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slowlyfading

We're taking our decorations down tomorrow - looking forward to having the house back to normal

We've put DS in his cot for the first time tonight and he's still awake.... :wall:

Karmacat

I went to my local village last Monday, and there were already 4 Christmas trees in the area set aside for them to go to recycling!

edinburgher

Karmacat wrote: »

I went to my local village last Monday, and there were already 4 Christmas trees in the area set aside for them to go to recycling!

We went artificial 4 years ago, a cracking 7' beast with fake snow and pinecones. Was very much undecided in advance, but can't argue that it will become environmentally friendly past a point (I hope). My thinking was no more lorries delivering trees, no more petrol expended by me to get them home, resources used by the council to chip real trees etc. etc.

That said, am growing a few trees from seed for the garden in future years.

Luckyinlife

Tree i have has been in the family for nearly 15 years now really nice compared to some trees they sell these days

Good tree is always worth buying :]

edinburgher

If anyone has a local Mr S, they have reduced all their cracking fancy Christmas puddings from £xx to 50p. We picked up two Relatively short BBE, but I would take them with a pinch of salt, seems to get better the longer you keep it in my experience!

AlexLK

Christmas pudding will indeed last for ages. Not sure whether this is true or not but I was told years ago they taste better if made the year before and left until the Christmas after.

edinburgher

Very true, this years pud for us is a 2 year old reduced one from L1dl, tastes fantastic!

RoaringTwenties

Hi Ed, you have my sympathies re: a non-sleeping DD. Ours was a great sleeper when she arrived, but now at 3 sees no problem with waking us at 2am to tell us that "my donkey has no pedals"

As to trees, we only had a real one once when I was a child, so we've had a real one for a few years now. We pick it up on our usual supermarket shop as near to 1st Dec as poss. Our local hospice recycles them for a £6 donation, apparently it's a good earner for them
:money:

Glad to see all is going swimmingly

edinburgher

RoaringTwenties wrote: »

Hi Ed, you have my sympathies re: a non-sleeping DD. Ours was a great sleeper when she arrived, but now at 3 sees no problem with waking us at 2am to tell us that "my donkey has no pedals"

Mrs E has just asked DD whether her donkey has pedals. No response :rotfl:

Yesterday:

• £15-16 in OPs made from MB profits :beer:
• Got my Microsoft Band 2, but annoyingly it doesn't seem to add my exercise to MFP. Think it's going back
• Went for my first jog in months - managed 3km jogging, 1km walked, 2km walk/jogged. Beat my MFP goal by 3-400 calories (although it doesn't show this properly!)

Today:

• £0.13 ET made
• First OP of £50 taken

edinburgher

Less impressed with my £800 Council Tax bill. Guess that's October-January taken care of :eek:

Any Fitbit users out there? If you log a run etc. with the FB, does it update your exercise log in Myfitnesspal? Looking for a device that does this.