Moving on

ladybird1106

Hope you’re ok today after your fall yesterday.

Love 🐞

redofromstart

I hope you are feeling ok today.

Great book choices, I have read all of those. Clearly you need to read them just to make sure all the words are there.

I used to work in one of that type of SH bookshop in my 'drop out years' and one of the joys of the job was the happiness people got from finding treasures.

Watty1

I love the sound of the restaurant. Good food from Algeria would have a great deal to commend it :) And the coffee - yum! As for Ballet Shoes, I read that so many times as a child I am certain it will be enjoyed many times.

Cherryfudge

Thank you one and all - the good wishes are much appreciated! I think I got away with it lightly.

Lovely to have other fans of 'Ballet Shoes' - this is a modern hardback edition with a good picture on the cover and the original illustrations in very clean condition. What more could we want? DGD1 does gymnastics, not ballet, but is fixated by videos of child ballerinas so I think it will go down well in a few years.

@redofromstart , what a perfect job you had! My MiL also worked in a bookshop but the only thing I remember about that was that a customer once asked 'Can I get through this wall into the shop next door?' I've never known what that was all about!

Cherryfudge

It's really time I got going and did something more than electronic games. At least I've done some Duolingo: for some reason I've landed with a less competitive bunch of people so am still in the Diamond League, which is where you get if you are awake enough, persistent enough and don't have amazing competitors. I really can't say I've earned it this time. I've been here in the past and really had to work for it.

So, the plans for today are some self care - face, hair and nails - and a 'run'. I'm just at the end of the first week of C25K so by 'run' I mean a few 60-second bursts of slow jogging interspersed with 90 seconds of brisk walking. Please don't imagine me bounding across the countryside just yet! I do feel the benefits already. It's as though my running body woke up and said 'Oh, there you are! What took you so long? Let's go!'

There is a lot needing to be done around the house so I'll let you know how that goes but priority is going to be the above and tidying up the kitchen surfaces.

Sun_Addict

I’m glad you’re none the worse for wear after your trip. The state of pavements is shocking at the moment. I’ve tripped quite a few times in the city centre and managed to right myself before I fell although have ended up flat on my face a couple of times.

rtandon27

Well done with C25K! - I did M/Tu/W of physio exercises - but decided to have a rest day yesterday! I'm determined to do them today, but will start earlier evening and perhaps have a bit of rest between each one. My body is not feeling the same as yours though, it's saying OMG - what do you think you are doing? 🤪

Cherryfudge

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Thank you - I found a light blue patch on my forehead today which may explain why I was edgy last night. However, no other interesting discolorations have emerged and I managed the run okay.

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One of the nice things with C25K is they insist on a rest day between runs, and also I find I can only do the distance if I go really slowly! In the past, trying to run 'like other people' has led to injury. I've also added in a warm up session that @Sun_Addict mentioned a year or so ago, and which really suits me. It's two short exercise routines off YT, one for balance and one for strengthening the knees. The warm up is just enough to set me up for running, while hopefully protecting the knees (one is a bit liable to twinge after exercise but hasn't this time around).

So I got my exercise in (just before a shower) and spent a while on toe nails, face care and shampoo, but hit a slump after lunch and didn't get much else done. I didn't even finish tidying the kitchen as I wanted to save my energy for work. I've read The Silver Sword beginning to end, which came fairly fresh as it's so long since I read it last.

No visits to the shops for me today but DH picked up some groceries and we had salmon fishcakes for tea.

Cherryfudge

Back to the car boot sale this morning - arriving rather late as I slept till a quarter to nine after waking up at three for an hour or so. Got myself a snack and a hot drink and dragged a blanket over the duvet and that seemed to solve the sleeplessness. Also loaded up the washing machine and DH set it off when he got up: good job it was on cheap rate as I accidentally left it on a 60 degree wash. Thankfully we don't seem to have shrunk anything.

The car boot was quite big this week - a lot of extra sellers come when York races are on, as they can't sell there with horses thundering past. I'm still confused by the meandering layout that's developed at one end (of the sale, not York racecourse) so perhaps I'll start from the far side next time, hoping I don't miss as much.

DH was happy because the coin seller was there so he spent a couple of pounds on old pennies. I bought a tiny spoon that I think is a salt spoon (£1) and a dispenser for cling film (98p - it was £1 but they accepted the available coins rather than change a tenner). There was a plant stall where I've bought bagged veg before and it was good, so today I bought waxy potatoes and a sweetheart cabbage. Total £1.50 and we had some of the potatoes with fish and vegetables for lunch. We also followed it with strawberries bought at 75% off in Adl1 the other day. These are small and flavoursome, and we have plenty left to put on cereal over the next few days.

I looked up the mark on the back of the tiny spoon and AI says it's Georgian silver. DH is looking for his hallmarks book to see if he can find out more. I bought it because old spoons have depth that modern ones don't, and this one has a bit of character, but it would be quite something to discover it was old when this house was built. I wonder how many hands it's passed through?

This afternoon DH had a bike ride. I listed something on V1nted and to my surprise it sold within minutes, so that's now winging its way to its new owner. I also found some sheepskin slippers for £7.72, which comes out of my V1nted balance and which I can justify as the slippers I'm wearing are getting loose enough to cause an accident. I've also bought and posted a voucher for my niece's birthday (card and stamp from stock), forwarded a letter for DS2.

I called at 1celand because O1io said there were likely to be reductions available, and there was an advert for a competition on the O1io app whereby if I loaded up a photo of five y/s items from the shop (I bought six), and explained about using the O1io/1celand alliance, I might just win something - so I've entered for that. I spent £6.73 and saved £6.78, so I've effectively won regardless (I don't tend to win things).

Since then I've mended a pair of socks for DH, and put some laundry away.

Dakota_Rose

I am glad that you are feeling okay after your fall. Your days sound as though they’ve been very full and enjoyable lately 😊.

Talking of car boot sales, I’m selling at one tomorrow and hoping there’s a good turnout of potential buyers. I don’t want to be returning home with as much stuff as I’ve packed in the car today!