Decedantly damcing towards December - frugaleering Christmas ahoy!

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Actually not many edibles there. Chilterns seeds is another favourite of mine as they do many unusual things. Cheap too as it's all seeds.

www.chilternseeds.co.uk/

But in actual fact, I mostly order from thompson and morgan as they used to take tesco vouchers. I'm not sure if they still do.

Yes please Unescorted - will PM you now!

Autumn I only really have inside space but my bedroom window is one.huge pane of glass that gets 9-10 hours of sun in spring/summer - and the bedroom gets like a sauna! Will check those out

Dr says not chickenpox. Just a virus with a rash. He’s not totally ruling it out. We’re to keep him off nursery for 3-5 days until temp is back to normal.

And keep an eye on the rash. Dr is on call this evening so has given his mobile number in case we need to contact. He said to text and he’ll do what he can.

Once again I’m so grateful we pay for our drs here. £27 for ds’ appointment and I called at 3 and had an appointment at 430. So quick.

I’m taking tomorrow off.

Em great service we also pay for doctors here although under 6 are free, ds is 5, I didn't take him though because I thought it was a virus & he'd work his way through it, we definitely don't get service like that though

Tomo I need to buy cat food & dishwasher tablets

Funny story h bought dc advent calendars for his place weeks ago, turned out they were for cats so my 99c calendars are going down really well

Devils in the detail Happier 😹

Watch the cat Sneaky, my tomato plant never recovered after the cat did a wee in the pot. Then mil cut all the leaves off it. Game over.

Happier that really made me laugh

Em poor ds, your go service sounds fantastic though. Your either dead or better before you can get in to see a go here

Annoying they come in little vacuum packs of about 6 little treats & cat 🐈 lives at ours so I'm finding them everywhere

Having a good GP really helps doesn't it Em? I struggled to find one for a long time, but have now.

Sneaky. Be a bit careful about turning your bedroom into a greenhouse. I did that and got plant allergies that never really went away . Ooops.

Do any of these mushroom kits grab you at all?

www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/Vegetable+Plants/Grow+Your+Own+Mushrooms/list.htm?pl=2147483647

Lettuce should grow in your kitchen.

The other thing I always for get is that we don't need to plan the whole contents of a seed packet at once. If you get a packet with 1200 lettuce seeds in it then you can just plant a few at a time, and your £1.50 packet of seeds might last you two years of what's called "succession sowings".

Have you watched the Beechgrove Garden? It's great for this kind of thing?

Could you use some of the shared outdoor space? A herb box by the front door or a bean and pea ladder. Maybe ask your neighbours and see if they are interested in having a shared Vege space.

We had lots of flowers outside by the stairs this year but it doesn't get enough sun for most veg I think. Will check out Beechgrove and lettuce - don't like mushrooms sadly!

I wondered if I could ask a little favour?

My dGP says I'm a bit hyperactive from years of sleep deprivation and that that's why I crash sometimes. He says that I work far too hard for a while and then crash, and then start all over again.

My mission is to spend December working at only a medium pace. I wondered if you could possibly listen out for me working too hard and tell me to slow down?

I have told all my immediate family too. My dm says I've been doing that for years and how had I not spotted that. Apparently I am not super-reflective.

I have set a whole series of google calendar notifications reminding me to go slowly, and to take breaks and things. One of them reminds me to listen to the shipping forecast, which is very soporific indeed.

Of course!

We'll help apply the brakes

Evening all. I read up to date this morning but ran out of time to post so I've probably missed something since then.

£20 in Mothercare today. I need to do some work. I'm procrastinating.

Thank you very much sneaky.

On the plus side, if my problem is that life is too much fun to take breaks, then I think I have much to be thankful for.

Ds is asleep. And has been since 7. Yay.

I’m in bed. Am so tired. Lovely dparents offered to have ds tomorrow but I’ve declined. I’ll leave him with them on Thursday and will be happier knowing I’ve spent the day with him tomorrow if that makes sense...?

Tomorrow instead of internal meetings and such I’m going to be chilling, playing, reading books, napping and maybe some cleaning. And some all important self care.

em think rashes are quite common with viral things - I know my boys have had them in the past. Hope you get some rest and ds is better soon. Is your work quite understanding about taking time off? I work for the NHS and they are not great about giving carers leave and usually make you take annual leave instead.

Autumn I think we are all guilty of pushing ourselves to the limit and then hitting a wall and being exhausted.

Like today I went to five different shops/supermarkets to get specific things for the best prices and then came home and crashed on the couch.Unfortunately I then had to muster up the energy to hoover and clean my house. Now I feel like someone has hit me with a truck What kind of things are you doing that are making you crash?

Thanks Born, it's good to know that it's not just me.

I'm not really sure, tbh. I'm going to watch over the coming weeks and see if I can figure out it out.

I think I do tend to work very fast though. Today I tried cleaning the kitchen with my metronome set to 40 beats per minute and I did go much much slowly. I think I might just be stuck in 6th gear, from being over-tried. Like a tired child that won't go to bed, you know?

I had some home grown peppers tonight from my pepper plant, I've bought it inside for the winter now and noticed it has flowered again! Didn't have much other growing food success this year, a few strawberries, some rocket and about 4 apples off the tree!! My broccoli was completely munched by caterpillars.

That is good service em but I am eternally grateful that our health care is free. Dd has had lots of health problems and I've always been fortunate with the (free) health care she's had. The tories are doing their best to ruin the NHS but my experiences are still mostly positive. Yy to the NHS being crap with carers leave though!!

I need to go to bed 😴😴😴

Sneaky do you like chillis? They love a windowsill.

I know I try to do things quickly so I can have a rest after it, but I think sometimes its better to work slower but for longer. I struggle to get my head round that to be honest as all my life I have worked better under pressure I know when I read what some of the frugaleers do in a day I am in awe of how they do it.

Autumn I bought a "pepper plant" and got chillis when I was expecting Bell peppers

Girlie I agree. The NHS is far from perfect but I think it is a fairer system for all. I work in an area where people have life changing injuries and private health care does not cover it long term. I think in Scotland we are a bit luckier and there haven't been quite so many cuts....yet.

I'm the same born. I try to do things quickly so I can have a break or do something nice for myself. But then things just keep coming think and fast, like emails or the mess in the house, or something that needs bought, or a phone call that needs made. Or sometimes I just want my me-time to be really good, so I rush to do something that I really enjoy and end up knackered.

I keep thinking of something that I saw when ds was 18 months old, that I wish I could really get to grips with.

One time we were in tesco's cafe, and ds was running round and round a sign post. Round and round and round, at tremendous speed and with this look of total concentration on his whole body. He went round and round for ages.

Then I noticed an old lady watching ds quietly from her seat and just sort of smiling to herself. She had this tremendous sense of calm and stillness about her, which contrasted so much with ds's marathon running round the post.

It seemed as though she was looking back through her life at all the fruitless tasks that she'd hammered her way through, and was thinking that ds's running round the post pretty much summed up just how useless many of those tasks had been. But at the end of it all, she had learned to just sit and be perfectly at peace. I thought that was nice.

I'm darned if I can do it though. I'm still running round and round the post...

Lol! sneaky You're now a pepper expert then.