Mrs McB's countdown to adventures with chooks (and Rock Gods)

Pippilongstocking

Thanks Moomin!

And Starnac thanks - lol to the Andrex puppy - given you've two kids and nappies to buy you're budget is amazing!!!!!

Nice that George isn't a bother

Well world today is a looooooooooooooong day.

A wee list wouldn't go amiss.

Banks to check
Lunch to take took didnt' eat had something at home did a 'greying' so will rejig
HM meals for tea/brekkie - cauli cheese is now cooked and waiting for dd to lob in oven, lentil soup and bacon in slow cooker, stew now in freezer for easy tea with guests.
Pork and lentils are in the slow cooker - pork went into stew, lentils turning into soup
Cauliflower is chunked etc - cooked etc.
Moving man coming at three pm - lets see what he's got to say
Working at BOTH jobs today so not finishing til about 9pm
Collected some cauliflower leaves in a bag debating pakora (which a pal made before) or donation to a friends chickens.........
Dogs walked early as DD drove to school
Kitchen cleaned and must do a bit more later
Notes to finish for tonight

Today's main mantra is work hard, take grub, don't spend.

Did spend on grub last night and now have 3 17p aubergenies (there were about 100 of them) and some reduced milk and a bunch of flowers (30p) AND SOME SESAME SNAPS FROM MR T FOR DD AS THEY SEEM TO GO BETWEEN 20P PACK AND 25P SO i LOADED US UP

Must update the spends.

Tootles away - might try and pop in later as will relieve that LONG DAY feeling.

HAVE A GOOD UN!

Pippilongstocking

£10.57 added to the grocery spends.

Have to telephone the cellist's 'other' parental today as there is much chat about stuff I don't know about involving trips and airplanes and all sorts of other shenanigans.

Won't that be fun.

Sigh. Sigh and Triple Sigh.

Single parents of the world, I salute you, we do a grand job in adverse circumstances that most folks wouldn't tolerate from other humans in the name of our offspring.
But in ever more exciting news

Sainsbugs will help you recycle all the packaging of those easter eggs - if of course you partake.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/11/easter-eggs-sainsburys-packaging-recycling

Apologies - rant over.

Pippilongstocking

Some interesting artcles here regarding food waste and bogof's

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/supermarkets-urged-to-scrap-buyonegetonefree-as-shoppers-waste-222m-tons-of-food-a-year-9241174.html

(Can you tell I'm trawling and updating some work pages.......:D)

EssexHebridean

Hope the phone call is painless as possible - remember, just go quiet if needed, then speak your peace when he's gone quiet and wonders if you're still there!

Pippilongstocking

I was steely to the answering machine.



lol

Awaiting the grand recall. I'm not holding my breath, although I did leave my number, incase they don't have it .

starnac

Did you leave your name too?? My mum always feels the need to say who she is when leaving a message on my answer machine!! You know in case I don't recognise her voice!!

Well done to being steely to the answer machine. Hope the wait isn't too long before the call back. But still....P'ah to silly daddy's!

Pippilongstocking

Pah indeed

The removal mas has just been and I'll have a quote by the end of the week.

Likely under £1000 he says - but its how much that will make the difference of mover-s-r-us or not. Whilst perhaps not very MSE - its full fare time on the ferries and a van hire will be for a minimum of 3 days so that pushes the price up considerably.

Starnac - I did actually leave my name daft I know.

Cheery_Daff

my mum always leaves a message saying 'hi cheery, it's only me'... :rotfl: :rotfl: so if i couldn't recognise her voice i'd be none the wiser anyway! :rotfl:

i confess the only reason we stick to our budget is that mr cheery does all the food shopping :rotfl: i was always rubbish at sticking to food budget and i hate supermarkets and being in them, so he goes instead he trawls round different shops and gets stuff that's on offer, and if i've requested something that's expensive i don't always get it :rotfl:

he's also pretty good at making dinner out of nowt and loves to run the cupboards down and eat bizarre combinations of tinned and frozen things :rotfl: but occasionally we end up with giant bags of somehing on offer and have to eat it with everything - at the minute it's potatoes for breakfast lunch and tea

neither of us have expensive tastes, he eats fish but really just occasional tin of tuna, and we make pretty much eveything from scratch, take leftovers for lunch etc. He often has tea made when i get in from work breakfast is generally porridge-themed, and our 'treats' often consist of a single freddo to share

not bad for a rock god

beanielou

Hurrah for happy dance

beanielou

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

£10.57 added to the grocery spends.

Have to telephone the cellist's 'other' parental today as there is much chat about stuff I don't know about involving trips and airplanes and all sorts of other shenanigans.

Won't that be fun.

Sigh. Sigh and Triple Sigh.

Single parents of the world, I salute you, we do a grand job in adverse circumstances that most folks wouldn't tolerate from other humans in the name of our offspring.
But in ever more exciting news

Sainsbugs will help you recycle all the packaging of those easter eggs - if of course you partake.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/11/easter-eggs-sainsburys-packaging-recycling

Apologies - rant over.

With you on the single parent malarkey.