EH - Essex > Hebrides...the next step of the adventure?

OK - new underpinnings arrived and tried on last night. The ordinary sports bra seems fine and will be being kept. The "sports vest with integral bra" was baffling to even get on and seemed to be designed in sunch a way that it is impossible to get the wires in the right place, so I think it going back, and one of the two ordinary bras was FAR larier in colour than it looked in the picture and I didn't even bother trying on. The other is gorgeous though and I'm wearing it right now! So the original £81 spend will reduce to £39 when I return the other items and the refund goes through. :T

The Best Cucumber Salad was really tasty and I'd definitely make it again! Ended up going with the "perfectly imperfect" cucumbers from ThaT supermarkeT as they were only 35p AND were British. Still got two of them left too although I think the ends will need cutting off as the fridge froze them. Sigh. Planning salad for tomorrow night I think so might make some more of the cucumber for then as I still have some dill AND some salad onions left. :T

:rotfl::rotfl: at Greying growing a beard and Cheery resolutely refusing to buy new jeans!

dionysia wrote: »

:eek: Bra shopping is the worst shopping to me! Well done on getting two out of four that work!

Second only to shoe shopping in y world - I HATE buying shoes! :rotfl:

Hi Georgiana - thanks for popping by! Jeans shopping can also be a nightmare - I'm with you! I've found some M&S ones that work for me - usually I'm caught in a gap where "petite" ones are too short and standard short leg are too long - the M&S ones seem to come up at about 28" though which is just about OK. (Plus they're available in the Outlet store for £18 a pair which I'm happy to pay!)

Ha - you have me beaten by a whole inch Silver Queen! BUT I have long legs for my height hence the standard petite being too short. I used to love Next jeans but found the same thing on the increasing price tag - I refuse to pay that for a pair of jeans either!

Prolific just came up trumps with a nice £2.50 survey - I've been a lazy mare on there this week so need to get back to checking it. Now showing £6.35 payable with £5.37 pending.

Today will not be particularly MSE-friendly as I'm meeting a pal for dinner. However - the pal concerned is a fellow MSE'er and so vouchers have been obtained! I don't often go out midweek so it will be a really nice change! :T

Decent amount of kitchen progress over the last few days - it's really starting to come together now although the electrician has done the dirty on us by putting a switch in the wrong place and now says he's "too busy" to come back and fix it. He's got until lunchtime to agree to sort it before I get his details out on social media with our town as the hashtag... I'll be furious if I have to pay extra for sorting it now not least as it seems he knew before I paid his final bit of bill that it needed doing. Anyway very much hoping that by the end of today we will have a fridge back in the kitchen at which stage I can organise to get the old one and the dishwasher collected. :T

I need to start thinking about the new rubbish bin and kettle and stuff we'll need - might have a browse around at the weekend although I'm pretty sure that we know which bin we're going for. I love the "SimpleHuman" ones but there's not a chance I'm paying the prices they want and their more "budget" stuff looks really poorly made (to be honest the expensive ones don't look that great!).

Prolific is quiet this morning. Did a short YouGov one earlier though so that's another 50 points to the good. Taking SO long to get there with those though!