52 Week Challenge - week by week through 2013

[bearded bloke]

I didn't have one for this week,so I shall claim visiting Cardiff for the first time Properly nice place & properly nice people,not just the grapes we met,but everybody we met,even the young people in the hotel bar made us feel welcome

[Sheneval]

VC - Is this week 17 already?

I will help on my daughter's plot and sow peas, beetroot and carrots

Wait a minute - I helped with the plot both yesterday and today - can I claim week 17 challenge completed ?

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 16 Challenge

Give Credit Where it is Due

Even though I like to think that I am a fairly positive person, for some reason, it seems that it is easier to moan about poor service than it is to give praise when it all goes right.

I don't like to think that this is because life consists of a constant stream of disappointments, but rather that I expect people to be reasonably efficient at their jobs, and do what they are paid to do as a matter of course.

Nonetheless, I welcome a pat on the back for doing a good job, so I'm going to try to be a bit more generous with appreciating that in others, starting with a thank you.

I bought a pair of wetshoes online the other day, through an Amazon retailer. Besides being pretty tight in the wallet department, I am also of an age that caution is the order of the day when buying on that new fangled interwebby thing - horror stories about your credit card being cloned; the goods not turning up; identity theft and all the rest of it.

However, I do buy online occasionally, so after I read the reviews of the product, and the feedback of the retailer, checked the price out, I placed the order, shortly after 3.30pm on a Friday afternoon.

Saturday morning at 8.15am the postman rings the door with the parcel. Blimey!



So after leaving feedback for the item on line, I wrote a nice thank you letter for exemplary service. Well done, Mikes Diving Ltd*



So that's week 16 Challenge: done!

*yes, the lack of apostrophe annoys me too.

[Sheneval]

Hazel,

Mike tells me he has been trying to rid of those shoes for years without success - you were a godsend

[veggiechicken]

VC - Is this week 17 already?

I will help on my daughter's plot and sow peas, beetroot and carrots

Wait a minute - I helped with the plot both yesterday and today - can I claim week 17 challenge completed ?

Sorry Shen - its still Week 16.!
You'll have to do more helping next week

[veggiechicken]

Week 16 Challenge - Go to the RHS Show in Cardiff and meet some new Grapes!
This has to be one of the nicest Challenges this year. Although none of us had ever met before, somehow, we all recognised each other and met on the Bench outside the RHS Pavilion - at the right times too
We had superb weather - and the icecreams were delicious
However, I realise what a duffer I am with a mobile phone - it scares me - so my next challenge will be something to overcome that fear - maybe taking a photo and uploading it on here Please don't laugh at my embarrassment

[veggiechicken]

Week 17 - April 22nd - 28th

Week 17 and the last full week of April so time to list your month's challenges as well as do something new this week We're a third of the way through 2013 already

[bearded bloke]

Weather permitting mine will be to scarify AND aerate the lawn,never yet managed to do both in the same year (let alone the same week)

[Sheneval]

Sorry Shen - its still Week 16.!
You'll have to do more helping next week

ops I thought it was Monday

Week 17 - I will help on my daughter's plot and sow peas, beetroot and carrots on my own

[Tripmeup]

This week I must barrow a large heap of manure from the back of my house down to the vegetable garden..

[Hazel at the Hill]

Tee hee! I've already done my wk 17 Challenge! *smug

[bramble]

This week I need to pot on all my dahlia seedlings as they are needing their own individual space.
I always find this a very tedious job because I sow way too many and can't bear to throw any of them away.
Having said that they always repay me well by turning the front garden into a riot of color through late summer and autumn.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 17 Challenge

Have a Beauty Treatment

Although I have had a half leg wax occasionally (pros: v smooth legs, lasts a long time; cons: expensive, have to have footballer-hairy legs before you start); and eyelash dye (pros: eyelashes now dark enough to not have to bother with mascara; cons: eyelashes still 'lack body' so still have to wear mascara), I have never had a manicure or a pedicure before.

I decided that a manicure seems like a waste of time at this time of year, what with spending all that time weeding and digging at the Hill, but I do like that sound of a pedicure.

We have a large hair and beauty salon up the road which was recommended to me by a friend on the rather flimsy basis that she had been in there once, for a haircut, about ten years ago; but that's good enough for me, so I set off to have my feet 'done' yesterday lunchtime.

Going into a beauty salon is like going into some sort of alternative universe where the matters of the day are not e.g. economic growth forecasts, how red tape affects the small business, pound/euro currency fluctuations etc etc; but the merits of Elemis over Guinot facials; how wonderful the latest starlet looked on the red carpet, and how often nail infils are recommended.

I was expertly looked after, and pampered commendably - ending up with feet which had been soaked in a spa bath, massaged, treated with a 'scrub' & a 'deep' moisturiser; and nails which were shaped, filed, buffed and painted a pretty red.



My feet now look lovely - and not at all like mine! So I finished my coffee, paid, and went back through the doors into the real world - buying a sandwich & paper, dodging the charity fundraisers, and walking back to the office past the Sony shop having a closing down sale.



Week 17 challenge: done!

[Nicos]

Managed to start sorting through some of our storage boxes in the cellar...some bits for a Vide Grenier ( car boot sale) , some for the B&B and some to be kept a while longer
Got through about 15 boxes....only another 60 or so to go
* sighs!

Feels good that I've made a start- especially as I've found some of my many equine books and 'Stage' textbooks for my daughter! She'll be chuffed to bits with with them

[Sheneval]

Hope these feet don't refuse to be seen in those shoes