Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

Pippilongstocking

Hey up lands of lovliness

what a rubbish days its been weather wise. And, I heard my first geese so that's a sure sign of autumn isn't it.

All of my jobs paid me, which is awesome

Must splosh the money into the kids/car/insurance/card accounts then there will be nowt left just like normal

Hope you're good.

Free plant from work, which looks ropey but with some tlc will be ok.

Reduced shopping £5.47 for ham, chicken, yoghurts, falafel, juice and some parsley for 19p.

All good.

Tea and meal plan soon.

It was so wet and miserable today I made up my own fly-lady plan for this house.

YES it was THAT wet and yukky, even cleaning seemed more enjoyable.

Pippilongstocking

Meal plan.

Just us this week until thurs then DS returns and have visitors at the weekend.

Mon- Quorn and courgette curry, boiled rice and flat breads HM. Rice in freezer.
Tues - Fish fingers and waffles got the COOP deal the other day.
Wed - Spaghetti with reduced bacon and courgettes and tomatoes (garden)
Thurs - Yorkshires and lamb with tatties and veg
Fri - fish and chips with the visitors special request.
Sat - something easy as we'll be galavanting with the visitors (?)
Sun - big breakfast, then nothing until tea probably something easy from freezer.

Simples.

Shopping need - milk and maybe butter by the end of the week as DS is a butter fiend.

Pippilongstocking

Recipe from work suggesting COURGETTE CAKE

TBH its not my thing but let me know if any of you make it!

DawnW

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Recipe from work suggesting COURGETTE CAKE

TBH its not my thing but let me know if any of you make it!

I make this (or very similar) when the courgette glut strikes. It is quite a nice, moist fruit cake but doesn't keep (tends to go mouldy :eek:), so do freeze if you can't eat it straight away.

Pippilongstocking

Ooh thanks dawn! I've got visitors at the weekend might give it. Go :-)

Tea done walk done reduced stuff frozen all good!

Pippilongstocking

Morning lands a bit of fly lady missions for today to start.

Dear Friends:

We are back in the bathroom and your mission for today is to clean our your bathroom trash can. Use the tub to fill the can with hot water and add some general purpose cleaner or dish soap. Let it soak and then scrub the bottom, the sides and the outside. Turn it over and let it dry in the tub and then put it back before someone needs to bathe and ends up taking a shower with the trash can! Have fun! This is so simple and makes a difference.

Your mission for the Stash and Dash space is to spend 5 minutes gathering up anything that you can donate or give away that you no longer love, use or need.

Pippilongstocking

Off to do banks and stuff.

Nice day here getting ready for work, I'm liking this starting at 10am malarkay means I get some other bits done.

Machine in on for a wash and I'll get that hung up before I go out.

Planning on doing a bit of decluttering in the conservatory as I've no bin in the bathroom so that mission is already complete.

Might do my 'stash and dash' on my clothes and put a bag for the charity shop.

Hens fed, dugs fed.

Fish out for tea, which isn't the meal plan but there was a revolution at the thought of courgette curry. LOL We had the 'waffles tea' last night instead.

SO its fish curry instead.

Pippilongstocking

CC paid for the shopping

Must get a wriggle on those clothes arent going to hang themselves up.

At least a girl can dream.

Listypoos.

Banks - done
CC paid - yay
Washing to air dry doubling as a room air freshner too
Charge phone at work, I use it there so why not
HM lunches, DH has his I need to make mine
HM tea - fish out for curry
Walk the mutts later probably local save on petrol
Post a couple bits, should have enough stamps saves trip to PO
Chop up MORE courgettes
Collect eggs
A bit of fly lady - declutter some stuff
Finish sorting the dvds - we have loads and loads of doubles
Working 6 hours garden today and a meeting after so 7 hours paid all good.
Transfer money to the kids for uni
Skype with both.
Do a fridge audit and freeze anything that might expire soon like a vapish diva
Wipe out the big freezer, how many days have I said that?

Right that's me, have a good one and hope something makes you smile today!

Pippilongstocking

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Well hello again dear hearts.

Diary number (erm I forget) - here we are again with a new challenge. I've been so heartened by the support on here that we're on to our new adventure and I couldn't do it without you. Having cleared the debts from £35k (yes that still makes me shiver in 2008 when we started) now its just down to just a student loan and two overdrafts and a tiny loan from a chum, we're doing OK but it could be better.

Reduce and clear the overdraft(s) 2 x £1000 no movement here.:o
Clear the £550 we owe to a chum (0%) we've done nothing about this. eek.
Keep our credit cards paid off each month now they're clear.:money: Mostly they are clear and most months (aside holiday spends they are cleared) :money:
Look at our student loan (just look, not think just yet) denial.
Support our DD and DS at uni - :eek: this is eating a lot of my money but they are happy.
Make a largely edible/productive garden to feed us and keep us warm = :money: started this and we've lots of free wood coming in, another two pallets today :money:
Get some chooks :j:j:j:j:j:j three eggs today.
Walk some hounds and keep a newly acquired f/t husband happy and well fed. :j jobs a gud un.
Try and help 'The Rock God' to live frugalls and help us to over pay the mortgage (s) where we can. :cool: Not done this yet with the mortgage, but its on the list once the flat is sold. We are living frugally, inbetween the treats lol.
Keep up with the small things we know that work - :money: always dear hearts always. :money:

So dear hearts, the next adventure continues. We've left our windy isle and have reassembled the troups in a rural windy coastland near beaches and forests.

We've just moved into a very pretty but inedible garden. As we're all about keeping the costs down we'll be growing as much as we can. Lucky for me I love gardening eh? :rotfl:

Best wellyboot forward eh? Lots to be done and lists to be made. Its late in the season so we'll have to get cracking in the garden to make room for some edibles for this season.

Thanks for popping by! Those interested in more adventures with wellyboots and gardens you'll find my (largely) edible gardening blog here. Usually haivers (Scottish word for talking nonsense) but never far from the garden, a plant, a decent walk, or the beach.

:A

I just thought I'd requote this to remind myself I'm moving forwards not backwards, which is how it feels sometimes.

Once work hours settle in to a predictable pattern I promise to start getting rid of the overdrafts......

Must check if (second) eek, ski holiday is all paid off as well before I tackle overdrafts.

:T

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, lovely to look back at the start of your diary and see all you've achieved! :j :j Well done :j :j :j

Lovin all your flylady stuff Jut come back from a week away but will get on the case tomorrow, promise