Two Pennies Left

lulabelle1 · 19 December 2013 at 10:05PM

Oh film, burner and cat nap sounds divine......

lulabelle1 · 20 December 2013 at 3:17PM

lulabelle1 wrote: »

I've bought a massive pot of Nivea Creme and have been using it every night before I go to bed. It's too heavy/greasy for day time use but it's doing a good job on a night time.

I'm trying to be frugal!

When I get bored of being frugal I will buy some more L'occitane Shea Ultra rich moisturising cream and Shea fabulous serum - they're fab products!

BTW - I got bored of being frugal and ordered a rather nice selection of Shea Butter lovely stuff from L'Occitane...:T

Fortune_Smiles · 20 December 2013 at 6:16PM

Ooops - had one too many Pinots at Across-the-lane-neighbours last night. Much fun was had though. I rustled up some Paprika & Cheddar Gougere to take over along with a bottle of Cava. Lovely evening but consumed too much alcohol, too many snacks and didn't get home 'til midnight

In my fragile state I have managed to:

do some more work on the portrait
feed 30p to Mr Marmite
Tilltidy 32p
do the monthly money shuffle - Mr F got paid early
reconcile the bank accounts
do a little housework

Mr F has just rung to say he is on his way home. He's finished for the year now and has 2 weeks off :T So, I'm off to the kitchen to cook a Vegetarian Chilli. The recipe makes enough for 6 portions so, if I play my cards right, I'll have a portion for the freezer and won't have to cook again until after Christmas :j

Only 11 presents left to wrap so may do some of that later.

Happy Friday all

Fortune

brizzledfw · 20 December 2013 at 10:12PM

Ooh to the fragility. I sure know how that feels

well done on the achievements though.. you did pretty well!

Here's to OH having 2weeks off. That sounds great

Fortune_Smiles · 22 December 2013 at 6:11PM

brizzledfw wrote: »

Ooh to the fragility. I sure know how that feels well done on the achievements though.. you did pretty well!

Here's to OH having 2weeks off. That sounds great

I am a light weight when it comes to alcohol Brizzle

Fortune x

Fortune_Smiles · 22 December 2013 at 6:19PM

We went to a Rotary Club Christmas party last night with friends. I'd paid for the tickets a few weeks ago and didn't realise that all the drinks were included. We had a glass of champagne (or three) on arrival and a 3 course meal with wine for £35 per head which I thought was very good. Our share of the taxi was £24 but it still worked out at less than I'd budgeted for :T We stayed at our friends and they cooked us a lovely breakfast this morning.

I'm not hungover this time but we are both feeling very tired as we never sleep particularly well when we stay with these friends. We live in a pin drop quiet rural location and they live between an A road and the high speed train line. Even ear plugs didn't help.

So, a quiet day of chores has been had and an evening of final present wrapping lies ahead. Supper will be this week's Chilli in tortillas closely followed by an early night

Hope you've had a good day

Fortune x

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS · 22 December 2013 at 8:40PM

Have a great Christmas Mr & Mrs Fortune and the fortunate cat.

Best wishes from the Tilly clan x x

Fortune_Smiles · 23 December 2013 at 1:01PM

Mr F and I opened our Christmas presents this morning :eek: We are travelling north tomorrow and, as we'll already have a full car, didn't want to take our presents with us. Tomorrow morning will be a bit of a rush so we had Christmas morning today. I have obviously been very good this year because I got several things from my list including a Hedgehog House - so I'll have somewhere to put any tiny hedgehogs that wander into the garden in future

We'd planned to just do last minute preparations today and start packing for tomorrow. However, across-the-lane-neighbour's car has started gushing oil so Mr F is in the garage with the AA man trying to sort it out. We couldn't leave the AA man out in the lane in this weather :rotfl:

I have:

finished wrapping the presents
decanted the last of the Christmas vodka
painted tags for the vodka and 2 for Sloe Gin that I promised to do for neighbour-across-the lane
packed up all the presents and drinks we need to take with us
got Mr F to fix the front door and pantry door which were both sticking
after lunch I shall start packing

It's Mr Across-the-Lane Neighbour's birthday today so we are going out tonight with them and some other friends for a meal. I have chosen a bottle of Rioja from the wine rack (his favourite) and packaged up some of the peppermint creams to give him.

I doubt whether I'll be able to post whilst we're away so just want to wish you all a very, merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year! Best wishes in all your endeavours - you deserve some jolly good luck.

:xmassign:

Fortune x