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What small dfw things will you do this week 09/11/20?

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  • Morning :smile: working today so not much scope to be spending :smiley:  hopefully it'll be slow enough for me to TOMM our bedroom, now the builder has gone and the furniture is back in there. Totally loving our room now!

    Other than that:
    * couple of loads of washing - really has built up!
    * tomato soup made yesterday for lunch
    * all meals from stores
    * show oh link to a local sushi delivery. Very exciting as we don't have it round here and we LOVE it. It's my birthday in a couple of weeks and oh has said as we can't do anything he'll treat me :smile:

    Can't think of anything else! Better go finish getting ready 
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  • carrielovesfanta
    carrielovesfanta Posts: 2,997 Forumite
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    edited 14 November 2020 at 10:13AM
    Morning folks

    @alt80 - things might be a little slow selling at the moment due to general financial uncertainty perhaps? Not sure if people are buying as much?
    @ziggy2407 - I hope DH and DS are ok and you are covid free?

    Had a nice day yesterday. Decided to give my head a wobble and knuckle down. Did an hour of CPD then did the home workout from the gym. OH had a bad night's sleep but got up just as I was getting showered so we picked up the shopping together, had some lunch and went up to the allotment. OH was (by his own admission) feeling a bit tetchy due to being tired so I let him alone with his drill and carried on digging through the current rhubarb bed. We are going to turn this bed over to veg as it gets plenty of sun and divde the rhubarb crowns and replant at the back where it's partial shade. There is a LOT of rhubarb. It's a 4.5m x 1.5m bed! Found that OH had made me a compost bin when I resurfaced so have started gathering scraps at home in a box.
    Got home and I started tea and them we did another workout before slobbing around. Then my friend rang me unexpectedly at 9.15, just as I was thinking about bed and we were yakking til 11.30!!

    Several large parcels containing wool also arrived. Not as good as it sounds. Have accidentally go myself into a pickle whereby an old lady has asked me to knit/crochet up one of these part-work patchwork blankets and sent me all the partwork wool.There's 142 x 25g balls!! Apparently I'm making 2 double quilts and 4 cushions :worried: she has said that she'd pay me but I'd normally charge about £300-400 for this amount of work and I don't feel that I can. Have started on the first square... I'm not a fast knitter. Especially as I'm used to tiny sock yarn and tiny circular needles.

    So what's the plan for today? There's a gym zoom workout at 9.30 but I'm sore and OH is asleep (although he might get up in the next 10 mins... thiat is his style). Quite a few house bits to do and the weather is bleugh this week.
    :star: B/L/D from stores
    :star: Cook ham joint
    :star: Washing by dehumidifier to dry
    :star: Run cleaning cycle on WM
    :star: Tidy round
    :star: Poss frame my brother's Christmas present
    :star: Knit square:smile:
    Will add more as i go

    Have a good one all

    clf x
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  • DawnW
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    Definitely ought to manage expectations re the knitting commission CLF!  No reason you should feel obliged to do such a lot of work at cut price.
    Ugh, the dishwasher seems to be acting up. Just cleaned out the filters etc (they were already pretty clean, I am quite good on this) and have put it on to rinse in the hope that it will empty itself out. Whatever programme I put it on it just seems to go on and on.  If nothing else it is wasting lots of power. It wasn't expensive and is 10 years old, so not likely to be worth a call out fee, expecially as it looks like the programme control thing is on the blink. Normally I would just do without for a while, but a) black friday offers are available atm, and b) not sure what is going to happen with prices after the end of this year. Just put it on a rinse cycle in the hope that it empties itself out. All my appliances are pretty old, apart from the washing machine that I have just replaced. I have money in the appropriate pot - need to ponder.
    Other than that freezer tetris is required, to fit in the nice beef that was delivered yesterday from a local farm.
    I ought to make a cake or biscuits of some kind
    I have dry washing on the airer to fold and put away
    Managed a quick dog walk between rain - it is really horrible, high winds and intermittent heavy rain - needless to say dog decided we weren't going to be out for long!
    DD2 rang to let me know that there is a lot of covid at the college where she works. Some of the TAs have tested positive, including one of hers (she teaches kids with learning and physical disabilities, so always has TAs), and she thinks her bubble might be excluded to isolate. So I won't be seeing her for a while, even on her own outside as permitted :(
  • Ooo what recipe will you use @moneyonmymindsam?

    Think l will make sausage rolls and we will have chip shop chips later.
  • @DayDreamerandGeneralWaster
    I think it was from latoya. com although not sure as made it before, it was OK but missing a bit more of zinger flavour for me. Now the cookies... they belong to Betty Crocker courtesy of a sale bag I picked up for 50p.... Cookies just add water lol seemed like a good cupboard staple in lockdown 2.
    Sausage rolls sound really delicious - leave some out for us all please  :smiley:
    Changed the beds, had a bath, now in bed with electric blanket on to save the heating. Not quite hot chocolate time yet. 
    So made £47 on ebay so far.. Pleased about that. 
    Sam 
    Grocery challenge Feb £107/£100-epic fail due to cake and biscuits
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