make do and mend for tougher times

bluebag

Popperwell,

I reallly wish you hadn't mentioned sausage butties at this time of night, I really want one now.

Popperwell

bluebag wrote: »

Popperwell,

I reallly wish you hadn't mentioned sausage butties at this time of night, I really want one now.

BB, I know;):)

I'm glad that I made the effort...I sometimes think I haven't eaten much(and though portions are smaller)what I do is often quick/simple and comforting food. I usually have had all the calories/vitamins and minerals I am supposed to...

fuddle

DD not well. Thats making me fret over needing to get to work tomorrow and praying she's ok in the next few hours for school. We're both down here with dog. She's trying to sleep and I just haven't got a hope now.

Cuppa tea about to be supped.

Made green cupcakes last night for DD to take to school in her pack lunch as it's halloween day. I sussed the icing thank you

Just starting to add my shopping list online for delivery 15th next month and found basics squash in Asda is up 7p. That on top of the basics golden syrup being withdrawn and I can't find basic cornflakes means that I've already spent £1 extra on 3 items.

Popperwell

Morning Fuddle,
Hope that your daughter picks up. Of all days it happens on a day she was probably looking forward to...

Any upset isn't nice...but nicer when your Mum is there for you whatever your age...I talked to a man who lost his wife and is alone probably in his 60's and he said it is scary being alone and you take ill in the middle of the night...there's something unsettling about the early hours...

But I have kind of got used to being awake through the night...cup of tea takes some beating...it's comforting...

Many cereals(well known brands)half price and on offer but few at the price those value cornflakes were...

Aldi may be good but even they are still not offering value like 35p approx for a box of cereal etc...and so some items will be similar in price at Tesco's if you find a promotion going on...You can still save but prices are higher that's for sure...

Only 14 days to go...

I only save because portions are smaller/eat less and bulk meals out...

I said earlier that I got six Turkey stakes(works out approx 70p each so that's six meals or if I get economical and eat more vegetables etc...and cut the stakes in half or stir fry I may be able to stretch them further...

May try and avoid shopping now until Aldi opens now...apart from salad, bread and milk...

They say on the radio most families are £1,800 worse off annually at present with the measures already brought in by the government...

We are doing all we can to keep costs down already, it's all we can do...

These dark mornings:(and I think the clocks go back this weekend too...Yuk!

Hope things are diffrerrent for you all in a few hours.

fuddle

Yes the clocks fall back (as opposed to spring forward) this weekend.

I just see things creeping up and up money wise really. I'm trying to figure out how the cuts affect us in other ways than services being cut. That's where we're feeling it at the moment.

valk_scot

I've been a bit AWOL lately, sorry. I need to do some reading back to see what's going on!

A day at home looms, mostly involving cleaning unfortunately. Clean bathroom, strip beds, hoover bedrooms, make beds, do laundry. I have to go out three times though, once to pick up a piece of hobby equipment from a friend (not for me, I'm going to refurbish it for her), once to drive OH along to the garage to pick up his car (large bill, ouch) and once for a meeting at the school at 6pm. A very bitty day all in. I hate this sort of day, if I'm going to have to clean things I prefer to get into a groove and have a long run at it.


I also need to do some food processing, I've had a good run at the Tesco YS shelf the last couple of evenings and also found some miss-prices. They had the very large roasting chickens marked up at £1 per kilo rather than £4 (!) so a big chook worked out at about £1.80 each, dated till next week. So I took four and gave a friend of mine who was in the shop a nudge, she got two and still plenty left. Also three pork fillets, two roasting joints of pork, a pack of eight chicken breasts, a large pack each of Finest chipolatas and burgers and some packs of casserole steak at 75% off. I think I spent about £20 on meat in total and that's meat for a month or so, give or take a couple of packs of Lidl bacon. But it all needs portioned up for the freezer and that's a very boring job!

Possession

That's a good YS haul Val. I really need to get myself out to the SM one evening. I think it's years of having small children and a DH working ridiculous hours, I'm programmed not to leave the house at night!
DD seems to feel much better so she's back to school and I will tackle some of the many chores I need to do before my parents come to stay.

Cheapskate

Morning toughies

Looks like I've missed LOADS recently! Lots of love and hugs to you all, for the poorlies an extra big mug of lemon and honey, congrats to those with good news (jobs, returned pets, battles won with LL from hell....!), too many to remember, but love you all.

Still taking the vit D, no effect yet though, I'm so tired I could cry (and have!), but we've emptied our savings and booked a holiday for later in the year, our first for over 6 years, and I've applied for another job that might be better hours, so think it all balances out this week.

Off to work, 11 am until 8 pm, after being awake since 4 am, bet I spend my meal break asleep! :rotfl: Got all next week off, though, might do out one day with my sister, weather looks cold but sunny round here then.

Have a good day all, will catch up properly later, another load of hugs and kisses to you lovely people - so many hard working, sensible peeps here, why aren't WE running the country? :rotfl:

A xo

P.S. Pooky, I do fbk as well, if you want to PM me x

fuddle

DD not at school as has been ill. That's 3 days off since I have started. How bad do I look?! I'm normally really reliable so I feel awful, feel guilty for letting them down.

A day of chores for me and hope that DD will eat something. She's not even keeping fluids down so it's a bit of a worry.

GreyQueen

Morning all.

Pops, you need to remember that 2tonsils is posting about Greece and not the UK. Lots of us will have had experience of Greece, sometimes over many years, and a deep love of the places and the people, but there isn't here.

She's giving us the residents' eye view of a country in deep troubles, but there is and has been a lot about this in the media both broadcast and print for well over a year now. Greece has a very troubled history (I have older friends who were there as youngsters in the last days of the junta, f'rinstance) and it is possible that a crisis of this nature could utterly-destabilise the Greek state.

I also spend my working life talking to people who are at the very bottom of the economic pile in most cases, inc some distressing calls recently about the BT, and I also live in a neighbourhood ranked high on national indices of deprivation where a lot of people are struggling to keep body and soul together.

This inevitably colours my world-view and thus my posts. If what I write sometimes causes you anxiety, I would like to apologise and urge that you maybe skip over my stuff, or even put me on Ignore. You're vulnerable because you're only a few months on from a major bereavement and you don't need to take on other burdens, IMO, anyway.

Well, another grey and cloudy start, hoping for a little better at the weekend so that I can potter for an hour a day on the lottie. I always end up slightly-discombobulated by the clocks changing, twice a year I feel a bit jet-lagged for a couple of days after. Found a few people in RL who report the same thing. Anyone up here get the urge to hibernate once the clocks go back? I'm not a lazy person at all but I become deeply-fond of my bed in autumn and winter.

I was listening to the weather forecast with half-an-ear and I think I heard them say that s.w. Scotland was to have the best of today's weather, warm and dry, let's hoping it spreads sideways and gives Mardatha's region a blast of sunshine.

Or, failing that, we shall have to send emergency jelly beans as a care package.:rotfl:

Nursie is bringing my tea and medications right now, toodle pip.