Live on £4,000 for a year - 2009, Part 3

chika

Cheryl! Wow, I've just been looking at your siggy - I'm impressed with your food budget Where is Tyldesley? I need to stalk your supermarket!

cw18

West of Manchester, just before Leigh. South of the M61 between junctions 4 and 5.
(on the number 32 bus route - that's the one I used to/from work)

Frugaldom

Good afternoon to all.

Good luck for Tuesday, Aeb, you must be absolutely high as a kite by now but at least the element of surprise re the date of arrival has ended. Yippee! Virgo triplets!

SF, sorry to hear your news, I agree with everything that BB has said, couldn't have said it better.

Things here are rather calm, considering. The only thing that isn't calm is the weather!! All the guest arrival times have been delayed by several hours as their routes from north of Aberdeen were blocked this morning after the tremendous lashings the area took last night during the storms. Friend called first thing this morning to tell me then sis called to say it had just taken her about 90 minutes to get down into Aberdeen via the diversions. Hopefully, they are making good progress, but it's about a 6 hour drive from there to here at the best of times, so a long day for all concerned. Huge pot of soup at the ready and then I'll see who wants what as each group arrives - 2 lots from north Aberdeenshire, 1 lot coming from north of Stirling plus my parents - full house tonight, I reckon the elderflower champagne may be sampled then... DD's popping over en route to hotel where she's meeting DS and her dad & his family for dinner tonight. I just want it to be dry tomorrow. As for everything else - have wine, have voddie, have fags, friends & family, will party!

Sun is shining at the moment, best make the most of it and go rake and sweep outside and help prevent guests getting duck-pooped before they reach us! Oh, and let's not forget, we have a new chicken arriving along with one set of guests. :rotfl:

shaz_mum_of__2

Been a bit poorly so not about much

AEB -good luck for tuesday and take all the help thats offered !!

SF- sorry about your friend

NYK - have a great day tomorrow hope all your guests arrive safely and find the church ok..

Better go, got to rest or there will be no party here tomorrow

I think i will be stage managing hubby and ds in the kitchen in any case

Blairweech

Nyk - Fingers crossed the weather stays dry for you and your DD tomorrow, and that all your guests arrive safely. Doubt you will be on until after the event now, but I sincerely hope the day is all your DD wants it to be and that her and her new hubby are very happy together

SF - I can only send lots of hugs to you, although I know it is no comfort. I'm sorry.

Thankyou to all who sent hugs etc, it is much appreciated. Today has not been much better, had a stand up row with one of my supervisors (100% his fault) :rolleyes:

ANYWAY it's the weekend now _party_ :j (although I am working tomorrow, but it never really feels like 'work' on a Saturday) I am at loss as to what to do, will have to think of something quick!

Right, off to make cottage pie base in the slowcooker

thriftylass

Good evening,

On my way home from work today I picked some more blackberries and found two different kinds of crab apple trees in the park 5 min from our tennement. So I made my first ever jam :T. Got two 500g and two 250g jars which is more than I thought it would make. Also picked some roship but they didn't look that good in the end and I didn't really fance rowan jelly either. Maybe I'll be lucky and get some more blackberries etc.

Hope you enjoy the wedding tomorrow Nyk, here it's supposed to rain so I'm afraid the one we'll be going to will be a washout .

Aeb good luck for Tuesday.

P.S. Could anyone please tell me how to post pictures (couldn't find the post that did way back). Thank you very much.

cw18

Upload your picture to a hosting site (such as Photobucket)
Get a web browser so it shows your picture, then copy the web address from the browser
Come back to type your message, click on the icon above the message box
DELETE the text that's in the pop-up box, then paste in the address you copied before
Click on OK

thriftylass

Thanks cw, had to try it out right away. This is the jam I made today and the purse and draw string bag I crocheted this week.

lyndasharp

In case people who grow veg haven't noticed this in the freebies section, this site http://www.wigglywigglers.co.uk is giving you a free pack of seeds for signing up to their newsletter. I've just asked for some fennel!

lingojingo

hugs :grouphug: to all who need them

Nyk hope everyrthing goes well tomorrow and you all have a brilliant time.