Holding On and Letting Go 🎈

beanielou

The poor wee cat 

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Sad news...

the poor little cat didn't make it 😢  It was obviously far more poorly than we'd realised.  I don't think it suffered in the end - just slipped off in its sleep.  I took it to the vet yesterday morning so they could see if it was chipped.  At least it spent its final hours in a warm and quiet place.

I gave notice at the WI Committee meeting yesterday and will be stepping down after the AGM later this year.  I'll continue to run some sub-groups and be involved with other things but won't take the lead on the show team next year.  We've agreed that I can take my home grown produce into the meetings and take whatever I raise from that to offset the show costs I've met this year.  I stayed for lunch with the members (costs were met from this month's personal  spends).

After the meeting I dropped by a solicitors to get a copy of my id certificated.  It was £10 but they gave me three copies in case I needed one again in the future.  I have to provide it for probate for a relative's estate.  For various reasons, I was unsure whether I'd be accepting anything but, having talked it through with family and in light of our new circumstances, I've decided to take a share.

I also took some toiletries and makeup into the food bank.  I'd had a sort out and also had vouchers for free stuff that I wouldn't use but I knew others would so I cashed those in and added the items to the bag.  Then a quick stop at the supermarket to pick up a couple of necessary items before home.

I did the on-line grocery shop and came in quite a lot under budget this time.  We have produce ready for eating in the veg patch so that helped and a friend asked me for a veg box code for which we both got £15 off our orders.  Also placed a couple of small orders for skincare items for new customers.  Not big sales but they might lead to further orders.

We have picked cherries from our orchard 🥳 Just five this year 😂  The trees are still young but it shows promise for next year.

Supper was Fragrant Courgette & Prawn Curry with enough left over for today's lunch 😁

Mr F has heard some worrying things about his new boss from colleagues but it's all water off a duck's back now.  He seems much happier knowing he has an escape plan.

Hope your week is off to a good start.

Fortune x

beanielou

So sad about the wee cat.
THank you for looking after it.

Suffolk_lass

It's not the best year for cherries. Did you see the NT had to cancel their pick your own event after the birds scoffed them all? Kent I think. Ours are poor this year too. And sour. So unlike the red-currants, we may actually have some!

rtandon27

Our singular cherry tree yielded one single fruit, which somehow dropped off the tree and to the ground as I stood under it.  The birds had the rest of them but have left the raspberries alone so we have been scoffing these after every dinner for about two weeks!

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beanielou said:

So sad about the wee cat.
THank you for looking after it.

Yes very sad Beanie.  I called the vet this morning and they said it wasn't chipped so I think it was feral.

Fortune x

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Suffolk_lass said:

It's not the best year for cherries. Did you see the NT had to cancel their pick your own event after the birds scoffed them all? Kent I think. Ours are poor this year too. And sour. So unlike the red-currants, we may actually have some!

I've just seen the article @Suffolk_lass - must have been quite a few blackbirds to eat all those cherries 😂

rtandon27 said:

Our singular cherry tree yielded one single fruit, which somehow dropped of the tree and to the ground as I stood under it.  The birds had the rest of them but have left the raspberries alone so we have been scoffing these after every dinner for about two weeks!

We've had a total of 5 cherries from 2 trees @rtandon27 😂  But our trees are still very young so we weren't expecting much from them.  Our raspberries have been great this year too 😁

Fortune x

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Rebelling...

There's been a meeting in my diary every day this week - mostly to do with WI stuff. It's getting too much (Mr F laughed when I said that as he has five to six meetings every day 😲).  But mine take out either a whole morning, afternoon or evening when I have other things I need and want to do.  So, I gave my apologies for today and tomorrow.  Today's meeting was with a new writing group who seem keen to have me on-board.  I haven't been able to attend any of their meetings so far and I suspect that there will be more in it for them than for me if I do attend (they get involved in editing and publishing each other's work which is likely to cost me time and money).  Tomorrow's meeting is a fund raiser for the WI but I only found out about it on Monday and I'm sure someone else could (should) help out.  I'm a rebel 😂

The vegetable plug plants I ordered seven weeks ago finally arrived today.  I bought them as I hadn't been able to grow anything from seed this year and some of my direct planted seeds failed.  But seven weeks 😲 I could have grown the blooming things myself in that time!  Anyhoo, they are in now and will hopefully come to something.  I've planted some butternut squash in the compost heap t as I'd read about someone having great success growing them that way.  I disturbed a huge ants nest in the process - no wonder the aphids have been doing so well on my veg, I've been pinching them off and the ants have been putting more on 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

We had Sundried Tomato & Spinach Pasta for lunch today.  It's a recipe I made last week and I still had the makings of another two meals left over.  The spinach came from the veg patch this time though 😁  Supper was salad with lettuce from the veg patch - chicken for Mr F and blue cheese for me.

The grocery shop was delivered plus a case of wine 🤫  We have one bottle a week at the weekend and it's not an indulgence I'm ready to give up yet... things will have to get pretty bad before I'm ready for that 😆 Mr F got 15% off through his employer's voucher scheme and I used my CP points to put a £25 voucher toward the cost.

Mr F took the Ukrainian's car for an MOT today... it failed 🙁  We'd kept it in case anything went awry with our purchase of Mr F's company car but, in that time, the brakes have rusted up and are sticking.  Annoyingly, Mr F had spotted this on one wheel and fixed it but not on the other which had seemed fine.  Fortunately, Mr F can sort it out and we won't be charged for the second MOT if it goes back within 10 days.  We will have to pay out for another day's insurance on it though as it is currently SORNed.  He's planning to take it in next Thursday and then we'll put it up for sale.

In better news - Mr F and I both won on the PBs this month, £25 each 😁

It's only 7 o'clock and I'm yawning already.  I think an early night is called for.

Sleep tight 😴

Fortune x

SandyShores

Nice PB wins

Humdinger1

Only at page 12 @Fortune_Smiles but am addicted! Would love to read your writing; is it available? Short stories are underexposed in my view and I adore ghost stories too! It's odd isn't it how some apparently normal situations just have an undercurrent...am subscribing.  Love Humdinger xx