Squirrel's Smiley, Smart and Solvent Diary

Karmacat

:mad: to the slugs and :grouphug: to you and Mr Squizz both for the cold and the aftereffects of the mugging. Hope you can take it easy today.

evab_2

:wave:Hi red,

hope oh is Ok x

r.e. slugs, I got some copper tape to put around my broad beans to keep them off and seems to be working so far!

Numbers arrived for 1/2 mara btw!

redsquirrel80

Hi Ev! He's not too bad now, think we are both looking forward to a quiet weekend.

I've never tried the copper tape, might give that a go too - the more slug prevention methods in place the better I reckon.

Ooh popping home to check my post tonight, wonder if my numbers there

redsquirrel80

Yay my half marathon number had arrived, and my one for Race for Life in June.

Had a lovely weekend, great weather, went to farmers market, did some gardening, engaged in slug wars (wow beer traps are effective, the drunken little creatures...), had a wander round town, spent my Debenhams voucher on some underwear.. ate lots of lovely food - I have discovered new likings for Chanterelle mushrooms and Jerusalem artichokes, yum!

Had a bad night's sleep at the thought of work today though - sigh.

Spending now looks like this:

£5 - CD
£2.70 - pair of tights
£8.62 - supermarket
£3.10 - lunch in canteen
£16-ish food
£1.79 nail varnish

---

£37.21

Karmacat

The spending looks good, is it within budget? Ooh, chanterelles! Yummy yummy yum yum..........

redsquirrel80

Oh and .. weekend clothes...



And today:

ooh and

redsquirrel80

Karmacat wrote: »

The spending looks good, is it within budget? Ooh, chanterelles! Yummy yummy yum yum..........

Pretty much yep, although I suppose the nail varnish was a bit of an unnecessary buy - lovely pale blue colour though, and it's called 'Button Moon'! :rotfl:

Mm there is an amazing mushroom stall at the market - £1.20 for a box of Chanterelles which we had with garlic and butter with tagliatelle... drool....

Think I'm going to put £200 aside in my savings account for holiday so I don't touch it - not long to go now - two weeks on Thursday

sallyx

sounds like a lovely weekend and grrr to the slugs. I am so behind with the allotment, plating seeds etc, and there was me thinking I would be organised this month!

Cant believe your hols is that close, its come around quickly (although for you probably seems like an eternity!)

redsquirrel80

It does feel like ages, especially as we're not going away at Easter now - am looking forward to a nice long weekend at home though, and maybe a couple of days out depending what the weather is like.

The slug traps were so full on Sunday morning - yuck! It's rained overnight though so not sure if they'll be out in force again today. We're due to have snow later this week - SNOW!!! :eek:

I have transferred £200 to my savings for the holiday - we have about £50 to pay for the last night's hotel and then just meals etc to pay for - I probably won't need that much but at least it's put aside.

Popped a bit of 'spare change' into my overdraft, which leaves £770 in my current account. £500 rent, £50 phone bill and £4 Lovefilm to come out of that, and £50 other job pay to go in, leaving me with £266. No major spends planned... food, going out for lunch for a colleague's leaving do on Wednesday, could do with a couple of cheap t shirts as I had to throw some out at the weekend (not even fit for gardening! )... but can't think of anything else. I must remember that I am a bit better off this month with the backpay and this is not going to be a normal state of affairs!

redsquirrel80

Slug wars continue.. there was some violent trowel action this morning :eek:

The atmosphere at work has calmed down a bit, we're moving offices in a couple of weeks so everyone is focussed on that. The work itself is still boring though - fingers crossed for the interview although I am a bit sceptical as they often have internal candidates who obviously have more internal knowledge. I think I've figured out that my ideal job would have me doing lots of different bits and pieces but I've not found a job like that yet! I am enjoying the second job so far, and I've been doing a bit of online mentoring through a site I found too which is very interesting.

Printed off a couple of knitting patterns for cushion covers which I think will make nice pressies.. talking of which, my colleagues have decided that I'm the 'homely' one in the office because I garden, knit, cook and have been known to make and bring in cakes occasionally - not quite sure how to take that when I'm the second-youngest in here - shouldn't I be the wild vodka-drinking one... oh well