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 chris came down with fire in his belly to sort the house out. he really wants to get rid of the olive tree in the garden, i do not necessarily, but i can also see the bonus in doing so. the garden is about 120ft long, but only about 9ft wide, so the tree takes up a lot of space. the key thing is we really need to build a garage, mostly because on street parking sucks, we don't have much space for storage in the house, and the tiny shed we have is full of camping equipment, but because its so tiny, the camping equipment is also in the airing cupboard, under the stairs, under the attic eaves... you get the picture. 

chris left to take the boys home, i did the dishes, folded some laundry and then took moose down the beach to try out the long lead. he is not sure at all about not being able to roam free! we walked up and down a bit while he went loopy, i had to tie the long line around my waist to counter balance his strength! our neighbour irish john came over with his tiny dog lola, and laura got to hold lola and john made a huge fuss of moose. it was very sweet. 

came home after an hour and finished up the kitchen, then my tesco shop arrived. i have definitely been better about spending the grocery budget since doing the online shop with tesco, as much as i hate to admit it. my food bill has gone from about £120 a week to £80. we aren't really buying snacks and we aren't buying alcohol which is helping, but it's been a bit of a relief to see the spending slow down. unforunately laura forgot to tell me that she had food technology class tomorrow so we had to go to the corner shop to buy fruit for a fruit salad none of us will eat. how fun. 

i decided to spend a couple of hours doing a new cross stitch pattern, here is how far i have got. that was two hours of stitching. its a shame because this is an older kit from the subscription box, and you can really feel that they have downgraded their supplier since then. the aida is much stiffer and the hoop is holding its shape with this kit, which was not the case with the last one i did. another reason to cancel it i suppose. 


watched some youtube while i sewed. i don't seem to have the attention span for a series or a movie at the moment. i just want to dip in and out of things, or have something comforting on. i watched some morgan evelyn cook, a 90 day fiance roast video, and a caleb hammer episode. posted my reading wrap up on my book instagram, then went up to bed early to read, and as much as i hate to admit it, i think i am now invested in celaena sardothien's character arc... 

currently reading: assassin's blade
 
weekly average screen time: 8h 26 min (most used is FB, YT & drop the bloody cat)


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 finished reading empire of pain around 11pm. there was a statistic in there that i am going to paraphrase. it said that after they released the "tamper proof" pill, that out of everyone that died from heroin overdoses in the following years 4 out of 5 of them started their drug abuse and additction with prescription painkillers. wild. prescription drug abuse is such a weird thing that nobody really talks about. it must be fine because its come from a doctor! but its not, and it can and does ruin lives. 

finished all my work training pretty quickly today so i caught up on some youtube. i really enjoy videos by morgan evelyn cook, diaries of tay and project no buy. i thought about doing a no buy, but a) i've already messed it up and b) i don't really buy much anyway. i should probably put a self imposed ban on shopping on vinted though. or maybe just allow myself one purchase a month. now i WFH most of my day to day outfits are going to be leggings and a warm hoody, rather than any of the cute dresses in my wardrobe. 

i don't think chris slept very well last night due to me not being able to breathe so i hope he is asleep when i go upstairs. i called off going to dog training because i feel so rough and i have done no practice with moose all week. i had the bookswaps meeting at 6pm and i joined via phone rather than give people the lurgy. hannah being pregnant etc i can't think of anything worse than making her ill. i am pretty sure reading a mirror crack'd from side to side by agatha christie traumatised me and i know i haven't got german measles but i don't want to be the cause of anything going wrong! 

one random person has joined our book club on fable - i hope they are prepared for the level of snarkiness that has been going on. so far i am not loving the series. but our next read is set up and it is assassins blade. i have never known novellas be over 450 pages. 

currently reading: assassin's blade
currently grateful for: clean pyjamas and hot water bottles

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