Live on £4000 for a year - part 4 (Oct - Dec 2008)

grandma247

thriftylass
When plants that flower are short of water they go into panic mode and produce flowers and fruit so they can reproduce. Chillies are hothouse/hotcountry plants so they would naturally like to be on the dry side. well done for keeping them going.

grandma247

Brighton belle
If you cover the glass with the plastic first it cuts down a lot of the condensation. also make sure you open the window or something once a day.
drip strips on the sill and maybe one or two of those moisture catchers may help you.

taka

Happy Birthday slowlyfading!!
:bdaycake:
I hope you have (had?) a good day!

Brighton_belle wrote: »

Taka - how's the declutter for xmas coming along now you are back at work?

Ohhhhh don't ask... way too slowly :eek: I'm beginning to panic that there aren't enough days left... :eek: I have been cracking on with it but the to do list for each room is huge... Today has seen me clear the walk in hall cupboard and start filling it with loads of stuff in a more organised manner. Plan B if I don't get time to go through everything (very likely) is fill all the cupboards (and possibly the box room) with my junk and pray no-one needs to go into them. The upside is I keep finding lots of lovely things I own - there are rather a lot of them though!

:santa2: Hello all newcomers and reappearing old friends! Hugs to anyone who needs them :grouphug: (sorry they are dodgy ones).

Right... time for tea and more decluttering :wall: :rolleyes:

MRSMCAWBER

Evening all

Thought I would pop by in anticipation of the new thread starting..ooohh exciting :j can't wait

I am in the middle of planning n plotting my veggies for next season (the potio appotment)..saving loads there again hopefully...have the broad beans set and have some over winter peas going in tomorrow;) ..I have even started a blog after some prodding by other MSE members
I have been in hospital this week (have escaped for the weekend) but have to be back Monday morning :rolleyes: .. so I have spent my time plotting my veggie growing and drawing up my diary/planner ready for this challenge as I'm hoping to cut our grocery spends down further :A :rotfl:
Anyway -Can't wait to join in the new one -and if I join in at the very begining then I WILL keep up :T
hope everyone is well

purplevamp

Happy Birthday SF and Shaz :beer:

:hello: to all the newbies (I'm still new and finding my feet)

Haven't posted in absolutely ages, so a quick catch-up on what's been happening in my world...not much . I've been quiet as I've spent a bomb on Christmas (even with getting bargains and not getting into debt). I've got part of my Icesave money back but am still waiting for the ISA to get sorted and back into my Lloyds account.

I'll be making some snowman soup later today after spending about 2 weekings trying to find mini marshmallows, seems like everyone is after them atm!!

Made my first cookie tree on Thursday and gave it to the school fair yesterday. They sold it for £6 :eek: :T . (clicky if anyone wants to see)


Nyk - is the new thread up and running yet or am I a bit early?!

cw18

What a FABulous tree purplevamp :T

(think you're a bit early for the new thread yet..... I'm watching and waiting -- and [STRIKE]looking at[/STRIKE] recalculating my budget yet again!)

shaz_mum_of__2

Wow purplevamp love the tree

Got my christmas tree up today and hubby has made huge headway in garden while i dozed with a weepy in bed

Going to try and blog our veg plot progress when i get around to sorting it out

Had a NSD at least

Shaz

Frugaldom

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SLOWLY FADING! :bdaycake:

Mrsmcawber, I hope it's nothing too serious that they need you back in the hospital. Look after yourself, we need you on this challenge next year for more veggie growing tips. (I have a little blog site, too.)

Purplevamp - yummy looking tree! No new thread started yet, as I'm trying to put it off until after mid-month so as not to confuse anyone. But it'll be along shortly, that's for sure... this is my lifestyle, it won't be changing for a while now that I've managed to get 'a little place in the country'. :www:

Today's events:

1. Found a big, kidney shaped pane of heavy glass that must have come off an old dressing table. It's now on top of my makeshift cold frame/mini-raised bed, where Mr Weasel (or Mr Stoat) popped out to say hello!!! :eek: Must try to get some wildlife photographs, but I'm not very quick on the draw with a camera.
2. Stacked logs
3. Deserted all thoughts of working inside or out and went for a nice, long, frugal walk along the edge of the forest.
4. Now need to make a meal of some description to use up some cooked chicken.

Thriftylass - More free scratchcards? Tell us more, please. I already do Tak€abr€ak and Butl!n$, which is one of the $t M!nver sites, so can't do L!ttlew00ds, but would love to hear if there are any others.

sophiesmum_2

Love the cookie tree PV :T :T

dND

Blairweech - You have alpacas??? I bought mine from Devon although they are now expats.