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Re: Preparing for Winter V
We’re the opposite end of the range, as we’re in a tiny top-floor rented flat so no log-piles for us!! I shall be checking the washers on the ‘stone pigs,’ our Victorian ceramic hot-water bottles whi…8 -
Re: From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future
Back to money saving! I made lentil soup for lunch. It has been driech all morning..... 5 minutes before I dished up, the sun came out and it is now splitting the pavement 🙄😂 Anyhoo, the soup has bee…7 -
Re: From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future
badmemory - no, actually we haven't - something to ponder on. And yes, that is 'sort of' all I want to do with LG is keep their brain cells 'ticking over'. I don't need them to read War&peace now…7 -
Re: From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future
My brother had feedback from school about one child's reading (we were all aware - eldest is a voracious reader like me, youngest wasn't interested like him at that age!), so we now have a family hol…7 -
Re: Learning to walk before I run
Fair play 😄6 -
Re: Learning to walk before I run
Anything over a tenner! 😉😂 (Sorry). KK6 -
Re: 2025 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD - The Joy of Decluttering
* Write a daily To Do list - only 3 tasks * Concerted effort to sort out sleep patterns - Realistic targets: bed by 2:00 a.m. & up by 10:00 a.m * Continue dealing with mail & email on a daily…19 -
E: 26/09 Win 2 places an a 7-night wellness break in Morocco + £500 towards flights
Condé Nast Traveller ‘Riad’ derives from the Arabic word for what? answer = Gardens Two spaces on Marrakech Retreats’ ‘Align in 7’ retreat running from 29 March 2026 – 5 April 2026A total contributio…55 -
Re: My experience of getting and running solar and battery
FWIW I think it should stay here, in Energy, at least for a few days. It'll get seen by folk beyond the sandals-and-lentils brigade :D6 -
Re: From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future
My dearest greenbee and Blackcats (OA's - online Aunties 😁). Success! We have literally just been doing what you have both described. Yesterday LG had seen a film advertised on TV - announcing it as …9
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