An in-between phase

beanielou

I just share when I see something that I like! 

PennysIntoPounds

A very tired and sore day. Woken up by upstairs at 540am then just when I'd got back to sleep woken again around 750am.

Back and hips feeling atrocious

I attempted a positive mindset and thought let me get some sun and steps so we walked to Lidl but there was no reception in the store to be able to use the app for the savings we went there for.
Had a right grump on but walking back I thought 'stop being an idiot PIP, get a grip' and made my second attempt at a positive mindset. Then an ambulance siren went off right in my ear, it was so painful and still feels tender hours later. I was not a happy bunny

But we got home, had a coffee, and I gave the day one more chance to stop acting like a d***

Went up the high street for some more steps and sun, and Mr PIP treated me to a Greggs cheese and onion slice as he had a buy one get one free deal and a muffin as he had a M&S voucher. Also went to other Lidl and used the coupon to get some pizza for the freezer

But I was hobbling slowly and in a fair bit of pain and am now exhausted. Was very tempted to go back to bed but upstairs would have just disturbed me and I need to be as tired as possible in the hope of sleeping through at least some of the quieter noise tonight

But I worked out how to share a post on Insta for extra competition entries, did admin and a few surveys, and entered some competitions- today I'm mostly looking forward to 5k

Dinner is delicious ready meals from M&S using Mr PIP's voucher so a nice Saturday night indulgence that hasn't cost us anything!

PennysIntoPounds

Hope you're all having lovely Sundays. Today's mse things:

Usual admin and tidying the flat

Sainso receipt survey

Emailed Lidl as there were mouldy grapes in our new packet

Shower and hairwash but shoulders really aching now

A local afternoon stroll with Mr PIP which included finding a book a neighbour had left out for anyone to take. I was particularly pleased to save it as it had started raining

This evening is using our bar tab to see our friends for the pub quiz so just local transport fares to pay. I shall also try to get one of mum's Christmas presents while we're out, if the trains behave and we get to the shop before it closes!

foxgloves

@PennysIntoPounds - How nice to find a free book! One of my favourite weekend things is popping into our local Oxfam bookshop & seeing if there are any books I fancy. It is beautifully laid out like a normal bookshop & it is rare for me to go in & not to find anything. They have music scores, CDs & DVDs too, & a significant proportion of my piano music has come from there too. Music scores can be quite expensive to buy new, so I always have a rifle through to see if there anything good has been donated which I fancy learning to play. I've never found a book on a wall, although I know there are sometimes schemes where people are encouraged to leave one out on a bench or bus for somebody to find - it's a nice idea.
Mr F & I used to enjoy pub quizzes. We would just go along on our own & often did quite well against teams of 4 to 6. We haven't been recently. I would still enjoy it, but Mr F has a bee in his bonnet that since the dawn of the smartphone, everyone will be cheating & looking up the answers, if not visibly, then by nipping into the loos & having crafty look up as to the name of Rigsby's cat in 'Rising Damp' or whatever. Although he says he isn't competitive, he really is where quizzing is concerned. I have been to quizzes where he has taken issue with the answers to music questions because the version of the song to be identified was one from a slightly different version of the album or there was an 'r' in the month when whoever it was sang it, or heaven forfend, someone had been given half a point for writing the cover version instead of the original. Our downfall in quizzes is always sport (we have absolutely zero interest....in fact, I'd say it's lower than zero, it's into minus numbers), geography, presidents of the United States & flags. We used to have  good quizzes at local Labour Party Christmas gatherings back in the day. There is a quiz being advertised at a pub in town which we both like, to raise funds for the local food bank, but I couldn't get him interested because of his absolute conviction that everyone will be cheating & need to leave their phones in a basket by the door. I said, "Would you leave YOUR phone in a basket by the door?" & of course he said he definitely wouldn't! I remember a pub quiz in our village years ago where we came 2nd & won some money. We were one point ahead of the next nearest team & the deciding question was Yours Truly correctly identifying a hairy old rocker in his leather trousers! I'd like to say it was my incisive knowledge of the works of Tolstoy which put us ahead, but it wouldn't be true!
F 

beanielou

Funnily enough I was at a quiz this week and we had to leave our phones on a table!! 

kayannie

We have a free book exchange in our little town in north Wales. Books are in a waterproof bin with a message telling anyone to take a book & leave one if they can. There's always a good selection of anything from children's books to novels to biographies. KA

Sun_Addict

People often leave books on their walls for folks to take round here. There is also an old telephone box in a neighbouring suburb that serves as a book swap. 

And not googled this @foxgloves but my answer is Vienna 😆

I’ve won a fair few pub quizzes but only when I’ve had a drink as that somehow unleashes all deep buried general knowledge 🤣

foxgloves

You are correct, @Sun_Addict!! It is a classic pub quiz question, along with the last no.1 in the charts in the 1970s & the first in the 1980s. If these 2 questions haven't come up for you yet, hold tight, as they will at some point!
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beanielou

We got the first ever top of the charts song of the fifties! 

Blackcats

We had the Mr Men series of books left around the neighbourhood in individual bags asking people to update a Facebook page about where the books were travelling to.  My brother took one back to Australia for his grandson and sent a great photo of Mr Bump sitting on a bench overlooking Sydney Harbour.  The book then moved around New South Wales and was last seen in the Blue Mountains.