Squirrel's Smiley, Smart and Solvent Diary

redsquirrel80

I will sort it out before next time - promise!

Gardening - we have onions, garlic, beetroot, chard, radishes, spinach, peas, other peas for pea shoots, komatsuna, parsnips, potatoes and assorted herbs sprouting outside. Carrots planted but no sign of them yet. Inside at the moment are - lettuce, rocket, more herbs, brussel sprouts, tomatoes (with accompanying marigolds), french beans, haricot beans, sweetcorn, peppers, chillis, courgettes. Aubergines refuse to sprout yet! The nematodes arrived the other day so hopefully we will win slug wars at some point soon!

On the wild front we found lots of wild garlic, and have made pesto and stir fry with it so far. Also made soup with dandelions, nettles, wild garlic, sorrel, bits and pieces of herbs and some spinach (spinach came from the freezer not the wild!).

Karmacat

Wow! Thats a fantastic piece of work you've done there already.... I guess its a bit early for aubergines.... I saw an eating from the wild programme last week, where she made a wilted salad or whatever its called, using couch grass - brilliant use for a weed, I have to say, and its certainly cut and come again

I've just been out for my walk round the block - my hands and feet are warm again, thank heavens. On with the paperwork now....

redsquirrel80

Hooray for warm hands and feet!

I didn't know you could eat couch grass, we've been pulling plenty of that out of the garden. Off for a google...

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Ahem. Lets change the subject. Gardening! Edible wild plants! They're all good! Mind you, just taking a break now, I'm starving - and those McVitie's digestives I bought yesterday on offer at Asda won't eat themselves, y'know

So what's the growing conditions of a wild McVitie's digestive then?

Karmacat

Erm ....:D humid hydroponics. And it likes lots of ambient noise, for some reason. No soil at all, ever

redsquirrel80

Karmacat wrote: »

humid hydroponics

Aka dunked in a cup of tea?

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Good thing I wasn't drinking said cup of tea, my laptop would be soaked!

redsquirrel80

*hides from diary regulars at massive addition to clothing budget*

But they were things I need.. OK not quite - could live without but replacing old stuff I've thrown out and will definitely get worn. All items I've looked at for weeks before deciding. Got them very cheap too, and I do have the extra holiday spending money left, still feel a bit guilty though! Will be surveying like mad for lots of vouchers for the rest of the year!

Payday tomorrow so have updated sig with debt totals.

Should hopefully have contract and proper starting date for new job very soon

Karmacat

Listen to that guilt! It *is* your money, you know, not ours.... whats the damage? From your sig at the mo, itlooks like you've spent £77 of the £100 clothes challenge? Is that for the year? Okay, you're probably going to go over.... but I know you've been making overpayments, you're still ahead of the game!

redsquirrel80

The thing is - I know I can afford to spend this money (well have already spent it obviously), I just feel like I should be more, er, frugal I guess, and that I've not kept up the standards I should... this site makes me feel accountable to everyone else at times - usually a good thing


Anyway, it's payday today, hooray.. and I have about £1400 in the bank which is nice! Got my contract for new job yesterday and I start on 24th, excited and scared... got lots of paperwork to read, tried to understand the stuff about the pension scheme last night and failed miserably Still can't quite work out how much I'm going to come out with every month but I think around £1200.. (plus bits from other jobs)... and I get more holidays and have to work 2 hours less a week