Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

vl2588

Shetland ponies do great hugs!

Pippilongstocking

Evening all

Vl lol!
Kc and kk nice here, maybe we swapped weather? Yay to brambles!

Had tea cauli and cheese and baked tattie



Got a few more elderflowers

And, kc I blame you entirely, damsons in my local shop, purchased 1/2 kilo to do some either preserved for puds or as jam

Yum!

Also staved off buying yummy coconut yoghurt, bought coconut, have plain yoghurt, will try and concoct some........

Pippilongstocking

Morning all

Well today we have that giant yellow thing in the sky sunny yay

Just over a week til the tiddlers return! Yay! My mood is lifting so sorry if I've subjected to you on here

Yoghurt and coconut worked I'll not be buying pricey yoghurt again!

Off to check bank
Paid work today (6hrs)
Water plants
HM brekkie, lunch and tea I hope
Walk doggie later, maybe on beach
Check ebay
Tidy up a bit
Do a bit of HC as its sunny
Elderflower cordail to brew................

Off to scamp about the banks.........

ETA put £150 to Lucifer from daddie travel down money (which has not been topped up by the xtra he's supposed to put in yet, I'll email him later wiht exact costings)

£100 to the Captain yesterday

Went food shopping yesterday, more bored than needing it I think £8 in local shop, £10 in co-op, lots bargains and started DD's pasta box for when she's back, since she was 3 she's got a bag of every pasta I can find locally in a big basket - as a present (don't worry she actually loves this as she's obsessed wiht pasta) - so I got pasta too to make a start on that, eventually it goes in the stripey stores but its a fun tradition we now do every birthday/xmas, I thought she'd want to stop it, but she told me to get a grip, pasta boxes are essential teenage pressies................!

gilligansyle

Yay to big shiny yellow thing!

We have lots and lots of grey:sad:

Pasta box sounds an interesting tradition, and presumably it started for a silly reason.

In absolute poverty one year, I spent no more than a quid on some people, and bought daft stuff all wrapped up nice. BIL now insists on having *just* the silly pressie. Fine by me!

Karmacat

How lovely! 6 hours paid work is good too, Pippi, and yes, I can hear your mood lifting - I'm glad for your sake

Pippilongstocking

gilligansyle wrote: »

Yay to big shiny yellow thing!

We have lots and lots of grey:sad:

Pasta box sounds an interesting tradition, and presumably it started for a silly reason.

In absolute poverty one year, I spent no more than a quid on some people, and bought daft stuff all wrapped up nice. BIL now insists on having *just* the silly pressie. Fine by me!

Thats kind of what happenned here, well done you! Ours was with pasta..........

Her 3rd xmas for once I had them with me (not at dads), we had absolutely NO money and it really made me think, we needed food, she's always been obsessed by pasta - we made a special box all pretty and filled it with every bag of pasta we could find in stockbridge high street in Edinburgh

For xmas she ended up with a barbie pop up tent (from a dear pal who helped pay for it), to give her a bit of indoor play space and a huge box of pasta

Very delighted she carefully emptied the box of pasta into the tent and spent most of the holidays bringing out a bag of her choice for cooking for lunch/tea.

After the holidays and tidying up time, the tent got zipped up by dd, pasta still in situ she bumped the tent up to her bedroom wiht about 5kg of pasta in there, reorganised the pasta in the tent and brought down her choice for tea/lunch:rotfl:


We've done a box ever since - birthday and xmas, its expected - thesedays she doesn't keep it in her bedroom, she has her own cupboard!

When we go anywhere we try and find a type of pasta she's never seen, even OH or ds will bring back a bag from a trip, even to the mainland or an island (or canada!) with pasta for her.

Daft, but inexpensive gift of something she loves.

Thanks for asking

KC yup mood changing - wierd not having kids for 6 weeks, I get very worried I'll just disappear under my own self pity - yay this summers gone quickly

Previously I've always just gone on adventures with friends wiht no kids or holidays etc, but the past few years that hasn't been possible, I think I need to rethink my budget when I can and start adventures again - we do plenty as a family, I need to do more on my own, plan them and that will keep me busy and enjoy the time when they are away!

Morning all

Have a great day, pop back later xx

Karmacat

You do need to do more for yourself - look at the creativity you used for DD!

And thats an adorable story, by the way, absolutely gorgeous.

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: :rotfl: at DD and her pasta :rotfl: :rotfl: We saw some black and white pasta once - it was shaped although I can't remember like what, and was about £5 a bag :eek: :eek:

Hooray for coconut yogurt! :T :T

Are you invigilating Pippi? Someone at work yesterday was talking about invigilator games - like playing pacman up and down the rows, or space invaders :rotfl: or standing next to the most ugly person you can find and then seeing if the other invigilators can find someone uglier :eek: :eek: :eek: Of coure, we all started thinking 'oh goodness, there was always an invigilator standing next to me!" :rotfl: :rotfl ::rotfl:

chevalier

nice to see that you are getting some paid work. are you officially unmeployed yet and can you therefore get unemployment benefit? And what happened about the housing benefit application?:D

take care
chev

ps what ever it is you have to talk to the landlord about do it today. You know what they say EAT THAT FROG!

redsquirrel80

Love the idea of the pasta box! Glad to hear it's sunny, and you feel sunnier, and the kids will be back soon