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Lemon_Tree

we had a dwarf lop who loved to sun bathe. He passed a couple of months ago and i still miss him. give your SF a hug from me.

miggy

A very quick post or I shall be late for work.

An NSD from me though certainly not for Dh, who has done the food shopping, cooked dinner, washed and ironed the dining room curtains and is now takng DS out - all on his day off!

He's a star, but I knew that already.

I have made a very small inroad into the garden. Outwitted by a garden? Yes, that's me, but I couldn't let this fabulous sunny day go unacknowledged. (It was a beautifuil night last night too, and a pastel-orange, misty dawn, and I think this coming one may be similar).

Hovel_lady

For your DH :A

Strange weather here.
Felt like autumn first thing but it was really hot by lunchtime.
xx

miggy

Hovel_lady wrote: »

For your DH :A

Strange weather here.
Felt like autumn first thing but it was really hot by lunchtime.
xx

Same here - absolutely sweltering by late afternoon, definitely strappy tops weather!

I forgot DH also bought skirting boards yesterday... as one does.

It hasn't been properly autumnal all night (I was hanging the washing on the line at 3!) and already the day is heating up. A shame I have to sleep but I really must. Back later.

miggy

That's it for working nights... till Monday.

NSD, sort of. No, what am I thinking of?! I bought bread and butter on the way home from work. Was that really today?:D DH has been out food shopping and fish and chips shopping, and I asked him to get a potato peeler, so I suppose it wasn't an NSD after all.

Yesterday I ordered a birthday present for someone and did some food shopping too, but it was very bargainaceous so it doesn't count (much). The supermarket decided to sell off organic courgettes at 10p a bag instead of £2 so I had to get some, didn't I? Other than that it was sundry food things including sprouts (because they were also 10p a bag) and two bags of DH's favourite apples (10p a bag). I hope they don't sack the young employee who was marking everything down so nicely.

On the way out the self-service till tried to charge me £3.47 for some grapes but the assistant put it right - apparently it's taken to charging the price per kilogram rather than by weight. :eek:

I used up some of a glut of carrots by making carrot cake, which DH, DS2 and myself have been demolishing, though it looked half-demolished when it came out of the oven. I don't think it liked being made in a loaf tin. Prior to this there was a conversation between DH and myself that went something like this:

Miggy: Would you like carrot cake?
DH: Oh, that's a good idea? I bought some carrots.
Miggy: Why?
DH: I looked in the fridge and there weren't any in the bottom of it. (This after repeated training sessions to the effect that veg go mouldy in no time if left in cupboards). Why? Were there some?
Miggy: There's a jug full of them in the top of the fridge. (Doesn't mention another jug with carrots refreshing in water in the draining board and conversation recently in which four part-bags of carrots were mentioned).

So we have half a carrot cake and one and a half jugs of carrots which really need to be used up. Ideas, anyone?

Tomorrow will be apple crumble (again) due to nice neighbour's glut of apples (two big bowls when last counted) thogh I quite fancy lemon sponge (okay I bought some when discounted and now they need eating).

I'm thinking this diary would be better called 'Carrots, apples and lemons' but it lacks a certain something.

miggy

A lot more people needing food from charities: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15140518

It makes me angry that some of the comments say it's 'just a matter of budgetting' - that doesn't apply if there simply isn't enough income to meet needs.

miggy

Back to work tonight so I was supposed to be taking it easy during the day, and I sort of succeeded, by which I mean I spent much of the morning dawdling on the computer apart from lounging round trying to help DD compile her personal statement for Uni. After she went out and the placewas all quiet and I knew I had things I really ought to be doing, I started to get a bit anxious. A year down the line and it's still there... but nothing like it was.

I got some housework done so although there's still far too much to do before our visitors come on Friday, the bathroom is okay and three loads of washing have been done. Two of them dried, too - warm, grey and windy here.

DS1 has kindly offered to make a lasagne tonight so I did the shopping - food came to about £15 but that's for more than just today's, you will be relieved to know. A few bits of toiletries, not much and I did use the old ones up first. I also got a storage box (£7.49) for Mum's paperwork, which has hitherto been cluttering the place up waiting for me to find a cheap filing cabinet. I've transferred the main files and realised there's a backlog of stuff to put away properly. Ah well. It'll be a vast improvement on the current mess.

Lemon_Tree

i've got a backlog of filing to do when you've finished there if you'd like to help

miggy

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

i've got a backlog of filing to do when you've finished there if you'd like to help

Quite happy to offer but you may be in for a very long wait!

miggy

Am awake again.

There's loads to do so this will be a practical MS update while I think of it then I had better go and start The List, which for the record goes like this:

[STRIKE]shower[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]breakfast[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]make bed[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]set laundry in motion[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]tidy kitchen[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]tidy dining room[/STRIKE] done by DD
[STRIKE]make phone call[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]bake birthday cake[/STRIKE] gave up and bought
[STRIKE]shops[/STRIKE]

I have days and days and days off :j:j:j due to having my hours bunched together and will go over to Evernote later and make a list all about getting ready for guests this weekend but for now we have a birthday (not mine) so that's where I'm focusing my energy.

DD came home with a list of things to pay for - two school trips which DH paid (£5 and £18 if I remember rightly) and which are part of her A levels, and an exam at £18.50 - so I've given her the money out of food money 'cos I had it on me. I also gave DS his pocket money from last month (really must get round to changing the SO so it goes to him without faffing about) so IOU the food money £34.

DD is doing her driving test on Friday, which she is paying for (bless her - it would be nice of we could do this for her but we can't). DH and I were talking about me maybe one day learning to drive: he is looking into getting a smaller car which will be cheaper to tax/run and it shouldn't be too much to put me on the insurance but I would still need to pay for licence, lessons etc. We could also afford to put DD on the insurance of a smaller car, and in a year or so, DS2 as well, which would save him a bit on lessons as he'd have more opportunities to practice.

DH and I need to plan which budget this weekend's guest food comes from! I wonder if I can get it from exisitng food money but probably not seeing as there is a birthday tea tonight and strictly house guests wuld seem to come under 'entertainment' (which makes it sound as though they bring a song and dance act).

This post is getting very long so I shall go and start the shower, back later to edit my list.