Must try harder!

KeepOnKnitting

I love that you tidy the garden while waiting for the dog. It doesn't work as well with a cat, but I don't think that is a good reason for me to get a new furry friend. One day, when I don't go out to work long days any more.

WinterWarrior

My cats are house cats @KeepOnKnitting, they just watch through the windows (if they can be bothered) 😅. Dog was great when she was younger as we’d have a hour long gallop at lunchtime (or a drag in my case as she was big, strong and fast), but now we just potter, one of us sniffs things and has various sit downs and one of us reads her kindle whilst walking in circles or lops off overhanging branches 😁. I really need to take out a trowel and dig out some thistles soon 🤭 I’m not very good at gardening, but I’m considering making an effort this year. Everyone on this thread puts me to shame 🪴 

WinterWarrior

Good morning and happy Thursday. Another step closer to the weekend ⭐️
MrWW seems a bit grumpy this morning, possibly because it’s his last day before being back at work. When the shift patterns are over the weekends it really does mess with the routines. I need to find some fun things to do to entertain myself with at the weekend, or I will waste the day calling at Ldl and shuffling the housework around. I would love to get a grip on gardening, but it’s so big and wild it is hard to know where to begin. I do have an eye on the pet cemetery under a big fir tree, where 5 cats are laid to rest, it has spring bulbs there, but I think as a small project I would like to tidy it up and make it pretty for them. 🌷 
Anyway, today is just work as normal so I had better get back to it.
have a fabulous day ✨⭐️

milann

What a clever dog you have reading the kindle whilst you have a potter and sniff around 😂😂😂😂(sorry couldn’t resist) 
Hope you find something nice to do at weekend 👍

WinterWarrior

milann said:

What a clever dog you have reading the kindle whilst you have a potter and sniff around 😂😂😂😂(sorry couldn’t resist) 
Hope you find something nice to do at weekend 👍

She is special…and I love a good sniff 🤣

WinterWarrior

Good morning and happy Friday ⭐️
Well, what a long week! I hope to finish nice and early at 3.30 today, all being well. I must get weighed when I drag myself up….so far the results have been disappointing. Neither the intermittent fasting,  nor the reduced calories have made a difference in the last 2 weeks. I don’t really want to go below 1300-1400 calories as that feels too restrictive, but I’ve not been seeing any results. It’s very odd. I’m weighing and measuring so know I aren’t underestimating my food content. I didn’t do any measurements, so possibly something is happening there. I think I do need to up the exercise, but it’s so hard when you are sitting down from 8am until 5pm most days. I can only hope perseverance will provide results, even if it’s a pound a month or less. I really don’t want to always be in the a bit tubby bracket, but at least I did keep a stone off from last time (when i definitely looked in the too large for my pants bracket 🤭).
Today and tomorrow I am unsupervised as MrWW is on days. Obviously today is mostly work, tomorrow I will need to get some food (although why me? Why doesn’t MrWW get it when he’s off, instead of enjoying completely free time? Hmm, maybe a MrT delivery is in order, but then I have to keep an eye out for that and still put it all away…sigh). But I digress 🤭, then I would like to either try my hand at some gardening or work out how to clear the old falling down garage at the back (there’s no way to drive to it so it’s baffling). I would love to empty it out of junk and rubbish, get a new roof for it and use its big windows like a greenhouse. This would cost a few thousand I think, so something I need to save for. It would be nice to get it cleared though. If I saved £200 a month I could have that in 10 months and be set up for next years growing…something to think about! 

Yesterday I spent my audible credit on the first Game of Thrones book. It’s about 20 years since I read it (before all of the hype) so it’s time for a revisit and it’s over 33 hours long so I will get my moneys worth when I’m pottering about 😬

Anyway back to today 😁, I will get up and crack on. I hope you all have fabulous Fridays ⭐️✨🌷

WhiteBunny

Hello WW, I hear you with regards to the shopping. My husband would go but then come back with things either not on the list or not needed anyway. I'm sure he did it so I'd get uptight and say I would do it in future. It worked, I then always did the shopping and he's now the ex (not just because he couldn't shop properly 😄). Hope the weather stays good for the gardening. Hope you have a fab day 

jwil

Enjoy your day

Frustrating about the weight loss, I feel your pain.   Maybe it's worth looking at 'what' you eat rather than how much?

PennysIntoPounds

Sorting out garage sounds daunting but exciting! Could you go in with bin bags and do it in rounds, e.g. everything that you can reach that is going straight in the bin/recycling, then everything that can go to charity shop, then everything that can be sold online, then you would hopefully have enough of a corner to start putting stuff to keep to one side, then start the rounds again with what you can now reach...

WinterWarrior

PennysIntoPounds said:

Sorting out garage sounds daunting but exciting! Could you go in with bin bags and do it in rounds, e.g. everything that you can reach that is going straight in the bin/recycling, then everything that can go to charity shop, then everything that can be sold online, then you would hopefully have enough of a corner to start putting stuff to keep to one side, then start the rounds again with what you can now reach...

Hi Pennys, the garage has some lovely double glazed windows, but equally an ancient falling in ceiling, so it’s open to the elements. There is a lot of rubbish like old kitchen units and insulation rolls from the previous owners, then to my shame I have used it on occasions to shove things like ancient scratching posts and the like when MrWW wasn’t taking them to the tip quickly enough 😬 so I have a lot of junk and then some recycling overflow, spiders nests and all scary things. I think I do need to sort through it and then find a man with a van for a proper big tip run 😣 it’s very daunting!