Friday 22nd June

Molly41

bargainbird wrote: »

Morning

DD - He'll have a FAB time....great opportunity for him, take your tissues xx
MH - Hope DD has a lovely time at the w/end :T
SC - Enjoy F & B's i love it there howge burgers :D
NMLC - I'm sure DA would love all the flowers

So (sorry molly i know you hate it ), got up late (bad move) have rushed around like benny hill all morning, DS has just been picked up by FIL, as i have no old lady today, so am doing my 1.5hr pf clean today that i should have done on tues , then home again to walk the dogs if i can find the leads . We don't use leads but as my car is out of action i've got to walk to the woods hmmmmm.
It's the school summer fete tonight so will be dragged around that this evening and my pockets emptied of cash :cool:.
Tea tonight is kebabs .

Woop woop woppity woop its friday Have lovely ones xx

What have I missed ? x ?

Hugs x

bargainbird

molly - I thought it was you who didn't like people starting a sentence with So bla bla bla.....I've obviously got it wrong :D

Bitsy_Beans

As head has been elsewhere I've not really paid attention to the news. We bank with natwest. H's wages don't appear to have gone in so the likelihood my DDs wont have gone out is pretty big. I reckon I should clear my schedule Monday in order to spend a long time in the phone sorting out DDs not been paid if this problem doesn't get sorted.
Still we have cash in the house, food in the freezer so shall keep calm and carry on

wannabe_sybil

caleyles wrote: »

Not sure what an 8 hour slot is as the options online are 8-10, 10-12 etc We have an Asda opening this summer in Inverness so will be cheaper for us to get there when it does

When I book a slot, at the top of the box with the times is a tab with '2hr slots' on. Next to it is a tab with '8hr slots' on which are either 10-6 or 12-8 and cost £2.50 for the delivery. If you aren't going anywhere anyway then you may as well save a few pennies. However I am not sure that they are in all areas.

I usually get an afternoon slot to fit in with school - costing a whole 50p more lol. And if an Asda is opening where you can just pop in, so much the better. Then you can have a look out for the reduced section!

flutterbyuk25

Afternoon all

I'm now home and cwtched in on sofa with a bag of giant buttons and my Kindle . I popped to Tesco after work, spent £30 and got £3 off with a voucher. £10 of that was shampoos/conditioners which will last me months, and hair dye. Hoping all I'll need for next 4 weeks is fresh fruit/veg/eggs. Cupboards are well stocked

Really windy out, tempted to put WM on but I checked and rain is forecast for 4pm so not much point.

Re the Natwest thing, luckily I haven't been affected personally. But my company uses them (well RBS) and it means that none of our young people have been paid today now they only get £30 a week training allowance, but for some of them it's all the money they get and some live on their own. We have spoken to most of ours and they are all ok to wait til Monday, but one girl desperately needs money as she had no food so we were told by HQ to use petty cash, but there wasn't enough! So we pooled money in the office to give her £30 and will get it back next week. Bear in mind that I work for a national charity, there could be hundreds of kids like her affected :eek:. Hope it's sorted soon.

x

newleafmum

Hello I am new

I have spent the days since joining this site reading the old style board and have made some great changes.

I've printed a cleaning schedule with a "job" per day, tomorrow is laundry day which I've started a day early as I have soooo much! Done kids bed covers and all their clothes. So just mine and ohs bed covers and clothes tomorrow.

I love to cook from scratch but my down fall is the supermarket, many times I've attempted to go to the local butchers and green grocers but I end up giving up. So today I have ordered a "favourite veg box plus 3 types of meat". It arrives Tuesday so I'm doing store cupboard challenge till then and I've planned a menu around what it says the box will contain for tue-sun. I actually only need some tins of toms and kidney beans, soy sauce and noodles, ing for bread, gravy and stuffing. If it all goes well I shall be doing this every week. Monday can be beans on toast day.

I've discovered bread making, this week I started with some 66p white crusty mixes but the plan is to buy bread flour yeast etc this week and bake from scratch.

I've also adopted a cash system for our money when its gone its gone. As I went through bank statements last week there were sometimes up to 20 transactions to supermarkets and petrol stations per week. This week we had money left over in my purse all in 20ps so for a treat tea last night we had chip shop chips, beans and egg! Didn't use the bank card once all week When I went in the shops I bought just what I needed as I felt like I didn't want to part with all the little coins in the purse for extras.

Anyway long waffle but I just wanted to tell you all the changes you've helped me make in just a week and introduce myself.

I am getting married next year weve been together 6 years and have two children , 3 years and 18 months.

Hope everyone is having a lovely day despite the non stop rain.

wuvvies

welcome newleafmum

youve made some brill changes there. were all in the same boat here trying to do the best we can with what we have. there are so many hints and tips on here - some so basic that you overlook them and think " oh yeah" when someone says something. im fairly new myself and dont always post but read every day. i think there are a lot of lurkers like me very grateful so those that post.
my change this week is to go back to internet shopping and strictly once a week. the other week - jubilee weekend - i did lots of baking and treats and i spent over 150 pounds on shopping. :eek::eek: for two adults and two / three children. ( its not that i have fogotton how many i have its just that one lives with her dad and visits a lot. shes 18 and daddy is a better taxi than mum:D)
i can remember when my shopping was 60 pounds and that is recently now im struggling to keep it at about 90. so i have done a big shop online and spent 101 pounds and meal planned every thing including snacks etc and i WONT GO TILL FRIDAY ...we will see:rotfl:

Rainy-Days

Okay, so I hold my hands up here this is hardly 'Old Stylee' at all but today I had a really good day, but it involved me spending some money with a fab result.

For years I collected the Cloverleaf Farm Animals range (also known as T G GReen) you can only get the stuff now on Ebay because it got discontinued. It has a very light buttercream background with a farm animal on it with words in black such as 'pasta, tea, coffee etc. When I bought them back in the early 1990's I really liked them allot and they are solid and have stayed the test of time. I never wanted to get rid of any of it at all but part of me thought is it looking dated!! Anyhoo I held out. In the meantime, and I mean this has been going on for months and months (back as far as October last year maybe even earlier) I had been eyeing up the Emma Bridgewater stuff. Prices kind of kept me being reluctant to spend on it. So about six weeks ago I got an EB catalogue and I was still humming and arhing at this point. Anyway, I won a small amount on the national lottery - £79.00 - and decided that I would use it to buy something with. So I drove today to a place called The Heart Of The Shires, which is just off the A5 in Northamptonshire. I decided to buy a Black Toast creamer and covered sugar bowl and a Hellebore jug. Got them home and unpacked them and thought hang on these Black Toast items match way to well with the Farm Animals collection that I had got so the upshot was that I went back to get the two cup teapot from them when I found out that was being discountinued. Then lo and behold the Moo creamer which was a limited edition item and which I couldn't get hold of, they had at their Northampton shop and it was pretty much the only one left for miles around. Even EB did not have any left in either their seconds shop or in their ordinary stock at all.

So I kind of ended up spending another £80.00, but the upshot is that all of my current stuff mixes in so well and it looks amazing on the dresser. At the moment I am so chuffed to rocks with it all. I am not going OTT with this stuff - I know there are serious collectors out there - but having a very few small select items to mix in with what I currently have and it kind of gives my existing things a new lease of life and a different aspect to them, whih has pleased me no end.

Might keep an eye out on Ebay but EB does have an outlet site on her webpage where you can buy seconds items. As I say I am pleased with what I have got but I shall only have a few select pieces.

[Deleted User]

Hi ya Chums back from History and as usual was great ,we're going through the 1960s decade and today we 'did' the Kennedy assasination.Our combined conclusion was Oswald was fitted up ,although he did we think shoot the gun, there was too much evidence about the magic bullet that went in and out of Kennedy and then into Gov. Connolly.We do enjoy our debates and all have various inputs about whether we thought it was one man or several.All very fishy methinks but conspiricy theories abound about almost anything
I have just watched this youtube clip and think its an amazing bit of editing

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=mz3CPzdCDws

Worth watching just to see how clever folk are on the 'net'

Hardup_Hester

Afternoon all
I arrived home today to find a huge box of boys clothes had arrive from a kind MSE'r. They will be great for DD's fosterchild as he was in dire need of some of the items in the box. I know she is relativly well paid for what she does, but what she can save on clothes will go towards taking the children to the seaside in a caravan.
I should have left work early today, but it was too busy so I didn't manage, I'll try one day next week.
Moorhen, I thought the banana loaf was a bit heavy, but all the admin team seemed happy with it. We are all overworked & undervalued so little treats are always appreciated.
Hubby won't finish work 'til 10ish tonight, by which time I'll be ready for my bed, but I'll go & collect him to save him the walk.
Have a good evening everyone
Hugs Hester