Wednesday 4th January 2006

Rebob

Its took hours to catch up on here....DS is back to school tomorrow, he is at my mum and dads at the mo. DH is asleep on the sofa at the mo in the other room. He came home from work full of cold, ate his tea and then felt lightheaded so went to sleep.

Having a last few quiet moments before ds returns.

Hope that everyone has had a lovely christmas and that we all settle well into the new year.

skylight

Late post today!

Floors washed and thats about it!

Off to Tescos soon. I have tried for 2 days - and gave up before I even made it to the car park yesterday. Monday the car park was so full, I witnessed a man attacking this woman because he claimed she "stole" his parking spot (!!!!!!???) I came home - lifes too short to get that upset about a parking spot and Tescos!!! (Tescos Security Staff are quick though). So doing Tescos soon once the kids in bed and the roads are empty! Not that I need much!

Been booking my hols! Using the Clubcard vouchers (Not doing Disneyland now because of Passport Problems for DD1), so we are doing a Caravan at Haven for the May/June half term, a weekend in Paris for OH and I, and a week camping at another Haven site in July Hols. Thanks Mr T!

Catrina - I have mother problems too! She moans about everything, about the way I should be doing things and what a bad Mum I am. this is from a woman who should have won worst mother of the year award. So this year, I intend to tell her nothing about whats really going on at home and agreeing with her and being smooth! (like the cheese comment!)

Lastly, seeing the Docs in the morning. I am vastly overweight. I joke about it, but I need to lose about 6 stone. But as I am 6ft tall, is not really that horrific! Although when I sit down, it all gathers round my middle! So off to do the Cholestoral and blood pressure bits and bobs tomorrow before I Keel over from a stroke. Mind you, I have lost 1 stone already by OSing my meals!

Have fun with whats left of the day - and hope you sleep better!

freyaluck

evening all
had a headache all day only went an hour ago, not much has been done.
Made a start on the girls room and hope to finish while they are in the bath, which is run, just waiting for them to brush their teeth.
sending dp off to sainsburys with a shopping list, as we need a few bits and I want to try out my easio tonight.
baby is loving his solids, have a feeling thats why he has started sleeping through, he's sat on my lap chatting away to the piccy of martin hehe.
hope the move goes well cq
I can't wait until we get moved this flat is so poxy and i am desparate for a garden, which will also be great for the kids.
any way off to do the girls room
frey

tootles_2

Whats been wrong with the site tonight had a great deal of trouble getting on and then could not load the pages......

Rebob

I got a message saying that the site was down???

SnowyOwl_2

There are a couple of thousand people using the site at the moment!!
I got the message about the site being down too...after a while I could get in and tried to find out the reason for the problems, and concluded it was gridlock!
Martin is going to be delighted though (shame about the new servers!)

joannasmum

Kylie wrote:

Hi joannasmum,

I am wondering how you can spend only £150 per month on groceries? My partner and I seem to spend so much more than that and its only us!

Do you set meal plans or only buy things on special?

I used to be able to buy in bulk a little more, freeze left-overs etc etc, but now we are living in a house with only a half size fridge and the freezer wouldn't even fit my cat (I have not tried this).

I am at a loss...

Hi Kylie
Sorry about taking so long to reply only just been able to get on the site. My budget wasnt always so good this time last year it was proberly triple that overspending has got us into over £13000 of debt and its isnt going to happen again. To be honest it is a combination of gradually weaning OH and little sis who lives with us off branded food and tonnes of pepsi and also out necessity this month we only have £150 pounds left over after the rest of our expenses so that all I've got to spend its normally nearer the £200 . It helps with OS's that I've got a good size freezer double on on portions to make sure I dont fall pray to takeaways when we are tired. I shop in Aldi or Lidl weekly with a list and the butchers and tesco monthly, but because of the limited funds this month we will be using up meat from the freezer.

HTH

kiwichick

SnowyOwl wrote:

There are a couple of thousand people using the site at the moment!!

Me thinks Martins "Make Me Rich" might be the culprit Allthe new people being inspired to come and save the MSE/OS way.

:beer: WELCOME ONE AND ALL :beer:

Rage_in_Eden

I had problems too..................