An in-between phase

Baileys_Babe

Happy New Year, wishing you a prosperous 2026 🤗

doingitanyway

Happy new Year PIP
I hope this is the year you get the keys to your new front door!

PennysIntoPounds

You too @Baileys_Babe! 

Probably only keys and nothing else @doingitanyway 😂

PennysIntoPounds

Happy new year Team Tuppence, thank you to everyone who has posted and liked on my diary, your support and encouragement is priceless x

Started the year with some build admin 😂
Usuals
Half wussy situps
About to go and do a clean up of the communal bins and recycling area as my new year exercise/good deed

Mum is coming round for a use-it-up roast this afternoon, it'll be mostly potatoes, which tbh is my idea of a good roast 🥂

jwil

Happy New year!

PennysIntoPounds

Happy new year @jwil 😊🥂

PennysIntoPounds

In addition to earlier report, had a little stroll around the manor, prepped veg with Mr PIP, did a survey, started writing in the dates in the notebook for a diary. Painfully tedious job (and physically painful job) but can't justify spending money on a diary when I have so many notebooks!

Lovely time had with mum and Mr PIP, I'd saved the competition-winning bottles of sparkling, white, and red, so everyone had something nice to suit their preferences and I got to feel like a fabulous host at no extra cost 😊

Fervently hoping builder gets back to us asap about suitability of loo we've chosen as we bought some other bathroom materials and I'm itching to update my budget and target 😂

WelshmansDaughter

Might I suggest a perpetual calendar stamp type thing to remedy the tediousness? And to make the notebook mountain perpetually useful? 
Otherwise you're welcome to my spare diary, it came free with Vogue and I feel it is suitably glamorous for you

PennysIntoPounds

But the days change dates every year @WelshmansDaughter, I already get confused enough writing it in when I'm paying attention 😂
That is a lovely offer and I would have taken you up on it but I can't waste the notebook that is partly dayed and dated thus far 😁
Love that you think it would be suitably glamorous for me though, feeling extra pretty going to bed tonight 😊💅

Slowdown

I did exactly the same as you @PiP. 

Used a note book (free from an event) drew a month planner followed by daily dates. Took ages but was quite therapeutic and the book ran out at September. Luckily I have another exactly the same but might wait until September to finish it! 😄 
Now going to root out old sticker etc to jazz it up. Nobody wants to haul out an insurance firms logo stamped book in Costas!