Friday 19 December 2014. What small DFW stuff will you do today?

Morning all

Need a decent list today, after being poorly, looking after baby GD on Wednesday and being downright lazy yesterday

Check banks

Feed chickens which seem to have settled down ok

Put breadmaker on

Continue food/ grocery shopping list - nearly there I think!

Wrap those presents so we can use the dining table again :eek:

Find out the Christmas decorations to decorate the sweet little fir tree I bought at Lidl, in lieu of a traditional Xmas tree. We did have a 'proper' one which lived outside in its pot for most of the year, but it had grown too big to bring in this year, so has gone to live with DD1, who has planted it out with some other young trees. Her two little girls have hung decorations on it as they didn't want it to be left out of the festivities just because it is growing outside :rotfl:

Cleaning

Make some mince pies and possibly some biscuits as well. There is a lovely recipe for gingerbread tree biscuits in today's online Guardian

Make marinated salmon for dinner later

Hope I get all that done!

Have a nice day everyone

Morning Campers!
And here are today's efforts:
*Cleaned whole house using minimal products.
*Finalise next week's meals up till Christmas Eve, check final baking plans & write shopping list.
*Saved a teensy bit of energy by sharing bath tub & turning another radiator down a notch.
*Updated energy spreadsheets as had taken weekly meter readings but not collated the figures.
*Checked Dec's budget as it's still a few days till pay-day, & then we have that L-O-N-G month ahead till the next one. We're in the black, but have spent all December's grocery budget - I've saved the £62 on our Co-op dividend card for tomorrow's shop, then January's budget will commence on Dec 27th.
*Arranged BACS transfer from emergency fund into current account ready to pay bathroom bill. At least we are able to borrow the shortfall from ourselves rather than some or other interest-charging organisation. Bill (BNPL) not actually due till end of Feb, but I'm getting twitchy about it because if for any reason it got overlooked, we are instantly locked into monthly payments & the total charge rises from under £5K to over £11K.......that is NOT a route I'm prepared to go unless a totally massive emergency presents itself!
*Did a couple of quick projects for an online community I'm on at the moment. Signed up for another product trial - I've done 2 recently, so may not be picked for this one, but it's a guaranteed £10 voucher for those who take part, so nothing ventured, nothing gained!
*Entered a competition. It's only a draw, but the prize is to pay a year's worth of energy bills, so thought i'd better at least kick my name into the hat!
*Lunch & dinner - Using up stuff in freezer.
*Paid first coins into my new sealed pot.....notice mr f's clearly been stuffing his with coins.....I reckon he's looking at this as a competitive pursuit :-)
*Empty out Big Change Jar as we are discontinuing it. Will do this after lunch while I'm waiting in for the Virgin Media engineer. it's mostly coppers, with a bit of silver. Will see what there is, then decide what to do with it.
*Filing session for financial/admin stuff.
OK, that's me, off to find some cash bags.
Have a good day all.
f x

Hi all

Happy Friday!

I passed a professional exam this morning so treated myself to a Terrys Chocolate Orange in the supermarket.

I'm working from home now and have saved about 40 miles worth of fuel today (as exam center is nearer than the office). I finish in just over an hour and OH is out tonight so want to make the most of some productive time and sort my wardrobes out.

I plan to throw, donate and sell items that I don't want, but won't be doing the selling until the new year.

Evening All


Its Freezing here


ive been very lazy today
ive got my works nite out I could run a mile I just want my pjs on
and watch tv
its all paid so I should smile
try and run away about 11pm


better get my finger out xxx