NST April 2020: Fools we are not!

mothernerd

Busy day. Very tired due to staying up to do a SM order (only planning to do that every 3 -4 weeks, just to keep things ticking over). Fun start to the day as mum handed me a bag full of pills that she has dropped and have subsequently been found on the floor. So peering at tiny letters then looking up pill codes on the laptop to check what they were. Found half a dozen that we desperately needed - dosage changing so need the little ones again) and loads of what I think are water tablets. 6 or 7 assorted bagged with a note to send back to the pharmacy for disposal when the pill lady comes again (left us 4 weeks supply). Phoned the doctor's surgery and ordered the 1mg tablets and the eye gel. Had ordered the 1mg before the lockdown but mum's prescription should go to her pharmacy so had to wait to see if they would deliver them. Got straight through so things must have calmed down - only the receptionist on duty and she said she would get one of the clinicians to sign it and send it through.

Meat order came, veg box didn't (probably my fault) but we can cope (still have some of the stuff I picked up before we went into lockdown). DS2 isn't coming either as he feels unwell and will wait to see before he visits (even though he stays outside and we talk through the window).

Spent some time in my polytunnel, decanted plants from boxes and gave them a good drink, more seeds set off (using the containers the plants came in as seed trays). Mum called me in at the same time as I was ready to give up.

Today I am grateful for lovely weather, meat delivery (cooked meat and cheese look yummy - going to split them and freeze in small quantities), getting stuff done whilst under par (paper bag is getting fat), no disasters just minor slips due to tiredness, polytunnel love and finding more things to plant stuff in.

misstara

NSD 7/20.  Achieved my 10,000 steps, went for a run this morning but clearly didn't stretch properly after so my muscles have seized up over the course of the evening .  Grateful for getting a lie in this morning, a nice run round the park, my car, freezer leftovers for tea and a quiet shift.

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

thank you apple x
not a NSD - i posted a card to my former colleague who's husband died on Saturday.  Carried on walking past the shops and called into the c0op - bought more fruit and veg and a few other supplies.   Made a donation to Beat.  
Rang my parents this eve and had a nice chat.  Did my exercise class via Fb but not feeling very energetic.  Glad to have a few days off work so instead of looking at all the clutter and dust in my house i can actually do something about it.
Deni x

facethemusic

Wednesday- NSD 6. 
Am more positive today, still feels like groundhog day but, am more focused today on the positives. 
I am on a mini mission to get fit while I'm not at work. Usually work keeps me fairly active but i do very little actual exercise. So, as I'm not working I'm trying to exercise regularly and today I feel like it's starting to have an effect. 
Gratitudes- DD enjoying simple games in the garden, the sun shining, being able to help out a friend without contact, exercise feeling good today, having minimal food waste just now- must keep up my "using everything up" in the future. 

BadBookkeeper

Sorry didn’t post yesterday.  

5/15 NSDs
nothing much else to report 😊
Will give another update later today.
Hope you are enjoying the sunshine ☀️ 

lcc86

Morning all, I didn't post yesterday but got another NSD so I'm up to 6. Should be 7 today. I don't feel like there's much to say at the moment as every day is pretty much the same! 

I've been contacted by a travel agent about a holiday to Iceland that I had planned in June, they've asked me to rebook for July or August at no charge, but I'm not happy to do that based on the changed advice this week about not travelling abroad for the foreseeable future, so I need to try and contact my insurance company to see what they say.

I did manage to post my camera and my old phone yesterday so should receive £30 soon.

I'm grateful for having a few days off work after today, for the sunshine, for the birds singing all day in the garden, for being able to go for walks, and for seemingly starting to get on top of my back pain (touch wood).

abbi_aurelia

Morning all. Failing on the NSD front, we keep needing random things.  Turned my house upside down looking for my pregnancy TENs machine to lend a friend, she is worried there won't be enough anesthetists for an epidural, so need to drop that off at some point, my work are also sending out care packages that include champagne but as we don't drink, I'm going to send with the TENs for after baby celebrations. Me and OH had forgotten that LO gets an extra day at nursery to make up for bank holidays so he is off today even though she is there, so grateful for him being able to help put lots of washing on (third wash about to be started), for works lovely gesture and the lovely weather (feels like summer here)

ditty1234

Hi all felt like doing something for the long term, so raided my EF to sign up for the Life in UK test, as am aspiring to get citizenship this year - not sure where the money will come from, but it's a start. Also booked a passport appointment to renew my other country passport, as I can't travel otherwise. Not that I can travel anyways, but I don't think I can apply for citizenship with a passport that is running out. So that is two things that will then be out of the way. And then it's back to the small stuff like yoga and student reports. Have a sunny day.

dolly84

Hello all.  I have had a few days thinking about something other than the current situation so haven't posted, I needed to focus on good things for a bit.  We have been planting things in the garden, enjoying the sunshine, cycling, running and walking the dog, as far as thing have gone so far we are sailing through this whole thing unscathed for which I am very, very grateful. 

Cut my own hair this week in a fit of annoyance with it, I did go a tad shorter than planned but I am now sporting a hair cut straight out of a 1930's Agatha Christie production, quite pleased with it on the whole.  Wandered around in the road in my pj's the last two nights with DH and DS looking at the moon - I blooming love the moon.  This morning tons of cars and people were arriving in our road and the cul-de-sac behind us, turns out it was a funeral of sorts, as people can't go to it they lined the street and the hearse came so people could say their goodbyes, it was an old lady (don't know what she has died of but she was well into her 80's) and she was very sweet, she always used to come out and give my children a biscuit when they were little and used to go round there to learn to ride their bikes.

Have been to the greengrocer this morning, first time ever there has been a queue, I reckon he is doing quite well out of all this and hope people continue to buy there afterwards, the queue at the little Tesco a couple of hundred yards away was about 50 people deep so that is helping.  Yesterday DH and I went to the little Asda near home and to Heron Foods, we got all the other things we needed and timed it right as we didn't queue at either place.

Have made a massive pot of chilli for tea, it smells amazing, have used half the amount of veggie mince I usually do and bulked it out with a grated carrot and lentils, will have it with rice today and the rest will go with jacket potatoes.  Might make a batch of scones today for the kids and DH.  Packed a couple of really big winter coats away in the loft this week and brought down some more spring like items, have still left warm coats out, I'm not falling for Spring's old tricks this year.

Made two charity donations this week, one to the RSPCA and one to the NSPCC, this was the money we planned on spending on Easter Eggs but I don't want to give the supermarkets any more of my money and we don't need chocolate eggs.   Have enjoyed watching the end of Liar this week, loving The Nest and will be watching the Dawn French thing tonight - yay for tv dramas I love them.  Also planned how we are going to decorate our bedroom, have identified everything we need to buy when we can and really can't wait now to get it done, it has been a long time coming.

apple_muncher

 Ditty- good luck with your citizenship stuff.

dolly - I feel like you, very grateful to be unscathed by all this so far.

Today I am grateful for a family effort to clean all the upstairs and downstairs back windows inside + out plus the sills and surrounds, for getting more weeding and digging over done, for improving badminton skills for dd and I (tho the breeze usualy scuppers our attempts at a rally!), for dh getting me more 85% chocolate, for seeing some neighbours while we badmintonned (1 is in 12 week isolation but just needed to get out of her front door for a minute; another is a hosp worker but has diabetes so can't be there), for utube giving me snippets I can use in my teaching next term, for being in the very fortunate position to increase my charity donations, for dd's increasing tree climbing courage.