£70 a day's what the panda will pay!

beanielou

Glad you had a nice lunch.
Thorntons bargains sound good

pandapaws

Thorntons bargains ALWAYS sound good!
Sounding fab right now...

retrocircles

Oooo Thorntons easter eggs! I would have cleared the shop.

Lovely to hear you had a nice day with DH though. Sometimes you just need it, right? Well done.

boredofbeingathome

OMG Thorntons Easter eggs? Oh well would save my waist line..i think it's there somewhere! lol

chevalier

hi panda
I seem to have kept missing your diary so am glad to have caught up with you a bit.

Sorry to hear that you are having such a tough time with Greg and his eczema. For me too the only thing that worked was Aveeno cream and the bath oil in the bath. The other thing I got told was to NOT bath DS1 everyday, as that just dried out the skin. So we just bathed him every other day and that seemed to help. Have you also talked to your health visitor about cutting out foods? Some seem to make eczema worse so you might want to do some research?

Well done on not going too overboard with the expenses check. And I know what you mean about just having a 'liitle lunch' cos you are both home....:rolleyes:

The only thing I would check with the tent idea (assuming any of what is going in there is valuable), is whether it would be covered by your insurance, if say a tree fell on it, or someone swiped stuff out of it?

I would also mention that the dividing the garage in half to get more room may seem like a plan. But when we were looking for houses with a garage, turning up to find it had been converted or that it had half been and you could just about fit a bike in there but nothing else, was really off putting. I know you have only JUST moved, but it is something else to consider.

Thank you for talking about doo yoo again. Pls pm me your name and i will get around to reviewing yours...and pania's .... and hypnos..... and doing some of my own review:eek:

take care
chev

pandapaws

Am I the only one that finds DooYoo really hard work? It's a fab site, but it's very labour intensive reading all the reviews that other people have written. Not that I'm complaining, it's just that along with all the other things I try to squeeze into the limited free time I've got, I'm finding that it is taking over slightly...any tips greatly appreciated.

Chev, if only someone would steal the whole sodding lot, I'd love it! But I think they'd run a mile when they saw what a pile of junk it is. Anything that's valuable like tools etc will be kept in the garage or the house, it's the general tat that's going into the tent until such time as it can be Freecycled/sold/put in the attic. Re the garage conversion - it'll still have garage doors on the front, and so look like a double garage, but the back will be a large room. If we ever decide to move (not this side of retirement hopefully!) it would be easy just to take the partition down and restore the garage if potential buyers wanted that.

Greg's skin isn't too bad at the moment, although the backs of his knees are still quite sore. We did try reducing the number of baths for a while a few months ago but it didn't seem to make any difference and while it was at its worst I think it might have made the infected skin worse, so we're back to bathing him every night now. The skin consultant at the hospital said he was sure it was just baby eczema, and not an allergy. I did loads of reasearch into allergies before that and apparently less than 10% of eczema cases babies are allergy related, and of those only a small %age show significant improvement if the allergen is removed, so I suppose it's just one of those things that we have to live with for a bit longer. I'm really hoping he grows out of it fully sometime soon though, but thankful in the meantime that it's not too bad at the moment.

Been off work the past few days, got a little done in the garden but not really achieved a great deal if I'm honest. DH finally fitted some lights in the en-suite yesterday and we finally put the mirror up that's been sitting there for months and months. Nice to get on with a few little niggling jobs even if it's not massive progress.

hypno06

Dooyoo is quite labour intensive - but it is great when you are stuck on the sofa with no energy to go and do anything any more productive

I've had £200 from it so far - that is an awful lot of sitting on the sofa - must make an effort to get out more :rotfl:

pandapaws

I did consider getting OH to do the reading and rating bit, but I suppose that's cheating a little and I'd probably miss out on loads of stuff.

Karmacat

When I had a blitz on dooyoo last weekend, all of the reading reviews bit was like going on the internet for the first time, in the 1990s - it was so fascinating to leap from page to page, it didn't much matter what it was at first... very odd. But great fun. I can imagine doing the reviewing bit when I'm just watching tv, but the only trouble is, the only tv I watch these days is almost entirely stuff I *really* want to pay attention to, none of it is bubblegum. Such is life.

PS - have you been "badgered" enough lately? How you doing?

pandapaws

Karmacat wrote: »

PS - have you been "badgered" enough lately? How you doing?

Thank you! Yes, not doing too badly, we coloured in 5 squares last night :j4 of themblue/green for normal payments, the last one because we were just £29 off hitting the £75k barrier, so paid an extra £30 so we got to colour in a red square for going below £75k - yay!

We're totally skint though .