Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

Pippilongstocking

ZTD wrote: »

Inspiration? You have a spade?

I wrote a reply and lost it

Basically it went like this, Lula sorry about your experience - there are a lot of twonks out there - xx

Big hole

A imagine its treasure under it
B imagine its for the ex twonk and or his stuff

:rotfl:

LT ta for telling about your experience!

KC hello!

Today
gone got food reduced and fruit -£13
Charity bits - £6

Jam cooked - hm strawberry
Very nice stew on with local beef - reduced
Kids dined on cheesy dreams with bonkers yellow eggs
I had mushrooms on toast
Dog had a treat

Got 18 eggs ready for a pal who popped over last night £3 in the pot
OH called to say boat was horrid but he's OK
Blowing a hooley here and battering against the windows
Meal planning
Emptied box out of the car with about 3kg carrots and 15 turnips - from my little plot at the college - will put the tiny carrots into the stew and figure a plan for the bigger ones

I didn't thin the carrots so no root fly - but means they are all shapes and sizes

Trying to ignore my seeds which are calling to me, got a box of jiffy 7's - from ebay - coir ones to start selling plants eventually. They work out at 5p each - and I can sell a nice plant in its own little ecosystem for £1-1.50 then aside the seeds (many of which I have thank you all) its mainly effort and profit. I'm now doubting this is a good idea, but I know it can work.

Yeah ? where's that damn shruggy smiley when I want one!

Trying for the green/eco angle and will be using recycled boxes etc for packaging too

Hope it might work. Getting a bit freaked about money whilst we've 'enough' to cover the bills there isn't any extra at all.



KK cupboard is indeed groaning with food as are the freezers - we only really needed (well wanted NOT needed) bananas and apples today but I came away with a full bag of stuff - mainly reduced (?all reduced except fruit?) its difficult with this type of shopping as I got haggis, sausages, pate and nice beef reduced - and parsnips, tatties and onions reduced and a box of reduced strawbs (now jam) - I shouldn't really be spending and I know £13 isn't alot compared with the worth of the food - but I'm concious of every penny at the moment

Not that it stops me of course!:rotfl:

fedupandskint

Hi Pippi,

Thought of you up there when I watched the weather forecast then we had some big gales yesterday too, nearly got trapped in the door at work trying to open it in the peak of the gales!

You sound well stocked up so put your shopping bags away and don't go shopping for the rest of the week if you don't need anything. This is what I'm trying to do now to stop me going to Mr T's at lunchtime to buy things I don't need. Have loads of pasta to eat, and guess how often I eat it? once a month at the most! Managed to not buy somemore today in Mr S

Oh yes, that's what I was about to say. I'm waiting for the Rhubarb festival at the end of Feb to get some forced rhubarb to turn into jam and a crumble. And I'm off to make some scones to use up some of last years strawberry jam tomorrow!

Have a nice and cosy day Pips x

Kittikins

Re: shopping, I know those feelings well of "needing" stuff, my cupboards are groaning under the weight of dented tins of beans/tomatoes/lentils etc, but I am also fighting the urge to go and buy "stuff" for dinner......silly me! Trying to have a NSD.

(edit) Darn it, just realised my tin opener broke earlier and we need lightbulbs in the sitting room, grrr.

Pippilongstocking

Hey gals

Thank you - you're both right - I'm doing the 'but there might be something bargainous there' however BOTH freezers are full of edible food and bread and milk and the cupboards and larder fridge are also groaning I will put away the bags.

And, we have more than enough eggs - even with cheesy dream consumption that goes on in this house!

Rhubarb - that reminds me sparkles - my own rhubarb is beginning to show - I might keep an eye on it - I do have a rhubarb forcing pot (oh er missus) but in this wind - it would like break - more of a decorative terra cotta column with a lid than helpful in this weather!

And, thank you sparkles YOU'VE REMINDED ME I'VE RHUBARB IN THE FREEZER WOO HOO



Off to see if I can put any money to CC - having paid off that big debt - its seriously wibbled with my finances and I'm trying to chuck as much as possible at the other card.

gallygirl

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Got 18 eggs ready for a pal who popped over last night £3 in the pot

:eek: shouldn't they stop laying when it's windy so they've extra ballast or something :eek:

ZTD

gallygirl wrote: »

:eek: shouldn't they stop laying when it's windy so they've extra ballast or something :eek:

They love the wind. You should hear them talking.

"I can fly! Like a bird!"
"You are a bird."
"Wheee!!!"

Kittikins

Yum, I want rhubarb crumble now.......

gallygirl

:j:j:j:j I may be having a choo choo stripey adventure - or should that be a tren tren stripey adventure :j:j:j:j

I have a....... em........ big birthday this year....... one that has a 5 in it...... at the start, not the end . I wanted to go to our place in Spain which one day will have a high speed train v close..... but just looked and we could get a Eurostar to Paris then el tren-cama to Barcelona or Madrid, then.... well, walk or something . I suggested it to OH and....... HE DIDN'T SAY NO (which is v good progress for an initial convo :rotfl:). It's a hotel train with nice bar and everything .

I will need posh stripey jimjams of course.

Oooohhhh, v excited

Pippilongstocking

Woo hoo to stripey adventures in jimjams (posh ones of course) GG you deserve a treat!!!!! And I'm glad the girls don't need extra ballast at the moment - the egg money is my only income (insert shreeky face)

Z - they are not very good at flying - more like one of those thelwell girls trying to fly - they sort of splutter, fly a bit and splutter again, fly a bit

KK - rhubarb crumble you say - DD is on the case

I've put £65 to my CC (I can't tell the balance I'm too ashamed - one large First credit balance on there and MOT< TAX<CAR INsURANCE - EEK. However,its in hand.

My 400+ jiffy sevens need to spring into action and raise some dosh.

Otherwise no new stripey jim jams in this house!!

Pippilongstocking

You do all know all this train action is making me jealous. NO trains here

Only on the 'approach' to here.

I want to go on a train now.