Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 14

Sue-UU

Hello all SPCers! I hope you're all enjoying the weekend, or at least the first day of it. It's quite sunny here, and according to the forecast, we all should be. 😄

For all those not feeling so well or are a little low, please take care, and I really hope you're soon back with us.  For now, here are some hugs and look after yourselves ❤️

Oh bless her Hetty! ❤️ She's adorable, and the contentment in the top photo is bliss. 

Thanks so very much for putting them on for us to see. 

Isn't she gorgeous Ant! They most certainly do give us such joy, bless em.

It's good to know that you too have been potting in the same way as me, we'd only have been having a  meager amount come next month otherwise.

Our bank NatWest, give us "Rewards" given for much the same thing as Lloyds/Halifax, Hubby & I leave it in their to save it until such times as we need it. 

Our bank's manager called us in for a chat a couple of years ago 😳, we were both quite concerned about it, absolutely no need to have been though, she was amazing and couldn't have been more helpful with different advice she gave us. I'd never worry about seeing one again! 😄

Yet another £20 transferred to our SPC account, not many to go now before the 29th October! 

Take care everyone.

The 20 year commemoration of 9/11. A very sad and evil event indeed, which on seeing the video of it all, still never seems possible. God bless all those who perished at the hands of such evil swines, and God bless all their loved ones.

Have a lovely Saturday, and a really good Sunday too, folks!  

Sue xx

NB Folks: Opening date for this year is 28th October 2021

AntoMac

I’m excited to have found the princely sum of 3p roadkill and have added it to pot aka mint tin. Mrs Mac found 40 pounds cash mislaid Christmas money in a card that had fallen down with all the Tupperware sort of things, so has upstaged my little windfall ever so slightly!

Sue The 9/11 anniversary certainly brings it all back. Of course for some it never goes away. How anyone could hold that level of hate for other human beings really is beyond my comprehension.
On a more positive but bittersweet note my Uncle’s cremation took place at the end of last week. He was stationed in Germany at the end of WW2 and saw a German girl that he instantly thought was the woman he wanted to marry! Not speaking German, he got his German policeman friend to “arrest” her. It turned out she spoke English and they were happily married for over 70 years. 

As we had just been at war with Germany he thought she might find hostility coming to live in England, but it turned out to be quite the opposite. Everyone who met her couldn’t help but love her as she was one of the nicest, kindest, happy people you could meet.  It goes to show that if people from different ‘sides’ get to know each other we can live in peace.  He is now reunited with her after she passed about 3 years ago. 

I hope the weekend has been good for everyone and that the coming week is good too. 

little_sweetie

Oh, Ant, you write such wonderful cheery posts that they never fail to raise my spirits.  Your Uncle sounds to have been a lovely man and I do so agree that we could all live peacefully together if only we all made allowances for different  cultures and got to know each other properly.  Kindness and consideration for others makes a heck of a difference.
Golly, a 'found' £40 was a great find!  I'm still not really venturing out to find 'roadkill' or indeed to get any change to pot.  We are still on a knife edge wondering if our new bungalow will actually materialise or not.   We were hoping to move at the end of July, then the end of August, then 21st September.....it's still not been confirmed and we're just a week away.  If we don't get completion then, I will have a real struggle to get a removals van before the end of the month.  When we get to the 1st October it will cost us almost £2,000 extra in stamp duty.  If we pull out now we will still have to pay the estate agents fees as well as the solicitor     I can't sleep for worrying.....

Thank you dear Sue for keeping me and G in your thoughts.  Sending hugs to you and T.  I hope his medication is helping with the pain and that you are feeling better too.

Take care everyone, not long to go now! 

jakes-mum

Sooo DH is FINALLY Covid free, it took him out for two weeks, DS tested negative with DD and I, then a week later came home feeling rough, second test and he had it too!
Unlike DH, DS was unwell for about 2 days and then he was right as ninepence and spent his isolation playing xbox and eating icecream
DD and I still managed to avoid it despite me sharing a bed with DH and him coughing all over me in his sleep, so obviously Covid took one look at me and went 'nope! not touching that!'.
DH went back to the pub this weekend and came back with just shy of five pounds in change This year's tins will not be as amazing as previous years but we are still looking forward to the count up!

Sue-UU

Afternoon all SPCers! I hope all had a brilliant the weekend.  😄 Whatever you're doing have a good week.

For all those not feeling so well or are a little low, please take care, and I really hope you're soon back with us.  For now, here are some hugs and look after yourselves ❤️

Excellent potting Ant!! Good work for you, but fantastic work for your beloved wife!! 😍

It has to be said that your words re 9/11 for so very many it'll be with them until the day they die, bless them. 

What a truly beautiful story about your uncle and aunt, and what an incredible way for them to meet and fall in love. 

The wife of our very dear friends has still to this day held such an awful dislike for the Germans and we (and her husband) just can't understand it, unless she inherited it from her parents. I'm learning the German language, French too, and many a time we clash just a little, but we're soon the very best of friends again.  

However, why on earth does our friend not think of the fact that the ordinary folk here in England never, ever wanted there to be a war, let alone to know full well that so many would never return home again; your not going to tell me that the every day person in Germany didn't feel exactly the same all those years ago!

It's so wonderful to know people were so kind to your aunt, just as with folk coming from the same countries, some can dislike fellow citizens, yet if they stop to give them the time of day and listen to their stories, no doubt they would soon see the good in each other and learn to like each other. 

It's so good to know your uncle and aunt have been reunited again! ❤️❤️ What an amazing marriage they must have endured with so many years together! 

A very beautiful tale Ant, bitter sweet as you say and really emotive, though I didn't shed a tear. I passed it across to DH telling him you'll have to read it as I could never read it out aloud without crying. 

Oh A, what a time you're going through little_sweetie! I so hope all concerned get their acts together before 21st September!! 

Near neighbours of ours have been waiting since May and if the final month, October, doesn't go ahead, it'll cost them £1,000!!!  What a cost NOT to get a house!!! 😡

To help you & G to be able to sleep better, go through all the get good exercise, especially a good walk in the fresh air, then a warm bath, shower then a hot milky drink Ovaltine, Cocoa, Drinking Chocolate - but NO tea or coffee! Then a paragraph or two of light reading when you're in bed. Anything, to help, but don't lie awake. Also, if it helps try a little music and drift off to that. 

Our thoughts and prayers are with you A, and will be for as long as it takes. 😴

Poor T has been through a week of terrible back pain yet again. Even the Morphine Sulphate wasn't a scrap of good.

Finally, last Tuesday he rang the surgery, in the afternoon a very impatient Dr rang and finally gave him some Tramadol. It made him terribly dizzy for 2 days, but has now helped quite a bit!! 🤞 We've read a lot about it and its not so good affects, so will be on the lookout. Thanks so very much A and hugs to you and GG also. 🤭🫂

I'm so pleased your DH is fully better now jakes_mum, but by golly you were definitely very lucky to stay free from it, yet you couldn't have been much closer!! I'm sure your 'leaked' Covid words about what it thought of you must have been correct!!

Your DS was clearly amazingly fortunate! Although, if his test was done with one of the ones that has most letters  Age-related moment, then they're known for giving false negatives!!

Take care folks and have a very good week.

Have a relaxing Monday evening, and a really good Tuesday too, folks!  

Sue xx

NB Folks: Opening date for this year is 28th October 2021

siju

Afternoon Potters, sending hugs to anyone who needs one  

So sorry to hear your DH is suffering again Sue_UU, let's hope that the pain relief continues to help.  

I also loved your story AntoMac, very beautiful.  Your uncle was obviously a lovely man.  My DH and I learned German back in the 1990s because he was working for a German company and spent quite a bit of time in Stuttgart.  His employers gave free lessons to all the employees and their families.  We loved it and I even sat (and passed) a GCSE in it!!!!  At the time I was working for a Japanese firm, so between us we got to learn a lot about German and Japanese cultures.  As little_sweetie says, kindness and consideration are so very important.  

DD visited on Sunday to collect her two puppies, I must say, I was very sorry to see them go.  The house seems terribly empty once again, especially since DH has had to return to work and isn't here in the day either!  He's going to find me talking to the walls soon    

Another £6.73 to pot this week.  Enjoy the rest of the week Potters and take care xx

scotmumof3

So absolutely no potting going on here at Chez Scotmum as both DH and I tested positive for Covid last week and have been self isolating. Only a few days to go now but at least I haven't spent anything ...bright side ????

Hettyhound

No potting for me either and I’ve just “spent” some in anticipation!  Booked tickets for the local panto; !!!!!! Whittington this year.  I’ve decide not to do the Santa Special train but the panto is an enjoyable afternoon and then we can come home for a pizza tea and a bit of Strictly.  The Santa train has had so much taken out of it (no mince pie and hot chocolate!) and the price put up 🙄. We will find something else to do; Maybe a walk and picnic or a trip to the coast for fish and chips?

Hettyhound

I didn't put the !!! In.  The system obvious doesn’t like the shortened version of Richard!

AntoMac

 Hello lovely people,
Thank you all for your kind words about my Uncle. He truly was a kind and decent man. I promised him at the chapel of rest that I would try to follow his example of kindness for the rest of my days. 

Your responses prove that there is more that unites us than divides us, and as my Mum often reminds me most people are good people.

Little_sweetie.  I hope and pray things do end up coming good for you with your move. I’m a firm believer that everything happens for a reason, but that’s of little comfort when nothing at all seems to be happening. Surely it’s in the interest of all parties to get things done before the stamp duty holiday ends, you would think?

scotmumof3 hope you are able to sit out your isolation and you only have a mild dose. This virus is still very real unfortunately.
Hettyhound I had a similar issue recently with what I thought was a perfectly innocent word. Guess the filters have to be there just in case 
Strangely I have found another 3 pence of roadkill this week, a penny yesterday followed by 2p today. Put it in my tin and have also potted some more weekly travel savings.