Bank holiday weekend "What small dfw things have you done???" thread

Pippilongstocking

SM what time where you up????? Hugs today and have fun pootering about. Will PM you about something

Tallie - those shifts sound killer!! Take care me dear xx

My list - first off its lemsip lemsip lemsip

Beware of evil mainland and all its bugs - recite this several times
Check bank its teetering and I ironically have £400 to put into the bank and no means of doing it today....doh
Food from cupboards
Write (already started)
Feed chookies - we are down to one egg a day - silly hens - they didn't stop in the winter and now they do!!
Pot up some more of the exploding veggies in the garden
Work quietly cos everyone else is still asleep including the puppy in the middle of a king size bed - hmmmm
Think about going to the doctor - they are circulating lots of things here about anyone with a cold/flu going into the docs - seems pretty silly to me cos its just a bad cold but OH and SIL seem to think its stupid not to go
DD has homework to finish
DS has to walk the dogs (we did it yesterday )
Email pal about house in Spain and see if we can rent it for a week - woo hoo - OH he says yeah.......we can go
My friend has broke her foot so need to get a card sorted
Brother over for tea - must do forms
Meal planner for May - I am missing this as its not done yet!!

Hope you all have a great day - enjoy it if you are off - down side of flexible working is sometimes you have to work on bank holidays - especially when you are as lazy as me.



angela110660 - well for me (we live on an island - rural but in the sea ) I got the local newspapers from the area I wanted to visit and went for a long weekend - friday to monday to be able to go and look around get the local papers and visit a few places to get an idea of where I wanted to be. Then I made some contacts with local solicitors/farms/letting agents in the area (farms usually have cottages which often come up for rent) so I started like that. Subscribed to the local newspaper and internet site for the area - for our first house we posted up an advert on the local internet site, our second house came from the paper, third from a contact made via a visit and made some good contacts. Dunno how SM did it - but that's how we managed. Once you are in an area or have a regular 'presence' or a good contact its easier to find somewhere. UP here as well its easier to get a let in the winter as the holiday houses often look for lets and often then its easy to find a proper place.....goodluck - sure SM has lots of advice

my_mess

For me today (some done, some still to do)
- checked online banking (as rubbish as I expected)
- daily clickies and scratchies (25p+10p)
- meals from stores
- my third NSD of May !!
- cut dog's fringe
- add 10 listings to Ebay (have done the photos)
- pack up Ebay sales for sending
- read book for free entertainment
- some frantic housework (free exercise)
- iron 10 items
- make packed lunches for Tuesday
- investigate opening an Etsy shop for my handmade stuff ??
- use up some more of my toiletry stash
- no need to water seeds (piddling down with rain)
- do a new snowball for my debts
- give some serious thought to what on earth I am going to do with the rest of my life !!

Ho Hum...........

savingfortravel

Hi Everyone!!
Well it is a bit overcast here today but that will make it better walking weather for us. A bounce in my step knowing we'll be out in the countryside. Taking a friend with us today. Hope that goes well but she might find us a bit slow and not want to stop for wild flowers etc..



So will quickly write my aims.

• Go for a walk-petrol costs only.-DONE
• Breakfast/lunch from storecupboard/fridge/freezer. Doing well with running freezer down. Eating up the homemade soups next week. I can eat soup all year round.-SORT OF DONE-DID HAVE A HOME MADE SCONE WITH BUTTER AND JAM AFTER WALK WITH COFFEE-£3.10 TOTAL COST. HAD SOME SOUP AT HOME SO STILL CHEAPER THAN A LUNCH OUT.
• Finish letter to friend in Australia.-EMAILED TO SAVE POSTAGE
• 2 hours school work-I am now going to set myself a time limit as I could fill every spare moment with work for school.
• Finish tidying up.-Done
• Read my book for 1 hour.-started

Have a great day all!

SFT

Lottebear

Today I am,

Meeting a friend for lunch, getting a life with OH, so he will join us, which means using a 2-1 deal might not work out as well, never mind.

Do some more ironing, all the hoilday clothes.

Visit gym this afternoon.

Done daliy card 35p

Light tea tonight from fridge, freezer.

urg123

Hi Everyone

Just managed to get up - was thinking about it for some time:rolleyes:!

SM - so nice to hear about your house! Will you be moving far from where you are? Do keep up posted - it won't bore us at all. In fact I think it is insprirational.

It's lovely to hear everyone is doing so well and (mostly) enjoying the bank holiday weekend.

I managed to get a lot of my shopping paid for thanks to my lovely parents and OH. I am going to try to work out what I spent so that I have an idea for the Grocery Challenge.

Today is the last day of full revision - have got lots to do and am feeling very motivated.

Today I will:

• Revise ALL DAY
• Update spending diary
• Clean bathroom
• sweep kitchen floor
• washing HC
• try to match up some socks
• Maybe do a bit of yoga to help my back - so much sitting around is not good for it.
• Storecupboards meals
• Storecupboard snacks
• Eat mangoes to make me think of summer

Have a great day

urg x x

Pips_Mum

Hello lovely peeps

SM - :eek:What time!!
Urg - Keep up the good revision work, will be worth it in the end
Fay - Keep sipping those yucky lemsips

Not much DFW stuff for me today:

• Load car for our frugal trip to Devon, we have £50 to spend and thats it!
• Fill car with Petrol at MrTs so we get clubcard points
• Make sandwiches for journey, cant find flask so may have to buy coffees:eek:
• Toast for brekkie so we dont waste the rest of the bread
• Scratchees
• Drop off some Ebay parcels for my mum to post whilst we are away
• Give seedies a good drink to last whilst we are away.
• Laugh at Pip playing with a balloon left over from Saturday, who needs expensive toys for them:rotfl:

Have a lovely Bank Holiday Monday all x x

andan

Morning guys, hoping for a fairly busy day today as its a last day to catch up, however if you had seen me an hour ago you wouldn't have thought i was going to do anything! Had really bad sharp stabbing pains in abdomen and intestines which limited me doing anything, however gave myself an abdomen massage and its gone now, the power of massage!!

Tallie, re short break, could you wait for travel lodges £9 room sale. We did that and managed to go to Cornwall for three nights for £48 for accomodation and then £40 petrol there and back from Winchester.

Have a good time away Pipsmum and am glad the ceremony went well, with exception to one or two people.

Things for today:
-I have loaded car with massage gear ready for client
-Gave myself a free massage getting rid of pain and meaning i can have a productive day
-I have repotted five tomato plants and put them in my small green house, here's hoping they grow
-I have checked online banking
-Transfered small amount into isa
-Paid off credit card bill
-Checked credit card balances
-I will sort out two mystery shops for tomorrow
-I have emailed client regarding Sat pamper party
-I will give client massage treatments later
-On way back will buy lawn mower blades, meaning only one trip and saves on petrol
-Cut grasses front and back
-Rake up garden waste around the ivy
-I have done daily scratch cards
-do big pile of ironing
-Sort out socks so we actually have some matching pairs to wear!
-Hoover through out house
-give fresh bedding to student
-Post back love film dvds so i am making the most of the service
-Meals from storecupboard
-Sort out some massage money and put in 101 pot
-sort out weekly agenda
-Sort through 100 emails
-do some surveys
-Transmit shop and scan
-Start next O.U unit
-Read intro to course book 2
-Print out reports re children
-Update blog
-Write diary
-Review 101 goals
-Contact friends using free minutes
-Have withdrawn £10 from scratch cards
-Look at and create plan for business finances
-Take meter readings and input in site
-Read fave threads
-Look for spa days on ebay
-Check out canoeing for my birthday
-Respond to ad re friends
-File away financial papers
-check out freebie section
-Get up to date with challenges
-Read business site for advice
-Upload clothes i have put on turbo booster and get them put on ebay where they belong
-Spend some time reflecting on the day and how lucky i am

enjoy what the day brings guys, hope you have a good bank holiday monday.

Pippilongstocking

LOL - OH's gone back down south to work and his company have made taken note of my 'situation' and he needs to notify them after I have been to the doctors. Inbetween times he is supposed to keep in contact with me to 'keep an eye on me'.

Waves through isolation of bedroom and laptop (writing up woo hoo - yeah still).
Docs not open today and I am not going to the local hospital to get a 'cold' checked out.

OH insisting I go tomorrow lol
PS Andan - ouch to sore tummies glad its better now.

sophiesmum_2

Thanks for pm fay.:D

Cleosmum

Fay, I thought the advice was to stay well away from docs and hospitals, stay in and ring NHS Direct?