NST JUST JUNE

f0xh0les

I have a sleep problem mothernerd, but it is caused by #9 reading at bedtime and doing the .....just one more chapter ... just one more chapter ... just one more chapter.... oops, I have to get up in 4 hours.

I have just competed the school run, made lunch, eaten lunch, and am on my bum on the sofa for the first time since 8.00.

Managed to get 2 x £1.50 Herr Liddle fruit and veg boxes. Marvellous haul of bananas, melons, apricots, 2x oranges, 2 punnets of nectarines, a punnet of blackberries, and one lonely friendless pear.   The other one had red potatoes, 3 courgettes (sorry CCL) 2 cauliflowers, 2 iceberg lettuces, 2 tomatoes, 4 onions, and a head of broccoli.  It was all mixed in together so I spent a happy 5 minutes in the back of the car, while waiting for DS2 to come out, sorting it into order.  It keeps me off street corners!

Herr Ron has £1 Qu0rn items and 3 for £1 on JusR0ll puff/short/filo pastry packs. So  I have spent some of the £20 left in the budget on cereal and the above. Should not need to buy much more this week, and payday is tomorrow, and I have just over £10 left in the budget!!

If I am going to have to do the school run, then I can make it work for me.  However Le Shire   may be going into lockdown again. Totally unsurprised as very few people here are even bothering with a mask, and the level of drunk and disorderly behaviour on the street (interrupting my sleep) this weekend has been enormous.

In happier news, The Blackbirds are still in the hedge, despite next door criminals decimating the hedge and making the nest totally open plan. There are babies and they are doing well.

Toni'sfriend

NSD No 23

Caught up on a lot of chores today that had been put off due to the hot weather last week.

Hope you don't have to go into lockdown again, F0xh0les, but I guess that if it's deemed necessary rather than having the virus spike again then it's really not much of a choice. It's certainly been a bit busier here but behaviour wise better than might be expected, That is apart from a flat upstairs which the tenant is allowing some young lads to live in completely contrary to her tenancy agreement. Think the local authority is about to sort that out double quick. Long story.

So, the chicken stock is made ready to make a soup for dinner tomorrow and tonight we're having a chicken salad with the leftovers from yesterday. Well. some of the leftovers. You get an awful lot from a chicken.

If the weather is goodish tomorrow I'm going to have my first venture out since March. Need to get a prescription filled but I'm not going into the pharmacy. Himself can do that.

Kerry_Woman

Have 24 nsd's.  Done a few tiny bits in the flat, including add up totals in budget for each category.  No plans to spend tomorrow.
Grateful for:
Finding out that the cemetery where my Mum is buried is open for people to visit loved ones graves.  Phoned up.  I had thought they were shut due to the virus. Some other local boroughs had shut theirs to people visiting.  Now planning to go to tend to the grave. 
Ordering new washing machine, which includes installation and recycling of old one. It is coming next Thursday.  Old one finally broke, I had it for 20 years. Will hand wash any clothes  until new one comes. 
Having another book to read as I finished reading one this morning.
Having fond memories of somewhere I used to work, as the last building I worked in, celebrated 60 years since it opened today. 

apple_muncher

Kerry - it's good news that you can go to your mum's grave.

Today I am grateful for people who post free workouts online, for dd having an arts / creative week, for finding some very old paint that I can use to paint the inside of the airing cupboard/boiler cupboard, for running water, for being able to read and write.

f0xh0les

Today I am grateful for the lovely man who came out and rescued me after I locked my car keys in my boot on T0sc0 carpark at 7.30.  He tried so hard to unlock my car, unsuccessfully, but  eventually managed to wind down the rear window handle and wedged himself through the window and got me my keys back.   I was all of 2 inches away from them, I could see them through the stupid rear window.  Also grateful for £40 a year car breakdown cover (the one always recommended by MSE  - the one that Aids Auto), as I have had to use them twice and both times they were lovely. 

Also got the most ridiculous ys haul - this week's food budget will be about £40.  Next week's should not be much more.  Which is handy as we are in full lockdown again.

PurpleFairy26

F0xh0les Well done that man sorting your keys for you. How frustrating you could see them! Nice work on the ys haul. I miss things will ys 🤣

last day of the month gratefuls:
meditation
my wheat bag that heats in the microwave 
my lovely family that have isolated with me for 15 weeks and still several more to go. 

mothernerd

June Challenge Day 30
World Asteroid Day
The UN has lots of online information to help you and any young turtles find out more.

So we all survived another month of the pandemic despite our government's best efforts to kill us, befuddle us and blame us (the NHS, the scientists, the experts, the epidemiologists, the historical example of the Spanish Flu - killed more civilians than WWI; the poor, the homeless, the disabled - who of course are now being lined up to pay for the massive handouts to billionaire tax dodgers and the paint job on Boris's plane; all the way down to the person who wouldn't wear a mask, stood too close,spent 5 minutes more than their allotted time outside their front door). We shall plod on.
Thank you to everyone who took part in this month's challenge. You are all magnificent. Massive hugs and a turtle haka to everyone in the turtle gang, past and present and all those who just read along - come on in, the water's lovely and turtle beaches aren't crowded at all.

f0xh0les

Thank you for running June mothernerd.  Much appreciated your wit and wisdom keeping me sane(ish).

6 months until New Year's Eve, so I am going to have a half yearly round-up, and try and make plans for the second part of the year.  It is difficult to make plans as we have just been thrown back into lockdown, but I am in the lucky situation of being able to save money during all this uncertainty.  Nobody knows what on earth is going on, but we have made it this far, and there is only one way to go from here, and that is forwards.

I am going to add another charity dd-  I am going for Water A1d at  £2 a month.

Calling14

Apologies went missing. Well tried to post here on Friday however I couldn't get to end page without skipping through them all so gave up.

Nothing much to report

Saturday - felt very low and lonely, weather didn't help. Popped to lidlee for £10 essentials milk,OJ fruit spend.

Sunday - Walk interupted but it was raining grandkids were on way to visit. Came in house this time, it was a lovely fun few hours. Still not really allowed until next week in Wales. Happy for football result.

Monday - poor nights sleep and work dragging, more tired than if we were busy.  Treated myself to strawberries and cream. Bought some leggings off amazon with a voucher, cant make head or tails of their sizing, so should be interesting to see what I try to get into tomorrow. All good fun.

Today, nose will not stop streaming, hay fever tablets taken, now 5 hrs later it seems to be calming down.

Might pop to Smiths and look for little pressie after for gs.

No idea where I am up to with NSD must be over 15.

Thanks Mothernerd for steering us through such strange times, your quotes and tales have made this a better place. Thank you xxxx

mothernerd

Sorry to be late to the party this morning, I slept extremely well, just started and finished much later than I really should. 
Yesterday I attempted to put my room in order (ongoing - bringing in everything from the shed didn't help - taken several days to extend the parts of the floor I could safely walk on), used lots of food scraps and leftovers (I may give in and do a fresh veg order today but it will just be a few items added onto a mainly bulk packs of spices and a rope of garlic from a supplier who's usual customers are restaurants - no more potato mountains). Very little left in the freezer I still have fish, a few veg and some of last year's rhubarb. 
I've been 'unwell' for the past few days - not ill just uncomfortable (probably eating the wrong things too late in the day) and unsettled. I think 'life in lockdown' has been getting to me. Mum and I tolerate one another's differences but occasionally it grates - I am doing as much as I can, as best I can but the visible evidence of 'things I have left undone' (that phrase used to haunt me for years) is mounting. If it's irritating me, it must be driving mum up the wall. 
I need to do better. Plan more, work out as many 'cheats, tricks and shortcuts' as possible to keep things under control. I also seem to have acquired the 'housework gig' on a semi-permanent basis - the 'cleaner' is totally occupied with her new grand-daughter, as well as her two siblings. Good in a way as I had written a whole page on what we all needed to do if she were to come back. I may be investing in some new cleaning equipment. Nothing expensive but a lightweight mop, a rubber bristle brush and a deck scrubber (once I've worked out the best combination), all with long handles so that cleaning the shower base doesn't knock me out for the rest of the day.
My latest idea is to act as though I am on holiday. On holiday my pills for the week (always take a couple of days extra in case I lose one or two) go in my bag, as do comb, everyday toiletries, my phone, purse and wallet, essential cards only, diary, one small notebook and a couple of pens and pencils for keeping track of expenses. I remember someone saying they had a huge sewing basket at home and a huge mending pile that never got done. Then she realised that on holiday, buttons and tears were mended at once using a mini sewing kit. Obviously being at home (or temporary home in exile) is not as simple as being on holiday. Two months pills take up more space and more organising (including stock rotation) than a week's supply, but channelling my inner 'gypsy caravan' or sea cabin dweller - keeping everything neat and tidy in a small space so that it can be found when needed, should help.
Today I am grateful for new ways of thinking, a positive outlook (may not solve all my problems but will upset enough people to be worth doing), creating meals from scraps (still lots of eggs and milk so quiches, boiled eggs, egg mayo for wraps, egg and peanut roll, baking), being able to see the wood for the trees - not there yet but can see what I've done, for all the magnificent turtles  who contribute so much.