byslantedlight | 100 Days of Happiness 2020 - Day 2

Actually I have three very specific things that made me happy today - yeay!

The first is that I called the Foodsharing people, cos I'd not heard from them yet after the reapplication, and time was getting on, and they confirmed that everything was all good and that we would be ready to start collecting food again around the end of February. Which is a shame we have to wait that long, but on the other hand it gives me time to get all sorts of things organised, hopefully. So yeay!

The second is that I made the West African sweet potato stew from last week's Riverford box, without too much hope considering the amount of chard in it, and it was seriously delicious. Nom nom nom. And left-overs for two more meals, too! *g*

The third is that I've just signed up for... a metal detecting rally! Wee, this is going to be me at the start of April:

Except in a field with 24 other women, because it's the first women's metal detecting rally... *vbg*

Oh, did I mention that I have a new toy? *g* It was my reward for being so stupidly fretful about my tax this year, when it turned out I'd hugely overestimated what I'd have to pay. I'm one of them now. I'm a detectorist. *g* (Granted my first finds in landlord's big garden were pretty rubbish. Well, literally rubbish - an old nail, a piece of thick wire, some aluminium sheeting of some kind, and the piece de resistance - a pipe fitting. But my detector worked! It found the stuff! And I worked out that I needed to change from the field to the park setting, cos the garden was pretty trashy, and that the background noise I'm still getting is probably hot rocks (mineralised rocks), and... and... and then it rained on Sunday and then it was a work day, so I couldn't play any more, but... New game! *vbg*

Have some extra lads to celebrate.