What small DFW things will you be doing this week? WC 17/07

Morning determined and all who follow :hello:

Those baskets sound lovely. I tend to make chocolate slabs as gifts for either Christmas or summer leaving for the smalls teachers/nursery staff. Really easy and cheap, just melt a bar of chocolate the bigger ones you get in the cooking aisle, put in the base of a small loaf tin (lined if not silicon) chill for a bit. Then melt a little white choclate and pipe on what ever you want, I normally do 'thank you, from X' and then pipe a couple of blobs of chocolate on and either stick some sprinkles on if I have them in the cupboard or dr oetker (sp) stars look good and you only need 1 or 2. Work out about £1 each

My list for today:
Quick shower, hair dry naturally
Check banking, update sheets
Update grocery spend. UFM is going well on the grocery front, lower spends again this month
Tea from planner, no tea for smalls as they're at holiday club and will be fed
Couldn't get DD in to holiday club tomorrow but MIL has said she'll have her. First time ever :eek: let's hope she doesn't cancel :cool: either way £36 saved
Try and paint my nails tonight, was gifted some gel colour change nail varnish and I really want to try it out
Snacks and hot drink to work, am in an off site meeting so work will buy lunch
Maybe quick run when I get home, even if it's just a quick loop of the block

Right, must get on. Enjoy your day. Purps.

Morning all
Blackberry muffins are fab FatVonD
Got to go to the dealership and do the paperwork for the new (to us) car this morning, and, no doubt, part with lots of money :eek: Only parted with a deposit...
Apart from that:
Washing pegged on line, more rain forecast for later, so hope it dries before then! All dry
More washing A couple of delicates items, they are dry as well
Ironing :eek: Not done It is now
Washed blankets from my car, which I must finish emptying tomorrow!
HM meals from stores, steak and mushroom pie tonight, made the filling in the SC yesterday In progress, made a huge pie, enough for at least 2 meals for both of us
Make a cake, bought some proper dark choc yesterday, so probably Nigel Slater's banana and chocolate muscovado cake, which will handily use up the blackening bananas Not likely to happen today
Help OH sort out all the carp in the garage, so that our new car will fit into it - my current car, which lives in it atm, is smaller, and surrounded by piles of junk! Done, and it was a much bigger job than I thought - OH has tonnes of carp However, some has been put out for a tip run tomorrow, and the rest tidied and condensed into a much smaller area
Try to fit in a bit of cleaning Not done, though I did sweep out the garage!
Dog walk later OH did.
Checked banks :eek:

Back later to update - keeps me accountable!

:rotfl: porridge plan is slowly slipping away! Completely forgot about my ticket again!! Had to get off after one stop to buy one as got the fear of getting caught (and wanted a clean conscience:p) so now I'll probably be late for work anyway:rotfl:

Morning Wednesday Penny-Wranglers,
I'm not likely to get my big gardening day today, as at some point I think the big rain clouds will reach us. Not sure about thunder though. Reckon mr f will see some driving home tonight & it might reach people who are nearby but a little further over (such as Purplefairy!) but I think we may just get rain here. Have left off watering the garden in the hope that nature will do it for me.
Today's money-saving activity:
*Two baths from one lot of hot water.
*Made sourdough. It's just on its first proving. Will feed jar later so it's ready for next week's loaf.
*Watered greenhouse veg.
*Harvested 2 courgettes & a big colander of basil.
*Make pesto. No need to buy anything. I have walnuts & cheddar in, so will use those instead of buying pecorino & pine nuts. The recipe is pretty versatile as long as it's got basil, oil & garlic as its base.
*£5 survey voucher code arrived. Thought I was behind on surveys this year, but have updated my signature where I keep a tally of survey income & I have earned £210 this year so far, which is the same as the whole of 2016, so I must keep at it. I did try a few Ipsos today but only earned a few points for being chucked out as wrong demographic.
*Checked online banking. Just don't feel that my most recent budget update was quite accurate & I would hate for us to slip overdrawn because of an error. So am logging on every day till pay-day just to check if some sort of error comes to light.
*Leftover half an avocado on toast for lunch......somebody on here (Ally, I think?) said that they do keep if you leave the stone in one half & tightly foil-wrap it & store in the fridge. I do that regularly now & rarely find the kept half has gone brown.
*Find out if mr f is still planning to get the grocery shopping in tomorrow morning while I'm volunteering at a local charity. If so, then I will be adding 'Do meal plans' to today's list......& writing a shopping list.
*Knit more Christmas present & more of my scarf. Feels really nice to be having a new thing to wear for Autumn that has cost me nothing, because the lovely yarn was an Easter gift from my Mum.
*Line dry cat's blanket which has had a good wash today post flea-treatment.
*Free entertainment.....library book, audiobook, catch-up TV episode & update my blog.
*Dodgy conservatory door opened fine this morning. We thought it had broken yesterday when I was unable to close it properly last night, then it refused to lock. The key just wouldn't turn. Nearly escalated into a shouting match (we rarely argue but we are both shocking drama queens!) as I was worried that mr f was forcing the lock & that it would break & need an expensive locksmith callout in order for us to be able to secure the house. In the end, I walked away & did something else, as I knew I'd blow a fuse if I saw him trying to force it again (he is tremendously strong & sometimes breaks things by accident).....& he said he would go off on one himself if I told him one more time that he was forcing it, lol! So he stayed in there, grumpy, & fiddled with the key until it somehow righted itself. Opened like a dream this morning......just hope the bloody thing shuts ok tonight or that will be more expense on top of the washing machine & vacuum. Grrrrr!
NOT money saving:
*Vet bill for cat's annual check-up & jabs this morning BUT let's be fair on this one. Much better to pay for these than have a sick animal. Also, was amazed that the bill for the triple jab & a worm treatment plus check-up was £48. Our previous vet practice was charging £70 for this over 15 years ago. Unless the drug price has dropped, I think this shows how variable prices at different practices can be, Anyway, cat is back on front drive lording it over smaller weaker cats as usual.......he will zonk out tonight from the shots, he always does.
Well, Frugal Friends, that is my plans so far today.......off to zizz up the basil now. Have a good day, all.
F xx

Hello :hello:
Another day closer to the summer. Just 2 more hours of teaching, one meeting with the Head and a morning with my form class between me and 6 weeks of the summer! I know it's a pain for a lot of parents but I love my time off work and I'm lucky that I'm in a job that doesn't require any additional childcare.
Not too much money saving going on today - I'm just making my way to the end of term and getting back to normality after exam marking.
Lots of love and hugs to all that need them. :grouphug: