NST Awesome August

DawnW

@grandmanerd I recommend a company called snagtights.com for leggings in sizes that fit everyone. Not the cheapest, but really thick and good quality. And again, not the cheapest (but they last, and they have good sales) but Seasalt have beautiful dresses, tunics and other clothes which are cut so that they drape and are so easy to wear. Easy to wash and rarely need ironing. Organic cotton too, and great customer service if you want to return something. I haven't disguised the companies' names due to the confusion over the wading bird store

beanielou

I have had a lovely day of reading & some recycling & life admin.

f0xh0les

NSD4 for me.

In the days when you got 'double the difference and the item for free' from Mr T's, if the bill did not match the price on the edge of the shelf,  Mr T's  and the other big stores actually  searched the threads to try and find out what their mistakes were so they could correct them.  So names were disguised.  Sadly those days have passed, but it was a very profitable read while it lasted.    It might come in handy for crosswords anyway.

Dull day, going to hop into the bath, and hope tomorrow is more interesting.  The holidays have flown by, nobody wanted to get involved with my shenanigans, and my efforts to escape have been hampered by DH.  Very annoying, but at least I have recognised the situation for what it is.  I will be better prepared come October.

grandmanerd

Thanks Dawn, I have bought a few seasalt items - the m'n's shop at the Trafford Centre had a selection and there are more available online. I bought a dress and a skirt and love both. I have been looking at their sale and also did a search on vinted and ebay (which has a number of items which are direct from seasalt - I found the same dress as I have in a different print and with long sleeves). I bookmarked snag tights over a year ago  and look every so often but not bought anything yet - my legs aren't really fat, I even still have some muscle tone on my calves - I think they also have footless tights which I'm interested in. Vinted had several pairs of leggings, a few m'n's and one pair of thought brand (had looked at those on the JL site - the vinted price is my style).

I've had a very productive but very tiring day whilst listening to the shenanigans on the car park (Victory Parade for our Rugby team bringing the Challenge cup back home after an absence of more than 40 years - i was supposed to kick off around 3.30pm with the team arriving between 5 pm and 5.30 pm but the dj started soundchecks at 2 pm (my next door neighbour had gone for a nap and wasn't best pleased). He kept getting them to raise the volume and I wanted to scream 'We can hear you on the far side of the car park'. I was listening to a Clutter Fairy podcast and I had to put the subtitles on and rewind 5 minutes. 

Very useful podcast which looked at areas to tackle when you don't know where to start (or restart). A recap of general criteria for getting rid - no longer used, replaced by a better one, broken, if you don't know what it does. and then obvious easy wins - rubbish, other people's stuff, dead or dying batteries, decorative pillows (20 suggestions so I won't list them all). However one of her followers said she imagines a pyramid. Bottom layer is the floor, the middle is any flat surfaces (tables and desks, worktops, even chairs (guilty, I sit on them to help with various tasks and also put bags down on them to empty so I'm not bending too far) and the top is things inside cupboards and drawers.  If you have stuff on the floor it's the most visible and potentially hazardous so  floors first. 

As  most of my floors are covered in stuff and it went with what I wanted to do I set off. 2 cardboard boxes and 2 sacks of paper recycling, then did the area around and under the chinchilla cage (not my responsibility but my skirting boards are under threat and I wanted to get at the 2 photos hanging on the wall behind the cage. So about an hour later, very hot and sweaty, covered in cobwebs and chinchilla hair with a couple of dead spiders in there, wheezing from my exertions (moved both the cage and the 3 drawer filing cabinet) and the fur, I had a rubble sack full  of chinchilla pellets to take to the bin. 

I've also done 2 bags of cans, 1 large bin bag and 2 small bags of rubbish (and made DS3 promise to take out the pizza boxes later). All the washing has been pegged out on the line and earlier I brought up a huge pile of clothes and most of them are hung up or away in drawers, the last lot are folded ready to go away. Did some listening to the music and 'chatting with next door neighbour' (mostly me listening to her). She managed to get in a few complaints (late night noise and some of my garden pots being out in the backs). Apparently she has a gardener (she only has 3 pots with single specimens in). The team arrived but I came in when I heard who was to give the welcome speech. I had been thinking how said it was that my friend hadn't lived to see this as formerly he would have been the one to speak - the stand-in is a bore, he does the job but will always put his own self-interest first. Everyone's gone now, just the council workmen doing clean up.

I've cleaned the photos up and brought a variety of packaging materials upstairs to wrap them for passing on to my niece tomorrow.  I have a letter and some notes to write but might start fresh in the morning. 

Grateful for getting so much done, for how nice the floor around the cage looks, for mostly reasonable music (lots of Freddie polly). There was a live band who were murdering Elbow's 'Beautiful Day'. I have rotten singing voice but I was singing at the top of my voice to cover up the singer (and DS3 didn't complain as he agreed my singing was an improvement) and the drummer was dire - he could only manage heavy thumping.

apple_muncher

Another relaxing day here in Apple land. (Haha, autocorrect capitalised my name!)

I am grateful for running/walking for 3 miles first thing, for drying the washing outside, for starting to tackle a 1000 piece tricky jigsaw (I did two 500 piece easy ones recently, but the second one had 502 pieces. So now I need to go through certain other jigsaws to see if they belong there instead!), for the green dye working well on dc's hair, for lots of veggies.

Thrifty_Taylor

A good day today 😊 had 3 things in my to do list, & had gotten 2 of them done by dinnertime! These were strimming the overgrown parts of the garden (covers 1/4 of an acre), & trimming a Blackthorn Bush, that had sent runners everywhere & new bushes were growing where they weren't wanted. Read quite a bit of my book whilst I ate my dinner. 

It was forecast rain this afternoon, so I ironed all the rediscovered & washed maternity clothes (now listed on FB) & the rest of the pile of clothes. 2 pairs of maternity trousers needed re-hemming, so got my machine out & whizzed round them. Man came to buy all DS2"s old PS3 games, so he's super happy!

Washed up after tea, then decided to put my scruffy clothes on, & creosoted the long side of the garage, & the boards around our 5 raised beds, whilst listening to a podcast (conversations of inspiration).

Had a nice soak in the bath with my book & a face mask. Treated myself to a hot chocolate when I got out, haven't had one for a while.

NSD but not sure of the number

Grateful for my garden looking better, jobs ticked off my list, a good book

grandmanerd

Monday 14th August 2023

Deja Moo  When you know you've seen this bullsh!t before.

Boundaries
It is not my job to fix others
It is okay if others get angry
It is okay to say no
It is not my job to take responsibilty for others
I don't have to anticipate the needs of others
It is my job to make me happy
Nobody has to agree with me
I have a right to my own feelings
(www.lisaromano.com)

More Weird Holidays for August
17th   Balloon Air Mail Day?
18th   Helium Discovery Day
19th   International Orangutan Day
20th   National Lemonade Day
21st   National Honey Bee Day
22nd  National Tooth Fairy Day
23rd   Ride the Wind Day
24th   Shooting Star Day
25th   National Banana Split Day
26th   Musical Yoga Day
27th   World Rock Paper Scissors Day (Spock?)
28th   National Bow Tie Day
29th   Lemon Juice Day
30th   National Toasted Marshmallow Day
31st   Eat Outside Day (what are the odds on it chucking it down?)

grandmanerd

I am very foolish. I stayed outside way past my standing limits (even though leaning on a wheelie bin).  I hurt and my cough has returned (may partly be chinchilla fur/ dust). I have a funeral at noon but think I may have to skip the cemetery (not safe for my brother to go in the car with him) and go to find a bus to go to the wake venue. The church is the one I can see from my house (other side of the library) and if I'm not going in the car, I can use my walker rather than just my walking stick (will be okay with the walking stick when I get to the pub.

I have some paperwork that I want my brother to sign and some items that I want to pass on to my nieces so I'll rest and do as much of that as possible, then put my good clothes on just before it's time to head for the church.

Grateful for feeling okay as long as I'm still and in the bed, fruit loaf (no need to go downstairs for food), having a rough idea of what I want to do and where everything is.

thriftylass

Good morning, slightly sore today as I slept on the couch. Moving rooms around now and the guest bed is gone, my escape from the snoring husband. But a very productive day yesterday, his office is moved, DS' old bed is in the dump and the guest bedroom bed upstairs for him, some painting done in DD new room (old guest bedroom) and a fortune spent in IK3A and on blinds. 

Needed to buy more blinds for the conservatory office as it isn't private enough and better for when we're away. Also found everything we needed cheaper in IK3A so it was worth the £40 delivery and it was too much to pick up. Got a bed with mattress for DD, 2 wardrobes as the kids now finally have space for one, a bedside table and two of those organizing hanging folding fabric shelve thingys. Half I had money for, the other half gets paid from the house budget next payday. 

Luckily their rooms are so small that we can use cheap carpet offcuts/roll ends for it so that way we should be able to do them too before C*****mas as they are over 40 years old and shredded by the previous cat.

Anyhoo, off to do some work.

See you later

Toni'sfriend

Yesterday was NSD No 9

Another quiet day. I'm feeling a bit "down" to be honest. Need to get my sensible head on and get on with things. xxx