Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

foxgloves

@Cheery_Daff - I'm glad I had a thorough session in mine. Harvested lots of green chillies which I was keen to get to before they all turn red so I have both for different recipes. I also hadn't realised how good our peppers are this year after a slow sulky start, so it was like finding treasure!
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Makingabobor2

Just coming back to the scam conversation. My DD keeps getting texts telling her to "follow the link" to claim her winter fuel payment.....she is 44 years old!!!   Do they really think people are that stupid that they will fall for these things? 

badmemory

Yes they do and they are.  Really.  A friend, only 58 at the time, fell for one to get access to something online when she has no internet & only a basic (non-smart) mobile.  I have warned her & warned her about scams.  I am 20 years older than her & she really is not stupid but they wouldn't bother if no-one fell for them.  Talk about bite your tongue.  She paid up & did nothing about it, almost £100 & she still answers the phone to all & sundry.

Elisheba

Good morning, @foxgloves 🌞. I have just caught up with your August diary. Well done on the continued weight loss. And I'm absolutely certain all your home grown, organic produce will be doing wonders for your gut biome. They say we should be eating at least 30 distinct plants a week, and sounds like you and Mr F are doing that (even if it's somewhat courgette heavy at the moment 🤣)

Couple of thoughts I had when I was reading...

To encourage walking and make it more interesting - have you tried geocaching? It's basically an app based scavenger hunt. The app is free, and although you can upgrade you can do the basics for free. There will be caches locally encourage you to explore and you can do it on holiday as well.

Or another thing that might make it more interesting is walking all your local public rights of way on the OS map, and then going on line and reporting every issue you find to your Council - and you will find so many issues! Budgets have been slashed, and farmers are always pushing the limits of what they can get away with. 

Just on listening to audio books when waking - I can't wear in ear headphones as I have an allergic reaction. I find I don't want to listen to anything on walks though as it's my clear my brain time, for thinking and pondering.