No Buying Toiletries in April Challenge

SJP

Hope you've all had lovely days??

Sorry not been about, got a bad cold and couldn't shift it and it really got me down, think I might have got the baby blues a bit late on! Wasn't helped when I took LO for weighing and they went on about her 'falling off the centile'.... anyway, i'm fine now...

We've bought a new tent today (bigger) so our weekends away will be starting again:T so wont be able to do pamper night friday, but could do Weds or Thurs???

Not sure who was wanting clear nail polish, but i've a couple of Nails Inc clear if anyone wants them? Just PM me....

TrudiJ - Dont analyse it, live for the moment..... I'm sure he's just being cautious...

No UU's as not been bothered about myself lately, but will start again from morning....

March was a bad month for me toiletry wise... i'm expecting better things for April

Got Clarins Flash Beauty Balm from Cal & Immy - Looking forward to trying that....:D

destroyerofdebt2011

Had another UU this evening so thats the musk moisterizer of the list it was only 30ml and it seemed to take forever to rub in as it seemed to sit on the surface as a white film despite lots of rubbing in. IWNBA but then it was part of a giftset. so another 50p to the treats tin for me to report.

EssexHebridean

Ooh SJP you're another camper?! Brilliant - we love our trips - gopt nothing planned until the end of May but then it's off to Cornwall for five nights on a fantastic friendly little site near Camborne. Then there will be repeated trips to Norfolk through the summer....! This is why I insist on having nice mini shower gels for my travel kit. I'm quite happy to spend several nights on the bounce in a tent, knowing that my morning shower will be in quite "basic" surroundings, but I like to know that the stuff I'm using in said shower will be anything BUT basic, thank you!

Nosy nosy me - what tent have you bought? With there just being the two of us we currently have a Vango Beta 350 which is perfect for us and we love - it's a step up from our old Delta 300.....3-man tent my a*5e that one! :eek:

Kaz2904

EH, we're campers too would love to hear recommendations for cheap campsites. I don't mind how basic they are either so long as there is somewhere to wash (even a big sink so I can do my hair is enough for me). The worst site I ever stayed at was on Dartmoor and it didn't even have a toilet. How can you not have a toilet on a campsite- that's just mad! Us girls once got in a river on a DofE expedition in sweltering heat and washed our hair under a little waterfall bit and had a good wash whilst fully clothed! That was interesting, we tried to go in initially without boots but it was too sharp so we were balanced on stones and bent double in order to be able to get our heads in the water. It was like the timotei adverts .
This is our tent http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001RUABLK/ref=asc_df_B001RUABLK2468236?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&!!!!!dealtimecouk-sports-delta-21&linkCode=asn&creative=22206&creativeASIN=B001RUABLK and we love it despite the fact that we had to hold it down the first time we camped in it as we caught the tail end of Americas hurricane and had winds of 40mph. MiL didn't come camping the following year after having been woken by me at 3 in the morning "Get up NOW! The tent's going and we can't hold it down!" The following morning the campsite was like a wreck. Tents had gone, poles were snapped. Bewildered people were looking for their lost belongings etc. I had to drag MiL and DH into Penzance to get away from the tent and get warmed up and a hot meal into us. She was going to stay with the tent and I had to be really firm as we were all bordeline hypothermic having spent the entire night in soaking wet clothes sitting in our jammies in a howling gale trying to peg the guyropes down until we realised how futile it was and that we just had to sit and hold the tent down manually. The worst injury thank the lord was a lump on my head where a particularly strong gust caught the front of the tent and blew the front pole straight onto me. Ouchie! I kept saying the next day "I've never ever seen weather like this when I've been camping!" It wasn't until the afternoon when she'd been round talking to all the other campers and they were saying the same that she calmed a bit! Oh it was bad! It was so windy that it was to dangerous to even try and strike camp. I had to say if the tent went, it went, there wouldn't have ben anything we could do to stop it.

I've had a lovely day until MiL went to the loo this evening and said it wasn't draining very fast. Then I went to check the drains and they are blocked AGAIN! So, no bath and I get to spend the day rodding again. I've only just got the darn things cleared. I can't understand what's causing it because we don't put stuff down the drains. We don't use wipes, we use a dishwasher with a filter and all the sinks have filters on the plugs so only miniscule bits would be able to get into the drain.
I have a horrible feeling that there must be something serious wrong with them and I can only hope that my home insurance will cover them. If they need replacing, the road will have to be dug up too and that won't be cheap

chucknorris69

Right I give in - I managed to get to page 8 but decided that I need my beauty sleep for work as otherwise I will resemble a panda in the morning and I am not really known for being a morning person(!). Promise I will catch up properly tommorrow after work, night night all.

EssexHebridean

Ooh Kaz more campers - excellent! Two sites I can cheerfully recommend are Breck Farm in Weybourne, Norfolk, and Magor Farm in Cornwall. Both good, traditional family run sites delivering a proper "old fashioned" camping experience. Breck allow campfires in one (huge!) field too which is fab. Bioth are very budget - Breck costs is £12 per night and we paid £8 per night at Magor last year, although that's increased to £10 this year I think.

Your weather experience is :eek: - I can assure your MiL we've never encountered anything like that either, although the first night we spent at Ludlow last year in the Beta was a bit hairy - the forecast "light breezes" turned into 40mph gusts, and I was very glad that when I pitched in spite of the good forecast I checked the prevailing directions first! We were more concerned about other people's tents bailing out and smacking into ours than we were the stability of the Vango I must say - it really is superb for a small cheap-ish tunnel tent.

My rules with campsites are that I don't mind basic, but there has to be toilets, showers, and somewhere to get water. Freezers for ice-packs are a useful bonus as we don't have EHU and use our cold-box as a fridge.

Fiasco55

scrappie wrote: »

Just to say - I stayed at a Champneys resort last month and was talking to one of the therapists, apparently MrS is no longer selling there stuff. They have done a big deal with Mr B and will be relaunched later this year!!!

Oh heck - it was far easier to avoid Mr S than it ever will be avoiding going into Mr B. Looks like some advantage points could be used up when all the stuff is in the shops!

Number of NSBD in April so far - 2 -100%

Thanks for the info scrappie - another personal challange in trying to avoid B**ts :eek:

trudij wrote: »

I had to laugh - that Adele song came on the radio (again!!) and I was thinking about it - I dont know that Id want someone like any of my exs if they were in that song - that would mean that they are going to dump you and leave you heartbroken whilst going off to marry someone else!!!! :rotfl:

Put it this way - in our conversations tonight, hes shatterd and could barely ride this morning "but my god it was worth every second" and he wants to see me again - and again - and again .... so either its going to be wonderful excercise, or we actually are together, but not calling it that... and im not going to rock the boat by asking - I cant see him wanting to see me again if he wasnt interested though - hes been too honest about everything else, I dont think he wouldnt be with this too.
no bath for me today - (this is really sad!!!) I like the little wafts of his deodorant that I keep getting when i move.... (someone hit me VERY hard !!!!)

:rotfl::rotfl: Trudij - enjoy and keep it as light as you can for now. I am a great believer in the "seeing each other" phase. No solid definitions just enjoying the time and activities spent together. If will give you both a chance to see how you both work together.

:T Well done altontowers - 3 months is a great achievement. Are you putting the cash you would have spent towards something special?

Mice :eek::eek::eek: poor sawan!

Kaz2904

EH, wow, that was super quick! Thanks so much for the links. I don't know that we would go for the Norfolk one as it's 5 hours away from us (we're in Weston super mare) which is obviously a LOT of fuel! Perhaps when heading to Lincoln to see DH's mate/ DS's godfather. Could even get tem to drive down to that site from RAF Waddington.
I lurve the look of that site in Cornwall. I'm not sure what sold it to me more, the fact that it says there's no booking office, just turn up and pitch tent and they'll collect fees that evening or the next morning or the fact that the booking page says you can email bookings as a member of the family has email and will pass the message on. OMG, I am almost in heaven already and am bookmarking that site to visit with the family this year. I will also tell the neighbours because it is dog friendly and they have a pooch.
You're grand, ta muchly

Oh, and no UU's or ins so I'm awfully sorry for the OT posts! DH bought me a pinny for mothers day though, just gotta wait for it to arrive he knows me too well

britannia6

I too like camping but unfortunately OH doesn't. I have considered investing in a better tent to make it more comfortable but it might be a waste if he still doesn't like it.

I was very pleased to have my first UU yesterday morning :jbut then had a small accident (partially related to my stash!) and ended up in A&E with a cut finger. This is going to slow my UU progress because I'm only going to have 1.5 hands for the rest of the week!

charlie792

morning everyone! Not been on since friday - thread has moved about 8 pages since then will catch up in a moment on it all nothing in to report from the weekend.