NST April 2023: April adventurising

beanielou

@Shrewbie.  That is blooming scarey & not on.

f0xh0les

NSD6. We leave early and travel all day so no NSD tomorrow. 
Grateful for my lovely DH. The Irish sea, and Bramley apple hot cross buns. 

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for time with dc, for visiting a re-done playground, for chatting with a friend, for lovely weather (not warm enough to be sunbathing by the river like Shrewbie, though!), for all my daffs.

beanielou

@f0xh0les Enjoy muchly.

Starlight_at_Sea

Happy Easter all! I hope you are feeling calmer Shrewbie - that really does sound like a shock. 

Not a NSD here - a few hospital-visiting related spends, it quickly adds up with parking to about £35. I did take some drinks and snacks in with me, but required more caffeine to keep going. I actually had quite a long nap in the chair by my relative mid-morning, so I must have really needed it! 

🇺🇦D's first few shifts have gone well and she seems happy with the job. I'd really rather she had a different job which didn't finish at 4am but at 21 it's probably very exciting to work in a nightclub. She said she now needs to learn yet another language - drunken english. I've slept ok until about 3am each night then been apprehensive about her getting home until she was home safe at about 430. Not sure how to manage best my nervousness as I need more sleep than this! I guess we will all get used to it, and I often won't be able to be at this house at weekends to be so aware of her movements. 

It's been a lucrative weekend for her as on top of her shifts she, or rather we, have also been dog-sitting for a friend of mine. I've done all the morning stuff as she has understandably been sleeping in, and I've enjoyed the short walks around my local park, somewhat reminiscent of lockdown when that was my go-to outdoor place. But boy can this dog bark, as soon as your attention is on anything else, he's seeking it back through a really in your face kind of barking. So overall my weekend back at my house hasn't been that restful! 

I did get a great olio haul last night - pepper stir fry and Singapore noodles,fed us both tonight with one portion for 🇺🇦D for tomorrow. Beetroot, lots of Italian kale, leeks, carrots. Need to do some research as sure I could turn that all into a couple of meals! Carrot and coriander soup is perhaps on the cards as my soup of the week at home! Also got a yogurt - last night's supper, and some stork - useful as I have 3 birthdays next week to bake for! My own olio collection resulted in a fairly stacked freezer with bread, crumpets and pastries. I picked up two days worth of leftovers, and we can only list on the app on the BB date. So I couldn't list very much at all of the older bag, but I messaged several regulars and they were happy to help use it up! 

Not much other MS news! 

facethemusic

I'm on 4 NSDs, not spending huge amounts of money every day but it seems to be trickling away! 
Done a little bit of painting, a little bit of gardening and some Easter egg hunting. 
Grateful that DD spotted a recipe in a supermarket magazine, asked me to make it, has eaten it and asked me to make it again! From the child who would live on plain pasta this is major. 
Grateful for DD expanding the menu possibilities, finding eggs at the local Easter egg hunt and baby lambs. 

Shrewbie

Thanks turtles, it was a shock and I am very happy that bf is now home (and he brought me creem eggs, tea cakes - no hot cross buns sadly - and crumpets)

Last night we went upstairs to the apartment where we think the intruder lives, a woman lives there with her son and we asked to see him to make sure it wasn’t him. It wasn’t. Then we went to the president of the building community’s flat and told him what had happened. He told us what we’d suspected, that it sounds like this person lives in the apartment on the second floor which the landlord is filling with too many people at cheap rent.  He told us all the problems they’d had with that particular landlord. It seems everyone else in the building is pretty normal apart from this one who is a nightmare. It looks as if eight people are living in a three bed flat, two of them the mother and 13 year old son we spoke to. Anyway, according to the president this latest issue is the last straw regarding this particular landlord so although I haven’t reported it to the police they will file a report on behalf of the community of residents.

I am still on NSD 3. Today won’t be as I need to get my eyebrows tidied up! 

Grateful for realising at least the majority of the residents of my building are normal decent people, for bf bringing chocolate and for coffee which is much needed this morning. 

Have a wonderful Easter Monday turtles 

Thrifty_Taylor

Morning all, a loooong day travelling yesterday. We were picked up at 8.30 (would be 7.30 UK time) then after our last plane, stopped off at mum's with a chippy tea, so walked in the door at 10.15pm! DS2 & the cats were very pleased to see us 😃 Another positive thing was that I finished a second book this week, giving this one to a friend. 
Today is wet & windy, so after unpacking our cases, I'll be doing a good shop, then tidying. DS2 has cleared his bedroom whilst we've been away & left it in the middle of our tiny living room.
Some things I would like to continue now we're home, is to read more & relax outside (obviously when the weather is better!). I tend to work in the garden, weeding, etc but not relax in it very often. I also realised that I'm not as active as I'd like to be (I spend evenings sitting sewing), so will never lose any weight unless I start to move more! I don't look after myself properly, & set myself lots of targets, so going to make more time to cleanse my face, apply hand cream, etc before bed. I have been busier with my sewing side hustle, but need to prioritise me a bit more, because I'm worth it!

Grateful for being home again & being motivated to make some changes, both personally & with our house, etc, an inspiring time away, DS & the cats welcoming us home

@Shrewbie, that sounds scary! If you can speak to the man & explain things, it will put your mind more at rest. He'll have had a warning & knows what will happen if he does it again. Good luck!

grandmanerd

Sorry I wrote  a post about 2 pm yesterday but mustn't have posted it. I was outside in the backs before 9.30 am sifting soil to the sound of church bells (a proper peal not just the standard tolling). Filled 5 buckets (some already done) and sacks/  buckets of stones/ bricks/ mortar, weeds and short branches, rubbish (all  sorts - sweet wrappers, pieces of glass, polystyrene, plastic and rubber - bits of old car mats perhaps as they were thin but had tread patterns).

Cleared the space by the car park wall and set up  a line of larger buckets (flexitubs). Transferred all the collected soil (5 buckets into 3 tubs). I had found another black bucket (they're heavy duty and fit best with the garden sieve) hidden under the larger buckets and found a tool that helped me separate 2 pairs of buckets so I now have 8 buckets to work with. That's a  lot of work as each filled soil bucket has rubbish, weeds and stones too. Composition varied  depending on where I was working.  In front of where next door's wall was, there are lots of larger lumps of mortar and brick with a  layer of good soil  underneath all held together by a tight mat of spidery roots leading to bigger roots.

I didn't feel like eating or cooking a roast but came in to eat and rest (in order 2 clementines, rogan joush with rice RM - as a sop to  my takeaway cravings and 3 medium baked potatoes). At 2 pm I brought my weapons of mass destruction (tree saw, pruning saw and  secateurs) inside as I wasn't sure I would be going back out. After eating I came back upstairs to sleep/ rest .

Much later I went out again and did another hour/ hour and a half. By the time I stopped I was tired, cold and it was too dark to see what I was doing properly - working by touch as well. Came in, had a lovely shower, scrubbed my nails and washed my hair then smothered myself in the posh body lotion (soil and mortar had really dried out my hands. Read for a tiny bit and then the need for sleep took over. 

Grateful for the shower, being clean and having clean hair  and the body lotion makes me feel really special. It looks like it's  rained overnight but the sun will soon be out. There are 2 tasks in the yard that I would really like to do - I have pockets of clear space but not sure there's quite enough room to work yet. I don't want to shuffle things to make space, I'd like them to go straight into their 'final' homes. The jobs I have in mind would make room for the raspberry canes and blackcurrant bushes and the hollies I have and the mini ones on their way.

Of course there's lots to do in the kitchen and in my room too, but it won't all get done. I will be grateful for any progress and ignore the 'still to be done' elephants. I'll  do all  the rubbish round ups, that will improve things. Have a good day turtles, happy barbecuing/ adventuring/ diy-ing or watching the BH tv delights (Is it Great Escape or Bridge on the River Kwai?)

Toni'sfriend

NSD No 5 yesterday.

It was a nice day yesterday. I got phone calls from two different friends whom I haven't seen for ages and one from the Boy and GF to thank me for the "cat" mugs .Apparently GF loved hers. I thought she might!

Got a big declutter done, It was essential. I couldn't see what we had and what we needed to buy bulk wise. Apart from that it was a quiet day. Himself made me ham salad for lunch and we had lovely roast pork fillet for dinner. It tasted all the better as it was reduced in price when we bought it, I seem to have a glut of carrots thanks to Aldi having reduced them so I'm off the make carrot and harissa soup.

Have a lovely Easter Sunday. xxx