Live on £4000 for a Year, 2009 Challenge, part 1

savingfortravel

Hi JD-Could be your pipes. Hope you get it sorted. X Hugs

Aims for today

1. Positive Mental Attitude
2. F not F-Sit up/Exericise Bike/Arm Lifts
3. F not F-Increase amounts of F and Veg I eat
4. F not F-4th Non Choc Day
5. Carry on De-cluttering Spare Bedroom

Breakfast:Muesli Lunch: Cheese and Tuna Salad. Dinner: HM Spicy Parsnip soup.

Hope everyone has a productive day.
SFT

JAMIEDODGER

thanks CW. Im assuming I do have a heating system with HWC. There should be no reason my water supply would be cut off. Hmm unsure what to do now....

Cat_Addict

I don't know Jamie - I think I'd be assuming frozen pipes too but I'd be on the phone to the HA's emergency repairs number - one benefit of being with them.

JAMIEDODGER

thanks guys x

cw18

JAMIEDODGER wrote: »

thanks CW. Im assuming I do have a heating system with HWC. There should be no reason my water supply would be cut off. Hmm unsure what to do now....

We lose ours now and again due to burst mains and such..... since moving down here (just over 7 years now), we must have lost it at least once a year !!!

And when it is because of a burst mains, when it first comes back it's really horrid and murky from the soil etc that's got into the pipes. This means we have to run the taps for a while to clean it -- but they don't/won't credit us with anything on our water bill to cover the extra useage due to this (we've been metered since moving down here)


ETA: There should be an emergency number for your water authority in the phone book. Ours puts a recorded message when there's a problem. If there's no message, then once a few people have been in touch they're likely to come out and check the area. I assume you've checked your other cold taps? Is your toilet cistern filling after a flush?

fizzel81

Morning all

thanks Jd, your post made me check my taps thankfully there ok, but it looks mega cold out this morning, can you phone the water board and ask them? i wouldnt a clue what to do with things like that as ive never had to deal with them iykwim

ds back to school today and is awake very excited about it, other 2 still sleeping why is it they only lay in on school days anything after 7 on a weekend is typically unheard of.

need to go into ds school and feel his meal forms out, once ive done it there sorted and forgotten about (i hopefully think)

i need to find some leggings? any ideas i got a pair in summer from asda for abour 2 quid, its so cold i want them to wear under trousers couldnt spot any there last night.

really tired this morning hopefully snap out of it, and with the school run comeing up i can shift some weight, boys go to the school/preschool furthiest away from the house half up half downhill back to doing the walk 3 times a day i won pay 2 quid on the bus to go a few stops or even 3 quid a day if i top up my oyster card.

just me and ds3 this morning but its looking like he needs the dr's his eyes are all sticky again so must sort that, the market is also on so im going to have a wonder around

must get dressed and sorted byebye xx

mumzyof2

Morning all... about to do school run so cant stay long... Just wanted to say Mollymop I remember you telling me about that but did not know you had got it in your bank ..thats great!

Back later everyone

sophiesmum_2

Good morning frunchkins:D

Busy day ahead here, lots of paperwork to get through and sort office this morning then this afternoon have big screen cinema show coming showing Mamma mia on a 6ft screen for oldies.

My general aims for today are:

• make a loaf in breadmaker
• sort and declutter my office and work e- mails:eek:
• reduce. reuse or recycle at least one item - tin of xmas chocs
• Do one thing just for fun - watch Mamma Mia with oldies
• Do one nice thing for me -long soak in bath tonight with xmas smellies
• Do one nice thing for someone else - (pinched from fayjmck- lovely idea) donate my xmas chocs to oldies for cinema show

Today's frugal menu:

• 2 satsumas
• batch cooked carrot and lentil soup, HM houmous and sprouted seeds on HM seeded bread.
• batch cooked ham and veg casserole, sugar free jelly with tinned fruit

F&V portions - 4 Veg ,3 Fruit, 2 Pulses

Today's extra income / expenditure
Aiming for a no spend day

Forgot to say well done BB on the freecycle oven - great result, bet you are glad now it was xmas and you couldn't rush out and buy one at the time

fizzel81

oh well im still here as such ds1 eye very red and ds2 and 3 have scabby eyes again shouldnt be annoyed but was looking forward to a morning with ds3 but i also need to chase some appointments up for him and get his pre school to chase or see if they can help chase up as well as ive had his hospital letter which doesnt shed much light on ds3 other than aying he has significant speech, language and social communication delay with obsessive features in behaviour and play

never rains but it poors in my house

Janey51

kittikins :grouphug: Been there, done that.
Keep coming back and venting your feelings on here. It's only the beginning of the year so things will get better.
At the moment you probably need the health giving properties of goodies and particularly chocolate