Tete en l’Air’s Feet On The Ground Diary

tinkerbel

aww! I want you to win the cottage!!

Flower08

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

"Well this is what you could have won, now go and get somewhere on the rough council estate where they let you have pets"

:rotfl:Im sure it wont get that bad, there are some nice landlords out there!! You just have to find them, if we get this house we will do ok out of it - fully refurbished and allowed cats, thank god!

Tete_en_l'Air

Oooh what a lovely light morning it was this morning, made me spring out of bed (almost)! Hopefully summer's on its way!

I was extremely pee'd off to log into Dooyoo and find I've had about £10 worth of points removed overnight, I've ranted about this on Dinah's thread so I'll not rant again (:o) but I think I will query it with them, seems like an awful lot to lose so I'd like an explanation. It has completely made me lose the will with the site though, at the moment all I want to do is churn out enough 200 word reviews to get back to the level I was out yesterday I was going to aim for 3 reviews today before I saw that so I'll still aim for that I think.

Had an email from Quidco to say that a small amount of cashback has been paid but it hasn't hit my account yet. Still haven't received my payment frm Ciao yet either, but I know they take ages. I've got £5 worth of coppers in my bag (all I could carry!) to go into there at lunchtime too.

Almost all my DDs and various payments have gone out of my CA now and it's looking remarkably healthy BUT I need to pay for breakdown cover this week and I remembered this morning that it's Dad's borthday this month AND Mother's Day (Making something I think for that... when is it exactly? The 14th, that's good, gives me bit of time! Apart from those expenses really want to be frugal as want to be able to put more than £150 into the MOF.

Speaking of which I'm playing the waiting game, waiting for the letting agents to get back to me about pets, even though I know what she'll say

Few things to do today:

- 3 x Dooyoos
- Copy two reviews to Ciao
- Put coppers in bank
- Buy birthday card and mother's day card
- Shampoo and shower gel
- Visit gran
- Supermarket
- Look at breakdown cover
- Raise query with Dooyoo
- Continue query with Quidco
- Look at gas bill with Dad

Tete_en_l'Air

Morning girls! Thanks Tink, me too! Fingers crossed. Yep your place sounds fab Flower, hope they get it done quick for you.

zigmeister

The cottage sounds perfect, I really hope you're allowed pets! I'll keep my fingers crossed

I have £35.90 from Quidco this month, yay! It seems unfair that you should lose so many DooYoo miles when you weren't doing anything wrong!

Any ideas what you're gonna make for Mother's Day? I have some stuff in my present stash that I'm gonna give, plus I might make a cake or something.

Did you make those banana and choc Hummingbird muffins/cupcakes the other day? How did they go? I've discovered a recipe for low fat choc mocha cake that I really want to try.

It's a gorgeous day here too, wish I wasn't stuck inside! Hope you manage to get your to do list done!

Flower08

zigmeister wrote: »

It's a gorgeous day here too, wish I wasn't stuck inside! Hope you manage to get your to do list done!

Lovely day here aswell!! Unfortunately i am just about to head off to work

OH and i have decided to reduce our moving house target to £2000 - this will more than cover deposit, first months rent etc...and is much more achieveable in the time scale. Will build our furniture etc up as we go along rather than trying to get it all at once - will make things much easier.

Tete_en_l'Air

I did do those cakes Zig, there's four still sitting on my new cake stand, whereas the blueberry cake I made on Saturday afternoon has almost all gone - so they weren't a massive hit, but still nice! I don't trust low fat cakes somehow haha! I think my wibblybum challenge has all but been abandoned to be honest

Sounds good Flower, you might not have much but you'll have each other, etc etc!

Lovely day here too, I'm looking forward to going out at lunchtime and seeing a bit of blue sky

Still heard nothing from the LA ...

Birdie85

Keeping my fingers crossed for you Tete! How cool would it be to live with Donkeys in the back! As long as they're quiet!

Exciting stuff for you too Flower! I think your savings target is a good one, you'll be able to cover all your costs and get some essentials. Remember to beg borrow and steal (well maybe not steal) furniture at the start, things can always be replaced in time and hit the charity shops! People give away some good stuff sometimes!

I can see a sliver of blue sky through my blinds... I hate not having real windows anymore and there's nowhere to go if I go outside so it looks like the nice day will pass me by!

Tete_en_l'Air

I have no windows at all Birdie (I'm sure I moan about this all the time!) but it is indeed a lovely day out there, I've had a lovely walk about, got some toiletry bits and bobs and spent £7 on three birthday cards!!! Wanted to try and make as many as I can this year but get stuck for ideas for boys!

Hadn't thought about the donkeys being noisy - it'd be funny at first but I imagine that would wear off pretty quickly!

Cinny91

Keeping my fingers crossed about the LA Tete! You'll be like TotsTV in a cottage with a Donkey out back

If it makes you with little/no windows feel any better its even worse in my office, you can see outdoors from everywhere, so can't escape from the fact it's pretty outside and you're stuck indoors!

Boys birthday cards are pretty hard Tete! £7 for 3 cards sound men-tul though, I was shopping for some at the weekend and kept on being put off by prices haha! I did get my friend at work a cute one from Paperchase that says 'Fancy that, it's your birthday!' with a little french fancy on it