52 Week Challenge - week by week through 2013

[lottie dolly]

i to have lost the plot,time is zooming away to fast,have lost last weeks challenge of my car,as i not had it in the end,when i come to think of it,the this who;e month was a challenge in itself,finding 1,then getting it insured,just to cancel everything,and back to square 1,just concider myself as had a lucky escape,

[Tripmeup]

Week 7 challenge of completing my wedding numbers and finalizing table plan completed yesterday...
So done!

Week 8 can only be..........................GET MARRIED

[bramble]

Week 7 for me. Can't think of anything in particular I want to do this week.
There's plenty to be done but I just don't fancy doing it.
So this week I am continuing with my knitting which I decided would be my challenge for the year.
So far I have finished a jacket I started about 10 years ago.
This week i am continuing on with a top that I started last year.

[lottie dolly]

Aha,i now have a challenge for this week,i got a new mobile/smart ass,so will have fun learning what to do with tomoz,when it's fully charged up,i hatted texting,but this 1 you can speak it,and the words appear,brill
week 5...knee recovery
week 6...finned sewing new jacket thing
week 7... lost in time regards car
week 8...learn how to use new phone

[julesapple]

A bit behind with the challenges due to a week with visitors.

Finally completed the wallpapering in the hall, landings and stairs. Hung up pictures that have been waiting ages to be hung. Made a second lot of cream cheese....it's draining as I type. Also, got stuck in to reading The Great Cholesterol Con by Dr Malcolm Kendrick. Have been meaning to read this for ages......quite shocking.

This week, I must get on with the web site building. I've now dumped the Joomla torture and gone with Wix, where there is a beautiful shop I can customise. Thankfully, a full refund was given by Joomla/Arvixe. Hopefully, the site will now come on in leaps and bounds.

Tomorrow I'm making our second lot of laundry gloop - this time with the borax sub.

Another challenge to be started soon is Dutch lessons!

[Feral007]

So this week's challenge turned out to be: Learning how the hot water service works and how to fix it when this happens again. I'm liking that.
But as a bonus I got them to check the gas lines while they were here. And scored a 2nd hand heater for the bedroom end of the house.

I also got the corner of the kitchen cleared, and will now rearrange how it goes.

AND put the Christmas tree away at last! So a few challenges there, think that may catch me up.

Next week - still need to sell that horse, but have someone coming today. Will update the advert tomorrow and see if we get any more offers.

[PyreneesPlot]

Week 8 - finally skied some of the piste routes (never done them before). Only fell once (triple sumersault with twist) and we won't mention being overtaken by the many small children doing a much better job than me

Week 7 Submitted a short story for a competition
Week 6 PH tested the veg garden and orchard bit
Week 5 First go at Chelsea Buns

[mothhawk]

Erm..........somewhere along the way I lost the plot .....

You and me both bins!

I lost the plot too, round about week 5. I guess I'm just unimaginative - can't think what I can do that I haven't done before, that will fit in around work and I'm not too tired to do after work.

Also, I'm good at starting stuff and then getting bored and not finishing it.....

[Sheneval]

I too have lost the place following 2 weeks with a chest infection but can claim:

Week 7 - started chitting potatoes and
Week 8 - made a new allotment sign out of a bit of old tree trunk - pic to follow.

Still on the antibiotics so further progress may be slow

[Nicos]

I am a few weeks behind- but this week I finally managed to hand ( read FOOT there )wash 2 large cotton rugs in the bath by stomping on them ....think I could be let loose on grape crushing now!!!

...wouldn't you guess we now have snow!...so they are dripping away all over the place indoors *sigh.
That'll teach me not to have done them last summer when it was lovely and warm ,when I knew they were dirty ( in storage) and would be needed by March!

Glad they are finally done though....

[veggiechicken]

Week 5 - Remove all F1 seeds from my stash (70 packets )
Week 6 - Go to a Seedy Saturday organised by Real Seeds and meet up with Marchogaeth
Week 7 - Plant a peach tree
Week 8 - make yoghurt. Haven't done this for years - its doing its thing at the moment and hope it will have yogged before breakfast

[redser]

That's so weird VC. My brother in law to-be, gave me a culture yesterday. Something something Bulgaris. He's from Bulgaria and brought it home from a trip recently. All his family make it and its supposed to be great for longevity. Bung it in some warm milk and its done on 3 hours apparently. I tried some of his and it was nice enough. Where do you get your culture? That's going to be my challenge for this week

[veggiechicken]

My culture is just organic live yogurt - Yeo valley sort of thing. Mine takes all night

[Feral007]

Mothhawk, don't worry about it being something you haven't done before! Truly, whilst I may do it rarely, clearing up the water heater corner of the kitchen is hardly exciting, new, groundbreaking stuff. It is however a challenge to get me to do it!

I'm pretty good at letting things go as well, so this is just making me keep my nose to the grindstone a litte better.

So horse to sell this week.

And some seeds to sow for autumn. That's mine, since the horse one might take longer than a week, but will be a challenge worth taking our time over.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 8 Challenge

Buy a new pair of glasses

I first had specs as a teenager when I realised that I couldn't read the blackboard . I don't remember being particularly embarrassed about them, but then again, I don't seem to have any photos of me with them on. I suspect that it didn't occur to me to wear them outside class - despite being able to see more with them on.

When I was in the 6th form, I went to have a pair of contact lenses which I paid for out of my Saturday job money, and although they were a bit of a faff, having to be washed every night with a cleaning agent, and soaked every week in a protein remover solution, I thought they were brilliant, because I could see without my field of vision limited by the glasses frames. It was like having proper eyes!

Contact lens technology has moved on such that I now wear disposable daily lenses, which are even more brilliant, and I don't have to do any faffing around at all - just put 'em in, and at the end of the day, chuck em' out. Fab!

Sending money on the lenses means that I am reluctant to fork out on glasses too (even though I wear glasses every day, and only actually wear my lenses if I'm going out, either in the day or later on), which means that I last bought a pair of glasses a - er - considerable number of years ago. So it's high time I put my hand in my pocket and updated myself.

My friend Jane (who has got some sort of a clue about these things) came with me to Specsavers, and we started at the first display of frames and worked our way round........

....... and then we had to start again once we'd realised that I kept rejecting frames on the basis that they didn't look like the old ones, rather than because they didn't suit me.

We found ones that I liked then took advice from one of the helpful staff who some pertinent points about head shapes, frame colours, and lens thickness, and tweaked our choice to a frame similar but more appropriate.

Of course, by that time you could have put those glasses on me that they use for eyetests and I would have said yes, so with that provisional choice in mind, I thanked Jane with lunch out at BHS (we know how to live!) and left to reflect overnight.

Back the next day, I went firm on what we'd decided previously, and yesterday I went and collected them. Although I am still not what you might call trendy, I have dragged myself very slightly further into the current century.

Before:



After:



So week 8 challenge: done.