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Baileys_Babe

Do you own a pair of waterproof over trousers? I find them useful when camping as well as when walking through wet terrain, saves my trousers becoming muddy or wet.

I hope you are now warm, I was like that on Friday or Saturday, no amount of hot drinks, sitting in front of the fire, being active or eating a hot meal seemed to work then mid evening I suddenly realised I wasn't cold.

Cheery_Daff

It's been proper chilly out there today! 🥶 Hope you've warmed up. In such circumstances i find the only thing is a hot bath (or a hot water bottle and lots of blankets, but a bath works best!)

Greying_Pilgrim

Baileys_Babe - no I don't, but LG does! I must admit, it was pure dumb luck I got splattered today. I was working out how to tiptoe around a really boggy, muddy bit, and trod on a grassy bit that must have been a muddy sea cucumber in disguise, and a plume of muddy water splooshed upwards, all over my leg 🫤LG seemed to get muddier today, and they were in wellies - goodness knows what was going on 🙄 But they had fun with their chum, and I was delighted to see them running about and exploring together, so it's an "admittance charge" to the great outdoors I suppose.

Thank you both, I have finally warmed back towards normal. I had to put a woolly hat on, under my hoodie, and wrapped up in a woollen blanket for half an hour and I'm just about functioning now. I put the heating on at 4.30pm, it will take an age for the house to heat up, before DH comes home. The dehu is going with the trousers on the airer and the workwear is there too. The workwear is significantly drier, but it won't harm being on the same airer.

I'm just psyching myself up to go in the kitchen. It's always significantly colder in there, and I've just got comfy again under LG's old cotbed quilt……. Where's those decent takeaways when ya need 'em? 🤣 I didn't see the first episode, but I see Joe Swash is back with a second series of cooking from scratch on Monday (Ch4 8pm). I might try and watch that. I'm not a fan of his, per se, but always looking to learn new tricks.

I'm still sat here, I haven't moved…….. giving myself a kick up the bahookie, 3,2,1…..

Greying X

Jellytotts

Maybe look at knitting/crocheting yourself a couple of pairs of leg warmers/boot toppers. I wear mine to protect my trousers when on the really boggy walks in the forest, they wash and dry much quicker than the trousers and look good too.

Greying_Pilgrim

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That's a good idea Jellytots - thank you.

Tea munched. We had rice, dhal, an omlette and broccoli. Yoghurt and banana for pud.

The dehu was on for 2 hrs, and the trousers dried quite well (cotton walking type trousers), they should be OK after a night on the airer.

I have remembered to adjust my siggie figgie.

Can't think of anything else MSE. Ta for popping in.

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning MFW'rs

Well, our planned day out with a chum today has been curtailed, due to the weather. We haven't had anything like the weather forecast, but we have had a little more rain, and that in itself isn't off-putting, but the cumulative effect - like other places are experiencing - means that getting out and about in the wilds is increasingly difficult and we don't want any accidents. So we're staying closer to home and hooking up for a natter and a coffee instead. With a degree in hindsight - ain't that a wonderful thing - I'm glad now that we took the opportunity to get out and about for the first 3 days of the week, as I'm not sure we could do the same routes today, and I'm not sure about tomorrow, either.

The washing dried overnight, but I've realised I've got to sew a button on DH's workwear, so that hasn't been put away. Gosh did you hear that news report about the town in….. Cornwall (?) that has had rain for 50 days non-stop. That poor lass who said her home was filled with wet washing, as she had 2 little kiddos. Urgh - just impossible isn't it?

Right, I had better start getting ready. The greyness of the weather ain't getting me out the door today. But I must get a jiggle on; time spent with LG thus far this week has been very rewarding, so I want us to enjoy our time together. I was nattering with my mum chum yesterday, and we both agreed that time was whizzing and that you don't actually get that much quality time with your kiddos before they are ready to fly the nest.

Not too sure what will be for tea, but we're all in at the same time today, so will be eating the same, at the table together.

Ta for popping in. Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning MFWr's

A lovely, if 'not quite as planned' day yesterday. We returned to the market town across the way, and took back a top for a refund that was an 'uncomfortable' fit for LG. We had a look around a different set of chazzers - still nothing doing. I did spend money in MrS - £1.10 on some dried dill, and LG bought something with their own money. Then I spent an amount…. £3 something, on non-food, household stuff in hB - so i'll dig out the receipts for that and update my siggie.

We did pop into the food waste venue, but there was nothing doing. We rarely eat white bread anyway, so day old white french sticks held no appeal. The charity are taking a different direction now as to how the food is distributed/used, so it's rarely worth a look these days.

I was surprised - and yet not - that having a look in ic3yland, that they must have changed their YS'd policy. I realise that the shop has never been 'low priced' (not in terms of doing all your shop there), but even I am starting to <shrieky blue head emoji> at the prices. There were bags of three bell peppers (tbf they were all red peppers, not traffic light colours), YS'd. But the YS price was £1.06, because the full price was £2.10 - precisely what MrS charge……. There were some packs of tortilla wraps, 8 for 33p - but they were all white flour. Although I'm probably not doing anything worthwhile, I do always try to choose wholewheat, seeded or half/half wraps - to try to make a 'snacky' or 'fast food' meal, that bit more nutritionally favourable. So the YS'd wraps got left.

We met up with our chum - not halfway up a mountain - but in a local community cafe. A good time was had by all and we had a poke around a chazzer together as well.

I was stuffed from lunch, but tea last night was courtesy of the freezer. DH and LG had cottage pie, cauliflower (from the trio veg bag from MrM where I'd sorted out the carrots, from the broccoli from the cauli), and baked beans. Yoghurt and banana made up pud.

Today's adventures are weather dependent. But LG still requires some new trainers. I don't know whether to go to the mahoosive MrT in the metropolitan town across the way, or stick to the MrT in Greying town. I was minded to go and have a look at the pulses offering in MrT, but I know there won't be any reasonably priced black eyed beans, and I thought (happy to be wrong), that the cc prices weren't so generous this time. Perhaps in relation to far more supermarkets having stocked backs of lentils and beans of late. Our MrT never stocks the pulses/World food offers, so I would have to go to the bigger store.

Greying X

Cheery_Daff

OoOoh greying, speaking of pulses, I thought of you yesterday - our Mr A had big bags of red lentils, 2kg for £2.99 (they were also selling 500g for 99p - no thank you!)

Greying_Pilgrim

Cheery - a$da or ald1? Our tiny MrAs is useless and stocks very little of anything. But I seem to recall getting my previous batch of red lentils from MrAl - come to think of it. Mmm - yes, I had forgotten about ald1's Ramadan section.

Thanks hun! Greying X

Cheery_Daff

ald1! Sorry, we don't have one of the others and I forget they exist sometimes 😂