2022 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

Laura_Elsewhere

I'm in! 

And - like @Cherryfudge - I'm going to try very hard to keep my coupon-count up to scratch this year... I shall simply start again with 66 and give up on 2022... I think overall I was in or around the 66... but I shall make sure of it in 2023!

Laura_Elsewhere

And @PipneyJane - please can I take this chance to thank you for your work in setting up this brilliant challenge and making the Village Hall of Much Mending on the Borrow such a pleasant and cosy place to be... 

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

And @PipneyJane - please can I take this chance to thank you for your work in setting up this brilliant challenge and making the Village Hall of Much Mending on the Borrow such a pleasant and cosy place to be... 

Thanks Laura, that is very sweet of you to say so.  I couldn't do it without you and all the regulars.

- Pip

Cherryfudge

I'm in! And I'll second @Laura_Elsewhere's thanks to you, @PipneyJane, for making this marvellous community (even including Flash Harry and Margo - the place wouldn't be the same without them).

I guess I'd better stand down from captaining the athletics club as it fell by the wayside since I've not been running. If you see me pounding (or inching my way but wearing running shoes) past the Village Hall, I may get involved again. Meanwhile perhaps someone could propose a new captain?

MrsCD

Any thoughts on how many coupons for an oodie?
I also bought a pair each of some long socks for DH and myself, so I'll count them as 2 coupons each, and a metre of cotton fabric to make some microwave pot holders so we don't burn our hands on hot dishes! So 6 coupons used plus an oodie!
I'll be back next year if that's ok. I really appreciate @PipneyJane setting up the challenge, and all the help and support received from friends in Much Mending on the Borrow.

PipneyJane

Cherryfudge said:

I'm in! And I'll second @Laura_Elsewhere's thanks to you, @PipneyJane, for making this marvellous community (even including Flash Harry and Margo - the place wouldn't be the same without them).

I guess I'd better stand down from captaining the athletics club as it fell by the wayside since I've not been running. If you see me pounding (or inching my way but wearing running shoes) past the Village Hall, I may get involved again. Meanwhile perhaps someone could propose a new captain?

Please stay as Captain, @Cherryfudge.  We can restart the running group in January.  I'll pick you up on my route in the mornings.

(I haven't run since I fell, getting out of a colleague's car in July and landed on my left hip.  I am 90% certain that I broke something but, since it didn't hurt to stand or walk on the flat, I didn't get it investigated in case it stopped me going to the Commonwealth Games.  When next I see my GP, I will ask for a private x-ray of it.)

- Pip

PipneyJane

MrsCD said:

Any thoughts on how many coupons for an oodie?
I also bought a pair each of some long socks for DH and myself, so I'll count them as 2 coupons each, and a metre of cotton fabric to make some microwave pot holders so we don't burn our hands on hot dishes! So 6 coupons used plus an oodie!
I'll be back next year if that's ok. I really appreciate @PipneyJane setting up the challenge, and all the help and support received from friends in Much Mending on the Borrow.

Hi @MrsCD - I thought we sorted out the oodie issue in this post.  Treat it as a dressing gown please, costing 8 coupons for a man, 6 for a woman.

- Pip

PS:  I've just added oodies to the 2023 front page.

ETA:  We made the 2022 Forum Retrospective!  Well done Ladies.

MrsCD

Thanks, pip! I'm definitely going doolally!! I'd even counted it in my totals in my signature!!! 

PipneyJane

MrsCD said:

Thanks, pip! I'm definitely going doolally!! I've even counted it in my totals in my signature!!! 

You aren't doolally @MrsCD, you've had too much of Laura's Christmas Cake.  It's well sozzled and dripping alcohol.  Please do not drive tonight.

- Pip

MrsCD

Hahaha! Is that what it is? 😂  Not bad for a teetotaller! I'm home for the evening, thankfully, but might just wander down to the village hall to see what's happening on New Year's Eve.