Moving on

time2change_2

Just delurking about the date for the spreadsheet.

If you don't specifiy a year when you type the date it will use 1900. So 19/01 will always go to 19/01/1900. If you put 19/01/24 it should stay.

If you don't want the year use the "custom" function & specify ddmm.

Hope the pictures below help a bit.

Cherryfudge

Thank you @time2change_2, that's very helpful. I suspect I didn't format the column using an example for it to copy, hence the 1900. It's remembered the default rather than looking at subsequent entries.

Sun_Addict

Great price for the tickets to Leeds. I’ve never been there. 

Seasidegal58

Another Leeds fan here!  My DD was also at uni there. Her main office of work is there too and she often commutes in from where she partly lives. 

I love mooching round the Victoria Quarter!
Glad to read you now have an active boiler. 

dawnybabes

Leeds is the nearest big city so I go often 😀. The millennium square at Christmas was lovely. 

Cherryfudge

I wish I could say I was on commission for Leeds Council publicity department. I'm not, but with so many fans, do they need a publicity department?

I helped with church cleaning this morning and ran a couple of errands on the way home. When I went out it was -1 and frosty, but by the time I set off home, it was 6 degrees and the pavements were drying. That's the end of the cold for now, and we get a day and half's break before another wind storm. I like think spring is on its way though.

I finished the pizza and salad for a late lunch and fell asleep till DH got home. Needless to say I now feel a lot better but am not tired enough to sleep. Dinner was chicken chasseur with baked potatoes.

I'm trying out an itch-relief cream which I think is helping, and I've avoided my usual oil in the bath to give my skin a break.

Expenditure:
Medical £8.98
Housekeeping £10.66

Cherryfudge

Today has been mostly about DH putting up the new bookcase, with occasional help from me. It fills the entire niche to one side of the dining room chimney breast. DH's art books are going on the lowest shelf and I'm filling the rest with my books and some wicker baskets I use for various sewing and knitting projects. It's a bit crowded (and there are still books that haven't found a home) but there's a clear floor area where the wicker baskets used to be, so over all it's an improvement.

I've also found some of Mum's bookends (horsey ones) which I'm using to keep my various diaries and similar together where I can reach them. It means I lose the little display of jars of embroidery threads and a Gaudy Welsh jug with pens in, but it's neater.

Both of us have been grocery shopping, mostly tins to restock on basics but I found a charity shop selling some pony books that filled gaps in my (1970s) collection, so I bought a handful. I'm asking DH to save them for my birthday!

Dinner today was healthier than our usual fish and chips, since we discovered the chips are cooked in beef fat. Very good chips too, but I'd rather not have beef or the attendant cholesterol. We had some of the potato wedges from the freezer, sea bass and the rest of the roast veg - a really nice alternative.

I think I'm nearly there with the plan for the pre-schoolers' session in the morning: they start with a play session, then the craft table so they can make shakers, which can then be used for the singing, followed by the story which mentions a party so we can then have music and some dancing - all well and good but it leaves out their drinks and biscuits, so perhaps the craft table can be reprovisioned with those while they 'party'. Phew. Why am I so stressed about it? I have two adult helpers and there will probably be a few parents who stay if their children can't settle.

It's also the lull before the storm - haven't we had a lot of those this winter?! I think I heard it's number nine, and the size of the media lead-up to it makes me think it's a bigger one than most. Hence restocking emergency supplies and charging up phones etc. I think we are relatively sheltered here, and at least we had the tallest trees shortened as they were heading for whiplash a few years ago.

Expenditure:
Gifts (books) £11
Housekeeping £10.85 + a lost receipt and whatever DH bought.

Cherryfudge

I stayed up last night doing some minor furniture moving in the dining room: I'm going to take my sewing things upstairs instead of rammed down the corner by the sideboard, in the hope of making a sewing place in D's old room. The little bookcase that used to be handily behind my computer chair, looking fussy, is now tucked away where the sewing stuff was. It's less accessible but on a day to day level I only use the top where the diaries are, and I can still get them easily.

The children's session went much better than anticipated this morning and it was nice to get feedback from a granny who stayed with her granddaughter. She works in a primary school and said a lot of what the children do at reception age is free play (structured, but free play). We've been starting sessions like this recently as the children are too young to sit still unless their attention is already caught. The activity - making shakers by pouring rice into tubes and decorating them - went rather amusingly astray. Turns out the children like pouring rice into tubes... and again. And again. It took a while to progress to capping the tubes but some of them got as far as sticking stars on their tubes. The rice got as far as... well, I expect it's all over town by now. Good job I put a limited amount in dishes rather than giving them access to the bag!

For future reference, does anyone know if uncooked rice is safe for wild birds?

Cherryfudge

Exhausted. I helped out with the new class this morning: getting there was an adventure in itself as the usual road was closed due to flooding. I had a lift with the teacher, who tried an alternative route, also flooded. Thankfully a third route was open.

The class was tiny as some people couldn't attend, including the person I was supposed to be supporting, but that turned out well for me as I worked through some of the exercises and really couldn't get the hang of one of them. I've told her I'll take it home and work on it, but when I got back, my brain was working a t90 miles and hour and I had a headache that I can't shift. I decided to set my old laptop up and play a game on it, but it seems to have slowed down almost to not working so in the end I gave up and checked my emails on my phone, only to find I've had the cleaning job offer withdrawn. I can't understand that so I emailed and got a bounce-back, and rang only to get a recorded message to say that due to Covid, the team is working from home. Needless to say, I'm disgruntled: this is the same employer I've had many and varied troubles with, but even if they weren't, I want to know what's wrong.

I know I'll have to wait till tomorrow to ring again, but this time I will use my insider email and contact the person they mentioned for queries (name but not contact number supplied).

On a more positive note, nothing spent by me today: DH bought a wooden bowl while at the shop. He also cooked dinner (corned beef hash).

Sun_Addict

Did you find out about the rice and wild birds? My mom used to make a corned beef pie years ago when I used to eat meat that was very similar to corned beef hash. She put corned beef, potatoes, onions and gravy in a pie dish then topped it with a pastry lid. She wasn’t really a cook, more a M&S ready made or those Vesta boxes kind of gal, but this was really nice at the time.