Gallygirl's "A journey of 121,226.67 pounds begins with a single penny" diary

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

I think we need a girls weekend - Mr T, Mr MWC and Ahem can go to Portugal and the girlies can have good food, wine and rest :):):)

Pearla*Merle

Not sure I'm happy to hear about all these 3 mile walks you're doing, GG. How am I ever going to catch up?

gallygirl

Then she got lost meeting me before we had a lovely lunch and another 3 mile hike back.

Excuse me???????? Who selected where we were to meet then went to a DIFFERENT place???????? :mad:

Money news - she has been advising me of the "pots" for our budget. I'll let her explain more but it does look like we will be borrowing from the petrol budget to finance the "eating out" budget

:rotfl:Basically we are still settling in so budgets will need refining. But surely it makes sense to allocate lunch before a 3 mile walk back home to the 'fuel' budget as it fuelled us up for the journey .

Yep she likes playing with MY money :A

OUR money. Mr GG's is still stuck in a holding account. We're off to see Miguel at the bank (the one with the :kisses3: email ) to get Mr GG added.

Pearla*Merle wrote: »

Not sure I'm happy to hear about all these 3 mile walks you're doing, GG. How am I ever going to catch up?

Well I managed all of about 2,000 yesterday so quite easily :rotfl:.

MWC - welcome anytime, and I agree we dump the chaps .

gallygirl

Tuesday's Nature Notes:

- Beautiful flock of goldfinches on the rambla (dried up river bed), couldn't get close enough to take a pic
- View on the walk to Pilates

- Oleanders growing wild

- Housemartin's nest with groovy little porch-y entrance


No pics today but highlight was around 50 swifts diving and screaming like something out of The Birds :eek:, and a foot long lizard I saw when I dropped Mr GG off at golf . Nothing of note yesterday but met some lovely new people :T.

Karmacat

Loving the nature notes :j thank you! Its lovely to see what the everyday nature of things is :j

gallygirl

Thanks KC. Nothing of note today, apart from sparrows sitting on our paella pan and helping themselves :eek::mad::rotfl:.

Bank went ok yesterday but Miguel wasn't there (what a waste of lippy ). Went to Lidl's and as we got to the till they were handing out free boxes of Halloween icelollies :T.

Flipping scorchio today :eek:. Long, long walk on the beach :T, unfortunately when I took my blister plaster off my heel it took the remaining skin with it _pale_. Can't leave to heal naturally as you need to wear shoes with ankle straps for driving so need a plaster then .

2 hours of house admin today :eek:. Not impressed :cool:.

Greying_Pilgrim

Tsk! See, there would be no reason for you to come round to mine gally, even if mojitos were on offer, our swifts, swallows and house martins follow planning procedure to the letter! No porticos, columns, gargoyles nor unnecessary adornments here! :rotfl: How much are they *paying* the local council to get away with those added inches???? :rotfl:

Regarding the oleander - it is a scented plant isn't it? Does it release it's scent in the sunlight or at night? I'm not sure whether *all* night scented plants are more likely pollinated by moths... :think: I'm also not sure whether we can grow them here - I've only heard reference to oleander in the States.

Very disappointed that there were no kisses on the bottom..... of your official banking documentation.....

Greying x

Pearla*Merle

Long, long walk on the beach :T

So that's what you were up to! I saw the fitbit scores come in and I thought you'd spent the whole day on a treadmill

Loving the snaps :T

gallygirl

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Tsk! See, there would be no reason for you to come round to mine gally, even if mojitos were on offer, our swifts, swallows and house martins follow planning procedure to the letter! No porticos, columns, gargoyles nor unnecessary adornments here! :rotfl: How much are they *paying* the local council to get away with those added inches???? :rotfl:

Regarding the oleander - it is a scented plant isn't it? Does it release it's scent in the sunlight or at night? I'm not sure whether *all* night scented plants are more likely pollinated by moths... :think: I'm also not sure whether we can grow them here - I've only heard reference to oleander in the States.

Very disappointed that there were no kisses on the bottom..... of your official banking documentation.....

GP this IS Spain so am sure for a few € the officials will have turned a blind eye and a few inches makes all the difference . Not sure about oleander being fragrant as I only really see them in the wild, also right down the middle of the autovia :T, they are actually poisonous I believe.

I too was disappointed about the lack of kisses on the bottom - story of my life :rotfl:.

Pearla*Merle wrote: »

So that's what you were up to! I saw the fitbit scores come in and I thought you'd spent the whole day on a treadmill

:rotfl:Much hotter than that :eek:. Not sure how many steps today will bring but should be a few later on :T. Need to get off the sofa though .

Greying_Pilgrim

gallygirl wrote: »

Not sure about oleander being fragrant as I only really see them in the wild, also right down the middle of the autovia :T, they are actually poisonous I believe.

Eeep! I've just read up about them - yes, all parts poisonous :eek: I didn't know that. Best to admire from afar, obvs

Have a great day.

Greying x