2021 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

TwibbleDee

Laura_Elsewhere said:

I would second going and having your gait analysed by a specialist place - and definitely don't buy off-the-peg hiking sandals - I've known a few people with big-name "hiking sandals" which have fallen apart miles away from help, in one case causing a bad fall that wrenched a knee, causing a very slow and panful hobble back to base. 

You could investigate the 'barefoot' running shoes - they do some for off-road cross-country running that might be just the job, as they are designed not to alter your foot's natural barefoot gait. A friend swears by hers for track running, says they're the best thing she's ever worn. 

For some reason, my gait seems to befuddle the places that try to analyze it.  Barefoot shoes is what I'll be looking into - some of them even make hiking boots now!  I do have a pair of Merrell hiking boots, but I very rarely wear them as they have proper stiff soles that I can't feel things shift under.  I grew up being told I had to wear orthotics and specially made shoes all the time, and did best balancing when I wore no shoes at all.  I've decided I'm going to ignore the doctors and such, because it can't be best to wear shoes that make my feet hurt and unbalance me.  Mom insists that my feet are going to hurt later on, but she tells me that no matter what shoes I wear and given the number of foot surgeries she's had, I'm in no hurry to go the same route that she did.

TwibbleDee

Oh, and I did another bad thing today...

..the health coaching program I've been planning to start in September is doing a deal where it's $0 for 60 days, then monthly payments after that.  And I fell for it.  More fun to keep me busy!

Laura_Elsewhere

Well, there must have been a severe bombing raid on Monday near here, as a disused industrial site is still smouldering and we only have intermittent water in our taps - very 1942!

(a bankrupt plastics-recycling site 1/2-mile away went up on Monday; all under control by evening, very impressive work, and didn't even shut the adjacent motorway (!) - but fire services expect to be on site for 7-10 days, and we have either a low-pressure trickle or nothing at all from our taps, which makes life interesting! So we have buckets full of water in the bath for essential flushing of toilet, and bowls in bathroom basin and kitchen sink for hand-washing, and a couple of bottles in the fridge for drinking, and I've managed the washing-up in several stints this morning but am postponing planned baking! )

Cherryfudge

Laura_Elsewhere said:

Well, there must have been a severe bombing raid on Monday near here, as a disused industrial site is still smouldering and we only have intermittent water in our taps - very 1942!

*Sound track: ‘In the mood’ ☺️

Laura_Elsewhere

Ooh thanks, @Cherryfudge - I'll just look up the symptoms of typhoid to keep an eye out for it  

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

Well, there must have been a severe bombing raid on Monday near here, as a disused industrial site is still smouldering and we only have intermittent water in our taps - very 1942!

(a bankrupt plastics-recycling site 1/2-mile away went up on Monday; all under control by evening, very impressive work, and didn't even shut the adjacent motorway (!) - but fire services expect to be on site for 7-10 days, and we have either a low-pressure trickle or nothing at all from our taps, which makes life interesting! So we have buckets full of water in the bath for essential flushing of toilet, and bowls in bathroom basin and kitchen sink for hand-washing, and a couple of bottles in the fridge for drinking, and I've managed the washing-up in several stints this morning but am postponing planned baking! )

Why does this sound like an insurance job, to me?

(I've been watching too many American films at "the flicks", obviously.)

- Pip

Laura_Elsewhere

Cherryfudge said:

May I just show off today’s haul? All coupon-free as they were in charity shops: two are 4-ply so one day I might finally make a sock or two.
 The ‘Lyscordet’ is, I’m guessing, a more recent and probably finer relative of the ‘Lyscord’ that was the original yarn for the string bag. I resisted buying their entire stock as I’d never make anything else but bags - but I couldn’t not buy some after all the effort I’ve put in trying to find something appropriate for them. I’m guessing the gauge would have resulted in a smaller, less stretchy bag.

@Cherryfudge - I'm a pillock! I sorted my crochet thread box yesterday and discovered I actually have some Lyscordet - I do also have plans for it (undies-lace) so am not quite kind enough to donate it all to you but I'd be happy to send you a sample of it, in pale blue and in apricot, so you can see exactly what it's like!

(and next time, I should think of looking in my stores!)

Laura_Elsewhere

PipneyJane said:

Laura_Elsewhere said:

Well, there must have been a severe bombing raid on Monday near here, as a disused industrial site is still smouldering and we only have intermittent water in our taps - very 1942!

(a bankrupt plastics-recycling site 1/2-mile away went up on Monday; all under control by evening, very impressive work, and didn't even shut the adjacent motorway (!) - but fire services expect to be on site for 7-10 days, and we have either a low-pressure trickle or nothing at all from our taps, which makes life interesting! So we have buckets full of water in the bath for essential flushing of toilet, and bowls in bathroom basin and kitchen sink for hand-washing, and a couple of bottles in the fridge for drinking, and I've managed the washing-up in several stints this morning but am postponing planned baking! )

Why does this sound like an insurance job, to me?

(I've been watching too many American films at "the flicks", obviously.)

- Pip

Oh, everyone locally is reckoning exactly this - it's hardly going to have been "just kids mucking about" when the site is behind 15-foot steel fences with triple-barbed-wire along the top, is it?!
The company went bust2-3 years back, and some of the materials have been moved, very occasionally people and vehicles are in there, but basically it's obviously going to be a very expensive job clearing it all out and sorting the baled plastics and so on...very *convenient* is the basic opinion locally...!

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

Cherryfudge said:

May I just show off today’s haul? All coupon-free as they were in charity shops: two are 4-ply so one day I might finally make a sock or two.
 The ‘Lyscordet’ is, I’m guessing, a more recent and probably finer relative of the ‘Lyscord’ that was the original yarn for the string bag. I resisted buying their entire stock as I’d never make anything else but bags - but I couldn’t not buy some after all the effort I’ve put in trying to find something appropriate for them. I’m guessing the gauge would have resulted in a smaller, less stretchy bag.

@Cherryfudge - I'm a pillock! I sorted my crochet thread box yesterday and discovered I actually have some Lyscordet - I do also have plans for it (undies-lace) so am not quite kind enough to donate it all to you but I'd be happy to send you a sample of it, in pale blue and in apricot, so you can see exactly what it's like!

(and next time, I should think of looking in my stores!)

< Mental head slap >

That Little Dorritt sock looks familiar..... I'm not certain I have any in the stash - or whereabouts it would be - but it does look really familiar.  Something I found in a charity shop back when I worked in Reading...  

- Pip

Cherryfudge

PipneyJane said:

Laura_Elsewhere said:

Well, there must have been a severe bombing raid on Monday near here, as a disused industrial site is still smouldering and we only have intermittent water in our taps - very 1942!

(a bankrupt plastics-recycling site 1/2-mile away went up on Monday; all under control by evening, very impressive work, and didn't even shut the adjacent motorway (!) - but fire services expect to be on site for 7-10 days, and we have either a low-pressure trickle or nothing at all from our taps, which makes life interesting! So we have buckets full of water in the bath for essential flushing of toilet, and bowls in bathroom basin and kitchen sink for hand-washing, and a couple of bottles in the fridge for drinking, and I've managed the washing-up in several stints this morning but am postponing planned baking! )

Why does this sound like an insurance job, to me?

I wondered about that too.