The revenge of the stripey socks - a DFW adventure

Pippilongstocking

hampsterpoo wrote: »

welcome home

You'd be so proud - I saw

13 dead pheasants
2 dead birds of prey
1 dead deer
2 dead rooks
3 dead hares
6 dead rabbits
2 dead partridges

............and I didn't take even one home nor did I kill any

How's HP??

Pippilongstocking

Peedie update
Direct Debits off tomorrow - I sail very very close to the wind at the moment - but keeping a close eye and all *should* be OK - no extra payments but hoping the monster shop will really hit my grocery spends hard.

Forgot my clubcard as its on the other car keyring - DOH - so need to go into local tesco and get my points

I have to confess I didn't manage a chinese supermarket but got everything else on my list (and only one or two wee treats for DD baking and pasta making stuff).

The whole shop came in at - da da da da da daaaaaaaaaaa £286.11

Including a turkey, two bits of reduced fish and some bread (14 loaves of reduced bread:rotfl:couldn't help myself)

So Aprils Grocery challenge is £50 quid and so far none of that is spent aside the milk money - £4.50 a week (£9)

We have meal planned for the rest of the month and DS and I decided to do a month at a time isn't too scary really - so we are going to sit down again and do it for May in a few weeks.

He's wanting to go away for the mountain biking world cup in May in Fortwilliam - so I said we needed to keep the grocery budget tight - he suggested meal planning to me for May - lol:rotfl:

The garage is now renamed the stripey socks corner shop:rotfl::rotfl:



:j:jI now own stardrops:j:j

PS When did I get another star?

Pippilongstocking

Here we are the first ever stardrops in darwin

Boy do they make things sparkle!!!!

BLUis

Glad your home safe Fay.

x

hampsterpoo

fayjmck wrote: »

You'd be so proud - I saw

13 dead pheasants
2 dead birds of prey
1 dead deer
2 dead rooks
3 dead hares
6 dead rabbits
2 dead partridges

............and I didn't take even one home nor did I kill any

How's HP??

Fay I think you might have pasted a butchers shop or a taxidermists :rotfl::rotfl:

HP is fine and has been busy gardening , chopped down a un productive cooking apple tree ( 3 apples last year), trimmed bushes ,cut roses.

dug over more garden for more veg later ,
planted all my garlic, onion sets , & have tried some spinach, broad beans , peas seeds in the proper veg garden area, they have two weeks to sprout or else I'll start again cause they were old seeds.:D

Pippilongstocking

hampsterpoo wrote: »

Fay I think you might have pasted a butchers shop or a taxidermists :rotfl::rotfl:

HP is fine and has been busy gardening , chopped down a un productive cooking apple tree ( 3 apples last year), trimmed bushes ,cut roses.

dug over more garden for more veg later ,
planted all my garlic, onion sets , & have tried some spinach, broad beans , peas seeds in the proper veg garden area, they have two weeks to sprout or else I'll start again cause they were old seeds.:D

Well done you!! My courgettes and some other things havent come up and the seed was old so I need to go through my newer seeds. My cherry tree is blossoming (in the conservatory) and looks gorgeous (morello cherries yummy).

HP - um No not a butchers I passed on way home - just drove up the A9!!! major road kill and carnage.

Also saw 15 campervans (VW) only 10 waved back cutest ones were yellow one and a green one. The rest were as ugly - um sorry - new as Darwin.

Darwin did 997 miles - strange buzzing noise for most of it - OH disconnected the oil sensor when it was obvious there was absolutely nothing wrong - and yet it still buzzed quite frequently - bit twilight zone ish as the wires are NOT connected by about a foot.

Methinks me van is trying to tell me something - he's going back to the garage this week as it didn't do the buzzy thing until he was serviced!!

BLUis

hampsterpoo wrote: »

Fay I think you might have pasted a butchers shop or a taxidermists :rotfl::rotfl:

HP is fine and has been busy gardening , chopped down a un productive cooking apple tree ( 3 apples last year), trimmed bushes ,cut roses.

dug over more garden for more veg later ,
planted all my garlic, onion sets , & have tried some spinach, broad beans , peas seeds in the proper veg garden area, they have two weeks to sprout or else I'll start again cause they were old seeds.:D

Sounds like you had a wknd much like mine, but without an apple tree!

is the garlic you have planted one that you have had in pots inside or something? i have noticed that people have put them out in pots to get the frost?? ?? confused!!

Pippilongstocking

Hi Bluis - dont be confused

Garlic needs a certain amount of time a month or two at <10oc (Ideally at about 0oc) to sort itself out and then grow into lovely wonderful cloves.

We don't get much time below that here - mine went into the fridge for a while 6 weeks - before I planted them in the greenhouse - being in the arctic circle up here - I have grown garlic outside but tbh it was a bit dire. So now I give it space in my greenhouse. But anyone south can grow it outside no bother. Its traditionally planted on boxing day outside to give it a cold start to wake it up.

I am not a garlic nerd - I am a plant nerd

Uniscots97

Hi Fay, glad you're home safe. Well done on coming in under budget. Did you manage to get everything that was on your list?

BLUis

OIC I think

Lol, i am going to a garden centre later, might have a look what they got. I LOVE garlic!