NST: February 2023 Freedom

beanielou

Sleep well polly  xx
Night night 

facethemusic

NSD 9 here 🎉
Work this morning was crazy and I had a nap this afternoon  so nothing productive done at all. Unfortunately this means tomorrow's list to-do is extremely long, so wish me luck! 
Nigh night 🐢 🐢 🐢 

Thrifty_Taylor

NSD#11

A beautiful frosty morning. Had a little lie in, then pottered about, updating budgets, etc. Hung the washing out, then went for a walk with DH. After dinner (leftovers), I weeded the raised bed with raspberry canes in & mulched it with our homemade compost. Brought the washing in & ironed it before hanging on the airer, also the small pile from earlier in the week. Started quilling a large monogram letter to go in a box frame for my friend's birthday on Monday. Have 4 frames to use up, so thought this would be a perfect way to do it 😃

Grateful for finally getting into my book, time spent outdoors & crafting

(@beanilou I have messaged you, in case you've not seen it yet x)

pollyanna_26

beanielou said:

beanielou said:

Sleep well polly  xx
Night night 

Sleep well polly  xx
Night night 

Thank you beanie. I knew Scotlandwere on weather warnings but our forecast was pretty ok.

I began typing a post to GMN . Decidedto make some porridge for supper to warm me up. My milkman leaves a big order Friday mornings and I'd barely used any usually have porridge or cereal make custard , rice pudding etc and I hadn't . Midnight porridge it was .

Washed up cleared away and went to continue the post to GMN and it had completely disappeared.I    was trying to catch up with the latest news on the two Man U takeover bids already knew the billionaire who used to watch them as a penniless child was planning a bid  . He's wasborn localy and knows Manchester and the clubs history.

The Glazer brothers are American and since taking over the club have really alienated the fan base they just don't understand the history and culture of the club.

We've all been hopig for years they would put the club for sale and it looks like they have. The other bidder is from abroad and I'm not sure they would be suitable; The wonderful Fergie is a Glaswegian and the best manager in the history of the club and I think all the problems and different managers were a result of him having to retire due to the brain history.

Hopefully you are in dreamland. Does Miss Summer sleep in her posh bed or one of the others at night? Cats we had turned their noses up at cat beds. Our much missed Oliver aka Ollie Mog would only sleep on youngests bed and turned himself in to an assistance cat long before they were in the media. He would fetch me if she was in pain or distressed during the night and would move on to her pillow when she was which she found comforting and often helped her to sleep.

Hpping your weather is ok. I think the strong winds here may have affected my boiler.. When the 3 three named storms reged overhead it took me a while to realise why it was freezing. Arwen had killed my boiler.

We avoided the storm that's been in the headlines the last few days unlike those three big storms. Living right on the edge of the Irish sea with poor sea defences very few people slept. YoungestandI were emailing back andforth along with a friend in Scotland.

The garden  bulbs and other flowers on evergreen trees and shrubs are begining to be real harbingers of Spring so hopefully things will improve. It's only February so normal to still have darker mornings and evenings. I'm being too impatient.

pollyxx

 

grandmanerd

The house to be auctioned was a no no - they failed to  mention that the garden fell into a massive sink hole during one of last year's  storms - there was nothing beyond the back door and the council have declared it unfit for human habitation until the damage is rectified. So money saved on visiting in person, used it to illustrate a couple of points about not relying on the photos and needing to see the property and work out the cost of work needing to be done and decide when it needs to be done ( a horrible but basic working kitchen can be lived with until the money for a replacement is saved). Back to my suggestion of identifying as many possible properties as  possible and then 'blitz viewing' them in a weekend (lots of house viewing lessons). In their price range they can't be too fussy (I can afford a bit more but the lower the original price, the sooner they can get a mortgage on it). So massive clear up of this week's to do list and that for the coming week.

Good day yesterday, as usual not done as much as I would have liked but made progress, moved some things around and planted up the last of my trees (it was witch hazel). Grateful for lots of things including a NSD.

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

tt sounds as though Storm Otto has paid us a visit on it's way home tonight. When I originally  read your post I didn;t notice the link at first so went over to foxgloves thread and there was the wrap.

I was impressed having knitted to a pattern a different wrap in  the past  she knitted this wrap from scratch without a pattern. I have put that thread in my bookmarks as a lot of the posts are interesting and talking about the past whether childhood memories and later doesn't seem to be vetoed.

On an old style thread we discuss childhood and coal fires and  lovely cooked from scratch meals in the bread oven t the side of the range.  Flannelette bedding in the 60s being replaced by the New Brentford Nylon bedding we were horrified and mum gave it to a neighbour on the breadline  andcotton in Spring and Summer alongwith proper Cotton Flannelette  from the Lancashire mills returned.

Everyone spoke of other things too but there was a sudden rush of posts from those who didn't really post often quite upsetting to a regular who'd been on MSE far longer than most of us was very funy but posted a lot of interesting stuff too ; She messaged me That's it I've had enough.Did a few posts on the preppers and preparing for winter threads everyonewas worried about the energy crisis and rising prices.

She did a quick Happy Christmas around New Year on the usual Garden Fence thread . Talking about the past was on topic on an old style forum andi it;s strangely quiet there now and very much missed

pollyx

DawnW

@pollyanna_26 the picture is on the page I posted the link for.

pollyanna_26

DawnW said:

@pollyanna_26 the picture is on the page I posted the link for.

I did see the picture thank you. Really nice so can picture myself knitting a few of those ,no shortage of yarn here and I've been looking  through my craft charms plenty of choice there.

I do appreciate your help meanwhile f0xgl0ves is going to wonder what on earth I was whittering on about wraps and recipies for;

Fingers crossed the rat has disappeared.

I'm off to rescue my breakfast from the Combi Microwave. A lovely big Organic baking potato grated Red Leicester and Butter ready to add when I've fluffed it up. Not everyones breakfast choice but one of my favourites  for any meal.

pollyx

f0xh0les

We get mixed up all the time polly, we have done for years!  Wish I was as creative as she is, sadly I am talentless in that department, maybe one day though.

Dave has left the building!! DH drove him a mile and a half away and released him into the undergrowth of a 'country park' - the often waterlogged grassland near a very large quatro-carriageway between a couple of rivers and a canal -  he will make a tasty snack for the red kites or the foxes.  It's the ciiiiiiircle of liiiiiife!   Traps rebaited in case he was not alone. 

Going to strip all the beds and do laundry today, back on the 'housewifey' treadmill.

On Tuesday morning I have an architect coming to tell me what is possible in my house. Let the games commence.

pollyanna_26

grandmanerd said:

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. 

This was the post I tried to reply to  but my words disappeared as I tried to post. No idea if it's the laptop or the forum , As the Yorkshire house was not suitable have you considered seeing if there is a suitable rental property to rent in your area until beloved and ds3 have sorted themselves out.

Preferably something they can afford to rent for now. Reading about your trip to the little Arseda after you'd already been to the bungalow and was very tired and in pain didn't make sense.

Every.single supermarket and their smaller stores offer delivery within three hours and that would have been a better idea when you'd admitted carrying bags was too much you have to remember the pacing.

The fact nocturnal is happening again is not good. Having to leave your sofa isn't either I still have no idea if you contacted the auctioneer about the vinyl but if that could help them get a rental for now rather than keep trawling auction properties - my landlord    fr iend gets there at the crack of dawn but has already had a proper preview and wont rely on pictures or blurb.

Perhaps delaying buying for now or finding them a rental property . There must be some for rent in your area would allow time.

 to make a consifered choice 

I am pretty easy going but would not allow anyone to speak to me as your son does or trash the home either and I   lived the worst years with a youngster waiting for her confirmation of Borderline Personality Disorder after the stupid psych at CAMHS decided all youngsters in this area had Asperger's

The fallout from  that is until Superdoc managed to overturn that diagnosis  and get her the correct counseling and meds I was the one in the firing line when she was scared or upset and it wasn't pretty. No idea how Beloved interacts with you but DS3s attitude is not good Awake all night and sleeping in the daytime ordering you about etc.

I'm not sure if he was the baby in the pram when the police car came racing towards you but it seems as though although you've never mentioned a diagnosis and treatment plan you aren't keen on dealing with his orders to you and wil move yourself off the sofa and go and fill yet more rubbish bags .

I find myself wondering how your local council can afford to manage so much rubbish in one go and who the extra bins you fill belong to.

Until a few years ago we were part of the waste food caddy experiment. That didn't last longl lots of people weren't  securing the top handle to keep it closed and it attracted vermin.

Nowadays we have black , brown and green wheelie bins,Black is general waste max two bags and since the pandemic that waste must be double bagged

Brown Bin is glass, metal and paper to be left loose rather than bagged as they go straight to the recycling centre.

Black collections are every 3 weeks  Brown a different 3 week cycle and Green just a certain number of pickups from Spring to the beginning of October then none until the following Spring.

I have very little rubbish not in to convenience food much cook from scratch and compost peelings etc; The birdshave been enjoying the remnants of my baked potato on their bird table. It was a very big Marfona stuffed with cheese, onion and tomato and they have the potato stuck to the inner skin..

pollyx