Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

Makingabobor2

foxgloves said:

I'm the opposite, @Makingabobor2. I love Autumn - it was my favourite season even as a child. 
F x

Its the dark mornings & long evenings that I hate. I know its cosy & I love the trees in autumn & making soup etc & long weekends doing jigsaw puzzles & reading, but I long for sunshine & warmth. Hate the prospect of cold & damp. 

thriftmonster

I'm another one that loves autumn. Dealing with the cat and three meals a day going back an hour not so much. But I'm looking forward to Samhain tomorrow.  I love pagan festivals because one is not more important than the others - looking at you Yule/Christmas-but I sort of feel if there is one it's Samhain 

foxgloves

I lean towards the pagan festivals too, @thriftmonster. Christmas/Yule is very much a hybrid celebration in our house.
F

foxgloves

Hello Readers & Samhain blessings to you all!
Just popped on for a quick chat before deciding what to wear for going out tonight. If I tell you that so far, I have decided only on my amethyst glitter tights & boots, you can see why this is going to be mission critical in a few hours time! Weather not helping as despite a fine morning, we've just had a proper downpour. I usually like to get outside to do some 'looking forward' tasks on the 31st. It's the beginning of Winter & we need this time of darkness & cold before nature bursts forth again - I appreciate being part of this great wheel of the year & we often go out for a walk to enjoy the leaves in full colour, & sometimes a glimpse of squirrels or birds caching food to eat in the coming months. This year, our walk will be on Saturday instead as I had arranged a visitor for this morning. Mr F got out into the garden & planted garlic & shallot sets  - he always plants garlic on 31st Oct, it's become a tradition in our house & we both love to see those green scapes poking through in the depths of Winter. I decided to clean the bathroom, kitchen & vacuum downstairs as it will be less to do at the weekend. I like to bake soul cakes too - another seasonal activity, although I never had them while I was growing up - but I talked myself out of it as they are rather more-ish, there are only 2 of us & I think we could get through a batch of them at impressive speed. I shall defer it to another year when we are having people round (for 2 such chatty non-shy people, we can be shockingly unsociable!)
The money had landed in our bank account from our October PA earnings - £61 for Mr F & £51 for me, now added to our Personal Spends. It's the first time we've cashed out for a while as haven't much been engaging with surveys for a few months. I intend to make an effort with them in November as another decent cash-out would be good.
Also made a small move towards a bit of frog swallowing which I intend to do on Monday. It is an extremely boring frog, but swallowing is very definitely required so if there is no mention of said amphibian ingestion when I post on Monday, you have full permission to nag me.
Right, I'd better go & sort out an outfit for tonight, then I can settle down with my book.....though will probably have to endure a few more rounds of Mr F singing, "We're witches of Hallowe'en' (from the 'Words & Pictures' programme when he was at Primary School!) 
Bye for now,
F x

PennysIntoPounds

Samhain blessings foxgloves.

Can't wait to hear about the rest of this outfit!

Sun_Addict

Enjoy your evening out in your glitter tights. You’re not off trick or treating are you 🎃

thriftmonster

Blessed Samhain

thriftmonster

So i have had a variety of trick or treaters. Very small ones with their parents -sweet and grateful. 15-16 yrs honestly- dressed up and sweet
A load of Y6-7. Half of them rude and entitled, half sweet and said thank you 

thriftmonster

So mostly ok and the others -their friends were embarrassed 

foxgloves

Lol @Sun_Addict , no I wasn't trick or treating. I was at the theatre for a bit of German expressionist cinema!! It was a showing of the original 1922 silent movie 'Nosferatu' accompanied by a  band called Minima who performed a live soundtrack. They were really good, prog-rock in style with some interesting additional instruments like hammered dulcimer. I hadn't seen the film before, although I knew the story, as it's basically Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'.

@PennysIntoPounds - You'll be glad to know I did decide on an outfit. A pair of handknitted lacy acid green socks were added to the purple glitter tights & boots plus a short black dress (to show them off) & long dark denim coat. Black cat necklace & hung a little silver bat, star, etc, from some of the hoops in my ears. And extra eyeliner. Felt I'd made an effort. Most audience people hadn't dressed up, but a significant minority had - there were steampunks, a gothy bride, witchy wigs, etc, so I felt I could have gone further & maybe dug my long velvet wedding cloak out of storage. Great night anyway.

@thriftmonster - I don't engage with trick or treat. What put me off was a neighbour who wouldn't even acknowledge me in the street the rest of the year, ferrying her children to our door each year on the 31st expecting me to have bought sweets to put in their bags.....having ignored me completely for the previous 364 days!! We celebrate the festival, but just not that part of it.
F