Holding On and Letting Go 🎈

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savingholmes said:

Glad you're celebrating rain. My grass is yellow! I have been keeping my pretty bedding plants alive now - and giving my apple trees the odd drink.

We had three separate downpours in the end SH - very much needed.

Fortune x

South_coast

I'm 193 days into Latin. Completely useless as no-one speaks it, but I want to understand mottos 🤣! It is interesting seeing where some of our words came from though

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South_coast said:

I'm 193 days into Latin. Completely useless as no-one speaks it, but I want to understand mottos 🤣! It is interesting seeing where some of our words came from though

Blimey!  You like a challenge SC.

Fortune x

savingholmes

Latin sounds interesting to learn... It's the root of so much of European languages.

Karmacat

South_coast said:

I'm 193 days into Latin. Completely useless as no-one speaks it, but I want to understand mottos 🤣! It is interesting seeing where some of our words came from though

I have to pipe up!  I read your new thread yesterday, Fortune, and was fascinated all over again, I'm glad FDawg is doing well.  But right now, just to say that I did Latin at O level, and it's been incredibly useful - not even just for the Romance languages, I feel it helped me learn a bit of capital-letters Greek when I was out there, it just helped things make sense somehow.  Completely different, but something gelled, for me.

beanielou

I failed latin o'grade!

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You clever lot!  I suddenly feel like Alan Davies in a room full of Stephen Frys 😂

Carpe vinum.

Fortune x

South_coast

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beanielou

Pinching carpe vinum for my birthday

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Herding Cats

I went to a meeting today with the WI Show Team - there are only six of us but it was chaos 😆  It all came together in the end though and I think our entries will look great by the time we've finished.  I picked up some actions:

• finish my acrylic painting
• paint a back board for one of the displays
• spray paint some plastic plates to look like golden platters
• make up some themed labels for our produce items.

The backboard needs to be finished before our next meeting on Thursday so I've got my work cut out for me 😲

We had Creamy Kholrabi Soup for lunch but fish and chips for supper! 🥳  Costs were met from this month's fun money.

Chased the Council again yesterday for the Homes for Ukraine money.  Heard back from the Head of the Department who said she couldn't understand why I hadn't been paid because I'd made it to the "Hosts Payment Sheet" 🙄 I'm certain that putting someone's name down on an Excel spreadsheet does not magically result in a payment being made, however, I bit my tongue.  She said she'd look into it as a matter of urgency but I've heard nothing again today and the balance of my bank account is still lower than it should be 😢

Money has been spent today - dog food, dog treats, toiletries and materials to finish my show projects.  All budgeted for though.

The grocery shop arrived - £6.91 under budget.  I'm astounded that the food budget is holding.  However, we're eating a lot from the veg patch at the moment and that's probably keeping costs down.

That's it I think.

Happy Friday all.

Fortune x