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Progress not Perfection

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  • milann
    milann Posts: 11,458 Forumite
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    Enjoy hooping 👍 I used to skip 100 skips a day but haven’t picked the rope up for a long, long time. Don’t think I could do it now although it supposed to be a good form of exercise. My hula hooping has been with Mr Wiifit but again I haven’t been able to manage that for a good while. 
    The red circle with the cross in is bugging me too. I’m not even sure what it’s for.
    Hope having a rant at Mr SA sinks in with him, but I suspect it won’t.
    January spends - £587.58
  • dawnybabes
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    I got a weighted hula hoop a few years ago…I could not do it..at..all 🤣
    I’ve one that I dust every few weeks - ditto - I tried and tried but could not get on with it 😢
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  • SuzeQStan
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    SuzeQStan said:
    SuzeQStan said:
    Thanks Cherry - when I went into MSE account settings for some reason it had all reset to no email notifications.

    all sorted now won’t be missing SA’s updates anymore 😊👍🏻
    Ooh where’s this ? I couldn’t see it and I’m not getting the emails 
    Hey Dawnybabes - click on your avatar and then account & privacy settings - then Notification preferences - tap on that and it’s there.  
    Well - this hasn’t worked I’ve still
    not had any email notifications saying there are new messages here - trying again.
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  • badmemory
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    Could the red blob be create a new thread?  Although it is rectangular on a desktop.
  • Cherryfudge
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    badmemory said:
    Could the red blob be create a new thread?  Although it is rectangular on a desktop.
    Ah - found it now. I have a red rectangle with a  + sign and the words 'Create new'.

    How is your day going, SA? 
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  • Sun_Addict
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    That's Monday almost done. I've been in the office this morning and left just after lunchtime to finish up at home. 

    Walking to work this morning I passed an elderly bloke who really didn't look with it. He had on those socks they give you in hospital and what looked to be a hospital gown. A bloke pulled up in his car and asked me if I'd noticed him then said he would phone an ambulance. I carried on walking but started to feel really guilty for not stopping to help. I'm quite wary of this sort of thing at the moment after the incident with the ranting bloke the other week. Anyway I hope he was taken to safety. 

    Today is NSD 5, 2 in a row again 😁

    Exercise is the walking to/from work and the live hooping class at 7, can't imagine I'll be doing much hooping though more likely to spend most of the time picking it up from the floor 🤣 There's a live Pilates class at 8 so might give that a go too. I don't usually do the Monday classes as they're a bit on the late side. 

    Tonight's dinner is enchiladas made with a portion of veg chilli from the freezer and a wrap also from the freezer. 
    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
  • Makingabobor2
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    Hope the elderly chap was taken to safety. Think you were right to be a bit wary. Makes you wonder how someone had managed to "escape" from hospital undetected though.  
    Making the debt go down and savings go up

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  • milann
    milann Posts: 11,458 Forumite
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    Hopefully the chap wil have got the help he needed.
    January spends - £587.58
  • doingitanyway
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    Sorry you had your mindfulness disrupted.
    That soup sounds great
    That was a good deal with the resistance bands too.
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

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