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elysia2003

LOL Ditto to you too. First thing tomorrow - I want a new review posted missus.

claireylulu

Ok boss, will try after I have done the nursery run!

cha97michelle

I'd kick you both but I am too nice. :rotfl:

Lol@ the superwoman joke. Not really. Just had the wet swimming stuff from this morning, that was rather whiffy so whacked that through. Feeling slightly motivated as we have DS2 and 1s nursery teachers coming round for a home visit tomorrow before DS2 starts nursery next week. I tidied up a bit and ran the hoover round before we left, and now need to hide the toys and the clutter. One of my flylady friends tells me I could just whack it in the kitchen out of sight. :rotfl:

Had a great weekend. We went swimming every day. The kids have got better on their bikes. DS1 now rides competently without any stabilisers or anything, and DS2 was on the scoot bike, and did well with that too. Thought we might have a bit of a nightmare as a major water pipe was broken. We had letters Friday night and all day Saturday asking us to not use water unless it was essential to conserve their supplies. Didn't affect us much as we just had a quick shower at the pool rather than a long one at home, and the kids were thrilled at me not forcing them to have a bath every day. They brought bottled water round on Saturday night in case it went off, but all was well in the end.

I just looked up rebooking for next May, we had such a great time. I think it costs too much though so I can't see me doing it. £500 for just a weekend is too much IMO.

I'm just working through my inbox now and trying to win on bingo in the background. I need to restart chacha tomorrow. I missed a good promotion there over the weekend, but can't be helped.

elysia2003

Anyone - with little ones there is a clearance on Kiddicare 75% plus there's a code. All details here. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3481393

Calpol, cough mixture, baby items, plus pull-ups are all reduced. I hope it helps. I'm looking for bits for OH's neice - her baby due Jan.

Savvybunny2009

Blimey michelle you are organised, which park was that as we are going for a week soon. To get a ggod price you want to book around a year in advance or a month or so before really. I used to go a couple of times a year with my family when we were kids, Longleat was my favourite if you don't mind the hills, looking forward to doing the jetski and highwire
Glad you had such a geat time.

Must try to do some viva before settling down for the night.

cha97michelle

That was the sherwood park again. I had the code they give you for rebooking after your visit, and it still came out at that price. I'm thinking to myself that what we actually like is being away from the normal and doing the biking and swimming. Might be cheaper to just do a travel lodge somewhere for a night or two. Crazy prices.

I wish I were a lot more organised. There is always more that I could be doing. Hopefully I can get on top of stuff next week when DS2 is at nursery too.

Giggles_Fairy

Glad you enjoyed centre parcs Michelle. I have been once this year in january to whinfell, monday to friday home for 4 was only £179. Have booked for 5 of us to go 30th April next year monday to friday (but due to some people needing own rooms its actually a house for 8) and its cost about £500, which between 5 of us is really good value bearing in mind you can make your own food. We stayed in a travelodge for 2 nights £40 each but then spent about £150 eating out over the 3 days! Have you looked at week days instead of weekends as I think they are usually better value?

I never got the viva email about the change in redeem so thank you to everyone on here keeping me updated . Will be a bummer not being able to redeem and receive so quickly, but if the surveys are as regular and reliable as theya re at min it should still be a good site to use.

Doing some money spending this week as I have a week off . And lucky me got a tax rebate last week completely out of the blue! Put half of it towards a credit card bill and put the rest in my current account to spend . Sadly some has gone on bills anyway as silly me crashed into a post oops! So my car door needs replacing!

On the whiplash front I now have a physio app for friday so I am happy about that. They said they will then say how many they think I will need be on the phone he said they will probably authorise 4 to start with and then reassess. Has anyone had physio before? I never had so not quite sure what happens :S. Hoping it will be frequent as want to get the claim all finished and sorted and hopefully the pain to be improved asap!

cha97michelle

Morning everyone.

Giggles - thanks for thinking of that for me. We did February last year and January the year before, and that was cheaper like you say and in mid week. Unfortunately now my biggest man is in school. His teacher was ok about him missing yesterday as it is only the start of term and he was only supposed to be in school till 11:30, but i need to do it in school hols or over a bank holiday weekend now which is what makes it so pricey.I guess your right about saving money by cooking. We did that on 2 of our nights there but ate out once as a treat.

Busy day today, DS2's school visit is at 12:30, so some clutter hiding between now and then, as well as keeping on top of what DS2 is up to.

Happy crown day everyone. Best of luck everyone.

rufusdog52

5/100

Morning all, I have another review done at last, I am going to do some rating in a bit for an hour or so until YD gets up. She has a day off on Tuesdays and Fridays until she gets her work placement place.

Whats this site you all have been winning prizes on?

claireylulu

Morning everyone.

Managed a review Elysia your go now!

Got a crown on dy, so pleased as I only wrote one review last week!
Still waiting on some product suggestions to come through.

Hope everyone is having a good morning.