Stitch

Written for https://lindaghill.com/2024/07/26/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-july-27-2024/

A stitch in time saves nine, originally means if we sew up a small tear, it can prevent more work later. I suppose the same goes for saving cash, and when a big problem happens, you face it more easily. Although, sometimes life doesn’t go as planned, and when you think you are budgeting money, there is another expense.

With a holiday in a couple of weeks, I am trying not to use any more than I have to. So I enjoy it when I am in Dorset. Hopefully, that should be effective. My daughter is visiting her partners family. They live two hours from where we are, and can’t see my granddaughter as often as I do.

I shall miss them, but if I am honest, I am grateful too. There won’t be any driving to collect items she has brought, or purchasing those bargains. It should help me save, so we don’t have to worry about affording treats.

I hope to pick raspberries, visit a farm, paint some pottery, swimming or find lovely shells. We are taking both of our dogs, and they love running on the beach, enjoying a bit of freedom.

So do we, because we rush enough, from our jobs, to paying bills, to keeping those stitches tight against the cloth, to prepare for what may happen. A holiday is a chance to find some peace, and relax, even if it is nothing more than sitting on sand, making castles for princesses, having fish and chips for tea, and trying to win trinkets on the two pence machine.

A much needed holiday, and I am looking forward to spending time with my family.