2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

diminua

I'm still being told to work from home. My manager was in today and reported that there were about 10 people in the office and they were being policed to sit well apart and told they shouldn't really be there. Except for duty team staff who are onsite all the time - they get called to arrests of minors and the mentally ill, families who have just been evicted, that kind of thing - we are all meant to stay in our local areas and work remotely.  
I'm not missing the commute but (as Dolly84 predicted) I am missing my colleagues. 

dolly84

I spent most of yesterday cleaning and then in the garden planting seeds in trays, did have a mad panic when I realised I hadn't seen the dog for ages, I started dashing around calling him (biggish garden and gates were open) and ended up tripping up and twisting my knee.  Turns out DD had taken dog out.  Had a chat with my neighbours over the fence but we were so far over each side of the fence I couldn't hear him, I have a loud voice so I know he could hear me.

Laura_Elsewhere

Our flat backs onto a huge communal parking area, and my guerilla garden is in one corner of that, so I can go and garden and have conversations with neighbours, all keeping well away from each other... I'm expecting to lose fruit especially, and tomatoes, this year, so am just planning to grow extra in hopes that there'll be enough for us too! I'm also growing some golden cherry toms in hopes that the kind of people who would nick toms will be the kind of people who will assume only the big red ones are ripe, so will leave them alone I'll grow yellow and red ones in each bucket, and hope that the ripe yellows are camouflaged by unripe not-yet-reds  

Niece and her boyfriend seem to have turned the corner - still very ill, but they think their fever is less and the breathing is sometimes okay for minutes on end now. 

We're waiting now til next week to get a date for my chap's surgery, if it happens of course. 

I'm just trying to concentrate on needlework, in between trying to work out meals without shopping... 

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

Our flat backs onto a huge communal parking area, and my guerilla garden is in one corner of that, so I can go and garden and have conversations with neighbours, all keeping well away from each other... I'm expecting to lose fruit especially, and tomatoes, this year, so am just planning to grow extra in hopes that there'll be enough for us too! I'm also growing some golden cherry toms in hopes that the kind of people who would nick toms will be the kind of people who will assume only the big red ones are ripe, so will leave them alone I'll grow yellow and red ones in each bucket, and hope that the ripe yellows are camouflaged by unripe not-yet-reds  

Niece and her boyfriend seem to have turned the corner - still very ill, but they think their fever is less and the breathing is sometimes okay for minutes on end now. 

We're waiting now til next week to get a date for my chap's surgery, if it happens of course. 

I'm just trying to concentrate on needlework, in between trying to work out meals without shopping... 

Good news re your Niece and her boyfriend.  Will keep my fingers crossed re your Chap's surgery.

I'm now working from home.  DH is upstairs in the box room, while I'm working at the kitchen table but, sadly, not in the kitchen.  We don't get much of a wifi signal in the kitchen - kept dropping out - so we had to move it into the lounge. I have a monitor, a keyboard and a docking station from work set up on it, as well as my work laptop.  (Stupid laptop doesn't have proper USB ports, only USB-C, and only 1 of those available at any time.)   I'm freezing in the lounge!  The kitchen, on the other hand, is always lovely and warm.  I'm wearing these to keep my hands warm.

Made, to my own design.  The pattern is on my blog under "patterns".

When I knock off work tonight, I think I'll go through the seeds and plant up some tomatoes, some broad beans, a courgette or two and whatever else is lurking in that box.  May have to order some...

- Pip

Laura_Elsewhere

Well the surgery's postponed until WATHBO* - the surgeon phoned and was very reassuring, which I feel very reassured by  

I'm trying to work out what clothes I really *need* to make, from my current stocks. 
*When All This Has Blown Over

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

Well the surgery's postponed until WATHBO* - the surgeon phoned and was very reassuring, which I feel very reassured by  

I'm trying to work out what clothes I really *need* to make, from my current stocks. 
*When All This Has Blown Over

I hope the wait isn't too long.

One of my favourite broadcasters, Mark Kermode, has a saying:  "It will all be all right in the end.  If it's not all right, then it's not the end..."

- Pip (Logging out and going to inspect the seed "collection")

maddiemay

I split my time between a few household chores, kondoing paperwork and light work in the garden today.  I was very low first thing and shed a few tears, sparked off by having to postpone my PT sessions for at least 4 months and perhaps longer as I received the NHS text confirming that I am in the higher risk group.  Some "messaging" with my Dsis and a chat with BFF helped lift my mood, I have reverted to my usual glass half full and lets just take one day at a time philosophy.
Laura pleased that the consultant was reassuring and Pip love the hand warmers, I will have a look on your blog.

thriftwizard

Good news about your niece & her BF, Laura! And yes, those handwarmers are lovely, PipneyJane. I still haven't actually made any, except from bits of old felted jumper chopped & stitched on my overlocker. Sad that you felt so low, maddiemay; I think we're all a bit up-and-down just now, but I'm glad your glass has been replenished now.

Still busy in the garden & allotment here, so stitching's Just Not Happening until the glorious weather's calmed down a bit. And when it does, after the curtains that need finishing, the first thing I'm doing is trying to make knickers out of old t-shirts...

PollyWollyDoodle

Glad to hear the consultant was reassuring, Laura. Still haven’t managed any sewing here, today I took a permitted walk, did some gardening, ventured to the supermarket (not a pleasant experience). I hope I’ve got enough to see me through the next two weeks at least, even though I couldn’t get everything I wanted. Tomorrow I have an online choir rehearsal to look forward to, and the sewing machine is definitely coming downstairs. Since there is zero chance of anyone coming to see me I can leave it set up on the kitchen table for as long as I want! You have to find the positives in the current circumstances. The handwarmers look great Pip, I’m grateful for the sunshine as I have no income at the moment and don’t know when I’ll be able to work again. Try not to put the heating on if I can help it. 

dolly84

I bought a pair of lovely chunky knit wristwarmers ages ago and barely wore them as I like my fingers covered when its cold, a while back I decided they would be fab to wear with my more dressy coats when I had thin things underneath, can I find them, can I heck, I must have de-cluttered them.

maddie - there are positives, we are lucky to live in a country that sends you a text to protect you.  Can you check out some online activities to follow, Youtube has tons of simple routines which might help.