NST: February 2023 Freedom

facethemusic

Finally I managed NSD 8, I'd best try harder for a few more or the month will be gone before i get to double figures. 
Was at work all day, have managed my 15000 steps but not much else! 
We got the high winds from storm Otto last night so at some point we have a trampoline to retrieve from the wrong side of a fence. It looks to be undamaged- it was on its side this morning but has landed on its feet again so at some point this weekend I need to round up a few bodies to try and get it back. It stayed in place through all the storms last winter so the wind last night must have been impressive! Some fence panels on a different side of the garden are also down, but i think I can nail them back up. 

Shrewbie

Good morning turtles 

Weekly round up.

I am in budget for ¨fun” money but not for food. Will address this today with a cupboard inventory and careful meal plan. update: Just did meal plan and should only need to spend around 10 euros this week on food.
Still on NSD 10. 

This week splits challenge done every day, managed reading and writing also every day but need to keep up the Spanish practice. Exercise 4/5 days. 

Have had no booze now for 6 weeks and also haven't looked at social media for that long. 

Grateful for feeling focused and happy, for having enough and starting to see an improvement in my flexibility.

Have a great weekend turtles

grandmanerd

Yesterday was some progress and lots of resting and relaxing. Today will be mostly plodding with the odd flash of inspiration and (hopefully) heavy stuff (bear in mind that an ordinary filled shopping bag can be 'too heavy' for me sometimes).

Grateful for snowdrops, croci and a few early daffs, getting to little Arseda (took nearly an hour from the library to little Arseda, going round - only selected aisles - and then back home), the assistant keeping a till open for me and helping with my packing when I fumbled. Frequent sit downs and then sat on my walker to unlock the door, sat down in between taking each bag in and then before I brought the walker in.. DS3  is nearly fully nocturnal again, I've seen him once and heard him twice in 3 days. This means I can get on with things more easily. May not be an NSD unless I find more pens as I go round - one just binned and 2 more ready to fail. 

f0xh0les

Reclaim your house @grandmanerd !! Well, during daylight hours anyway.

I have woken up with a head cold and sore ears.  Feel like my brain is full of porridge. Rotten

Dave is still not in his holiday chalet - I was stood in the not-so-super market yesterday morning, wondering if Dave would prefer  blueberries or cherries in his trap.... Spent more time debating that, and  whether he would know what a mango was, than I did over buying foodstuff for my own kids.   He just needs to go now.  DS1 said it sounded like Dave was moving his sofa last night. 

So today will be veg soup for lunch, and pizza for supper - that way loads of veg and ys (s)cheese will leave the fridge.  Whilst pondering Dave and his dietary habits, I also bought a massive BNS for £1.50 - It is HUGE and a couple of aubergines.  I somehow ended up with £11 of T0sc0 vouchers, so my weeks shopping ended up at sub £10 and left me with a fridge full of veg, and enough spaghetti to make a ladder to the moon.

Grateful for silly episodes of She-Hulk, and starting on Daredevil - nothing high-brow going on over here! Marvel all the way.

Toni'sfriend

I've been reading with interest your comments of people being judgemental. I worked for the Post Office for many years and on my first day on the counter an older, male colleague said to me "Always be polite, kind and helpful even when customers are difficult. You don't know their circumstances, They could be struggling with money or health problems or they could have just had some bad news". Probably one of the best pieces of advice I have ever been given and it can be applied to any situation in life. 

pollyanna_26

f0xh0les said:

My Half Term starts HERE! Whoop whoop ✋✋
One kid off school today(nosebleeds and nausea), one came home with a heavy head cold, one has a horrid cough, and one has a sore throat.😷😷.   Keep them away from me!! DH is feeling like he is coming down with something as well.  Well, it is traditional in our house for them all to fall ill in Feb half term.
Dave is still at large, but we think we know where the little rat is now hiding 🐀. 

Hope you manage to get some time for you among all the lurgies. When I was teaching middle infants there didn;t seem to be as many bugs around. However Autumn / Winter we would be sending letters home asking nor to send an unwell child to school.

It was late 80s early 90s and a number of mums had started work once their little one was in school so results were mixed.I remember  our  GPs waiting room  one Autumn/ Winter when there were many with what now  appears to have been a form of Norovirus we'd never heard of that but many arrived at school each day and it spread like wildfire.

I'd never heard of it and it was only sitting in the Drs waiting room in recent years I reaised a lot of the  children waiting to see him were suffering from it. He had a list on the wall of when to phone rather than come in to the surgery which included Norovirus, German Measles and other infectious  diseases. There would be pregnant women in the waiting room and it was shockig how many youngsters would be brought in with obviously infectious diseases.

I hope they all recover asap and you can get to do what you want to get on with. Good luck dealing with Dave they are very sneaky and difficult to trap although one of the posters on the OS board managed to eventually trap and finish off a very annoying one with Mars bars in a trap.She discovered they are very fond of chocolate. They would just grab chocolate and run until she bought a trap.

Yesterday I was trying to find the image you'd posted of that lovely knitted wrap. I thought it was on the put away your purse thread but couldn;t find it. I then realised you had a lot of different threads but couldn't find it. When I first read your original with picture post I was so busy writing down the instructions you wrote .Needle size . number of stitches . rows etc and the Garter stitch edging it was only later I relised I'd forgotten the stitch used wasn;t sure if it was blackberry stitch or one of the many variations, I was also distracted by the lovely charms you'd added.

We used to have a lovely craft centre here seling things like Mill Hill Beads  and other items in the range incuding charms not easily avaiable in the UK then.

I used to enjoy making Cross Stitch samplers on fine count linen and those charms really added to the effect especially on the Festive ones.

I know you are busy but if you get a moment would appreciate knowing which stitch you used on the wrap. So many of them are similar  but I thought that one was perfect.

I tried looking on some of the other threads but got distracted with your thrifty cooking etc

pollyx

DawnW

@pollyanna_26 I think it is @foxgloves who knitted the wrap, not our @f0xh0les here. I will try to find her thread, which I also follow, and post a link.

Here we go https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6414245/resourcefulness-the-budgeters-friend/p47

Foxgloves is lovely, and will I am sure answer any knitting questions.

 PS f0xh0les is lovely too

thriftylass

Hello, had a lovely Saturday, did the weekly shop, DH cooked dinner, went for a walk and friends popped round for a chat. 

Grateful for nicotine lozenges, they finally helped me stop for a week now; DS being helpful in the kitchen and not getting seriously injured when he slipped in the shower later. 

ldee2111

Looked at our spending for the last two months to see if there was any money leaks. And there was one very obvious leak - multiple top up shops. I used to do one midweek top up but this has slipped and we’re popping into our local SM every other day for a forgotten ingredient or having run out of something (and losing NSDs in the process). I’m stopping this as of now and going back to one top-up only unless absolutely necessary… some breaks into the house and steals our milk. 

Grateful today for a quiet day at home, for DS trying an actual orange segment and nibbling some chicken off a skewer (he’s a fussy eater beyond belief), and for tv quizzes and game shows.

pollyanna_26

DawnW said:

@pollyanna_26 I think it is @foxgloves who knitted the wrap, not our @f0xh0les here. I will try to find her thread, which I also follow, and post a link.

Here we go https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6414245/resourcefulness-the-budgeters-friend/p47

Foxgloves is lovely, and will I am sure answer any knitting questions.

 PS f0xh0les is lovely too

Thank you for this I was beginning to think I'd imagined it unaware there was a foxgloves with all those threads and confusing her with f0xgh0les.

Still no idea which of her threads she posted the picture on.but she did seem to do some interesting and varied things.

I'm trying to talk myself in to  heading for bed, The weather has suddenly gone downhill tonight here. Lovely and warm down here but I'd turned the bedroom heating off this morning and fogotten until a short while ago so waiting for it to warm the room.

Thank you for taking the time to post.

pollyx