Saturday/Sunday 24th/25th Sept What Small DFW Things Will You Do?

~Yorkshire_Belle~

ziggy2407 wrote: »

How long are you on your work trip? Can you not pack something to pamper yourself in the evening or will you be socialising?

Pampering - not on this trip sadly. Have schedule tighter than Russell Brands trousers! Involves visiting ministry of something ( not funny walks) and a biodiesel factory:eek:. Evenings will be full of getting to know you fun (people from across Europe attending - it's a seminar to share practice) and I have to do a presentation and write a report of the trip while I'm there. Will be exhausted on return!
Joking aside I am glad I'm going really - bit nervous as travelling on own but sure will be really interesting.

catmiaow

Hello all,

Keep forgetting to post on here

My list:

Completed and submitted essay to OU
Rang my nan using free mins
Used free texts
Checked job sites
Done comps
Replied to emails
Sorted out make up artist for my wedding

I will:

Lunch from the house
Tidy kitchen after cats

Tomorrow:

Spend the day with OH

Hope everyone has a good day

mandragora_2

MSE jobs (already done!!) here today:

Get out in the garden to:

• Tidy up the scruffy tangled mess it's become in the last month when I couldn't see it through the rain

• Cut the last of the decent flowers - chrysanths, sweet peas, gladioli and bring them in
• Take the runner beans down, making sure we get the last of the beans off them before taking to the tip
• Dig up the last of the carrots
• Rake up this week's windfall apples - just been out and tried one - yup, they're ready now - delicious!!
• Pick a crop of tomatoes from the greenhouse
• Find the last of the [STRIKE]spring[/STRIKE]autumn onions hiding in the veg patch, pull them, bring them in and clean them

'Not in the garden' jobs - done:

• Home-made carrot soup for lunch
• Sort out the flowers (throw away the vase-corpses from last week!), vegetables and fruit

Still to do:

• Make sloe gin - everything's here, I just need to move myself and get it done!
• Have a bash at making chilli jam, inspired by the thread on that last weeekend, and I have about 7 lbs of chillis on the little plant I picked up at the end of season clearout a couple of weeks ago
• Turn up the hem on the (very expensive) 'Capri' style trousers I bought but haven't worn because they sit wrong, and just look like I'm wearing trousers that don't quite reach my shoes.:rotfl:

and, finally, one treat

go out for dinner - it was my birthday last week, and OH left it too late to get into the restaurant we'd fancied - so glad I've got it to look forward to tonight!

determined_new_ms

aw happy birthday for last week mandragora! Have you post the link re the chilli jam? Was it this thread?

Bagpuss741

Today I have/will:

1. Checked online banking
2. NSD
3. Watched Ask Rhod Gilbert on iplayer
4. Walked dog locally
5. Received bank statement and gone through it to make sue there are no errors
6. Make buttered popcorn
7. Update spreadsheets
8. Watch Doctor Who later:T
9. Search for books for my latest OU course ready for when I get my grant.

Have a great weekend everyone:A

starnac

ziggy2407 wrote: »

hope that you and DD both manage to relax and re-charge a little today after your disturbed night - how old is your DD?

C x

she'll be 4 in October. She doesn't do afternoon naps anymore so we've had a quiet afternoon in the house. She's watched DVD's while I've got on with my housework. Early nights all round though I think.

determined_new_ms

determined_new_ms wrote: »

.:D

Morning guys :wave: where is everyone? Felt sure that the thread would be started already. what's going on????

Hurrah its the weekend, but no rest for us as we now in ernest pack our lives & begin the cleaning process :undecided

So not so much for me other than the above - but as well as that I will:

• food from stores - majorly need to eat the food in the freezers

[STRIKE]make banana bread for the boys lunches for the week
[/STRIKE] in the oven now

• [STRIKE]check banking[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]pay some bills[/STRIKE]
• take things to the tip/drop things off at the cs - 1 or 2 more loads
• garage cleared - a box of stuff to go through & need to get some bits collected or drop off to the cs/tip next weekend
  
• do some exercise if I have time
• [STRIKE]have listed some stuff on freecycle[/STRIKE]
• will list 4 or 5 bits on ebay
• [STRIKE]email a guy from freecycle about measurements of chest of draws[/STRIKE]

tonight we are going to my friends Charity Anniversary celebration. She is a trustee for a Charity in India which funds girls going to school (actually I'm not sure it is India !) and there is a curry night to celebrate £7 each & its bring your own so will be fairly cheap :T
Happy weekend to you all x

ok very happy with what we/I have done today :beer: still more to do tomorrow but we are definitely winning the war :T in addition to the above we have sold 2 items on ebay & have made £161.50 :T & found 2 Reward Clubcard cinema ticket vouchers - they're out of date so need to call and see if they'll reissue them. Have put them in the "to do" folder
just gonna have a bath & get ready now. Hope its a happy saturday eveing for you guys out there x

mandragora_2

determined_new_ms wrote: »

aw happy birthday for last week mandragora! Have you post the link re the chilli jam? Was it this thread?

http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/chilli-jam-2692

is the recipe; I can't remember exactly which thread I picked it up from, but I think it was probably this one:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/852629

Sloe gin now made - just got the hemming and the chilli jam to tackle now - oh, and the 'going out for a nice meal' bit, too! If I get really pushed, I may only do one of those three. Hmmm.... how to prioritise......

Candy0107

hello folks - thought I'd better post dispute not doing much dfw things......I've managed to pick up a stomach bug :-(. After 3 days of feeling like death warmed up I send hubby to boots to get some tablets. ...heaven!

Will be back to dfwness Tomorrow or Monday.

Candy xxxx

kjp

Hi all

Hope everyone's well - been a not very DFWy day as I've been out for breakfast and bought car tax - thankfully still stuffed from breakfast so won't be eating dinner, and car tax only £30! But did sell something on Ebay for £10 so not tooooo bad!

Hope everyone who's ill feels better soon, and hugs to those who need them! Off to check the bank and start writing list for tomorrow - my weekends always go slightly pearshaped when the other half isn't working!!!

Kxx