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Daffy's 'patchwork dreams' diary

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  • vl2588
    vl2588 Posts: 1,352 Forumite
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    It's allowed at Christmas!! So satisfying finding good presents in 2nd hand shops too :D (and £2.20 for two teas and mince pies is a fabulous bargain!)
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  • I am so jealous you found an advent calendar!! After lecturing the boys about how much I don't like chocolate advent calendars blah blah blah and then DS1 pointed out that chocolate ones are a quid and picture ones are £6!!! Having hunted high and low I finally gave in today and got hem choc ones from sainsbury's. My cause was not helped by the ex-bf buying me a really expensive chocolate one as a gift, 'yes children, I don't like chocolate advent calendars, nom nom nom'!!
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  • Cheery_Daff
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    :rotfl: :rotfl: Ruby :D Good places for stupidly cheap advent calendars are usually local newsagents, post office, cheapo toiletries shop etc - mine came from the local chemist bizarrely!

    Spends last couple of days...

    Yesterday:

    £5 donation to Amnesty (we had a thing at work)
    50p bus

    Today

    50p x 2 bus (it was cold :o)
    £1.20 cup of tea (was meant to be going out for lunch so this was actually a bargain :D)

    Not doing too bad I don't thinK! Off on fieldwork tomorrow so on expenses all day :D Although I'll probably still take my lunch :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
  • Karmacat
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    I think your expenses need to be lots of hot drinks! Stay warm
    xx
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  • MrsMoo2U
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    Hope that the field work is not actually in a field! seriously though, stay safe and warm.
    Some days there aren't any trumpets, just lots of dragons. Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow -- Mary Anne Radmacher
  • vl2588
    vl2588 Posts: 1,352 Forumite
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    Hey! What's wrong with fields?! :p
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  • Cheery_Daff
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    Not actually in a field fortunately mrs moo :rotfl: :rotfl: Although it was LUDICROUSLY windy and rainy, I got caught in an enormous downpour that even my giant winter coat couldn't keep out, and on the whole got thoroughly cold and wet! Pah. Spends went something like this....

    £2.65 tea and muffin at train station (incidentally, have you all got a Bite Card?? Free (although you have to send off - no idea where - google it!) - get 20% off food and drink at train stations, although I'm sure you're all too good to buy food and drink at train stations... :o
    £1.70 salad and satsuma for lunch from Sainsbury's
    £2.20 tea and shortbread in afternoon (was mostly trying to keep warm and dry in between interviews! :rotfl: :rotfl:)
    £2.08 cashews and choc raisins on train on way home
    £8 taxi home from station :o

    Didn't take lunch, and I should have done :o but never mind. Will claim for lunch, and for the first lot of tea and cake at least, so out of my dosh that's £4.28 on food, and £8 on the taxi (which was entirely necessary today, my feet bad been cold and soggy for 3 hours! :eek:)

    bed now :D
  • MrsMoo2U
    MrsMoo2U Posts: 4,005 Forumite
    vl2588 wrote: »
    Hey! What's wrong with fields?! :p
    Nothing at all V most of the time, just didnt like the thought of poor Cheery being in the field on a windy day like today.

    Cheery, I hope that you thaw out and dry out quickly enough.

    Take care.
    Some days there aren't any trumpets, just lots of dragons. Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow -- Mary Anne Radmacher
  • Karmacat
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    That was a *bad* day to have to be outside! Hope you slept well.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Cheery_Daff
    Cheery_Daff Posts: 17,101 Forumite
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    Did indeed sleep well!

    Just popping in to report...

    Friday night -

    £30 postponed anniversary dinner out :D (although that was treats budget money so doesn't count :p)
    £5.20 ginger wine and chocolate buttons on the way home (we know how to live! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:)

    Today...

    £2.80 shortbread and cake at WI
    50p bus into town
    £10.95 train to Manchester to see friend and baby
    £2.80 return on tram
    £2.40 sandwich and grapes at M&S for lunch

    Not toooo bad considering, could have been a lot worse!

    Christmas shopping tomorrow - eek!
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