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miggy

miggy wrote: »

Tuesday:
[STRIKE]Meet up with friends[/STRIKE]
Fix bookshelf - made a valient effort
[STRIKE]Visit Mum[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Bake 2 cakes[/STRIKE]

Wednesday:
[STRIKE]Shopping with DD[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Update instructions list for DS1 who isn't migrating with the rest of us[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Clean out fish tank[/STRIKE] and newts tank
Clean out hutch

Thursday:
Pack
Get items for replastering in kitchen - DH has found hardware in the shed and they are going to buy the rest later
Plant a few things that ought already to have been planted - made a start
Water houseplants
[STRIKE]Laundry[/STRIKE] Done! Well, last load in. Marathon!
Visit Mum

This means quite a lot to do today and it's looking very gloomy outside so that may make laundry a problem.

The drizzle has stopped for now so there's washing on the line and I've got some summer clothes out of the loft - not too many as I noticed the forecast for next week!

New items for list:
make sure we have vouchers for free entries
take address book

miggy

Tuesday:
[STRIKE]Meet up with friends[/STRIKE]
Fix bookshelf - made a valient effort
[STRIKE]Visit Mum[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Bake 2 cakes[/STRIKE]

Wednesday:
[STRIKE]Shopping with DD[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Update instructions list for DS1 who isn't migrating with the rest of us[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Clean out fish tank[/STRIKE] and newts tank
Clean out hutch

Thursday:
Pack
[STRIKE]Get items for replastering in kitchen[/STRIKE]
Plant a few things that ought already to have been planted - done some - not enough space to plant everything really... but we're getting there.
Water houseplants
[STRIKE]Laundry[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Visit Mum[/STRIKE]
make sure we have vouchers for free entries
take address book
Sort out cool bag

Yes, progress is being made.

miggy

I learnt the lesson from last month and juggled money between accounts in good time so I should get paid a fiver for putting enough into the newer account. Now I have to remember to pay it back to the old account...

Erme

Och bless you...

Pray re move. I now have social worker (From the police saying my house was a tip last weekend when paranoid) coming over and Dr. C on thursday. I really want to keep the same consultant as he's been really good to me but I will have to change surgeries and like he's not over the local one (don't want to go to the one that's the other side of the rough area as like I couldn't get there when unwell. Maybe I could but it would mean going to the rough area to get a bus. Currently I can get a bus right from door step to like surgery)

I thinking Baking and chanel are in order for Thursday somehow. And next week could well be my last appt with my GP (who's lovely) and she's never had homebakes (as have neither the chemist who is very good looking but married ...Awe he's so cute....I could squish his cheeks. I could also squish a few other chaps cheeks. Like the chap at my favourite Mr S who is like going backpacking. I always say 'don't forget my 20 extra reward points' LOL..... He never gives me them....Though I have found if you use the self service tills you can get up to an extra 9 (4.5p I think?) even if you use their bags .

Mr S has only been there less than 2 years (maybe even less than a year) but I shall really miss the friendly staff...

E

miggy

Suffering internet deprivation here (that's the trouble with holidays) but have managed to get back online.

Stopped with friends on the way down and ate the most enormous portion of fish and chips which would take all week to wear off if it weren't for even more fatty food later. :eek:

Watched the Olympics' opening ceremony... sooo tired...

Traffic slow yesterday so we didn't arrive till nearly 6: the cottage is a converted 200 yr old barn - a small one - with very thick outer walls and thin inner ones. Hilarious evening. Went for pizza which was welcome if not MS, then on to shop for 5 of us for a week. £99! That wasn't even for the whole week, and I'd already brought some bits and pieces so we wouldn't need tea, etc. The shop included brown bread, white bread, slimmer's bread and fruit bread, to which we added buns so we can have a BBQ. As it was late and the shop was due to shut, we then bought buns and baguettes for 2p each (!). While Dh went to the checkout, I went to find DD, so we left the shop separately from the men, sensibly refusing 'free bread' at the door as we already had plenty. Got to the car only to find jubilant blokes waving baguettes and saying 'They were free! He got two and I got three!' etc.

Found our way home quite easily - will not bore you with how long it took us to find the way there - and started to cart the mammoth shopping in, only to be greeted with distress cries of 'I left the immersion heater on and all the lights have gone out!'. All who had remembered purses and wallets did a search but no one could find any pounds for the meter. I did find three candles, some matches and a torch so we weren't in total darkness. DH decided to take DD's b/f (G) as navigator (for some reason he avoided choosing a blood relative) to set off to the village pub to get change. Meanwhile DD unpacked the mammoth (filling a freezer drawer and a large corner of the work surface with bread), assisted by DS2 and me. We discovered anew just how much we rely on electricity. Suddenly DS announced 'I'm sure the Freeview box is on!' so we tramped through to have a look and sure enough, a couple of little lights were winking at us. It then occurred to us to try the lights and a moment later we were back to less romantic but safer lighting.

Turns out the first light switch lead to a failed bulb.

DH and G then arrived back with coins to a lit house and the shopping all put away.

After all that, I found a pound in my bag this morning.

G's presence is doing us good: no fights so far.

We've spent the day walking with some of G's family and friends who are also in the area. What does this say about modern family structure: at one point we were talking about a girl who is my daughter's boyfriend's mother's brother's second wife's first husband's child? I know her name, too, but because this is a forum, I'm not going to say.

Weather has been warm and sunny, coast is fantastic and sea is so clear. Because part of the other party was going back to the smoke, we all got together for a meal afterwards: really nice though not cheap! I hope Olympic London is okay for them: they are not quite sure how they will find it but they have to be back in work tomorrow.

Well, I'm very tired so I will disappear for now and maybe join the others watching 'The Boat that Rocked'. Yay for freeby entertainment.

miggy

I forgot to add a couple of smallish savings: we stopped to get some lunch stuff at a very big Mr S yesterday and got two lots of my favourite shampoo, which is now hard to get at home, half price. Also some nice coffee a lot cheaper than normal.

Now is this a north/south divide thing, or just that I live in a slightly smaller town, but the supermarkets down south seem to be much, much bigger and have better choice? I suppose smaller supermarkets reduce the amount I buy, though.

ani_26

miggy wrote: »

take address book

Definitely don't forget your address book.

miggy wrote: »

Stopped with friends on the way down and ate the most enormous portion of fish and chips which would take all week to wear off if it weren't for even more fatty food later. :eek:

Guess what i had yesterday? ( except it was only half a portion.) Very nice it was, too. Have you ever had chilli fudge? :rotfl:


I tell you what i saw yesterday. A book entitled SLUGS, with a dirty great beast on the cover. Straight up............. :rotfl::rotfl:

miggy

Chilli fudge? Have you joined the plot to get me to eat chilli?! I had linguini with tiger prawns yesterday and various other people at the table had assorted pizzas - turned out every dish apart from DD's ham pasta had jalapenos in...

What does chilli fudge taste like? (Please don't say 'fudge with chilli':rotfl:).

Newquay zoo today... quite good, though marred by the utter crush in the gift shop through which we had to go to get out! I have fallen for marmosets, ducklings and rare breed sheep, but didn't come away with any. Instead I have somehow managed to get a gift for my Mum, a gift for DS1's g/f, a gift for DS1 and specially - a bottle of scrumpy for DS1 for pet-sitting. I am amazed at myself for such organisation - though I haven't managed post cards as well... yet. DH has bought and written his! :eek:/:T

Kids all fell asleep in the car on the way home but the delightful thing about that is that it doesn't matter. No longer do we have to keep them awake so they'll sleep at night - they're all either adult or nearly so, and none of them was driving, so sleep was okay.

Drizzle started as we were wandering round Newquay after the zoo, which is odd, as that's exactly when the weather forecast said it would happen. Since when was the weather forecast right? ('Rain will start just as Miggy and co leave the zoo...')

Haven't spent too much - er... zoo admissions with £1 off thanks to DH finding a voucher, £17 on food, plus a cappuccino and a pot of tea, gifts and BBQ fuel, not that it's dry enough for a BBQ now. Okay, maybe we need to be better tomorrow. We did take packed lunches and drinks though, which saved quite a bit.

miggy

ani_26 wrote: »

I tell you what i saw yesterday. A book entitled SLUGS, with a dirty great beast on the cover. Straight up............. :rotfl::rotfl:

Delightful.

I have just read that they can produce a hundred eggs a year and live several years.

Oh, and there are about 200 slugs in the average garden - which makes your garden above average, doesn't it?

miggy

Spent a lot of today walking around the glorious coastal path from Polkerris to the beacon tower at Gribben Head then across country back to Polkerris, where we found an ice cream shop. Mine was orange and mascarpone, which I can assure you is very good.

Everybody but me is going brown. I'm going freckly.

On from there to top up the supermarket shopping - almost another £40! I suppose we are feeding not only a lot of exercise but also a lot of muscle, even if it's not ours! In fact when our little car struggled with the gradient, we worked out it had something over 52 stone of passengers!!

Back to the house where the kids did us a barbecue. I really should stop referring to them as 'the kids': henceforth, if in my good books, they shall be the BP: Beautiful People. Of course without my posting photos other people have no way of telling if that's irony, but it isn't. They are a good-looking bunch and often very nice with it... and they know it. :rotfl:

I'm escaping from this evening's film which isn't my sort of thing though I have now been converted to Gavin and Stacey, and last night I really enjoyed the Exotic Marigold Hotel.

I've been fighting a battle with the washing machine here which is a very fancy model that doesn't seem to have much in common with any other I've ever worked, but at least it's working now. The drain outside the kitchen is in need of attention and whenever appliances or the kitchen sink empty, it overflows. We spoke to the owner's son and he said he'd fix it but it looks as though his mother's health is taking priority, which I guess is how it should be: just hoping we don't overwhelm the system before he gets back!

The BP have found a golden lab which they call Bruno... Bruno loves us because he can smell barbecue. I felt mean because I got him back outside the gate (we think he belongs next door) by making exciting noises: 'Bruno! Bruno! Here boy!' so he wagged his thick tail and ambled after me expectantly, upon which I said 'Home!' and pointed, gave him a pat and shut the gate. He wandered off contentedly enough. I expect he tries this on all the tourists.

Washing machine is making 'nearly done' noises... time I packed up for now.