Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

Lula-Hula

Cheery, did you really have 3 breakfasts as well ?

I've had my evening allowance of G&T & mini cheddars & now wondering whether to have another 2 evenings

Very unimpressed with supposed gales down here, hope all is calm in Stripeyland for Pippi & family
xx

Pippilongstocking

Morning all
What a cheery lot you've been!

AWOL yesterday - my brother arrived on sat night (last minute) as polytunnel support team we had a recky out there then a lovely drive out as a family and a walk here

No wind here yet well, 'normal wind' not the other kind.

Bank to check
Plan to make

Coffee first a lolip about the diaries and then crack on with a proper list.....................

*morning*

Karmacat

Sounds a good morning so far - glad to hear you haven't been blown off .... I'll be back later to inspect the plans :D:D

Pippilongstocking

OK bank - all fine and I've enough for my DD's but not alot to spare
CC - one has 150 left on it, the other about the same - if I get paid on 15th (300) I need to put as much money into these as I can.

Yay to no more work starnac!
KC hope you've had a fun adventure
Cheery - no idea what day you're in now but hope its a good one
GV - lol thanks made for a lively debate we all knew what you really meant! Hope the tomatoes ripen!
Lula - I hope you managed to squeeze something else into that allowance, lovely it sounded too!
Tricia and GG - loved the 'tip' messages!
Keiss - I hope the sewing went well...................
Uni, Red and anyone else out and about today I hope you're good?

Trog - a lovely walnut tree arrived here for pesto in the making...............and some lovely seeds thank you very much - your experiment worked!

Meal plan

Yesterday stripeystores day 11
brekkie boiled eggs and soildiers
Lunch left overs
Tea - steak pie (HM) cauli cheese and tatties/brocolli
supper - toast and cheese

Food for today

stripeystorecupboard challenge day 12
Brekkie - cereal and yoghurt
lunch - tatties and recycled chilli (it use to be spag bog), salad
Tea - fajhitas of some description with hm salsa

Karmacat

I'm back again, Pippi! No adventures outside the house, not really, just a walk to the village on the outskirts of the town, but I went a different (foot)path, it was nice. I had an adventure *inside* the house, made a pot of fruit chutney, my first ever :j

Keep on having a good one

Pippilongstocking

Karmacat wrote: »

Sounds a good morning so far - glad to hear you haven't been blown off .... I'll be back later to inspect the plans :D:D

off to your land in a mo to find out what you've been upto too.......................:)

Plan plan plan

OK today
[STRIKE]
Move the herbs drying (sage, thyme and rosemary) into sunny room
[/STRIKE]Look for a 'parsely pesto' recipe - I've a huge bucket of flat leaved parsley - I'll freeze some whole too
[STRIKE]
Check the drying calendula
[/STRIKE]Chives to chop and freeze
Tomatoes to pick and freeze
HM food today - no food purchase required
Bank etc all checked £10 to cc
Go to argicultural stores and buy post mix concrete (12 bags if I can afford it)
Dig alot of holes outside with brother and concrete in posts (2 done 18 to go, we've checked our dimensions are correct )
Cut back hedge by 1/3? Can't decide still if I can think of something to do with it all, I'll cut it back
[STRIKE]
Check work emails
[/STRIKE]Check text re eggs
Cut grass later if dry
Harvest more calendula
Organise food for today and bake a coffee cake for OH and brother
Check/water polytunnel at work and show brother doors/windows I want for woodworky bits
Ebay if get a mo - cuttings now ready
Organise a blog about something proper rather than my normal waffly nonsense!
Text dd and see which bus she's getting back here (first time on bus alone, organised by herself to the local village rather than me to in to get her)
Watch weather
[STRIKE]
Hang up Ds clothes mostly dry from yesterday but a bit damp
Gather up DD clothes from the stair gap 'washing line' over the bannister
[/STRIKE]Hang up the bedding newly washed indoors *somewhere*
[STRIKE]Cuddle OH[/STRIKE] and the dog
Read more of library book - great book 'Practical self-sufficiency' - !!!!!! and James strawbridge
Maybe move rasps - they've got trashed out there

And whatever else I think of:rotfl:have a great day everyone - I'd better get started eh?

Cheery_Daff

Best had Pippi, that's a heck of a list! :rotfl:

I'm just internet banking myself

Karmacat

I think I'd better get a move on too .... internet banking is the first thing on my list

Cheery_Daff

Done mine now. Makes my head hurt! (mostly because I didn't write it all down in the week like I was supposed to :rotfl:)

redsquirrel80

Hello :hello: Very impressed with the veg box list - that's good shopping!

Glad you haven't blown away and loving today's list too.. especially the cuddling bit