2020 - 'Nothing in your life will change until you make the decision to change'

HairyHandofDartmoor

Your primroses look lovely Jwil 🌻 and the robins are cute 🦅. Enjoy your day whatever you do 🙂.

jwil

HairyHandofDartmoor said:

Your primroses look lovely Jwil 🌻 and the robins are cute 🦅. Enjoy your day whatever you do 🙂.

Thank you, we've got a nice patch of them.  I did avoid them when digging.

I've done nothing at all today

savingholmes

Lovely photos. We used to have nesting birds - now we have a cat we no longer hang bird boxes as its too good a climber! 

jwil

savingholmes said:

Lovely photos. We used to have nesting birds - now we have a cat we no longer hang bird boxes as its too good a climber! 

Thank you.  Our cat has never been much of a hunter, and prefers to spend her time in the front garden.  We get a lot of birds nesting in the  neighbour's bushes, but this is the first year I'm aware they've been in our shed.  They are in a plastic crate being used to shield the electrics as the roof leaks   Because we are home, we are noticing more,

jwil

After a very lazy day yesterday, I have been up and out for my walk this morning.

Inspired by @savingholmes I have downloaded My Fitness Pal.  I am just going to use it to track my eating for a while so I can see how much I actually eat.  My general meals are mostly healthy, but they are fully outweighed by the endless snacking so hopefully this will be an eye opener.  I've never calorie counted before so this should be interesting.

It's going to be another warm one today, so not sure if I will be doing much in the garden, I might leave it for next week when it is cooler again.  I'll see how it goes.

Have a good day everyone

jwil

I've caught up with surveys and checked banks.  I'm in the middle of doing a RM unaddressed survey at the moment, but they don't seem to be delivering any of the junk mail.  The only one I've received is the Boris letter.

It's such a novel situation having money in the bank at this stage of the month.  I'm so unused to it.  It's nice though, and hopefully will become a new normal in the future.

jwil

Happy Easter everyone!   Hope you all have a relaxing day.

There appear to be a scary amount of Easter eggs in the house, it looks like DH and I took advantage of the various offers at many points, and didn't coordinate what we had bought

The kids are mid-easter egg hunt, that should keep them occupied for a bit!

savingholmes

Your Easter egg hunt sounds fab. Mine will do one later. Good that your savings pots are building up. I have too much access to online shopping so not having the same effect for me- if anything I am spending more at the moment. Some of that will be that DS is home - and some crafts, the garden and any other hobbies... We are doing our own version of 'dig for Britain' LOL.

jwil

savingholmes said:

Your Easter egg hunt sounds fab. Mine will do one later. Good that your savings pots are building up. I have too much access to online shopping so not having the same effect for me- if anything I am spending more at the moment. Some of that will be that DS is home - and some crafts, the garden and any other hobbies... We are doing our own version of 'dig for Britain' LOL.

I have an ever growing list of stuff I want to buy online, but have been restraining myself.  I feel bad for those that are having to work and who are probably very busy and also stretched with staff off.  Saying that though, I did order some cloth sanitary protection yesterday as mine is finally wearing out after 7 years of use.  I do have plenty of stuff at home so don't really need anything though    I'm trying to get what I can when I go to the supermarket otherwise, even if I have to spend a bit more.  I'm working through my books, the kids are working their way through the craft and colouring stuff we have at home.  We're pretty well-stocked   The garden is one area I'd probably like to spend to buy some plants and a few other bits, but I'd be better off saving the money anyway.

jwil

I thought I'd dig out the list, I might try and tackle some categories this week

Decluttering categories (roughly following Marie Kondo) with my own sub categories.

Clothing

• Mine
  
• Little Jwil
  
• Little miss

Books

• Mine
  
• Kids

Paperwork
Miscellaneous (Komono)
Kitchen

• Cutlery
• Crockery
  
• Pans
• Equipment
• Food
• Cleaning products

Toys
Stationery
Christmas Decorations
Airing cupboard

• Towels
• Bedding

DVDs
Toiletries
Accessories
Nick nacks
Electrical
Computer files
Sentimental

• Photos (hard copies)
• Photos (digital)
• Holiday stuff