Simple living in the country - back to basics

rtandon27

Oooo - well fine on the egg- find Cheery!

We 'foraged' some free-range eggs via Olio on Wednesday! 20 of them, which in our house might last all of a week. They are utterly huge - the ones we normally purchase are piddly by comparison!

rtandon27

Oooo - well done on the egg- find Cheery!

We 'foraged' some free-range eggs via Olio on Wednesday! 20 of them, which in our house might last all of a week. They are utterly huge - the ones we normally purchase are piddly by comparison!

Cheery_Daff

Ha, we ended upwith duck eggs the other week, they were enormous! 😂

Yes, I would have been surprised if I'd not ended up with eggs from anywhere 😂 There are still several contenders! The closest one shut up shop a few weeks ago. There's a regular one on the way to a regular appointment which would be great - you can see the chickens from the road - but they've not had any for sale for ages. There's the one we got the duck eggs from, but again they often don't have any. I found one place when a regular road was closed - but I'd never usually go that way and I don't want a detour for eggs. 

And of course there was the infamous farm from the other day, which I was hopeful would be a more reliable source because it wasn't just a handful of backyard hens, but clearly not! The local shop sells eggs, but they're from a non-specified 'local supplier', don't have stamps on, and the woman who runs the shop can't tell me if they're free range (it's likely a small place if they've no stamps, but I'm not relying on that!) 

Anyway, I spotted another place on our travels today that I'll try in the future, it does require driving a bit of a way down a driveway though, so brave pants again 😂

An uneventful day - we're both tired after a rather late night, and Mr Cheery has been feeling rather ill. I've done some weeding, and some washing, and spent a long time sitting on the swing seat reading a book (just wish it had been slightly warmer!)

Cafe earlier, not the cheapest one but we just had tea and scone/flapjack. Found a Harris Tweed purse for £1.50 in a charity shop so counting that as a success!

Cheery_Daff

Prolific standing at £24.56 with £1.79 to clear
1P at £7.05
HW still at £41 (or was it £44?) - didn't get chance to do it yesterday. 

Just curling up on the sofa for a film, it's all either of us are fit for tonight!

themadvix

Can’t believe I missed the opportunity for that pun! 

Cheery_Daff

themadvix said:

Can’t believe I missed the opportunity for that pun! 

OK, you're going to have to explain - I've read back and am being very dim and can't see what you're talking about 🙈😂

Lazy morning so far, still lying in bed reading MSE diaries 😁 But I do need to shift myself,I'm very hungry! 

So, a vague plan, with the understanding that it will likely get derailed by Mr Cheery wanting to go on an excursion, or the weather.

* breakfast
* exercise (at some point - I'm too hungry to do it before breakfast so may be this evening)
* sew elastic onto bedroom blinds
* more washing if the weather holds
* attempt a fix on the bedroom cupboard
* attempt brick acid on the garden stones - I've thought of a better place to do it now where the run off won't be onto the front lawn, or near the cattle trough
* general tidy up ready for the week ahead
* meal planning

Might do a bit of batch cooking later, might not. If I only get those things done on the list it'll be a nice achievement! 

themadvix

I’d said ‘Excellent’ about the eggs - Starnac said ‘Eggs-cellent’ (My comment not helped by not seeing the later responses and posting without a quote, sorry!).

 Have a good day, whether derailed or not!

Cheery_Daff

😂😂 clearly I didn't read that far back! 

Pleased to report i am dressed and have had breakfast sitting on the swing seat in the garden with a book. I'm stillhere, and about to get another cup of tea. This may not be the world's most productive day 😂

Cheery_Daff

Understatement of the century back there, and now I'm grumpy and cross about not having done anything 🙄 we almost went out to get wood for my bookshelves, but for various reasons we're now not, and I need (a) to eat something, and (b) to give myself a good talking to 🙄

OK, food first, and then I'm going to get changed and attempt the brick acid on at least one experimental/sacrificial stone while the weather is nice. Fingers crossed.

KajiKita

Cheery_Daff said:

Understatement of the century back there, and now I'm grumpy and cross about not having done anything 🙄 we almost went out to get wood for my bookshelves, but for various reasons we're now not, and I need (a) to eat something, and (b) to give myself a good talking to 🙄

OK, food first, and then I'm going to get changed and attempt the brick acid on at least one experimental/sacrificial stone while the weather is nice. Fingers crossed.

I had a day like that yesterday. Sometimes you do just need a rest 🤷‍♀️😊
Hope the acid trial goes well 🤞😊

KK