2021 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

TwibbleDee

I have been home all week with respiratory crud (not COVID).  The doctors say it's going around.  Only briefly ran a temperature at all.  So, what have I been doing with my time?  Watching historical cookery!  Finished watching The Victorian Way episodes currently available, and went back to Townsends (American historic cookery).  Now pondering if I can use a cotton bandana as a pudding cloth... Why do I always want to start cooking when I feel like crap?  Good news is, we're all on the mend, just trying to cough out the last bit of crud.  I'll be back to work tomorrow.

TwibbleDee

Hadn't I changed my signature a bit back to basically "I've lost count of how much I'm over"?  It seems to have reverted back.

PipneyJane

TwibbleDee said:

Hadn't I changed my signature a bit back to basically "I've lost count of how much I'm over"?  It seems to have reverted back.

Honestly, @TwibbleDee, I don’t recall seeing it change.  Hope you feel better soon.

You know what’s fun after 2 years of Covid and working from home?  Hunting through your dress shoes to find a pair that don’t need to be vacuumed before you can wear them.  Tonight, I met 6 members of my project team for our project Christmas meal and decided to wear a skirt with DH’s Christmas Jumper.  (I’m a semi-detached member of the project.  I spend most of my time in Finance.).   I had to dust my shoes inside and out before I put them on!  (Black patent Mary Janes, bought almost new from a Charity shop for £4.  Probably never worn but had a mark on the heel.)

- Pip

Gem-gem

PipneyJane said:

TwibbleDee said:

Hadn't I changed my signature a bit back to basically "I've lost count of how much I'm over"?  It seems to have reverted back.

Honestly, @TwibbleDee, I don’t recall seeing it change.  Hope you feel better soon.

You know what’s fun after 2 years of Covid and working from home?  Hunting through your dress shoes to find a pair that don’t need to be vacuumed before you can wear them.  Tonight, I met 6 members of my project team for our project Christmas meal and decided to wear a skirt with DH’s Christmas Jumper.  (I’m a semi-detached member of the project.  I spend most of my time in Finance.).   I had to dust my shoes inside and out before I put them on!  (Black patent Mary Janes, bought almost new from a Charity shop for £4.  Probably never worn but had a mark on the heel.)

- Pip

Pip, I keep my shoe in either the original boxes or cloth bags like the old plimsoll/PE kit bags and then they don't need dusting. 

I also use the bags to wrap presents in. Hubby hates wrapping, so any presents he buys me always go into them. (He prefers to buy me experiences eg spa day, weekend away, ballet/theatre or music concert. One year, he kept it as a total surprise - he took me to an open air concert at Royal Chelsea Hospital to see  

Ludovico Einaudi.)

CAFCGirl

Good Morning All,

Thankfully escaped the sirens at my end of the borrow by the bridge, how did everyone else get on?
The newspaper was slipping from the windows so tacked that back up and boy was it dark when I woke this morning!
Frost underfoot and the hound and I managed a 30 minute walk before home.

No coupons to report but some clothing finds.
A grey mottled/flecked v neck, wrap jumper with waist band, almost sweatshirt material but very nice fit with a cami underneath, £3.25

Chanced £3.75 on a pair of BNWT paperbag waist dark olive green culottes, and since my centre of gravity is lower than most, they will most likely fit as full length wide leg trousers instead of slightly above the ankle in a almost mori/Japanese style.
I foresee wearing them with a tight fit top, tucked in to show off the paper bag waist detail. Came with a belt as well but one of those cheap material ones. Just need to iron them after washing....

Now hunting for a leather/other water resistant material bag. Crossbody style and big but not too big inside since I am Mother and responsible for carting about the whole host of potential requirements (read : snacks) as well as my panic kit....

Liverpool_Anne

Teachers get roughly 2.5 hours per week for planning, preparstion and assessment. Nowhere near enough time which is why many are leaving the profession being totally fed up working long hours at home in the evenings, weekends and during the "holidays", they are feeling undervalued and unappreciated. I was a teacher for 26 years and there were times when I didn't have the energy or time to do anything except work and eat. And don't get me started on what some bad school leaders expect.
Take care everyone

Laura_Elsewhere

@Cherryfudge, we only had he sirens last night once, and we didn't get up to go out to the shelter, and the 'Raiders Passed' sounded not long after so we wen back to sleep - hopeful that we get several uninterrupted nights! 

@Liverpool_Anne, my career at one point had a few fairly unusual and exciting elements to it, and my Dad suggested I should go back to my old school and see if any of the teachers could use me to illustrate any classes; I did three in the end, which confirmed my belief that I could never be a teacher, but the joyous part was arranging to see a couple of particularly helpful teachers for a few minutes to thank them for everything they'd done years earlier. 

Gem-gem

Liverpool_Anne said:

Teachers get roughly 2.5 hours per week for planning, preparstion and assessment. Nowhere near enough time which is why many are leaving the profession being totally fed up working long hours at home in the evenings, weekends and during the "holidays", they are feeling undervalued and unappreciated. I was a teacher for 26 years and there were times when I didn't have the energy or time to do anything except work and eat. And don't get me started on what some bad school leaders expect.
Take care everyone

I was one of those teachers too...15 years...work..eat...sleep...work...
One year I worked out the unpaid overtime that I did. By the end of the year, I had worked the equivalent to 12 weeks!!! 

Four years after meeting my husband I left teaching, I was fed up with sending him out to go and play, so that I could work. 

Gem-gem

It seems all those holidays are cancelled out with so much unpaid work.

Teachers do more unpaid overtime than any other workers.

According to new research from the UK, teachers work more than one day every week for no extra money.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC), which carried out the study, found teachers work an average of 12.1 hours unpaid each week.

Primary school teachers do the most unpaid overtime at 13 hours, followed by secondary teachers at 12.8 hours.

Laura_Elsewhere

Mind you, I grew up with a university lecturer as a father, and it was quite normal for us only to see him to say goodbye as we set off for school and then to say goodnight, for weeks on end. 

In his 80s now, he is far better at managing work-life balance, but only in the last few years. In his late 70s it was still normal for him to get up around 5pm to start working, pause only for lunch, work right up to his evening meal, and more evenings than not work il midnight... he thinks he doesn't do enough... 

Luckily, I haven't inherited his work ethic  

Another quiet night at my end of the village - slept right through! Did others have raids, or did you all sleep well too?

The forecast for the Borrow valley is for it o get quite a bit colder this week, so I hope you all have your good wool vests and socks at the ready?