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The positive mental health thread part 6

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Bunnyflop · 20/04/2020 08:38

Morning all! Welcome to the new thread!

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tobee · 25/04/2020 10:08

With regards food, on my first delivery order, I ordered lots of treats, crisps, chocolate and biscuits etc and justified it to myself because it was Easter. But I then ordered another delivery and did the same again really. No Easter as an excuse. ShockBlush

Hope people have a good mental health day. I'm going to try to make myself do my new yoga and workout routines again today, with the aim of building up to more strenuous stuff in the weeks to come.

StCharlotte I bet the boy helpful kitten recovered more quickly than the poor old girl helpful kitten!

StCharlotte · 25/04/2020 10:31

tobee

I bet the boy helpful kitten recovered more quickly than the poor old girl helpful kitten!

Actually she's been fine and just as active. It did make me laugh when the vet said he wouldn't need any painkiller though!

Pinkarsedfly · 25/04/2020 10:34

Hey everyone.

We can do this. We can. We dig in, we give ourselves the big hug we so richly deserve and we fair forward.

Come on, team. We’re golden. Look how far we’ve come. Look how strong we are.

Look at things growing, kids getting on with it, the sun continuing to rise and fall, birds building their nests and laying their eggs - the world is going on, and we are part of that. We are. We’re just having to do it differently for a while.

magimedi · 25/04/2020 11:44

Well said, Pink.

Let's keep trying to keep this thread upbeat.

I've had a productive morning, made some roast veg for dinner, changed the bed, cleaned the bedroom & bathroom. House looks gleaming!

Arcadia · 25/04/2020 12:39

Thanks @Pinkarsedfly those words are really helpful.
I hit a bit of a 'wall' yesterday, missed a call from a close friend then couldn't reach her and was sobbing. Pulled myself together again and am better today. Dip dyeing my DD's hair green, and gardening this morning planting out sweet peas that a friend dropped off to me, just received our delivery from local bakery. Going for a long country walk this afternoon.
'We're just having to do things a bit differently for a while' is a great way to look at it!

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 25/04/2020 12:54

My good news today is that the conference that was the far end of our holiday this year has been postponed until 2021, so I no longer have to think about whether it will be safe to try to go to it, and can simply cancel the B&B bookings at this point. This saves me from any will-it-won't-it worrying, which is always the worst thing.

I think that if I knew I would get CV19, I would not be worried; I'd have something definite to be dealing with, getting stuff in order, all the necessary actions to go with something of that sort. It's uncertainty that is the killer every time.

When I was eleven I wanted wanted wanted to have a dog. I knew the dog I wanted, too: it was one in particular of a litter of Dalmatian puppies that a friend of ours had bred. For about a week I yearned, and cried at night, and was utterly miserable; finally I got up all my courage and asked my parents, and was told that no, I couldn't have him because we were moving house and it would be too unsettling for a puppy. And it stopped hurting as soon as I had a definite answer, and although I was sad I didn't have to cry about it any more either. (I got my puppy two years later when we were settled into the new house and town, and had him for many happy years until he got a new horrible disease called parvo and died almost overnight. But that was an ordinary grief, not the misery of unknowing.)

I am sorry not to be going on holiday, but glad not to be having to think about it any more.

Bunnyflop · 25/04/2020 13:19

I agree that the uncertainty makes things the hardest @askingquestionsallthetime .

@arcadia how do you dip die? What brand did you use? I can’t let go of this idea that I want to dip die half my hair dark blue but I don’t know if I’m mad (I’m 40, haha).

Really enjoyed watching Gardener’s World last night and I might do some more garden tidying this arvo. Is anyone ordering plants online? If so how long are they taking to come? I want some herb plants to make pots with.

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PrivateSpidey · 25/04/2020 13:33

Bunnyflop i enjoyed Gardeners World too!

Re plants, have you looked on your local Facebook page (if you use FB)? Ours has loads of local businesses that are delivering, including nurseries delivering plants. I've got some bedding plants coming from one of them, although not until mid May - but I think that's because the plants aren't ready until then, rather than slow delivery, IYSWIM.

I ordered from Crocus at the start of the lockdown and they were both pretty prompt, within a week for both - but I'm not sure of the situation now. Worth having a look though?

Hope everyone is ok. Btw great post pinkarsedfly

tobee · 25/04/2020 14:52

Anyone else find their Facebook feed currently littered with different companies offering food deliveries? My Dh even got an email from Cafe Nero offering to deliver his coffee! Smile

captainoftheshipwreck · 25/04/2020 15:30

Coffee delivery! Count me in Grin

Spudlet · 25/04/2020 16:25

One positive about this (grasping at straws here perhaps but it is a real one) is getting to know the local area a bit better. I ran a route which I walked once years ago but hadn’t used again since today and it was lovely - really quiet and beautiful. Completely different to either of my other regular routes in character and looking at the map there are plenty of options to extend it further as I progress.

If we weren’t in lockdown then I wouldn’t have gone that way, I would have got DH to drop me off somewhere instead. Which would also have been nice, but I’d have missed rediscovering that other route.

Also, DH is at the supermarket and he has managed to get some bread flour, so I’m well pleased about that. Homemade bread is another positive to come out of this and one which I will carry on with - perhaps making a loaf for the weekend in the machine.

DS and I have been doing some rainbow art, we are going to put them into plastic wallets and attach them to a board and knock it into the verge so people driving past can see. DS really enjoys the tickly process of applying the paint Grin

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tobee · 25/04/2020 16:51

Like the photo & pictures!

Homemade bread is evil though! You have to have enormous buttery doorstep slices preferably cut very badly

Callybrid · 25/04/2020 16:58

Ha, you wouldn’t be having my homemade bread like that today tobee - not sure what I did wrong but it’s about an inch tall Confused. Tastes ok but no good for sandwiches/toast etc!

Bunnyflop · 25/04/2020 17:14

I love the sound of making homemade bread!

What lovely jolly pictures @spudlet

@PrivateSpidey I just joined Facebook for the first time in ten years try and get the local tip offs. It’s so different I can’t make head nor tail of it!

Did some weeding, edging and garden tidying today. 👍

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tobee · 25/04/2020 17:58

Sadly dried yeast is the new toilet roll in terms of being impossible to get.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 25/04/2020 19:08

There seems still to be a fair amount of dried yeast available from Amazon uk. What may be happening is the price rising as well as the dough!

Spudlet · 25/04/2020 19:31

@tobee I had some yeast already but my mum managed to get a massive pack off Amazon (I think). It should keep her going for ages. She also ordered 16kg of flour.... they really like bread 😱😂

I think you can make your own yeast with live yoghurt too? Or something? I believe it’s possible, anyway.

Have just heard that a lovely little Italian restaurant in the nearby town is doing takeaway - so, so happy to hear this. We are absolutely doing it. They are fab, like a proper little bit of Italy transported to Norfolk - really welcoming, family oriented and lovely food. It will lift our spirits, it really will. 👍

tobee · 25/04/2020 19:50

I've seen the yeast on amazon but I wasn't sure if it was good quality or good value. Don't want to get any that's past it coz it's disappointing and a waste of bread flour. I've got about 5 sachets of in date yeast but I'm trying to eek it out.

Spudlet I know you can make your own yeast but I can imagine doing it wrong and poisoning everyone or something! Grin Don't you have to catch yeast or something? ConfusedOr is that totally wrong? Maybe I'm getting confused with yeast infections Shock

tobee · 25/04/2020 19:52

I think I saw somewhere on one of my Facebook feeds an advert for bread that had a 65 year old starter. Which is presumably a good thing? Grin

tobee · 25/04/2020 19:54

Weirdly, the most I learnt about bread was from reading Ronnie Corbett's autobiography. His dad was a master baker and ever after Ronnie took an interest in bread making and would go into bakeries and question them on how they made there bread! Grin

tobee · 25/04/2020 19:55

*their bread

Bloodybackpain · 25/04/2020 19:57

A better day today here. Did a run then walk with family. Then we made cake, I sat in garden with the cake and tea in the sun, and we’ve just had a takeaway.
I think key for me is exercise every day and some downtime to myself. Hard during the week though when trying to work and homeschool the DCs

Noooblerooble · 25/04/2020 19:59

Evening everyone!!

Apparently the number of people who passed away today is v low - it just sounds higher as deaths from previous days get included in the tally. We are getting through this. I bet morale in the hospitals has lifted for things easing off.

I had a busy day. I walked in a lovely local nature reserve I don't know that well. There were so few cars on the road. I made a curry for supper and had a chat with a friend. And the weather was so perfect.

Love the rainbow art and thank you Pink for your beautiful post. I needed that today

I think when this started I was full of 'we're another day closer to the end of this' and that felt great. I don't feel I can say that in the same way in that this is a marathon not a sprint but i am sitting here saying 'one day closer to lockdown ending' instead because that will make things better for me. Not perfect but much easier, even if I still don't go out lots. I can deal with what comes after that then. I've also loved seeing how much new cases and deaths have dropped in Germany. What a relief.

Noooblerooble · 25/04/2020 20:04

Look at this, see? What a beauty of a graph, eh? Going in the right direction

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Arcadia · 25/04/2020 20:18

@Bunnyflop it's l'Oreal Colorista semi- permanent dye. You just put it in with gloves. For the dip dye effect you just put it in to the ends. Go for it! I'm tempted to do mine as well now I'm off work for a while. I've literally never dyed my hair other than some occasional highlights, DD is much cooler and more adventurous than me!