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@Valli, I have been cogitating on the cardigan with no sleeves and how it might be named …. 🤔
I did initially think ‘gilet’ but they usually have a collar, so I suspect that the best term might be ‘waistcoat’?KKAs at 15.07.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
- OPs to mortgage = £11,338 Interest saved £5225 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030
Read 40 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 29th July
Produce tracker: £227 of £300 in 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.5 -
@Moorviews - I'm glad you had lovely time with your family and hope you've managed to do some sewing and relaxing 😁
@Florafauna - I hope your lunch went well and you had a nice time 😁
@KajiKita - I'm with you on the waistcoat- I'd thought gilet first but didn't know about the collar thing! 🤔
Today has been massively busy and I'm absolutely exhausted!! 😳 I've done almost everything on my list but have decided that I've had enough now and am stopping while I can still almost function!! 😂
Lunch was a massive bowl of rocket topped with mixed grains, dark speckled lentils, raspberries, blueberries, watermelon, pomegranate, black grapes, beetroot and apple salad, hommous and balsamic vinegar. Absolutely lovely and I've only used half of the berries so I'll be able to have the same for lunch tomorrow! 🙌
Dinner tonight will be bubble and squeak along with some of the white beans in sage and thyme that I made yesterday 😋DNF: £708.92/£1000
JSF: £708.58/£1000
Winter season grocery budget: £600.85/£900
Weight loss challenge 2024: 11/24lbs
1st quarter start:9st 13.1lb
2nd quarter start:9st 9.2 lb
3rd quarter start: 9st 6.8 lb
4th quarter start: 9st 10.2 lb
End weight: 8st 13lb
'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'9 -
Hi @leftatthetrafficlights, can you tell me more about the white beans in sage and thyme - that sounds really tasty. Is it saucy?
KKAs at 15.07.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
- OPs to mortgage = £11,338 Interest saved £5225 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030
Read 40 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 29th July
Produce tracker: £227 of £300 in 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.6 -
Fab lunch and wander round town, bought a couple of books. Now back home and about to have some leftovers. Knitting, chilling etc. No work tomorrow - hooray7
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waistcoat works. I’ve looked at the pattern and it doesn’t even give it a name there…just refers to it as a ‘layer’. I’m knitting it because of the quantity of wool.
Ive knitted lots this past year, including for myself and a gift to a friend. The baby pattern is one i picked up in a CS, the previous pattern i used was give to me when i was pregnant and cost 9d (4p, roughly)
Anyway
Don't put it DOWN; put it AWAY"I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness" Emily DickinsonJanice 1964-2016
Thank you Honey Bear15 -
not too shabby….Don't put it DOWN; put it AWAY"I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness" Emily Dickinson
Janice 1964-2016
Thank you Honey Bear6 -
@valli,thats lovely and I really like the hyacinth colour3
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Valli said:waistcoat works. I’ve looked at the pattern and it doesn’t even give it a name there…just refers to it as a ‘layer’. I’m knitting it because of the quantity of wool.
Ive knitted lots this past year, including for myself and a gift to a friend. The baby pattern is one i picked up in a CS, the previous pattern i used was give to me when i was pregnant and cost 9d (4p, roughly)
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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.6 -
That is a lovely colour! I'm wearing a jumper that colour today, in fact.
I am trying to get in more steps in the morning as I want to hit over 10,000 steps a day now the weather is warmer as I have been slacking off this year. I was looking back at how many steps I did when I first bought it in 2022 and it was much more! I used my treadmill today before my breakfast.
My husband has just gone to Aldi and he is collecting my library book on the way. I said to buy a bunch of flowers from Aldi to brighten up the house.
We have a hotel by the sea booked for one night this week which should be nice.5 -
Sorry CherryFudge I thought I had responded to your post about feeling sick in different vehicles. That is interesting. I'm not in cars very much at all as I walk or take trains or buses almost all the time but we were going to Kent and I definitely felt very sick on the way back. I'm going there again in July and I think we might go by train next time rather than accepting a lift!
Two of my library books were ready and my husband got chocolate, wine and a bunch of pink roses from Aldi.🥰2025 GOALS
16/25 classes
20/100 books6
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