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CRANKY40

Good morning, 

I had a late finish at BF's yesterday as the kitchen fitter told us as he was leaving that we needed to empty the rest of the kitchen cupboards ready for them to be moved today. There's no chance of me getting there before the workmen this morning so we did it all last night. Grocery shopping for this week was £58.50. There's no chance of it being as low as that next week as I'll be adding a big jar of coffee and a few other "once a month" things. I might add teabags to the list yet (HT's friends all drink tea) and obviously a massive box is more economical than a small sensibly sized box. 

My Attic24 Springfrost blanket is coming along well - I'm working on that when I'm at BF's house. I'm also making a crochet sheep but I'm doing that at home because I need to concentrate a bit more. I decided to treat myself last night and took up an online offer of two "Sunbelievable" multi mini sunflower plants. They're very pretty but they're also sterile so they have to be propagated from cuttings. My garden is like a swamp just now (clay soil) so they may have to live indoors for a while. Due to the afore mentioned swamp conditions I haven't planted any seeds yet, but I do have plans (and the seeds). 

The cat's injection worked but giving steroids to an already greedy cat means that she is prowling the house looking for "hooman food". Her favourites are bacon, mince and steak all uncooked and surprisingly vanilla ice cream. She's never shown any interest in things like dreamies, cheese etc that some cats seem to love but we caught her licking the lid from the HT's ice cream tub. Luckily he'd just eaten the last of the ice cream!

Take care all of you 😊

CRANKY40

Good morning, 

It's the start of another week of house renovation at BF's house so I'll be heading there later complete with packed lunches. The HT doen't have college today so he's going to tidy his room and work on some assignments. I'll leave him a packed lunch too. 

I had a lovely day yesterday. I had coffee and cake at "Cost@ packet" with the HT then I dropped him off at home and went to home barg@1ns. I found some cheap obelisks for the garden for sweet peas. There's one out there already that I've had since we moved here 9 years ago so they're pretty sturdy. I bought 3 more and I bought some cheap sofa arm trays for the HT and his best friend. The HT's best friend came here yesterday afternoon and I can't begin to tell you how excited two 18 year olds were to have a little tray each for their drink and sweets while they watched tv 🤣

I carried on to the garden centre which I thought would be packed because of sunshine and mother's day. The cafe was busy but the actual plant bit was fine. I bought some lettuce seeds and a propagator with a lid as all of mine are at BF's house but I want to start some stuff at home myself. I sorted all my seeds out last night - I binned all the ones more than 2 years out of date that were open and the open ones that I kept but hadn't germinated when I tried them before. I've kept only the ones that I will actually use. I have put them in date order ready to start soon.

My springfrost blanket is coming on well due to sitting in BF's living room waiting for the weather to improve. We did repot a lot of stuff on Friday while it was dry. Poached egg plants, calendula and sweet peas mostly. The calendula and sweet peas were over wintered outside in a plastic greenhouse and surprisingly most of them grew and are in good shape. In my attempts to be able to follow a crochet pattern I have also made a sheep that is fairly recogniseable as a sheep. 

Take care all of you 😊

WinterWarrior

It sounds like you had a lovely day 🌟

jwil

Glad you had a nice day

CRANKY40

Thank you both. Incidentally the HT bought me a card which said Excellent Parenting followed by five stars and the words I turned out amazing. It's given me and my friends a laugh anyway.

Sun_Addict

CRANKY40 said:

Thank you both. Incidentally the HT bought me a card which said Excellent Parenting followed by five stars and the words I turned out amazing. It's given me and my friends a laugh anyway.

Love it 🤣🤣 My DS bought me one that says “the most expensive part of having kids is all the wine” 😆

jwil

CRANKY40 said:

Thank you both. Incidentally the HT bought me a card which said Excellent Parenting followed by five stars and the words I turned out amazing. It's given me and my friends a laugh anyway.

That's brilliant!

CRANKY40

I had a migraine on Monday with 3 lots of aura in the first hour and a half. It's like they're a bit elderly now and get stuck starting off 🙄The migraine medication saw off the worst of it but I still had that migraine hangover feeling yesterday and felt a bit rough for most of the day. I also went and had my daith pierced to see if it will lessen the migraine frequency. It hurt a little bit but it was very quick. 

BF's house is coming along nicely. He has about a third of a kitchen and it looks really good. Today I'll drop the HT at college then come home and make our packed lunches before heading over to keep BF company. The weather looks good so hopefully our gardens will both start to dry out a bit and we'll get some work done. I'm usually out doing weeding etc in my garden a couple of weeks earlier than this but it's still like a swamp out there just now. 

The springfrost blanket is going well and I've started sheep number 2 which has a slightly different method of making the sheep body. It looks much better. Grocery shopping this week is £64.83 but I'll need to buy fruit and bread tomorrow.

Take care all of you 😊

foxgloves

@CRANKY40 - I used to get awful headaches during the perimenopause which required codiene, a heat pad & a lie-down in a darkened room. I suppose they were a kind of migraine. I never got them with an aura though I've occasionally had the aura thing on its own (very perturbing), & again, it was during my 40s & usually when I was very stressed about something & had for some reason missed a meal & not drunk nearly enough water. I'm lucky not to have have suffered with the full-blown affliction, as there are 4 generations of it in our family from my Grandad, through Mum, my sister & my nephew, who I think has only had one, but it was definitely the horrendous headache & aura that my sister has had since her teens. I've heard that daith-piercing is said to lessen migraines. I suppose the science of that is similar to acupuncture? I don't know, but I do hope it works for you. Over the years, I've seen my sister absolutely incapacitated with them & no warning that one is about to come on except colours getting a little brighter just before the aura kicks in. Horrible things.
I am a very basic crocheter, but I always like to see other people's creations, so I hope you'll post a pic of your blanket & sheep when finished.
F x

CRANKY40

Migraines are horrible @foxgloves. My mum had them, I have them but my sister doesn't and my HT and one of my sister's sons have them too (strangely the nephew that has them is the one that was born on the same day of the year as the HT but several years earlier). I was getting one every 2 weeks when I was 48 so the doctor did a blood test and I was menopausal. They've slowed down a bit since but the reason can be too long between meals or sometimes just the way a light catches my eye. The aura used to take 15 minutes to go - an hour and a half is comepletely unreasonable. I can cope not being able to see for 15 minutes but 90 minutes is just too long. 

Here's the first sheep....