misscousinitt's MF Diary

misscousinitt

Happy Friday everyone!

Been really busy at work, so no chance to update until now.

£8 exactly spent at Herr A on Wednesday and £9 something spent last night. Relatively small shop at Mr T tonight which should bring me in under the £130 mark for the month (even if I have to get extra bread later!)

Still haven't paid my 50ps in yet - job for Monday now...Pay Day next week.

Charity AGM went well (for a change) - no re-scheduling this year and looks like we are going to have 2 or more new members (and volunteers), so all good there. Onward and upward with getting more money in this year.

Going to see if I can pop up the allotment in the morning - about time I did something there - need to check on my onions etc and see how boggy it is. Planning on buying some plug plants next weekend which will need to go in - so need to get a patch ready for them.

Having some time off the wine at the moment - had cut down drastically anyway, but just having a rest from it now all the Christmas wine has gone. Had my last drink on Valentine's night, so got a week under my belt already. At least we will save a bit on the grocery spend!

Re-jigged my meal plan for next week and got some nice things on the list - starting with HM Chicken & Leek Pie tonight using LO chicken from Wednesday, sliced leeks from the freezer and LO puff pastry from the beef pie I made last week.

Wishing everyone a dry and happy weekend - have fun!

MCI

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Have a good weekend MCi

Tilly x x

Radish72

Have you checked you 50p's for the rare one (Kew gardens) they are selling for £100+

I will be also having a dry weekend as haven't drunk since New Year

misscousinitt

Radish72 wrote: »

Have you checked you 50p's for the rare one (Kew gardens) they are selling for £100+

Thanks Radish - I will check before I pay in - don't think Ill be that lucky though :-)


Didn't really miss the wine last night - had my apple juice and soda water in a wine glass to keep the psychological gremlins at bay.


DH wants the fish tagine to morph into a paella for tonight's tea, so will be trying some north African flavours in my standard paella recipe.


Take care all.


MCI

Alchemilla

Well done on the no wine.

misscousinitt

Alchemilla wrote: »

Well done on the no wine.

Thanks Alchemilla...hope I can keep it up.


MCI

misscousinitt

Forgot to say that I had a sniff of information about a dividend. We are getting one and we will have it next week!


But I don't know how much its going to be...at least I am getting one!


Hope everyone is having a good weekend.


MCI

gallygirl

Just seen how close you are to your goal :j:T:j:T:j

misscousinitt

gallygirl wrote: »

Just seen how close you are to your goal :j:T:j:T:j

Thanks GG; feel a bit proud to have saved this much in such a short space of time.

And I am now another £20 closer :rotfl:paid in the 50ps.

This is goal No1 the absolute minimum I wanted us to save before looking for another house. Goal No2 is £21k - the ideal deposit.

MCI

misscousinitt

Groceries stand at £132 - slightly over as I was tempted by yellow stickers and had to get loo roll!

Still no wine...and I'm not going to buy any when I do my big shop this week. I have bought 2 small bottles to go in this week's food, but will not be drinking any.

One step closer to £15k today as I paid in 50ps (no kew gardens ones unfortunately) - also paid in a cheque from Mum as I have to pay her electric bill tomorrow (it has taken Npower this long to come up with a final bill from 04 Dec!)

Work is still manic and not getting much of my own stuff done.

Tonight's tea is Tarragon chicken (or turkey - whichever it turns out to be) with pasta and green veg.

Wishing everyone a great week.

MCI