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Horace wrote: »

Cheap date - a tin of soup:rotfl:

You get what you can, where you can, love!

Oh and I nipped into the cake shop too and bought some cake but did pick up a £2 coin in there:j

That's the only down side to NSDs - you don't get any opportunity to collect £2 coins by accident!

I am frantically trying to finish the year end off for one of the companies that I am responsible for - it is proving difficult as some directors have not yet submitted expenses for March in spite of my protests to get them to pull their digits out!

Horace

I hate it when that happens, you can nag them until you are blue in the face and they don't produce the goods until the day or even week after you needed them:mad:

Still trying to make sense of my self assessment form - methinks I will employ an accountant and then put their fee down on the form as well. I have made nowt but spent loads, and then my WTC form turned up today but thats easy dealt with as I shall take it to the chamber with me next week as they have promised to help me fill it in.

I wish I hadn't bought cake though. A tin of soup is jolly nice on a blustery day - but you can keep your mushroom variety though...eww mushrooms:eek:

Hope your directors sort themselves out soon, its in their interest to produce receipts.

strumpet

I know what you mean - mushroom soup is not my fave but the only othertin in the cupboard was oxtail and that's even worse. OH likes them though. Actually, chicken breasts cooked in Campbells condensed mushroom soup is lovely, especially if you toss in a handful of grapes 5 minutes before you serve it.

You can definately coult your accountant fee as a business expense if he's doing your books!

How did you get on Ebaying those gowns? Have you done it yet?

Everyone else seems to have disappeared - I thought I was in Coventry for a while, until you posted a message!

Horace

The gowns are going into a sample sale at my friendly local couture shop, I haven't ebayed the other stuff yet, did try and flog some to the rude bint who wasted 4hrs of my time on Monday:mad: Stupid 5 stomached creature - knows naff all about weddings and had the nerve to say that the stuff was old fashioned when it is in fact current:rolleyes: Anyway the word has gone out about her tardiness and rudeness so I doubt she will get any customers and local suppliers are likely to avoid her.

Strumps, please PM me your email address, I have an invitation to send you so that you can earn £3 for doing surveys - you get paid in luncheon vouchers (very Cynthia Payne:rotfl:). I know that you are not a man to turn down a free lunch:D

MrsPorridge

Hello All,

I feel like I have missed out so much - we have had no internet at home since last Saturday.:mad: When I phoned the internet provider help line (at premium rate of course) I had to use DH's mobile as I couldn't use the landline as that is the same as the internet, a taped message informed me that there was no internet as some engineers working on the Olympic site in London had bored through a BT cable and BT could not say how long it would take to fix it. :mad: What I can't understand is that we live over 350 miles away from London.:eek::eek:

Anyway I'm back now:j:j:j

I am ashamed to admit that I haven't kept my spending diary. But I will start again now. I am on my hollies from work:j Spent so far:

£10 on DS - for him to buy a book and towards a top he bought, also have him some money for helping with the housework

£37 in Tescos - it was absolutely manic in there:eek: I have never, seen it so bad - I think the place was rammed with holiday-makers - and the weather is foul today. In that was a luxury two bottles of cava (think they may both have to be drunk tonight):T I also bought some veet for the old legs in case the weather changes.:D

£27 on having my hair cut and blow dried - and it looks lovely though I say it myself.:rolleyes:

Two good things have happened MSE wise (I suppose). The first one the Council have balls up my council tax payments which were supposed to be over 12 months - they didn't take anything out this month so they have re-jigged it to come out over 11 months - so I'm better off by £127 this month. However, I did pay my buildings and contents insurance in one go (as I said earlier) so its more or less cancelled out. The other bit of news is that I have changed a direct debit that goes out on the 13th of the month to the 28th which is pay day, so in effect I won't pay that DD this month. Hopefully I can save a bit this month now and not go into the OD.

Happy Easter to all.:easter:

Horace

Happy Easter MrsP:icotbaske

I have managed to squeeze another NSD today but I am doing hopelessly badly on the make £10 a day challenge:rolleyes:

I will try not to spend too much tomorrow, my old school chum is coming over mainly to look at the gowns (she's already got her dress for her wedding) and then we are off to Brum to mooch around the shops (I hope they'll be open:rolleyes:), we shall have lunch out as well and I need to start looking for a dress for her UK reception (do you think a hat would be a bit OTT?).

MrsPorridge

Horace - I think a hat would be great. I love hats and am sorry that we don't wear them more often in this country. If its a really hot day (difficult to imagine I know) and you're standing about outside while the photos are being taken you will be glad of it.

Horace

Hi all

Unfortunately, I spent too much on Friday:rolleyes: I bought lunch but then my chum paid for us to travel to Brum on the train and she bought cake in Selfridges and afternoon tea in M&S.

I ended up buying a whole load of clothes and dare to whisper that I spent £581:eek::eek: but now I don't need to buy any more clothes for probably the next two years' at least. I picked up a lovely silk print skirt (chocolate brown background with silvery cream flowers on it) with matching scarf, I also bought the matching handbag, a bra, a lovely silk jacket with matching silk trousers (plain chocolate brown) but the jacket can be worn with the skirt. 1 red vest top, 1 blue vest top (these can be worn with the trousers and 1 chocolate brown knitted silk sleeveless top which can be worn with the skirt and the trousers and I bought a pair of high heeled shoes and i have a hankering over another pair of shoes as well but so far have managed to avoid buying them:D Now I have something to wear for my friend's wedding as well as for business meetings. I wore the trouser suit yesterday along with the high heels and ended up aerating the lawn with them:rolleyes: I do have an excuse about the trouser suit though it was vastly reduced:j

Managed with an NSD yesterday and today though:D

MrsPorridge

Oh Horace - how lovely. I hope you enjoy wearing your new purchases (I am sure you will). Now and again we just have to go mad over clothes!

I've had an NSD today. new plan of action is not to spend any money on tea and cake (my particular weakness whenever I go out anywhere - and believe me its difficult to avoid cafes and cream tea places in sunny Cornwall). Weather has been pants today and I haven't been out at all.

Tomorrow no NSD as I am meeting some friends for coffee. This was planned a week ago and does not count in my new regime of non tea and cakes!! It is literally just meeting up for coffee so does not constitute a day out!

DH and I were planning to put the panes back into the greenhouse but the weather put a stop to it. However, last week I did manage to plant some lettuces (which I did well with last year) and some carrots and tomatoes.

also I didn't have an Easter egg this year - just had a Mars bar instead.

strumpet

Hi everybody,

Well I had a super Easter Weekend and the singing I did over in Wallasey, brought in £200 which was twice what I was expecting. It was also the best laugh I have had in ages - we were all so rubbish at the Latin words. It was so difficult to keep a straight face. The congregation also bought us a box of Thornton's chocolate each to say thanks for enhancing their Easter worship. I hope we get asked back!!!

Went to Worcester on Sunday and rang a peal at the Cathedral yesterday - 3 housr and 56 minutes of ringing - my arms are so achey and my wrists are giving me real trouble - but it was brilliant and I really enjoyed it. When I got home after a 2½ hour drive, OH had cooked roast shoulder of lamb with a redwine and tomato sauce, with roasted rosemary potatoes and greens. What a welcome home! We cracked a bottle of bubbly and toasted a good Easter weekend.

OH is away from this Thursday to next Wednesday, so I must get down and do some studying for my resit.

Hope you're all Ok.

H - £581 - OUCH!!!!

Strumps