip jelly when you get more - it will be great!

South_coast

That's one expensive Freddo 🤣! But I'm sure the rose bush will give you much longer-term satisfaction 😀

Cheery_Daff

Indeed 😊 And the roses are grown at a local nursery - I met the woman who runs it a couple of years ago at a local event and she was lovely, so it's nice to think of supporting her too 😊 It's quite an old fashioned, rambly one apparently with very fragrant flowers, most cheerful. I'm not usually one for roses but we have a couple already here and they are lovely. 

Been out in the garden for a bit after work, and shifted a couple of barrows of woodchip onto the new trees so I'm counting that as exercise 😁 16 trees mulched, 984 to go 😂😂 

greenbee

It sounds like you've managed a good balance and achieved a lot today. Unlike me, who has had a day of procrastination. I think I might have an early night... 

Cheery_Daff

Early nights are usually wise on days like that greenbee... 🙄 I had a whole week of them last week but this week is shaping up rather more productively, thank goodness!