OS Diary Archive August 2006

Benidormqueen

Ooops sorry pink-winged. I looked this morning didn't see this post,
hope you had a great day. Happy Birthday.
You did it again on the game well done you,7/10 brill.

moggins

Afternoon everyone

Just a flying visit to say

Happy Birthday Pinkwinged

We've had a lovely day at the Abbey today, feeding deer from the palm of your hand is a real experience, they are so gentle. We are just off to have a meal at the local Brewers Fayre. We were supposed to be going straight from the abbey but had to come home as DD got her new white top covered in chocolate ice cream. So we are going to the one closer to home now. It's not going to cost us a penny hopefully as I have a buy one get one free voucher for main meals and £25 worth of leisure vouchers from Pigsback. So I treated us to two nice bottles of wine to come home and relax with later

tootles_2

Michelle............that happened to us last year, at service I had to have new brakes and 4 tyres, two weeks later the clutch burnt out. We had saved the money to go to stay with friends in the south of France with the caravan for 5 weeks, instead we got 9 days in the Somme!!!!!!!!!!!!Could not afford to go any further south with the cash we had left...........

We are facing another big bill next year when we have to have the belt replaced at 60,000miles........£500 all told.

I forgot to say, we had been hoping for a cheaper month grocery wise this month!!! who was I kidding...........Tesco £72, butcher £19 which leaves me with £7.50 for fruit in the middle of the month.........thank heavens we are harvesting stuff from the allotment.

I said I would try the butcher, but he is twice as expensive as the one in Tesco, they have a fresh meat counter there........I will see what the quaility is like, must say there did not seem to be much fat in the mince I bought....

There are times when I get very depressed at the amount we have to live on, but just keep plugging away, in a couple of years hopefully things will improve.............having an OH who will not have anything to do with finance but leaves it all to me, menu planning and keeping the cash on track sometimes get me down. Cannot really blame OH he was the subject of a wage snatch some years ago when someone tried to snatch the cash he had collected to pay the wages, he woke up through the plate glass window of the bank, still with the briefcase locked to his wrist!!!!!! All he got from his employers was 'you should have left go of the briefcase' locked to his wrist, they would have had to chop his hand off!!!!!!!!!!!!! idiots...........

Did my mystery shop, not very satisfactory really but it will give me some cash towards our holiday.............right now I cannot see us getting one next year, having to pay out for the car will just about clean us out, and there is no way I will put it on the credit card.......

Just made the sauce for chicken with rice for supper, think we might have bananas and cream for dessert.

nicki_2

Afternoon all.

Mum and brother have been around to see us and Mum reassured me that DD could go out now. There's no substitute for experience So I decided to take DD to Asda for some bits and pieces :rolleyes: What a nightmare she was. She talked non-stop through the whole trip (5 minute walk there, 20+minutes through the store, 10minutes back), kept running off with the trolley or daydreaming and nearly running into people :rolleyes: Then when we had finally paid and left to pack the bags outside I managed to do something to my shoulder/back/neck area :mad: No idea what I've done exactly but it's aching like mad. Will have to put a heatpad on it I think as I can't lift my arm at the shoulder and if I try to lift anything with that arm it really hurts around the shoulderblade. :rolleyes: Last thing I need when I've got ironing, cleaning, packing & a trip away.

Oh well, I need to go and put the washing up I did before away, and I think I'll preheat the oven and we'll have a pizza for tea as we've only just had our lunch Later :wave:

cha97michelle

tootles wrote:

Michelle............that happened to us last year, at service I had to have new brakes and 4 tyres, two weeks later the clutch burnt out. We had saved the money to go to stay with friends in the south of France with the caravan for 5 weeks, instead we got 9 days in the Somme!!!!!!!!!!!!Could not afford to go any further south with the cash we had left...........

We are facing another big bill next year when we have to have the belt replaced at 60,000miles........£500 all told.

Tootles - thanks for sharing. I feel a bit of a whinger. I've just spent some time on the debt free wannabee board, and i know how fortunate i am compared to some. I also had a good chat to my sister.

I think it is easy for money to get you down. I might ask DH to do it for a month so he can see how hard it is at the minute.

My trouble is that i expect too much from what we earn i think. I want to do so much, and generally we work very hard to do what we can do, but we still don't manage holidays, or a night out a week like some people do, and relatively we earn good wages compared to some.

I got myself upset earlier because i could see my plans of 11 months off with baby disappearing. DH has promised me that he will do overtime before i have to do that, but i want him to have time to enjoy the baby too as he already works long hours. I need to cut back the cloth in other area i think.

All that effort saving for the whole year, only for half to get wiped out in one month - gutted.

catznine

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PINKWINGED! :bdaycake:

snoozer

Hi all,

Happy birthday Pinkwinged! Well done Penny Pincher, it's horrible having a deadlien looming isn't it.

Feeling fraught because DS has gone off to the big Chill festival to work security. He's fully trained and licensed and is 6'6 - he wants to join the police when he's finished at Uni but I can't help worrying about him. Not helped by the fact I spoke to him a little while ago expecting him to have arrived (OH printed his route off the RAC website) but he had said to his friend who was navigating "we need the M6 don't we?" and friend said "no keep on the M1". They travelled miles before realising and backtracking.

Must go and collect all the stray recyclables around the house because it's recycle bin day tomorrow (does anyone else have their normal rubbish collected fortnightly - in the hot weather we have had the bin was stinking to high heaven.

Sue

taplady

catowen wrote:

Taplady - when are you going to Ilfracombe? I used to live in Barnstaple (a few miles away) and it really is a lovely part of the country. Make sure you have a Hockins ice cream whilst you are there, its the best ice cream i have ever had, and its one of the things i miss most (apart from friends and family!!!)

We're going on the19th August for a week, Mum went there last year and loved it! Will definitely look out for the ice cream!;) Thanks

Forgot this earlier but HAPPY BIRTHDAY PINK WINGED:bdaycake:
Hope you've had a great day!

Got the roofrack and OH has fitted it, am really looking forward to a break!

Off for tea now, Lasagne,new pots and peas followed by a crumble of blueberries, strawberries,apple and pear which is delicious!;)

TTFN:D

frizz_head

Hope you're having a fantastic day Pink!

Pooky

Evening all

Well we've had a great day. The bus driver helpfully told me about a much cheaper ticket that will more than halve the cost of taking DD's out during the holidays (shame they other drivers this week couldn't be bothered to) The putting was a major success and at £1.75 per child a great price too. (took hours to go round the course as well)

We then went with friends to a play park near the beach - where they all ran off loads of steam. Then a trip on the very touristy cliff lift (grand sum of £1.60) but the pleasure on their faces was worth it.....we then popped to pizza hut for lunch - DH met us there and as we had vouchers it cost the grand sum of £5.78 for all 4 of us to eat.

When DH came home we went for a swim, membership paid and kids go free so in effect - free. Then home via morrisons to pick up some chinese for tea (DH managed to sell £20 worth of my cards at work today so we decided to have another treat!)

To top it all off, whilst in town, got DD some trainers reduced to £4.99 - couldn't have asked for better.....she'd also fallen in love with a bag in Claires for £12 - was going to save up - walked into the local pound shop and picked up the same bag for £2.....!!!!!!!!!!

Hope everyone else has had such a good day.:T