22 Foxhole East

Hello to Moominmama and kerri gt,come on in, I'll put kettle on.:wave:

That sunflower seed butter is also available in Tesco and Morrisons, not AS expensive, but still too expensive, if you see what I mean. A full pot of peanut butter in our house is seen as a challenge to their masculinity. Or so it seems. never lasts more than 48 hrs. Wouldn't be surprised to find them putting it on baked potatoes.

Yes indeed we are dodgy vegans - (not the bendy Wendy yoga vegans) so no honey for us.

I keep finding myself looking at seed packets. I did have a garden at our last but 3 house, but not here, just a yard, but it is a suntrap. DS4 brought home a french bean plant and a sunflower from school last year, they both went totally mental outside. White painted brick walls and no slugs or snails meant anything in pots did really well. So I saved some sunflower seeds and some seeds from the bean pole, and will plant them again. I think a grapevine might do well out there, and a cucumber and tomatoes. But not until the roof is done. Must get on with getting quotes.

Didn't watch Sherlock on Sunday, watched Endeavour instead. Must get round to watching it.

The budget was reduced this morning, £20 for gymnastics club after school for DS3 & 4. Was so surprised they wanted to do something together I whipped out my note and paid there and then. Leaving me with £10, which went to Mr M0rris' son on the remaining few bits on the list. - nothing left to buy food wise til lunchboxes on Monday. I have a hankering for overnight cinnamon buns for breakfast while DH is away.

So budget is £0 til Friday, and the car needs petrol. So the budget is going out the window. There it goes, wheee! Annoying, but I will try and keep it down to only the petrol.

Spent 3 hours stripping panels off doors, all those panel pins!! Heartily sick of claw hammers and pliers and my hands are sore. But one and a half doors less to do now and I can see where the handles are meant to go and I can plan on the replacement locks and handles so they are here and ready to go when carpenter dude comes 19th -20th of this month. I think 2 of the doors will not be able to be reused, but will try and strip and patch the others so they look good enough to reuse. I am probably just going to paint them white again. After all, it's just a door isn't it? How good does it have to be?

In other news, Stena finally sent me my prize crossing. Oh...My...Gods..... you have to submit a request BY POST with two dates and times of crossings which you are not guaranteed to get, the Ts&Cs are enormous, it reads like a threat, not a prize notification. Oh well, I was going anyway so it is a freebie. Not going to grumble if they make me jump through a few hoops and bark like a seal. I draw the line at bashing horns with my nose though. Parp.

The wifi curfew went well last night. DS2 came and chatted on the sofa for a bit before heading to bed to read. DS1 said I was a techno fascist. As we (adults) also had no wifi, I told him at least I am an equal opportunities techno fascist.
DH put on his best accent and said 'beatings will continue until morale improves'. No help there then. :rotfl:

DH packed off to Porto. He did not even notice I had taken the nasty fake wood panels off the doors. Can't be bad then can it? Will do some more today.

I am a terrible list maker. My lists have lists. I don't get 1/5 of the stuff done on my daily list, but at least I can never say I don't have anything to do. I am rarely bored, but a lot of what I have to do is 'boring'.

So as I am a single parent until Sunday morning, I can crack on and make a mess without a grown up complaining, luckily the kids get quite vocal when the food does not turn up on time, so they will keep me on track.

Today is a baking day, have bits and bobs in the fruitbowl to use up before they start looking too sad, and I want to surprise the kids with cinnamon rolls for breakfast tomorrow. The novelty of school has worn off. I am chasing them around on the landing at 7.30 and they are having trouble getting up in the morning. Think I may have to shunt bedtime for the smallest two back to 6.30 until they can get up.

Right, off to feed these kids
Have a great day, and if this snow does not turn up I am going to be miffed. The weather used to come after the news, recently, the weather IS the news. When did that happen? And as to naming storms, I mean please! Ridiculous.