Mums get organised in 2013

chickywiggle

thanks mysk_girl. ohhh we have a railcard - tis a godsend!! i always get it in the 50% off each year making it doubly moneysaving.

mysk_girl

How do you get 50% off?!? I must have missed that one, mine has just run out as well.

Am planning to take all 3 on my own to York at Easter...

chickywiggle

mysk_girl wrote: »

How do you get 50% off?!? I must have missed that one, mine has just run out as well.

Am planning to take all 3 on my own to York at Easter...

would meet you at the train museum (we love york) but that's right when we'll be away - 5th ish of april)

every June time they run a promotion in conjunction with the sun newspaper (or something)- get a temporary card free for 3 months. at the end of the 3 months they send a code (used to be generic but now they aren't) so you can buy a 1yr card half price.
They say existing customers can't get it but I have no problems (amazing the power of additional email addresses).

Wyre

Evening folks.

Carry on with tidying the living room - made a huge dent but still got to finish it
[STRIKE]Throw loads of stuff away[/STRIKE] Still loads to do but made a big dent
[STRIKE]Washing[/STRIKE] - couple of loads done but with hundreds of different uniforms I don't think it will ever stop
Sorting the astounding amount of coats and [STRIKE]shoes [/STRIKE]we seem to have accumulated - failed miserably!

So for tomorrow:

More washing
Sort 2 drawers of the filing cabinet (ultimate aim is to get rid as we don't really use it)
Shoes/coats
Hoovering

Have a great night folks.

ETA: looked at my list and felt bad so have just paired up and subsequently got rid of 1.5 black bags of shoes (old holey and totally not charity shop worthy - why did we still have them??)

mysk_girl

chickywiggle wrote: »

would meet you at the train museum (we love york) but that's right when we'll be away - 5th ish of april)

every June time they run a promotion in conjunction with the sun newspaper (or something)- get a temporary card free for 3 months. at the end of the 3 months they send a code (used to be generic but now they aren't) so you can buy a 1yr card half price.
They say existing customers can't get it but I have no problems (amazing the power of additional email addresses).

Ah that's a shame - we'll be travelling up in the summer some time as well I think, before I go back to work on 1st September :-(

I'll look out for the codes this summer, it's actually worth buying the card for one journey doing the Oxford - York journey, but 50% off would be even better!

Yes, we love the railway museum as well. Castle Museum is good as well :-) And Rowntrees Park has an excellent playground.

Tomorrows list

1/ general stuff (washing up, min 1 load laundry, pick up and Hoover downstairs
2/ weigh baby and endure comments about how big she is for 6 weeks. Yes, honestly, it's just breastmilk she's getting, yes she's a piglet, yes my other 2 were the same...
3/ clean out fridge
4/ hang picture
5/ bookcase in living room

My lists are getting shorter :-( But I feel more order in the house which is brilliant!

chickywiggle

summer it is then.

not been to the park. we stayed over night just after DS2 was born and did all the touristy bits (museums/ castle)

I'd love to take them to the airplane museum but its quite a bus journey from the centre I think.

Peanut2013

Hello all, lovely evening out having a Thai kept it very mild as to not encourage LO along

Jobs for tomorrow:
• Pack hospital bag with OH and make list of small things still needed
• Tidy bedroom
• Move presents from front room to spare room
• Tidy paperwork in spare room
• Tidy spare room
• Tidy under coffee table
• Make meal plan
• Write shopping list for Thur

brunettegirl

chickywiggle wrote: »

TI's still exist :eek: do you need to physically go there (sorry if I have missed this bit)..... there is SOO much info on the internet I have planned all trips with what I can find there. what are you after I'm a pretty good googler and if it's there I can probably find it.
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Sadly the interenet doesn't seem to be used as well as everywhere else does so all the fates/fairs/ events tend to be in this little booklet they produce every few months has loads in and lots for the surrounding villages - who equally don't use the internet, its very fustrating as I too normally find things online, although i am a leaflet girl, always collect the leaflets, i tend to find lots of vouchers at tourist info too which is great

Its like going back in time in some ways around here - when i first moved here I went online and was convinced nothing went on as I could hardly find anything, but there is loads but limited info out there and rubbish advertising too. Ohh and I can't whizz around in the car in summer or i miss all the signs on the road, you know those little boards telling me about fete's/scarcrow festivals ect ect . ha

brunettegirl

mysk_girl & chickywiggle I hope you are both remembering to ask for your free toddler packs on the trains, they don't see to be so liberal at handing them out these days. and I can't remember which one sometimes gives it out in advance to travelling. Virgin have them onboard will see if I can find the link who do you travel to york/wales with?

Wyre

Morning folks.

So far so good for today. Kids up and out for school (although I did have a fight with the youngest about breakfast). Two loads of washing done.

Plan for the rest of the day.

• Drink coffee
• Sort the dry washing out
• Coats
• Dust
• Hoover
• 2 drawers in the filing cabinet
• If I can summon the enthusiasm, sort the dumping pile

Have a great day folks!