Get a grip !

Yesterday I went to lunch with a friend - Toby carvery again ! However no voucher this time so paid £6.49 and had refillable pepsi max again £2.70 so the total was still under £10.

It was very warm but cloudy for most of the day. In the afternoon I put a load of washing out, gave the bathroom coving a second coat of paint and touched up the scuff marks in the hallway with leftover paint from last year.

I cleared some stuff out of the utility room & put away the screen wash, coolant & de-icer which had accumulated by the front door. Once that was cleared away I cleaned the UPVC front door and it is looking a lot better.

The heat is getting to my feet already and they were quite painful after that, so I sat with my feet up and watched Chelsea flower show Its meant to get to 25-30 degrees over the next 2 days so I will have to be careful with my feet.

If it gets too hot I have plenty to do indoors. :cool:

I have just bought myself a vax blade 32v cordless hoover £179.99 sale price with free delivery on Saturday & free toolkit worth £50. I feel like I have been naughty as I have put it on my credit card and I will have to take money from my long term savings. However it is getting harder and harder for me to use an upright heavy hoover and hopefully this will make my life easier so I don't care Either way I would have to buy a new hoover as despite my attempts to take apart and clean/rebuild my dyson I think its has died a death after 15 years. I will however phone vax customer service tomorrow as the £10 discount code they sent me for signing up to their emails did not work. Maybe it doesn't work with sale items.


Diabetes conference was really useful today, so I am feeling more positive, and it was really good to speak to others with the same condition.

Spoke to a dietician who told me to go back to GP and get referred and mention her name. Also got contact details for a repeat desmond day and personal referral to NHS wellbeing service.

Lunch was £3 and we had jacket potatoes with tuna, cheese, salad and loads of fruit for lunch. Tea and coffee and water laid on. The venue was in a large park so I had a walk in the sun after lunch as we had an hour.


On the way home I called into Aldi spending £32.77 including lots of meat, salad and milk and that should be it for food shop until payday. I have £1 left in my purse should we need milk from the co-op.


Came home and slept for an hour and a half. Have brought the washing in and I am just going for a walk in the lovely evening sun. DS is in bed till 8.30 then we will have dinner before he goes on nights.


Its meant to be a scorcher here again tomorrow !

Gosh it is getting hotter this evening phew ! Windows open and fan on.


I have just found my instruction book and receipt for the dyson (I am a bit of a hoarder of these things) and I bought it in January 2001 on a personal loan from Tempo (remember them, wonder what happened to them? Probably went bust ) at 29.5 % APR :eek:
It cost £245.99 which was a lot of money back then (still is to me!!) with a 5 year cover plan £39.89 (definitely run out lol) and was charged interest of £177.80 total £463.68 over 48 months £9.68 a month which was all I could afford at the time.


I would of course these days try and get a 0% purchases credit card if I was that desperate. Which I may need to do soon for my TV, which we bought when DS was 18 months old !! It is now taking about 5 minutes for the picture to appear after switching it on and a red light is flashing on the front. It is a sony - huge silver thing and I still have the original DVD player and stand that came with it - the video machine died a death a long time ago. The TV has done well to last 20 years so I may have to look at replacing that soon too, but all the time it keeps working I will keep it !