Cheery's buttling diary: tea in one hand, plant pot in the other, running shoes on

Cheery_Daff

Oh goodness me, what on earth did I spend on Friday?! :rotfl: SO should write this down as I go...

Let's see... skype nonsense, then I stayed in the house until a teleconference in the afternoon... then went for a run. Aha - bought milk and fruit (from food budget) and a chocolate bar :rotfl: on the way home, so 80p. Darn it! Stayed in after that.

Saturday... parkrun in the morning (free!), then charity shopping in the afternoon

£6.50 orangey top and purple cardi (not to wear together! :rotfl: )
£3 extra presents for nephew
£4 CDs to listen to in the car

Made nephew's card by drawing a rather cheerful picture of a crocodile and painting it green Might be the start of a new artistic career :rotfl: :rotfl:

Not spent anything today :j Been pottering around the community garden which is having a visit from Yorkshire in Bloom on Tuesday and was a right mess so we've been tidying up :rotfl:

Tour de France is coming fairly close to here and I've been considering popping down to look... but crowds look horrendous, and I'd be walking down to a dual carriage way on an industrial estate so not exactly pretty scenery...

I'd pretty much decided not to go, but now I'm watching it on the tv over lunch and thinking 'hmm, am I going to regret not going down when it's so close??' :rotfl:

Another cup of tea I think

(and of course if I go out, might end up buying an ice cream and ruining my NSD :rotfl: )

Cheery_Daff

Well i didn't go in the end. Remembered i wasn't that excited about it :rotfl: or rather wasn't that excited bout walking 5 miles (including back up giant hill) to stand on dual carriageway in giant crowd on me tod.

So i sat on the living room floor and watched all five hours of tv coverage and stuffed my face with tea and toast instead :rotfl:

and also cleaned the house and pottered in the garden and did quite a lot of crochet :j

did feel a small pang as they whizzed through sheffield but since i was watching on catch up tv it was a couple of hours after the finish so too late anyway :rotfl:

so - July's first NSD :j :j :j

remembered an extra 99p i spent on moisturiser on saturday though :rotfl:

tomorrow i'm off work :j :j only because i'm working on friday, which i usually have off. Planning a long run, meeting a pal for cuppa in waitrose (have got one of those cards which gives you a free cuppa EVERY DAY and which i have shockingly never used :eek: )

been putting off a trip to the garden centre though so probably not a NSD...

Cheery_Daff

Did pop out in the end yesterday - met a pal for a FREE cuppa at Waitrose :j then obviously went and bought stuff in the shop :rotfl: Got some back from food budget but need to declare £4 for cakes for tonight's do.

Except I ate them all yesterday Yep, pretty much all of them. An entire box of french fancies (well, 5 yesterday, 2 today and there's 1 left which looks so pitiful on its own I might have to eat that too ) and a box of caramel shortbread

Had to replace today so another £4 spent on cakes at the train station

Yesterday also spent £5 on wood chip for the garden - looks a whole lot better though! :j :j Rescued some tomato and courgette (I think!) that germinated from a packet of mixed salad seeds - put in their own pots so hopefully they'll spread out and give me some tasty food too :j

Also bought some food-related worky snacks today but I'm going to take that out of the food budget.

Got weighed last night and have put 2lbs on and gone OVER my target area :eek: meaning if I don't lose at least half a lb this week I'll have to start paying again!! :eek:

Best stop eating the damn french fancies then... :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Just updated signature to £44 spent (already!! :eek: ) and 1 NSD

Could do better... :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Well today I DID do better - with my 2nd NSD! :j :j :j Not difficult as I was at work all day, but at least NO chocolate at the station which has been my downfall lately :rotfl:

Much celebration in the Cheery household this evening - Mr Cheery has FINALLY located the source of the pongy whiff that's been bothering me as I come in the back door for the past few weeks.

A faint vinegary smell, not strong enough to smell all the time, and only when you walked past a certain spot. No individual thing smelled of it. I cleaned fridge, microwave, doors, floors, curtains, windows, bikes, wine rack, bins, recycling baskets etc multiple times to no avail.

But yesterday a pile of fruit flies arrived... and by following them today Mr Cheery located.... (can you guess what the smell was??)...

... a bag of completely mouldy almost liquid bananas hiding in the gloves basket on the hat shelf :eek: :rotfl:

Now why didn't I think of looking up there?! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Quite annoyed at wasting a bag of bananas (they really WERE past anything at all, even banananana bread) but VERY relieved that the smell has now gone - especially as I didn't have to clean it out! :rotfl:

But then I did remove the moth larvae from the sofa a few months ago :eek: so I reckon we're even now

Taking the treats budget out for a curry and a bottle of cava later to celebrate :rotfl: :rotfl:

starnac

So glad you found the source of the smell. Although why were they hiding up there??? Naughty bananas!!

Oops to being over target at SW. That's something I would do.

Enjoy your curry and cava tonight.

Cheery_Daff

naughty bananas indeed! can only assume one of us got a basket down to look for something, someone else came in from shopping and threw bananas on the side, then one of us was in a rush and something got thrown on top, then we didn't realise and just put the basket back... won't be doing that again!! :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

laem ylevol

Cheery_Daff

Blithering phone! screen freezes, i press loads of buttons and nothing appears, and then the only way to get out of it is submit the damn post and make myself look like an idiot!! :rotfl:

curry was lovely got all dressed up and went to local sri lankan place, utterly gorgeous food :j :j not dead cheap but we so rarely go out for dinner and it was lovely

£5 spent on food while out yesterday, got a free lunch but was out over tea time too and couldn't face making tea in advance when i came in from curry

VERY exciting day yesterday - seem to have been roped into playing in the band for a show at the Crucible NEXT WEEK :eek: :j :j SO exciting i look like this all the time now :j :j :rotfl: Got a backstage tour and we're playing underneath the stage on the night - not glamourous but definitely exciting Dress rehearsal Monday :j

Much needed restful day today thank goodness. Mr Cheery and I are going to take a picnic and go for a nice long walk in the countryside :j Hopefully NSD although we'll take treats budget for possible cafe stop

Cheery_Daff

Well we actually managed another NSD on Friday! :j :j :j Just spent £1.40 on a much-needed glass of pop but that was from the treats budget so didn't count

Yesterday wasn't NSD, although I now can't remember what I did spend... :$ :rotfl: Parkrun was free (and SOOOoooo hot!), but then we ambled round the shops. Bought some food, and some special cheese aged in a cave as a treat

20p charity shop maagzine
£1.35 special cheese
£2 chocolate bars (MUST not get back into this habit!! :eek: )

Think that was it though, stayed in in the evening.

Not sure about today... Mr Cheery doing musical things at a local event so will wander down there and might get a cuppa, might not. Might have to pop into town, so that might mean bus fare, but then I might have to go somewhere else afterwards, so might take the car. Lots of MIGHTs there! :rotfl: