NST February 2026 - You Are Enough

f0xh0les

NSD4. Made 2 loaves of bread yesterday morning.....Had no bread left by 2pm. Fed sourdough starter. Will bake again tomorrow. Researched House insurance, planned, made soup for lunch and pasta for supper.

The news is grim. I don't think men should be allowed to be multi- millionaires, or billionaires. Anyhoo.…

The rain is just plain miserable. Nothing fun in the diary to look forward to, and half term on 13th, in the wet. Joy! At least they are too old to want to be taken to the park 😄 🌂 .

February sucks, but at least it is short

Thrifty_Taylor

A very busy morning - dropped 5 bags of sewing off, collected 4 more, then pinned 3 different women into various items of clothing, then time for the food shop

Thrifty_Taylor

With mum. Picked neighbour up from the garage 12 miles away. He's going to return the favour next week, only my garage is closer!

Had a nap, then did 2 sewing jobs, followed by lots of jigsaw. Mum's taxi took DS3 & friend to a party, then watched a film with DH & knitted (& stuffed my face with chocolate!)

Grateful for lovely customers, my jigsaw is 3/4 done, enjoying my book

DawnW

Raining here again, but it wasn't first thing, so we went to a market we sometimes go to, mainly to look for some stock for my sales unit. Found a few items, but am claiming a NSD as this was a business expense and accounted for elsewhere.

Walked dog 🐶 and made bacon sandwiches and tea / coffee for breakfast before the market.

It started raining almost as soon as we got back and is currently pouring down 🙄

Cleaned the kitchen, bathroom and hall tiles

Made some brie and cranberry scones - I wasn't sure that they were a thing to be honest, but they are very nice. I must freeze some of them.

Put braising steak, onion, mushrooms and stock in the SC for a future pie filling

Made celery soup for lunch to use up bendy celery.

Not planning to do too much else - dinner will be the rest of yesterday's sausage casserole with jacket potatoes.

Must also put the washing on the airer.

Grateful for getting out to the market. We hadn't been for months (not been out at all much, apart from work and the supermarket for the weekly shop), mainly due to the continual horrible rainy weather, but managed to get out during a 2 hour or thereabouts dry window.

grandmanerd

Sorry for the lack of posting, my eyes are sore and streaming so very limited screen time. It is only a cold and I am much better. On Friday I boiled a pan of eggs, did the washing up and set of a load of washing.

Mrs Builder came yesterday but I told her to just do the kitchen and shower room. There is a lot to do in the front room but I need to tackle it slowly and I was running out of energy and needed a sleep. I ordered fish and chips (I had a voucher that covered most of it) and have now spent £45/ 100 after a smaller shop earlier in the week. I've pulled a few more things out of the freezer and I'm going to write a list of things I can make into meals (all of it will make meals but some need more energy and imagination, trying the simplest things first). I'm doing quite well with 2 food and drink goals but there are a number of side effects I'm having to work through (dopamine drop and my body ridding itself of stored toxins). Not doing quite so well with a money habit but I think I'm using it as a prop on poorly days (progress not perfection, the first 3 will have a dramatic effect on my health and wellbeing). Doing more puzzles.

Today I'm very sleepy. I've had 3 nights of poor sleep (deep sleep when I get there but not able to go to sleep when I'm tired and want to).

Grateful for my bed, Mrs Builder and a good book to read.

Shrewbie

Came in slightly under budget for the week. A few little food shops but mostly used up what I had at home. Friday I was cream crackered and had a slight cold so I stayed in, and then on Saturday I took myself out to check out a potential area I'd want to live in, but it was pretty miserable to be walking around in the rain so I took myself to a study space to read and take notes on my book (Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark) and had another night in. Small spend for a slice of tortilla from the supermarket and some ginger and propolis sugar free sweets for my sore throat.

Yesterday went on a date. It was pretty good and we spent the whole day together, only a small 20 euro spend as well. Gave myself a gold (well actually iridescent purple) star on my chart when I got home for being slightly under budget for the week. Next weekend might be trickier as more on. Have a wonderful week turtles.

in_need_of_direction

last week was ridiculously busy between dh and dd having to do separate trips involving airports, etc. and also having six days of work scheduled. Determined to update more frequently this week. Today I am grateful for

Stopping at Aldi on my way from a client site

Hitting two work deadlines

One item selling on vinted

thriftylass

Hello,

Hope everybody is feeling better again.

Been feeling under the weather since my 42 hr stint at work but tried to get some stuff done over the weekend. Cleared out my wardrobe and reorganised it. DH came home with things from clearing out his dad's flat. I inherited a lovely wee 50s or 60s wind up watch from MIL, fits well into my choice to go a bit more analogue again. He found so many lovely things that will remind us of them and bring back lovely memories.

Also opened the gardening season with some digging and had a lovely Sunday roast all together for a change.

beanielou

I always wonder if we are buying each others things on Vinted!

apple_muncher

Shrewbie,nothing beats tortilla in Spain. I miss it!

From Feb 13-23, I shall be having an adventure every time I leave the house. There are going to be so many cancellations of public transport, multiple long road closures with really long diversion routes and such chaos and queuing on the roads!

Today I am grateful for getting to the gym for a good sesh, for public transport, for making a totally lush curried parsnip and carrot soup, for the winter Olympics AND the six nations on telly AND Britain's strongest man on utube.