Simple living in the country - back to basics

Baileys_Babe

Sorry to hear you have Covid Cherry, wishing you a full and speedy recovery.

Cheery_Daff

Thanks all xxx

Today is going slowly. Having a lazy day because you want one is one thing, but enforced laziness is quite another. Especially as this comes on the back of Sunday's hangover (which i suppose may have been the start of this...) and the heatwave-induced slovenliness. 

Been watching videos and knitting, but getting a bit bored no. Not bored enough to make me actually want to do anything, mind you 😂😂

The electricity geezer came back - feel bad for unintentionally giving him an covid-ridden ice pop yesterday now 😱 They're doing some work locally so are shutting us off later for a couple of hours 🙄 I'm charging everything up again to give me options, but I might just have a nap.

Lost 60p on the Happy wheel, but did £3.40 worth of prolific urveys. That's standing at an annoying £4.99 now but hopefully will be able to cash out soon.

Oh, and I put the washing machine on a boil wash. No suds in the machine as someone suggested - but I've only washed with washing soda for years anyway (until this recent foray into home made washing liquid). 

Rescued the towels from the chicken run - one had been washed and was just hanging on a hanger in there to aid evaporation/cooling so that's just been hung on the line. The other two were draped over the house so they'll need a wash - might do an experimental wash with just one tonight, see if the machine will spin properly when it's not so full.

Yawn. Mr Cheery brought me bran flakes (my ill-person food of choice) so I've enjoyed them. Might have a hot chocolate.

Didn't ring the pensions people - will wait til I'm not contagious now so we can sit in the same room and use the same phone! 

Right, hot chocolate, then maybe some banking. Gosh, what a thrilling day. Mind you, I'm feeling fortunate - my friend also has covid, but has a grumpy 3 year old with covid, and a VERY grumpy 7 year old without covid (but who is confined to the house as everyone else has it). Oh dear!

Ramouth

So it looks like a day of knitting and watching videos for me. Any recommendations for cheery YouTube channels? Gardening/homesteading/ thrift etc? I've recently discovered Bernadette Banner who I'm enjoying (she's not actually under any of those categories 😂)

Not in your requested subjects but I can highly recommend Samson Boat Company restoring Tally Ho.  They are rebuilding a classic sailing boat which doesn’t sound that interesting but is actually pretty compulsive viewing once you get into it.  The level of woodworking skill is extraordinary.

I have also recently discovered a chap called Half Asleep Chris who has a lovely style of presentation which makes the world feel like a better place.  It doesn’t seem to matter to me what he is talking about - there is just a real enthusiasm and wholesomeness that I find soothing.

listoflists

Sorry you’ve succumbed to Covid Cheery, but hope you’re soon feeling better.  Not sure if this will help, but my washer hates it if I just put in one bath sheet or bath mat as it gets unbalanced and won’t spin - at the spin stage it just tries to turn slowly for a minute then stops.  Once it’s done this for 3 or 4 goes it bleeps and delivers up sopping towels.  If I redistribute the weight it will often spin.  I’ve found  if I double up on heavier items it often manages to redistribute them on its own and will spin. Of course I could just have got a temperamental washer 

Cheery_Daff

Thanks for the suggestions Ramouth, will investigate 😊 I like nice soothing things!

And thanks for the washer advice listoflists - I'll wang both of them in. Was trying to make it less full to see if that helped! Going to wait til they've turned the electric off then back on again - no point having it stopping the middle of a wash. Have run myself a bath in the meantime (was meant to be a nice relaxing one but just had a small squabble with Mr Cheery over the whereabouts of the sieve (!) so it'll likely be a slightly grumpy one instead 🙄

themadvix

Another vote for half asleep Chris! (He has cats!). Thanks for the recommendation for the Samson Boat Co Ramouth, sounds right up our street.

 I’m bored too Cheery, but having seen how long it took Mr MV to get back to normal, I’m determined to rest so much that I don’t have that problem later (she says, having just got back from cat sitting 🙄)

Cheery_Daff

Gosh yes. Absolutely do NOT want to prolong this any more than necessary. Resting and fluids all the way!

Electric's going off now 🙄 Most tiresome, but at least they rang to warn me!

beanielou

Oh no!
Be better soon  xx

Karmacat

Sorry to hear it's the covid, Cheery - hope you manage to sleep tonight, and don't feel too grumpy

Cheery_Daff

Thanks both 😊

Slept much better last night thank you 😊 It seems the shivering has past at least, thank goodness. Getting more of a sniffle now, and my eyes hurt when I look too far sideways 🙄 Still got a sore throat too.

Wary of taking painkillers - I know full well that if I feel better I'll be up and pottering about, and I also know I'm much better off resting... 🙄

Happy Wheel done (£6.59 today) and I've had a look at energy prices - if the cap shifts as predicted, our average monthly cost will shift from £84 to £139 based on this most recent year's usage 🙄

Obviously that's just electricity 🙄 Can't do anything about LPG, but I signed a 2 year fix for that anyway (I'm sure they'll find some way round that, but we'll see). I put aside £167 a month for that, but only pay as and when we get a delivery (about 3 times a year). Must check where the tank is at. 

I've turned the sofa bed back into a sofa for the day, slightly less springy and I feel slightly less like I'm spending a week in bed 🙄

Right. Feeling like today is a good time for that Harry Potter marathon I was promising myself if I ever got ill enough that I had to spend the day in bed 🙄😂😂