Paid off the £31,000! BUT - still scrimping!

Scott_Weiland wrote: »

haha i know that feeling after 2 weeks holiday i had 600 to go through

712 in total! Lucky I put my out of office on, said I had no access to email and directed everyone to the poor bloke helping my boss out while I was away!:rotfl:

Thanks guys

Munchin wrote: »

The holiday feeling disappears very rapidly once you open your mailbox. I know someone who deletes all those outstanding emails without reading them because they should have got their out of office & if it’s important the person will contact them again:eek:

Wow! That’s very brave! I’d be too worried about missing a deadline to do that. Some of our clients wouldnt bother to chase me up!

Been cheap at work the last two days as I brought both my breakfast and lunch into work. Our firm’s kitchen is in the process of being renovated so I couldn’t make my porridge I took in some Bircher muesli that I made overnight. I got the recipe from the “Eat Well For Less” programme. I think this will be my default work breakfast for a while until it gets really cold.

I went out last night with my friends to a fairly new restaurant that has opened just down the road from me. It’s a new concept locally for a restaurant. It is very small and only serves a tasting menu. It has had some cracking reviews and we had to wait six weeks before we could book! I was a little sceptical as I have had wonderful tasting menus in the past courtesy of DD taking me out and some of our local restaurants can be rather ‘all gong and no dinner’ as my dear boss has a habit of saying! However this was well worth the wait, not at all pretentious for its style plus it was so nice to see a lady sommelier! They are rather uncommon but hopefully becoming less so. We paid extra to have the different wines with each course (yes SSG forgot to scrimp again!) but it was so enjoyable. However I’m now lighter of £80! :eek: We all want to go again but, ahem, will leave it until well into 2018! But as a special treat it was wonderful!

Afterwards we popped into my friend’s for an apres dinner drink and I got to bed about 1am! The PT is away for the weekend but I promised myself I would go to the gym this morning but of course you knew that wasn’t going to happen didn’t you after last night!

Anyway a friend is picking me up at 2pm as I’m out for late lunch - haven’t seen her for a few months and it’ll be good to catch up.

It’s going to be a non-scrimpy run up to Xmas I’m afraid. Not on the pressie front as I’ve budgeted for this and the family are cutting down this year (or supposedly!), but on events out, etc. It’s the way the next few months have folded out- I always seem to spend less overall during the summer!

SSG x

Thanks Hairy. Yes I think the wine side of the restaurant business seems to have been the last bastion of the “macho!” Over the the last years women like Angela Hartnett have come to the fore on the chef side and it’s time the ladies had a turn with the vino!

Really enjoyed my time with my friend. We went for a Turkish afternoon tea! I’m absolutely stuffed now - dread getting on the scales tomorrow! It was lovely - lots of different little plates of food ending up with little nibbles of baclava and honey soaked sponge with ice cream. Plus Prosecco! She insisted on paying for me as she said she hadn’t got me anything for my birthday a few months ago. It was £15 each with coffee and the Prosecco was extra! Very good value as more and more food kept arriving. We couldn’t eat all of it!

So having a respite now before I’m out this evening for the charity gig. No food involved this time only drinks!

SSG x