Debt Reset....

Humdinger1

Diamond white...aka loony juice in yge Midlands.   Very un-pc I know but the effects were...memorable. Love Humdinger xx 

amber03

Some of the drinks I used to have in my teens and early twenties I can’t stomach now. Vodka and orange and Pernod and blackcurrant. Give me white wine any day now.x

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Hi Cranky and friends
I was a student in the 80s and our drink of choice was snake bite and black - 1/2 a cider, 1/2 a lager and a dash of blackcurrant - I could still drink one of those today. I definitely couldn't drink vodka and lemonade after I was very ill out of a taxi window after a student party xx

EssexHebridean

Blimey - Diamond White, that's a blast from the past! 

Naomim

Just caught up on your diary. Sorry I'm late to the party! 

Firstly well done on becoming debt free. 👏 

I'm also loving the sheep. I wonder if your blankets and sheep could be some kind of side hustle for you?

I'm in your position and HT. My eldest is turning 18 in two weeks. Has lost more sets of keys than I care to mention. I'm thinking of taking out shares in Timpsons 😬 Funnily enough he is also mumbling about going to Amsterdam. I wonder why? 🤔 🤣 He gets quite jealous of me as I go about twice a year for work. 

I can't face vodka after my 17th birthday. My best friend still moans about her purple suede cowboy boots I "decorated". We're hitting 50 this year, you'd think she'd have got over it by now! 🤣

Keep well

Naomim x

CRANKY40

Thanks @Naomim.  Everything crochet takes way too long to make to be profitable. I've just made a shawl in graduated yarn that's rather pretty (friend admired it when it was 2/3 done so it's going to live with her). I'm now half way through a crochet cardigan for me. The biggest sheep still only has three feet because when I do all four I will have to sew them on and I hate that bit. 

The HT and friends no longer want to go to Amsterdam. They said it's too expensive. They're all downstairs in my living room just now watching tv, contemplating what they're going to order in for dinner and drinking cold drinks from the fridge with ice cubes from the freezer. They have the ceiling fan on too so it's a bit like going to the cinema but it costs less 🤣

I've been given a date for my first knee op so I'm trying to think of what I need to have in the house before the "no driving" hits. Best friend has said he will drive me anywhere that I want to go but I hate asking people for favours. I'm over ordering cat food and cat litter because I can send the HT and friends to Strangeburys 10 minutes away if Asd@ delivery has missing items but I don't trust them to get the right cat fud and the wooden litter from there is hopeless.

Finances seem to be holding up fine to the overstocking. I haven't used any of my savings and I don't have any debt plus all of the extra stuff will be used. The freezer is full as usual and the op is supposedly being done as a day case so I shouldn't be missing too long. I've been told to pack an overnight bag just in case but I really, really hope they let me out. My next door neighbour has kindly offered to be my chauffeur for the day as the hospital insist I'm collected by an adult. 

I've been repotting tomatoes this afternoon with regular indoor breaks as it's only 22 degrees downstairs in the house but 29 degrees outside. I've pushed all the pots against the house and put some back in the mini greenhouse as the weather guess says thunder (it's rumbling away now, just grumbles not the big bangs that make you jump) and they'd be washed away by 5 minutes of that monsoon rain that sometimes comes with a storm. I've watered the poor garden twice. Once first thing this morning and again this evening when the sun had moved round and most of it was in the shade. I've also picked 3 pounds of rhubarb, half of which went next door because I like to share. I also picked the first two ripe raspberries and ate them both because I could. 

My weight (I was told to lose some before I could have my knees fixed) is roughly 3 stone 4 lbs less than when I was referred for surgery. It's taken me 65 weeks to lose that amount which is way less than a pound a week. There is hope if you are a slow loser like me. I usually give up after about 6 months but the stakes were too high this time. If I became immobile due to the pain then I'd put on more weight and never be fixed. I've mostly done it by gardening with best friend who was as unfit as me and by making is both packed lunches of healthy food. I made our lunches all the time that I was minding him through the building work too. Our type of gardening involves a lot of rests and it's more like warfare in some parts of his garden but it must be helping and even if it's not it's keeping us entertained. 

Take care all of you 😊

Sun_Addict

Well done on losing that amount of weight. Slow is better as it’s more likely to stay off 👏 I hope you accept your BF’s offer of driving you about. You do a lot for him and I bet it will make him feel good to help you. 

CRANKY40

Sun_Addict said:

Well done on losing that amount of weight. Slow is better as it’s more likely to stay off 👏 I hope you accept your BF’s offer of driving you about. You do a lot for him and I bet it will make him feel good to help you. 

I know @S_A but his driving is a bit interesting. I can send him to the co-op though and I have a rough idea of what they sell so I reckon we'll cope 🤣

The weight thing was done by NHS. I had three "consults" evey three months for a year. Exercise lady, diet lady both by phone and a physical appointment with the weights and measures lady. It worked better for me than a slimming group because if you go to a group there's always one who has had 15 pints, a curry and all of the kids easter eggs and is still the slimmer of the week. I got bored listening to everyone saying what they'd eaten that they shouldn't have. The individual approach was much better although I think the exercise lady was a bit disappointed when she asked me if I could move better after 2 stone was gone. I need both knees replacing so the answer was "no". 

foxgloves

Great weight loss. A big well done from me x

WinterWarrior

Fabulous loss, you’ve done brilliantly 🌟