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gallygirl

pawlala wrote: »

I understood most of your post, but not this bit?

I thought someone was having a bonfire near me this evening as I could feel the heat from it - that turned out to be the 'sun' as well :cool:.

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

It has rained here nice about 715pm, virtually non stop - I would like to see the yellow thing back in the sky where it belongs

DawnW

Well, the weather has been quite nice for a change :T
I thought they had forecast a month's rain in 2 days or something :eek:

Had dinner outside on the patio

Came in about an hour ago as it was starting to get chilly, and have been watching the most amazing sunset, just like a JMW Turner painting, with huge black clouds lined with red, bright blue bits and grey interspersed. Spectacular!

HG new potatoes, carrots and mangetout for dinner, with posh smoked mackerel from Waitrose (well, mackerel is never that expensive, and the rest of it was virtually free )

Decided to take DD2 and her OH out for dinner tomorrow night, as we haven't eaten out for ages :D

ammonite

Our weather was good yesterday too. Back to grey and rainy now

Enjoy your meal out tonight

DawnW

Well, it was lovely sitting outside yesterday evening, but back to rain again today

Managed to bunk off work early

Not cheating, I am always over hours

Gone halves with DD2 on a pig (a dead one cut up into pork joints - my neighbours quite like my chickens but might object to a live one :eek:). So, half a large pig to get into a nearly full small freezer :eek:

Let us just say it is a work in progress

I have put some of it in, and put on the fast freeze. By repackaging some things I managed to squeeze some of it in, but obviously I can't freeze it all at once in any case. I will have another go tomorrow. It will take several goes I fear. Still, DD only got it back from the butcher today, so it will be fine in the workshop fridge for a couple of days. I think I will manage to fit it in by making up some meals from food already in there, for early next week, soup for work lunches etc, which will free up some space and will be able to sit in the kitchen fridge till needed.

We will see!

We are eating out tonight, which we hardly ever do. It seems a bit daft with all the food we have in but is booked, and will make a change

I got the renewal through for house contents insurance and it has more than doubled for some reason, so off to Quidco and the comparison sites I go!

DawnW

Nice meal last night, but I am a bit worried about DD, who is having a few problems with a particularly jealous, spiteful and needy friend. She seems to attract needy people - too nice for her own good. I used to be like that You grow out of it!

Started to look on Quidco, comparison sites etc for contents insurance, but found the process so slow and soul destroying, I will just ring the Co-op and ask them why their price has doubled, and tell them I will take my custom elsewhere if they don't offer me something better. If they don't, I will then ring the nice broker who does the car insurance, and the local one in town, and see what they can offer. Are others getting fed up with comparison sites? What really annoys me is that there is no scope to explain anything - if you don't for some reason fit into some standard profile the system comes crashing down. The issue for me is that my OH runs his tiny business from home (well, his workshop). And, even though I didn't actually complete anything on the site, the spam has started flooding in..... :mad:

Anyway, I will post how I get on

Today:
more attempts to fit large amounts of meat into small freezer :eek:

A bit of batch cooking and using up, with the stuff that I have had to take out of said freezer

Very small shop - don't need much - see above

Visit to garden centre to buy a few plants

Not do anything else much

Raining again though Some sunny, or even just dry, weather would have been nice.

DawnW

Bleurrgh, still raining. Still, I should think myself lucky, in comparison to those poor people in Russia

Devon not great either

Small shop done, Ald! only

Went to garden centre and looked around the plants in the rain. OH very patient :rotfl:He doesn't share my plant obsession.

Spent loads :eek: on a clematis, lavender, a nice big pot to plant the clematis in, some leek and kale plants (I only have a tiny garden, so sometimes cheaper to buy a few plants than a packet of seeds tbh). I did plant leek seeds earlier, but only 1 grew :rotfl:

Also rescued some petunias and a lily from Ald! They seem to get plants in and they die almost immediately because nobody looks after them . These ones can be revived though (and were dead cheap). They will look pretty once it dries up enough to plant them out. Lily went in border, but the petunias will have to go in pots. Must buy some more compost now!

Cooked a fab roast pork dinner (though I do say so myself ) with HG veg (potatoes, mangetout, carrots), and an experiment I tried back in January. I cooked red cabbage with apple, onion etc, and froze some to see if it would be ok. Well, it freezes beautifully as a cooked dish, and only needs heating through. I will definitely do that again, as I love it, but red cabbages tend to be huge, and you end up with loads, especially with the other ingredients added. Needless to say, I removed it to get more of the pork joints in :eek: Almost there, just 2 to fit in. Needless to say, I cooked one, and there is easily enough to have tomorrow, and some for sandwiches as well :T

Also made bolognese sauce for Monday. Still to make chocolate and beetroot cake from BBC web site. Really strange recipe, but worth a try as you guessed it, I had cooked beetroot in the freezer that are now out.

DawnW

Raining on and off today, which is better than raining all the time!

Even got washing almost dry on the line this morning :j

Went to a nearby town to check out charity shops this morning - yes, they have a couple that are open on Sundays Bought a few bits, but didn't spend much (they are charity shops after all :rotfl:). Also looked in the window of the expensive (but lovely) shop where OH sells some of his wood work items. They aren't open today, which is probably a good thing as I could spend a fortune in there OH has got to take in a couple of things, (and see if they have sold anything of his) in the week, but he is strangely immune to the lovely throws, cushions and assorted vintage and hand made things that they stock

Cold roast pork with veg and pickles tonight

One more joint to fit in freezer - must eat the small amount of ice cream remaining in the tub for dessert, and that will do it!

Choc beetroot cake in oven - smells good

Rhubarb and loganberry crumble made

Better check on cake again

DawnW

Monday again

They soon come round, don't they :eek:

Choc beetroot cake is good btw - you can't tell there is beetroot in it (a good thing - I find beetroot a bit strange :eek: even when not in a cake :eek::eek:)

Paid CC1 off in full (not excited about this as I pay both off every month- I have them/use for nectar points)

£100 appeared in FD account for joining incentive :T
Not OP-ing it at the moment though as I am putting £750 into regular savers this month due to shortfall on the FD one last month. May do later in the month though

Must do spreadsheets tonight - this MAY be the month I become mortgage-neutral, ie, savings equal to, or exceeding mortgage balance :j

Will need mortgage balance in order to ascertain this. This involves spending ages on the phone as it cannot be done online - why C&G can't do this for mortgage only customers in this day and age is beyond me :mad:

Lasagne for supper tonight using bolognese stuff I made over the weekend

Right, better get on and do packed lunch for work....

QB_Wolf

I like the mortgage neutral concept, I'll start tracking savings against the mortgage too, makes it a little more palatable.