Our beautiful recycled life: a patchworking income, green living, dfw adventure!

lucielle

A new diary, a great fabby new diary on my birfday, go you. Looking forward to more stripeyness.
L

Kittikins

Yay, happy new stripey diary Pips x

Pippilongstocking

OK list

Money
Fat controller (main bank) 194.75 left of OD, £200 dd's (electric, tax payback, house insurance) out on the 15th - WTFC in the same day.
smurfette - (other bank) 10 left of OD - 970 on that CC - need to watch that like a hawk money due in there on the 18th - no money due out of there before that
Purse - no idea - clearly need find it and fathom that one
The captain cc - 2000 on that (2100 limit) - watch, make any pads possible and rewatch like a hawk.
Keep pads to a minimum until more money turns up

Patchwork work for the next week.......
Invigilating this week - 17.5 hours - need to do a timesheet this week and bill for 3 hour teaching too.
Got a couple hour to do at garden in town
Womble land needs a bit of paperwork done and I'm at our 'site' on saturday to open up (we sell donated goods) - I need to get ebay set up for that and meet a couple potential volunteers and learn to make crackers before our party on Friday. AND a BIG form to get in by the end of the week - I must look out the stuff for that later and I'll work on what I've not got pronto
Write first womble invoice on 15th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hurrah, need email the treasurer and give them my bank details pronto they will pay direct.
My own planty work - Two plants sold on ebay - I need post them tomorrow
Email lady about the website and get that moving for the new year, we've decided on a limited just the basic web and blog launch and then I'll activate the grow your own free range veggies shop bit when I'm ready but that will get me working on it
Eggs - 24 eggs washed and ready for the off - 6 spare - I need to text a chum - that will be £4 in total if I get them all done, might put that up on fb or text a chum
Two dvd to put on amazon
Take plant off ebay - not putting them in the mail when they might get delayed. Rebegin after holiday.

Charity stuff - unpaid patchwork (PIF) stuff
Bank forms in for the gardening group and a bio for me for the business plan
Check emails for slow food and get a group list together
Email leader in London - and join (!) and do a few more emails on that
Try and get folk to sign up - we need 10 for a launch - so far we have 2 (or three when I sign up!)

Family, food and fun
Make bloody lunch at home and DONT buy it at work - I am pants at this - I will make it tonight.
Cellist an audition tomorrow for yoof orchestra - stay in town after work to meet her after that but keep her mood up
Meet a pal for lunch on tuesday at work - cheaper there anyway and I'm in town
Manchild another driving lesson - make sure he's money out the bank for that (dad pays) and he remembers to go
Make a meal plan we're eating out the fridge/freezer until the kids go to their dads at xmas
Find and make a yummy thing for the work party on friday
Chase up the soda stream gas - for the 'precycled' fizzy water - no plastic bottles to put to the recycling when this works!
Organise bag for secret snowy rondezvous with Mr F (my other half) next week
Organise hen food for leaving them home - they aren't coming skiing with us................
Hairdresser on thursday - an epic for me - I hate hairdressers (no offence to them as people) and organise cash for that as they don't take a card
Go to polytunnel class on wed night - lift share with a chum (try and get the man to join slow food!)
Book train to manchester from Wiks - got a room there for £12 in the sale (thank you martin!)

Greeny stuff
Blog about making cracker labels and using pretty magazine pages for wrapping paper.
Write a 12 days of xmas recycling tip list
Do a love food/hate waste themed list for tips for leftovers
Actually take the recycling to the place and not drive around with it in the car giving it a tour of the island
Make sure the envelopes are all in the drawer they are supposed to be
Collect a few padded envelopes from the 'help yourself' bit at work


Ok there we go a work in progress for this week list. (one of cheery's ta da's)

Yay more folk popping in, thank you again URG - we've come a long road haven't we - best stripey foot forward

Grabs out the cake for Lucielle - I went over your patch found pampering but didn't see mention of birthday today only the mention of one soon - well I guess today is really soon - oh dear I'm very belated:bdaycake: have a really great one!

Hello and thank you for the goodluck bluestaff, thats really kind!

KK a very happy new stripey diary indeed - lobs a bit of bread over your way - I know you're sick of cake tonight

And, LT please don't tell peedie I forgot him - I haven't told him about the holiday yet either - hes not coming:eek:

Karmacat

:hello::hello::hello: Pippi!

Look how far your new diary's got already! Happy shiny one :kisses3:

MatyMoo

Flippin eck this is moving fast tonight, bet I am going to be on page two

How could you forget Peedie???? You bad Mummy!

Your travels seem to be expanding! I spy mention on Wik, Manchester and Skiing

Hope Peedie has somewhere lovely to stay while you are away

ETA Glad to see, from the size of that list, that life is not slowing down for you! You make me tired just reading it.

Pippilongstocking

Hey up lasses -- nice to see you! I've made my lunch for tomorrow, packed the eggs in a recycled bag (in boxes) and my lunch is in there too - who bets I leave the lot in the house?

KC lovely to see you - a green adventure no less (with stripes, obviously!) glad you're coming along - be lost without you lovely lot!

Maty - bad mummy indeed - I gave him a bonio! Peedie will stay with his Aunty Wik and his cousin Poppy (JR terrier) in Nrth Lincoln whilst Mr F and I gad about (I will probably break something) - I've to get from here to central early next week - the kids leave on the 20th for two weeks for their dads (boo hiss but they enjoy it here - so they'll have fun) - and we fly from manchester to a franzes location on xmas eve - we're having an early xmas with Wik and then NY with her too - bonus!

Mr F is treating to a holiday away after all his family plans were changed and we've ended up with no one coming here. My list is ridiculus as always but I've done a 'week' one with my diary out - so hopefully I can cross them off gradually as well as the daily nonsense.

I've just inspected the fridge for dead, decaying or sulking things. A handful of parsnips appear to be trying to commit suicide by dehydration. I've chopped their ends off (into slow cooker with hen slobber for their brekkie) - put the rescued ones all in a jug of water - they can soak until tomorrow and I'll roast them whilst tea cooks in the oven.

*No other deaths to report in the fridge, aside a manky battered yukky looking tattie which may live but has found its way into the hen slobber* altough half a cauliflower looks like its in a sulk - we'll eat that tomorrow too.

Mash (sorry LT) cooled from tea and in the fridge for tomorrow - left over frog in a bog (1 1/2 portions, the child mice have been nibbling at it since tea) now put into a container in the freezer. Reduced milk and bread out of the freezer for tomorrow.

Excellent - no food waste this week at all. Hens are most excellent food waste recycling appliances.

Ok purse counted £50.25 in there (I got my expense in cash earlier in the week) - I need £35 for the hairdresser - I need £2-3 for lunch.

I can pay £10 off the cc's I reckon - £5 to each................debt down by £10 woo hoo. Not a bad beginning - off to find paperwork for tomorrow now.

Kittikins

Mmmmm, bread. I could face a good slice of home made scrummy bread, but at the moment I've just shoved in this morning's batch of fairy cakes and I feel quite odd, like I'm wading through treacle, every movement and even thinking is a bit of an effort, so not sure if I should go out of the house! Hope I snap out of it soon. I can't be too bad, as after all, I've made up my magic cakes........

Pippilongstocking

Morning!

Bread a d learning to make it is on my 'to do' list for next year.

Hope you feel better, feel dreadful here too was up til silly o clock organising so e emails/paperwork for womble land and slow food.

Karmacat

That doesn't sound good, either of you! Don't drain yourselves before Christmas starts ...

Cheery_Daff

Oooh Pippi, what a lovely first post! :T :T :T :T If I didn't already know you were fabulous, I'd think you were fabulous and want to be your friend immediately